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Disentangling the rationale of deforestation to understand better the partial effectiveness of protected areas. A case study for Madagascar's eastern rainforest corridor (2001-12) [PDF]

, 2015
Madagascar's notoriously high level of biodiversity is currently threaten by deforestation. Protected Areas (hereafter “PAs”) remain until now the central instrument to protect it whilst little is known about their environmental effectiveness in the ...
Aubert, Sigrid, Brimont, Laura, Desbureaux, Sébastien, Karsenty, Alain, Lohanivo, Alexio Clovis, Rakotondrabe, Manohisoa, Razafiarijoana, Jules, Razafindraibe, Andrianjakarivo Henintsoa   +7 more
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Stream Fusion, to Completeness

, 2016
Stream processing is mainstream (again): Widely-used stream libraries are now available for virtually all modern OO and functional languages, from Java to C# to Scala to OCaml to Haskell. Yet expressivity and performance are still lacking.
ACM, Biboudis A., Biboudis A., Jones S. Peyton, Kiselyov O., Pouzet M., Prokopec A., Taha W., Waters R. C.   +8 more
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A Dual‐Ion Multiphysics Model for Smart and Sustainable Sensors Based on Bacterial Cellulose

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Bacterial cellulose (BC), functionalized with ionic liquids (ILs) and conductive polymers, offers promise for sustainable sensor applications. To enable real‐world integration, this work presents the first dual‐carrier, multiphysics white‐box model of mechanoelectric transduction in BC–IL sensors, combining mechanical deformation and ion transport ...
Francesca Sapuppo, Giovanna Di Pasquale, Salvatore Graziani, Sara Sadat Hosseini, Luca Patané, Antonino Pollicino, Carlo Trigona, Maria Gabriella Xibilia   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

DNA metabarcoding reveals greater plant diversity than morphological seed analysis of bird feces

Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Fruit‐eating birds drive seed dispersal in recovering tropical ecosystems, shaping forest regeneration. Molecular techniques, such as DNA metabarcoding, enable diet analysis from feces and can provide complementary frugivory data where dispersal is infrequent, as well as aid in seed identification in hyper‐diverse regions lacking ...
Carina I. Motta, Bruno H. Saranholi, Vinicius Marciano De Godoy, Marina Corrêa Côrtes   +3 more
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Rethinking the Size and Complexity of Iron Age Hillforts in NW Iberia Thanks to Aerial Archaeology and Geophysics

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper tackles one key limitation in the analysis of Iron Age communities in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula: the limited exploration of areas beyond the fortified settlements known as castros (hillforts). The vast majority of archaeological studies have focused exclusively on the areas inside the walls of these settlements, which are ...
César Parcero‐Oubiña, Carlos Otero‐Vilariño, María Gómez‐Faro, Jesús Ignacio Jiménez Chaparro, Pastor Fábrega‐Álvarez, Juan Torrejón‐Valdelomar, Marta Crespo‐Fernández, David González‐Álvarez   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson, Ellen Wohl, Laura L. Govers, Oscar Franken, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Han Olff, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Maryann S. Watson, Luísa M.S. Borges, Tjisse van der Heide   +9 more
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The spread of non‐native species

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global redistribution of species through human agency is one of the defining ecological signatures of the Anthropocene, with biological invasions reshaping biodiversity patterns, ecosystem processes and services, and species interactions globally.
Phillip J. Haubrock, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Irene Martín‐Forés, Stelios Katsanevakis, Ronaldo Sousa, Ismael Soto, Andy J. Green, Antonín Kouba, Teun Everts, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Nadège Belouard, Cang Hui, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, Margaux Boeraeve, Franz Essl, J. Robert Britton   +16 more
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Regulation Through Revelation: The Effect of Pollution Monitoring on Labour Demand

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how manufacturing firms respond to a real‐time pollution monitoring programme, with a focus on the implication for employment. Contrary to the conventional expectation that environmental regulations negatively impact business, the findings reveal that enhanced pollution monitoring has a significant and robust positive ...
Tong Zhu, Andreas Löschel
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Green Banking Practices, Social, Health and Environmental Disclosures and Bank Financial Performance: The Role of Innovations and Corporate Governance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Regulators in the banking industry in the Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) region are progressively concentrating on corporate innovation and bank social, health and environmental disclosures (BSHED) as crucial corporate governance (CG) structures to improve bank financial performance (BFP).
Douglas A. Adu, Musa Mangena, Emmanuel Adegbite, Frank Boateng   +3 more
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Fire risk and smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon: why have institutional arrangements failed so far? [PDF]

, 2013
In the Brazilian Amazon, uncontrolled fire is one of the main drivers of forest degradation leading to important loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES). Smallholders are often considered as the main actors responsible for these damages, as they
Bommel, Pierre, Cammelli, Federico, Coudel, Emilie, Ferreira, J., Navegantes-Alves, Livia de Freitas, Piketty, Marie-Gabrielle   +5 more
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