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Estimating the Impact of Socioeconomic Drivers on Land Degradation in Italy via Spatio‐Temporal Additive Expectile Regression

Environmetrics, Volume 37, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Climate changes, soil degradation, and desertification increasingly threaten the entire territory of Italy due to the complex interplay between natural processes and anthropogenic forces. Motivated by this pressing issue, this paper investigates how land‐use and socioeconomic drivers have shaped desertification dynamics across Italian ...
Luca Merlo, Beatrice Foroni, Ioannis Konaxis, Lea Petrella, Luca Salvati   +4 more
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Organic agricultural landscapes promote the conservation and diversity of cavity-nesting solitary bees

Global Ecology and Conservation
Solitary bees are important pollinators and maintain biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, yet their populations are declining due to habitat loss, intensive farming and pesticide use.
Tina Betty Schultz, Sara Olberz, Hannah Burger, Manfred Ayasse, Samuel Boff   +4 more
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Management and drivers of change of pollinating insects and pollination services. National Pollinator Strategy: for bees and other pollinators in England, Evidence statements and Summary of Evidence [PDF]

, 2019
These Evidence Statements provide up-to-date information on what is known (and not known) about the status, values, drivers of change, and responses to management of UK insect pollinators (as was September 2018). This document has been produced to inform
Baldock, Katherine, Breeze, T.D., Brown, M.J.F., Carvell, C., Dicks, L.V., Garratt, M.P., Norman, H., Potts, S.G., Senapathi, D., Steele, D. J., Vanbergen, A.J.   +10 more
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The effects of flower supplementation on pollinators and pollination along an urbanisation gradient

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 654-668, March 2026.
Enhancing urban greenspaces for pollinator communities by planting flower patches is increasingly common, but their efficacy for different groups of insects (bees, hoverflies and moths) is unclear. Our city‐scale experiment demonstrated that the effect of flower patches on pollinators is complex, and direct benefits to specific insects are difficult to
Emilie E. Ellis, Jill L. Edmondson, Stuart A. Campbell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Learning Personally Relevant: Sensemaking Assets Used in Families' Discussions While Using a Pollinator‐Focused Mobile Augmented Reality App

Science Education, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 525-542, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study seeks to better understand the unique sensemaking assets that rural families weave into their outdoor learning experience while using a location‐based mobile app focused on healthy habitats for solitary bees. The project included mobile augmented reality (AR) technologies, which are increasingly used as educational tools at informal
Lucy R. McClain, Lillyanna Cowdery‐Faimon, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan M. Land   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge, perceptions, and barriers influence public actions to help bees in Toronto, Canada

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Despite the enthusiasm surrounding bees, the public's current knowledge is sourced from the non‐native honey bee whose life history differs from many endemic North American species. Ascertaining the public's understandings and perceptions of bees is essential to implementing publicly supported conservation initiatives that may benefit bee ...
Anthony C. Ayers, Sandra M. Rehan
wiley   +1 more source

Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States [PDF]

, 2013
Under the current H-2 program overseen by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), employers brought about 106,000 guestworkers into this country in 2011 -- approximately 55,000 for agricultural work and another 51,000 for jobs in forestry, seafood processing,
Mary Bauer, Meredith Stewart
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OPAL Community Environment Report [PDF]

, 2012
The Open Air Laboratories network, or OPAL, as it quickly became known, was launched in 2007 following a successful application to the Big Lottery Fund It was the first time that Big Lottery funding on this scale had been awarded to academic ...
Bachariou, Carolina, Davies, Linda, Eastwood, Jennifer, Fradera, Roger, Hill, Laura, Imperial College London, Open Air Laboratories Programme, Toogood, Mark   +7 more
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Agricultural System Resilience of Industrial Hemp: An Exploratory Value Web Analysis in the Swabian Alb

GCB Bioenergy, Volume 18, Issue 2, February 2026.
This study assessed the industrial hemp value web resilience in the Swabian Alb, Southern Germany, where regional implementation remains limited despite hemp's bioeconomy potential. Using an indicator framework and stakeholder interviews, the research found the small, fluctuating cultivation area (e.g., 25 ha in 2024) focuses on hemp seed valorisation;
Lena‐Sophie Loew, Moritz von Cossel
wiley   +1 more source

Clustering and networking among small independent hotels: developments over ten years [PDF]

, 2006
This paper reports on networking activities amongst a cluster of independent hotels with a view to analysing key variables in network development for SMEs.
Dickson, K, Janjuha-Jivraj, S, Primrose, P, Woods, A   +3 more
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