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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini, Giacomo Pigatto, Andrea Tenucci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coastal Dunes of the Baltic Sea Shores: A Review

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2018
The article summarises results of studies conducted along the Baltic Sea sandy coasts by scientists involved in coastal dune research, and presents an attempt to describe the types and distribution of dune coasts.
Łabuz Tomasz Arkadiusz, Grunewald Ralf, Bobykina Valentina, Chubarenko Boris, Česnulevičius Algimantas, Bautrėnas Artūras, Morkūnaitė Regina, Tõnisson Hannes   +7 more
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Optimizing germination and cultivation of edible halophytes using effluents from an IMTA system

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Halophytes offer nature‐based solutions to food insecurity and soil degradation, while their integration into integrated multi‐trophic aquaculture (IMTA) systems promotes circular economy practices. This study aimed to optimize the germination and cultivation of edible halophytic species, namely Limbarda crithmoides, Suaeda vera and
Viana Castañeda‐Loaiza, Maria João Rodrigues, Nuno Neng, Célia Quintas, Isabel Ratão, Luísa Custódio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coal Mining as a Driver of Land Use and Land Cover Change and Degradation: A Case in Moatize City, Mozambique

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coal remains a major global energy source despite ongoing environmental controversies, particularly, regarding climate change and landscape transformation. This study investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of land use and land cover (LULC) in the Moatize Coal Basin (MCB), Mozambique, between 1990 and 2024, with a specific focus on land ...
Ivan Latinho Naite, Basílio Fernandez Fernandez, Gilney Figueira Zebende   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

RESEARCH IN SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND INTO THE MANAGEMENT OF COASTAL SAND DUNES

Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1980
Queensland's Beach Protection Act (1968-1974) resulted, inter alia in the formation of the Beach Protection Authority, which is responsible for investigating coastal erosion, planning remedial works, recording and evaluating results of investigations, and various other functions. Control of windblown sand and retention of vegetated and naturally stable
James B. McKenzie, David A. Barr
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Habitat loss reshuffles ecological and evolutionary interactions in a seed dispersal network

Oikos, EarlyView.
In tropical forests, habitat loss reshapes species composition, favoring generalists and recently emerged lineages while specialists and older evolutionary lineages are lost. However, how changes in species ecological attributes and evolutionary history affect ecological processes is poorly explored.
Fernando César Gonçalves Bonfim, Mauro Galetti, Elaine Rios, Cynthia Oliveira, Milena Gama, Ketlen Bona, Geanne Carla Novais‐ Pereira, Thiago de Castro Ribeiro, Eliana Cazetta   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking the Pulse of the Dunes: Seasonal Metabolic Responses of Liolaemus arambarensis to Climatic Variability. [PDF]

J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr Physiol
ABSTRACT Seasonal environmental fluctuations profoundly influence ectothermic vertebrates, regulating their physiology, metabolism, and life cycles. This study investigated the metabolic and morphometric seasonal dynamics of the subtropical sand lizard Liolaemus arambarensis, an endangered species endemic to the coastal dunes of southern Brazil.
Valgas AAN, Cubas GK, de Oliveira DR, Araujo JF, Oliveira GT, Verrastro L.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Vegetation Refuges of a Sand Lizard Assemblage in Temperate Coastal Sand Dunes

Journal of Herpetology, 2012
Natural refuges constitute a fundamental resource in the habitat of any given species. Consequently, the knowledge of those elements that are used as protection from predators is a priority for conservation. We studied the antipredatory mechanisms of an assemblage of sand dune lizards, determining whether refuge sites are random or whether particular ...
Block, Carolina, Vega, Laura Estela, Stellatelli, Oscar Aníbal   +2 more
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Detecting social‐ecological fit in Natura 2000 governance and management: Evidence from LIFE projects focused on forest protected habitat types

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Protected areas represent complex social‐ecological systems that require governance and management approaches that valorise and enhance positive relationships between people and nature. This study analyses the alignment between social and ecological systems to detect the social‐ecological fit of projects focused on biodiversity conservation ...
Elena Andriollo, Elena Pisani, Mauro Masiero, Tommaso Sitzia, Thomas Campagnaro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

UAV APPLICATION IN COASTAL ENVIRONMENT, EXAMPLE OF THE OLERON ISLAND FOR DUNES AND DIKES SURVEY [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
The recent evolutions in civil UAV ease of use led the University of La Rochelle to conduct an UAV program around its own potential costal application.
B. Guillot, F. Pouget
doaj   +1 more source