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Cteno‐Bot: An Untethered Metachronally Swimming Robot With Magnetoactive Propulsors

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
We present Cteno‐bot, an untethered ctenophore‐inspired robot which swims using metachronally coordinated appendages. A single mechanism controls up to 216 magnetoactive propulsors via a dynamically varying magnetic field. We show that the swimming speed of the robot can be increased without a corresponding increase in power requirement, simply by ...
David J. Peterman, Margaret L. Byron
wiley   +1 more source

Restoration as a meaningful aid to ecological recovery of coral reefs

npj Ocean Sustainability
Restoration supports the recovery of ecological attributes such as cover, complexity, and diversity to slow the areal decline of natural ecosystems. Restoration activity is intensifying worldwide to combat persistent stressors that are driving global ...
David J. Suggett, James Guest, Emma F. Camp, Alasdair Edwards, Liz Goergen, Margaux Hein, Adriana Humanes, Jessica S. Levy, Phanor H. Montoya-Maya, David J. Smith, Tali Vardi, R. Scott Winters, Tom Moore   +12 more
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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

Early-stage outcomes and cost-effectiveness of implementing tourism-led coral propagation and outplanting in the Whitsundays (Great Barrier Reef)

Frontiers in Marine Science
Implementation of coral restoration practices within reef management strategies is accelerating globally to support reef resilience and recovery. However, full costs underpinning restoration project feasibility have historically been underreported yet ...
Rachael Scott, David Suggett, David Suggett, Cassidy Hayward, Brent Chatterton, John Edmondson, Johnny Gaskell, Gemma M. Gillette, Lorna Howlett, Emily Monacella, Christine D. Roper, Paige Strudwick, James Unsworth, Michela Veltri, Michela Veltri, Stephen Woodcock, Emma F. Camp   +16 more
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From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang, Sultan Sikandar Mirza, Chengwei Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Species-specific retention vs. recovery of coral thermal tolerance following nursery propagation

Communications Biology
Thermal screening of coral source material is likely crucial to enhancing long-term restoration success under ocean warming. It is unclear, however, whether reef-based donor colonies retain their thermal tolerance in a nursery environment.
Sebastian Szereday, Kok Lynn Chew, Christian R. Voolstra   +2 more
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Coral reef restoration efforts in Latin American countries and territories.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Coral reefs worldwide are degrading due to climate change, overfishing, pollution, coastal development, coral bleaching, and diseases. In areas where the natural recovery of an ecosystem is negligible or protection through management interventions ...
Elisa Bayraktarov, Anastazia T Banaszak, Phanor Montoya Maya, Joanie Kleypas, Jesús E Arias-González, Macarena Blanco, Johanna Calle-Triviño, Nufar Charuvi, Camilo Cortés-Useche, Victor Galván, Miguel A García Salgado, Mariana Gnecco, Sergio D Guendulain-García, Edwin A Hernández Delgado, José A Marín Moraga, María Fernanda Maya, Sandra Mendoza Quiroz, Samantha Mercado Cervantes, Megan Morikawa, Gabriela Nava, Valeria Pizarro, Rita I Sellares-Blasco, Samuel E Suleimán Ramos, Tatiana Villalobos Cubero, María F Villalpando, Sarah Frías-Torres   +25 more
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Research progress and current status of dynamic wave propagation characteristics in rock mass: A review

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This review elucidates the velocity–dispersion–attenuation coupling mechanisms of wave propagation in rock masses, compares six representative models, and reveals how pressure, temperature, mineral composition, and anisotropy jointly control dynamic responses in complex geological media.
Jiajun Shu, Tao Li, Ruiqi Yuan, Yue Li, Bingni Wu, Bo Liu, Zhengding Deng, Galindo Rubén, Fausto Molina‐Gómez   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fine Scale Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of the Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Outbreak Within the Lower Florida Keys

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
One of the latest threats to Florida’s Coral Reef is the stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) outbreak which affects all but a few Caribbean scleractinian species and has spread throughout the Caribbean since 2014. Without a known pathogen, ecological
Sara D. Williams, Cory S. Walter, Erinn M. Muller   +2 more
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