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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
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Estimation of total leaf area in perennial plants using image analysis Estimativa da área foliar total de culturas perenes por meio de análise de imagens

Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, 2011
One feature of most horticultural crop plants that is biologically relevant to their yield and productivity is total leaf area. However, direct methods of estimation of the leaf area cause damage to the plants, whereas indirect methods such as based on ...
Marlon Marcon, Kleber Mariano, Roberto A. Braga, Carlos M. Paglis, Myriane S. Scalco, Graham W. Horgan   +5 more
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Environmental-economic benefits and trade-offs on sustainably certified coffee farms [PDF]

, 2017
Coffee with diverse shade trees is recognized as conserving greater biodiversity than more intensive production methods. Sustainable certification has been proposed as an incentive to conserve shade grown coffee.
Bacon, Blackman, Blackman, Brown, Di Rienzo, Dietsch, Donald, Elias de Melo Virginio, Estrada, Fernando Casanoves, Gabriela Soto, Giovannucci, Gobbi, Gordon, Greenberg, Greenberg, Guharay, Haggar, Haggar, Harvey, Harvey, Idol, IPCC, Jeremy Haggar, Lenzen, Magurran, Martinez-Torres, Mas, Milder, Noponen, Philpott, Philpott, Philpott, Rainforest Alliance, Rappole, Rice, Richards, Seaby, Segura, SMBC no date, Soto-Pinto, StataCorp   +41 more
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Ecology and evolution of pyrazines in insects

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Chemical communication is the oldest and most widespread form of signalling among and within organisms. Among the many compounds involved in such communication, pyrazines – nitrogen‐containing heterocyclic molecules – are especially intriguing due to their widespread occurrence across the tree of life, from bacteria and fungi to insects and ...
Zowi Oudendijk, Niklas Wahlberg, Johanna Mappes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local tree knowledge can fast-track agroforestry recommendations for coffee smallholders along a climate gradient in Mount Elgon, Uganda

Agroforestry Systems, 2018
Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) is economically important for many smallholder farmers in the Mount Elgon region of East Uganda, but its production is increasingly threatened by climate change. However, ecosystem services (ES) provided by companion trees
G. Gram, P. Vaast, J. Wolf, L. Jassogne
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Digital Technologies for Transparent and Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Resource Orchestration‐Based View in the Textile Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Implementing digital technologies is touted as the next big step for the firms aiming to improve sustainability in their supply chains. These technologies are often credited with the potential to improve transparency and achieve sustainability.
Amna Farrukh, Aqeel Ahmed, Sadaat Yawar
wiley   +1 more source

NOTE-Polymorphic information content of SSR markers for Coffea spp. [PDF]

Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, 2010
Thirty-three coffee SSR primers from enriched genomic library with (GT)15 and (AGG)10 repeats were analyzedin 24 coffee tree accessions. Twenty-two primers were polymorphic among accessions; the number of alleles ranged from 2 to13, with the mean number ...
Robson Fernando Missio, Eveline Teixera Caixeta, Eunize Maciel Zambolim, Laércio Zambolim, Cosme Damião Cruz, Ney Sussumu Sakiyama   +5 more
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Bird surveys for REDD+: avian communities indicate forest degradation in a Peruvian coffee landscape [PDF]

, 2011
Shade coffee cultivation in the Peruvian Andes assists in reducing emissions from deforestation because it avoids conversion to non-forest land uses such as coca and sun grown coffee farming.
Bruno Verbist, Cagan Sekercioglu, Luc Lens, Raf Aerts, Sarah Spranghers   +4 more
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The Evolution of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Risk and Its Implications for Sustainable Finance: A Systematic Literature Review

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent literature addressing ESG and risk has increased by 70% since mid‐2022, reflecting a growing interest in sustainable finance. Guided by the PRISMA flow diagram, this paper employs a hybrid systematic review methodology, combining bibliometric analysis with content analysis, to provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution of ESG and
Fahad Asmi, Alain Neher, Alfred Wong
wiley   +1 more source

Throughfall and soil properties in shaded and unshaded coffee plantations and a secondary forest: a case study from Southern Colombia

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2016
In Colombia coffee production is facing risks due to an increase in the variability and amount of rainfall, which may alter hydrological cycles and negatively influence yield quality and quantity.
Lucía Gaitán, Inge Armbrecht, Sophie Graefe   +2 more
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