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Biodiversity assessments: Origin matters

PLOS Biology, 2018
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Aníbal Pauchard, Laura A. Meyerson, Sven Bacher, Tim M. Blackburn, Giuseppe Brundu, Marc W. Cadotte, Franck Courchamp, Franz Essl, Piero Genovesi, Sylvia Haider, Nick D. Holmes, Philip E. Hulme, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Julie L. Lockwood, Ana Novoa, Martin A. Nuñez, Duane A. Peltzer, Petr Pyšek, David M. Richardson, Daniel Simberloff, Kevin Smith, Brian W. van Wilgen, Montserrat Vilà, John R. U. Wilson, Marten Winter, Rafael D. Zenni   +25 more
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner, Luigi Orsi, Alessandro Olper, Stefanella Stranieri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The complete mitochondrial genome of Undinula vulgaris (Dana, 1849) (Crustacea: Calanoida: Calanidae)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019
The present study reports, for the first time, the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Undinula vulgaris. The total mitogenome length of U. vulgaris was 15,303 bp with 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), 22 transfer RNAs ...
Jinwook Back, Hana Kim, Sang-Hwa Lee, Sang-Hui Lee, Myung-Hwa Shin, Byung-Jin Lim   +5 more
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[Biodiversities]

, 1997
A partir de l'observation du Massif de l'Aigoual des rapports entre l'Office national des Forêts et le Parc national des Cévennes, l'auteur pose la question de la définition de la biodiversité. Elle est générale et son imprécision permet à chacun d'avancer selon ses objectifs, suivant les groupes : forestiers, usagers du site, associations de ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Does ESG Matter for Unlisted Companies in the Agri‐Food Industry? Evidence From Japan's Unlisted Agri‐Food Companies

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is emphasized among listed companies for their stakeholders and ESG disclosures, ESG engagement among unlisted companies has been rarely examined due to data limitations. This is particularly problematic for the agri‐food industry that has significant impacts on the environment and consists ...
Ying Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
wiley   +1 more source

Global land cover maps do not reveal mining pressures to biodiversity

Scientific Reports
Global land cover maps are key inputs into the biodiversity metrics used by the private sector to align their performance with conservation goals and targets.
Laura J. Sonter, Ilyas Nursamsi, Leon Bennun, Jamie Graham, Victor Maus, Hugo Rainey, Malcolm Starkey, Joseph A. Turner, James E. M. Watson, Graham W. Prescott   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human impacts on the distribution and genetic diversity of Eurasian minnows (Phoxinus: Leuciscidae) in the Rhenish Massif

Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems
Introductions of non-native species, a key driver of biodiversity loss, may be underestimated due to cryptic species. In the Rhenish Massif (western Germany), anthropogenic introductions of Eurasian minnows (Phoxinus) caused discrepancies in genetic ...
Sternberg Nils, Bodenheim Anja, Oriowo Temitope O., Podsiadlowski Lars, Stange Madlen   +4 more
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