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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The complete chloroplast genome of the monotypic genus of Bulleyia Schltr. (Orchidaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020
Bulleyia Schltr. is monotypic and represented only by Bulleyia yunnanensis Schltr., native to the Yunnan of China, Bhutan, and northeast India. Here, we report the complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence and the cp genome features of B.
Jing Ai, Yan-Ping Wang, Hui-Jun Guo, Lu Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a biodiversity law: the changing nature of wildlife law in Scotland [PDF]

, 2012
Attitudes towards nature have changed greatly in the last 60 years. Wildlife laws that contribute effectively to conserving biodiversity will look very different from the laws that were developed when wildlife was viewed simply as a resource to be ...
Reid, Colin T.
core   +4 more sources

Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-shelf Heterogeneity of Coral Assemblages in Northwest Australia

Diversity, 2019
Understanding the spatial and temporal distribution of coral assemblages and the processes structuring those patterns is fundamental to managing reef assemblages.
Molly Moustaka, Margaret B Mohring, Thomas Holmes, Richard D Evans, Damian Thomson, Christopher Nutt, Jim Stoddart, Shaun K Wilson   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biodiversity Conservation

Banko Janakari, 1970
doi: 10.3126/banko.v19i1.2175Banko Janakari, Vol. 19, No.
openaire   +2 more sources

Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the influence of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Sustainable Performance (SP) of wineries in Spain. It particularly investigates how Corporate Social Legitimacy (CSL) and Green Innovation (GI) may act as intermediary factors in this relationship.
Javier Martínez‐Falcó, Eduardo Sánchez‐García, Bartolomé Marco‐Lajara, Luis A. Millán‐Tudela   +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

REPORT OF COMMENSAL INTERACTION BETWEEN Lepas (Lepas) anatifera LINNAEUS, 1758 (CIRRIPEDIA: LEPADIDAE) AND Stenocionops furcatus (OLIVIER, 1791) (DECAPODA: EPIALTIDAE), COLLECTED IN A MARINE PROTECTED AREA IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL

Environmental Smoke
We report the first documented occurrence worldwide of the goose barnacle Lepas (Lepas) anatifera Linnaeus, 1758 as an epibiont on the furcate spider crab Stenocionops furcatus.
Jonata de Arruda Francisco, Alessandra Rodrigues Pessoa, Érika Santos, Anne Karolline Costa, Leonardo Tortoriello Messias, Iara Braga Sommer   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the cost of global biodiversity and conservation knowledge [PDF]

, 2016
Knowledge products comprise assessments of authoritative information supported by stan-dards, governance, quality control, data, tools, and capacity building mechanisms.
Ackbar, Joolia, Andrew W., Tordoff, Andy, Symes, Annabelle, Cuttelod, Ariadne, Angulo, Barbara, Goettsch, Bruce, Young, Caroline M., Pollock, Craig Hilton, Taylor, David A., Keith, Diego Juffe, Bignoli, Eimear Nic, Lughadha, Gina, Ralph, Ian, May, Jane, Smart, Jennifer, Luedtke, Jon Paul, Rodriguez, Jon, Hutton, Kaia, Boe, Kent E., Carpenter, Lincoln DC, Fishpool, Maiko, Lutz, María A., Oliveira Miranda, Melanie, Heath, Michael, Hoffmann, Mike, Parr, Monika, Böhm, Moreno Di, Marco, Naomi, Kingston, Neil, Brummitt, Neil, Cox, Pat J., Comer, Penny F., Langhammer, Rebecca M., Miller, Richard B., Jenkins, Rondinini, Carlo, Simon, Stuart, Stephen, Woodley, Steve, Bachman, Stuart HM, Butchart, Thomas M., Brooks, Tim, Johnson, William RT, Darwall   +42 more
core   +3 more sources