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Eco-Cultural Development of a Restored Lake Environment: The Case Study of Lake Karla (Thessaly, Greece)

open access: yesLand, 2023
Lake Karla is the first reconstructed lake in the EU, supporting agriculture, biodiversity and cultural activities and being part of the Natura 2000 protected area network.
Georgia Trakala   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

What to do in, and what to expect from, urban green spaces – Indicator-based approach to assess cultural ecosystem services

open access: yes, 2021
Literature on urban ecosystem services (UESS) is vast, particularly on cultural ecosystem services. However, due to a lack of knowledge on individual urban green spaces on the site level, further research on enhanced methods is needed to underpin ...
K. Krellenberg   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social capital as a determinant for raising ecosystem services awareness - an application to an Albanian pastoral ecosystem

open access: yesLandscape Online, 2021
This paper aims to map the ecosystem services (ES) provided by a reputed agropastoral ecosystem in the south of Albania and ascertain whether social capital affects the level of importance attributed to them.
Elena Kokthi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

ANALYSING TRADE-OFFS IN MANAGEMENT DECISION- MAKING BETWEEN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, AND COMMODITY PRODUCTION IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON NATIONAL RESERVE [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironment & Ecosystem Science, 2019
The Ecosystem Services concept has been developed in recent decades through both academic and international institutions. Nowadays, most of the literature agrees that ecosystem services constitute a crucial contribution to human well-being.
Diego Hopkins, Zen Makuch, Karen Makuch
doaj   +1 more source

Insect Cultural Services: How Insects Have Changed Our Lives and How Can We Do Better for Them

open access: yesInsects, 2021
Societies have benefited directly and indirectly from ecosystem services provided by insects for centuries (e.g., pollination by bees and waste recycling by beetles).
Natalie E. Duffus   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

MASH Background Confers Enhanced Disease Susceptibility and Acetaminophen Toxicity in iPSC‐Derived Liver Organoids

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This work establishes a novel method for generating multicellular liver organoids from control and MASH donor iPSCs. The model recapitulates several disease‐specific characteristics, with MASH donor‐derived organoids showing higher susceptibility. Lipidomic profiling of MASH organoids closely resembles MASH liver biopsies.
Ekta Minocha   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of cultural contexts on the appreciation of different cultural ecosystem services based on social network analysis [PDF]

open access: yesOne Ecosystem, 2019
Since the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, ecosystem science domain has made tremendous progress in the study of ecosystem services, but debates on neglected cultural ecosystem services (CES) have persisted.
Francisca Kilonzi, Takahiro Ota
doaj   +3 more sources

Human‐Centered Innovation: Precision Nutrition and the Future of Food

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutritional science is moving beyond one‐size‐fits‐all recommendations toward more precise and personalized approaches, yet its implementation pathway remains unclear. This paper proposes a human‐centered precision nutrition framework that highlights the central roles of artificial intelligence (AI), food innovation, and human agency.
Shanshan Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of Cultural Ecosystem Services of Xihu Longjing Tea Gardens based on Social Media Data [PDF]

open access: yesChaye kexue
As a regional agricultural and cultural landscape, tea gardens can not only produce high economic value, but also provide people with a variety of ecosystem cultural services such as recreation, education and spiritual healing. However, the efficient and
YANG Hao, TANG Jianuan, DU Shuqi, ZHANG Dou, HU Guang
doaj   +1 more source

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