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Adaptive management for a turbulent future

Journal of Environmental Management, 2011
The challenges that face humanity today differ from the past because as the scale of human influence has increased, our biggest challenges have become global in nature, and formerly local problems that could be addressed by shifting populations or switching resources, now aggregate (i.e., "scale up") limiting potential management options.
Kevin Lee Pope, Ahjond S Garmestani, Joseph J Fontaine   +2 more
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C:N:P stoichiometry in plant, soil and microbe in Sophora moorcroftiana shrubs across three sandy dune types in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
The alpine sandy dune ecosystem is highly vulnerable to global climate change. Ecological stoichiometry in plants and soils plays a crucial role in biogeochemical cycles, energy flow and functioning in ecosystems.
Ruizhen Dong, Shihai Yang, Xiaoli Wang, Lele Xie, Yushou Ma, Yanlong Wang, Litian Zhang, Min Zhang, Jinping Qin   +8 more
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Influence Cascades: Entropy-Based Characterization of Behavioral Influence Patterns in Social Media

Entropy, 2021
Influence cascades are typically analyzed using a single metric approach, i.e., all influence is measured using one number. However, social influence is not monolithic; different users exercise different influences in different ways, and influence is ...
Chathurani Senevirathna, Chathika Gunaratne, William Rand, Chathura Jayalath, Ivan Garibay   +4 more
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Introducing Adaptive Flood Risk Management in England, New Zealand, and the Netherlands: The Impact of Administrative Traditions [PDF]

, 2018
Climate change adaptation creates significant challenges for decision makers in the flood risk-management policy domain. Given the complex characteristics of climate change, adaptive approaches(which can be adjusted as circumstances evolve) are deemed ...
Bergsma, Bergsma, Biesbroek, Biesbroek, Biesbroek, Burby, Burton, Butler, Buuren, Buuren, Buzan, Challies, Ericksen, Ericksen, Ericksen, Evans, Folke, Gersonius, Haasnoot, Haasnoot, Hague, Hallegatte, IPCC, Jordan, Keessen, Knill, Kuhlicke, Kwakkel, Lawrence, Lawrence, Lawrence, Lee, Lempert, Loughlin, Massey, Meijerink, Merz, Owusu, Pahl-Wostl, Pahl-Wostl, Pollitt, Pollitt, Potter, Potter, Rive, Roth, Rouse, Sendzimir, Stephens, Termeer, van Popering-Verkerk, Vink, Walters, Wesselink, Wiering, Wilson, Woods, Young   +57 more
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Toward an attentional turn in research on risky choice

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
For a long time, the dominant approach to studying decision making under risk has been to use psychoeconomic functions to account for how behavior deviates from the normative prescriptions of expected value maximization.
Veronika Zilker, Veronika Zilker, Thorsten Pachur, Thorsten Pachur   +3 more
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Herbivore assemblages affect soil microbial communities by altering root biomass and available nutrients in an alpine meadow

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
Three different herbivore grazing assemblages, namely, yak grazing (YG), Tibetan sheep grazing (SG) and yak and Tibetan sheep co-grazing (MG), are practiced in alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), but the effects of the different ...
Yuzhen Liu, Yuzhen Liu, Xinquan Zhao, Wenting Liu, Wenting Liu, Xiaoxia Yang, Xiaoxia Yang, Bin Feng, Bin Feng, Chunping Zhang, Chunping Zhang, Yang Yu, Yang Yu, Quan Cao, Quan Cao, Shengnan Sun, Shengnan Sun, A. Allan Degen, Zhanhuan Shang, Quanmin Dong, Quanmin Dong, Quanmin Dong   +21 more
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Characteristics of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids in artificial, black-soil mountain degraded, and natural grasslands in the source region of the Three Rivers [PDF]

PeerJ
Background The source region of the Three Rivers is a concentrated distribution area of alpine grassland. Due to intensified human interference and unsustainable land use, the vegetation and soil in these grasslands have undergone severe degradation ...
Lele Xie, Yushou Ma, Yanlong Wang, Yuan Ma, Xiaoli Wang, Ying Liu   +5 more
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The complete chloroplast genome of Corethrodendron multijugum (Fabaceae: Corethrodendron) and phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2023
Corethrodendron multijugum (Maxim.) (Fabaceae: Corethrodendron), also known as Hedysarum multijugum, is an important medicinal plant and is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. To better understand the diversity and phylogeny of C. multijugum and
Li-Jun Zhang, Ying Liu, Jian-Jun Shi
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NL4Py: Agent-based modeling in Python with parallelizable NetLogo workspaces

SoftwareX, 2021
External control of agent-based models is vital for complex adaptive systems research. Often these experiments require vast numbers of simulation runs and are computationally expensive.
Chathika Gunaratne, Ivan Garibay
doaj   +1 more source

Impact Webs: a novel conceptual modelling approach for characterising and assessing complex risks [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Identifying, characterising, and assessing the complex nature of risks are vital to realise the expected outcome of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
E. Sparkes, D. Cotti, A. Valdiviezo Ajila, S. E. Werners, S. E. Werners, M. Hagenlocher   +5 more
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