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Ecosystem Services in Decision Making: Time to Deliver [PDF]

, 2009
Over the past decade, efforts to value and protect ecosystem services have been promoted by many as the last, best hope for making conservation mainstream – attractive and commonplace worldwide.
Daily, Gretchen C., Goldstein, Joshua, Kareiva, Peter M., Mooney, Harold A., Pejchar, Liba, Polasky, Stephen, Ricketts, Taylor H., Salzman, James, Shallenberger, Robert   +8 more
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Sustainable land and irrigation management to limit loss of hydropower in the Andes-Amazon headwaters

Communications Earth & Environment
Water plays a critical role in adapting food and energy systems to climate change in the Andes. However, robust climate solutions that work across sectors have not been explored for these working landscapes. Here we develop a framework consisting of high-
Zhaowei Ding, Hector Angarita, Christian Albert Montesinos Cáceres, Waldo Lavado-Casimiro, Jesse A. Goldstein, Natasha Batista, Tong Wu, Dave Fisher, Andrea Baudoin Farah, Hua Zheng, Rafael J. P. Schmitt   +10 more
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Two new species of Phaeoclavulina (Gomphaceae, Gomphales) from North China based on morphological and phylogenetic analysis [PDF]

MycoKeys
Two new species, Phaeoclavulina aurea and P. fulva, were discovered and described from North China. Identification was based on morphological observations combined with phylogenetic analysis of nrITS–nrLSU sequences. Phaeoclavulina aurea is characterized
Xin Tong, Yue Gao, Hai-Qi Wang, Hao Zhou, Cheng-Lin Hou   +4 more
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Capital natural de México

, 2013
Es conocido que Mexico posee una muy amplia diversidad biologica y cultural, lo cual lo convierte en un pais privilegiado, al mismo tiempo que le confiere una gran responsabilidad para asegurar el uso sostenible de sus recursos biologicos y el ...
María Teresa Ramírez Silva
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fluoride‐Free Adhesives for Low Surface Energy Fluorinated Substrates

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A universal, fluoride‐free adhesive achieves a record 4.91 MPa bond strength on PTFE by leveraging amine/amide dipole–dipole interactions, without fluorinated components. This sustainable strategy overcomes the environmental and performance limits of PFAS‐based adhesives, enabling robust, eco‐conscious bonding across diverse materials.
Siqi Zheng, Yifeng Sheng, Shiqian Tan, Yuxuan Sun, Linling Li, He Zhu, Qi Zhang, Shiping Zhu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Splitting an Uncertain (Natural) Capital [PDF]

Most natural commons are subject to discontinuities and threshold effects, so their gradual depletion may result in a sudden irreversible loss of the associated ecological services.
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, Justin Leroux, Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti   +2 more
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La importancia de las personas en la preservación de la naturaleza

Ingenierías USBMed, 2011
La restauración del capital natural es una de las ideas más radicales que ha surgido en los últimos años, debido a que involucra dos conceptos cuyos exponentes han estado enfrentados por décadas.
Mathew G. Linkies
doaj  

An open-source approach for measuring corporate impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity

Communications Earth & Environment
Existing approaches to evaluating companies on sustainability-related issues include limited accounting of impacts on nature and its contributions to human well-being.
Lisa Mandle, Andrew Shea, Emily Soth, Jesse A. Goldstein, Stacie Wolny, Jeffrey R. Smith, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Richard P. Sharp, Mayur Patel   +8 more
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Species diversity of Tricholoma (Agaricales, Tricholomataceae) from Shanxi Province of northern China with the description of four new species [PDF]

MycoKeys
Species of Tricholoma are of great economic and ecological value. There are many studies on Tricholoma worldwide, but the areas investigated are generally North America and Europe. There is limited knowledge about Tricholoma in China.
Ning Mao, Jia-Jia Yang, Yu-Xin Zhang, Ting Li, Li Fan   +4 more
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Substitution, natural capital and sustainability

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 2021
Substitutability of natural capital by human-made capital would seem to be limited. When human-made capital substitutes natural capital, there are currently commonly long-lasting negative impacts of such substitutions on constituents of natural capital ...
Lucas Reijnders
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