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Large scale exploration reveals rare taxa crucially shape microbial assembly in alkaline lake sediments

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Alkaline lakes are extreme environments inhabited by diverse microbial extremophiles. However, large-scale distribution patterns, environmental adaptations, community assembly, and evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities remain largely ...
Zhiguang Qiu, Shuhang He, Chun-Ang Lian, Xuejiao Qiao, Qing Zhang, Ciqin Yao, Rong Mu, Li Wang, Xiao-Ai Cao, Yan Yan, Ke Yu   +10 more
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Does land marketization improve eco-efficiency? Evidence from China

Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2023
The trend of market-oriented land transaction scheme and the optimal allocation of land resources have become two important components of ecological sustainable development. However, the relevance of analyzing effects of land marketization on ecological
Yantuan Yu, Nengsheng Luo
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Unveiling the unknown viral world in groundwater

Nature Communications
Viruses as the prevailing biological entities are poorly understood in underground realms. Here, we establish the first metagenomic Groundwater Virome Catalogue (GWVC) comprising 280,420 viral species ( ≥ 5 kb) detected from 607 monitored wells in seven ...
Zongzhi Wu, Tang Liu, Qian Chen, Tianyi Chen, Jinyun Hu, Liyu Sun, Bingxue Wang, Wenpeng Li, Jinren Ni   +8 more
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ECO-EFFICIENCY AS A PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN BUSINESS IN THE CONDITIONS OF GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS

Green, Blue and Digital Economy Journal, 2023
Eco-efficiency is a concept accepted in the economic sphere that refers to strategies aimed at maximizing the efficiency of production processes while minimizing the negative impact on the environment.
Iulia Caprian, Birca Iulita, Nataliia Trushkina   +2 more
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Performance improvements of recycled concrete and ceramic aggregates using graphene oxide nanocoating

Scientific Reports
Construction and demolition waste (CDW) represents—35% of global waste and—40% of related emissions. Recycled aggregates from CDW support sustainability and circular economy strategies.
Andrea Antolín-Rodríguez, Julia García-González, Manuel Ignacio Guerra-Romero, Andrés Juan-Valdés   +3 more
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Characterising the high spatial heterogeneity of urban flood resilience under extreme rainfall using mobile signal data

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk
Characterisation of the spatial heterogeneity of urban flood resilience (UFR) under extreme rainfall events can support decision-making in urban planning and emergency management.
Junqi Mao, Xiaoyan Cao, Runqiao Zhang, Junqing Tang, Pengjun Zhao, Huapeng Qin   +5 more
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Using ensemble machine learning to predict and understand spatiotemporal water quality variations across diverse watersheds in coastal urbanized areas

Ecological Indicators
In the coastal urbanized areas, watersheds exhibit diverse geographic and pressure factors that drive spatiotemporal variations in water quality. However, existing studies are more focused on single watersheds and lack modeling and attribution frameworks
Fangnan Xiao, Runqiao Zhang, Zhanqiang Jian, Wei Liu, Taotao Sun, Weicheng Pang, Long Han, Huapeng Qin   +7 more
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Measurement of the eco-efficiency of small business in the supply chain oil and gas, applying the taxonomy CE7

Acta Scientiarum: Technology, 2019
This article intends to contribute to studies concerning environmental sustainability in the oil and gas industry by measuring the eco-efficiency of small business in the supply chain of oil and gas in Brazil.
Paulo Ricardo Cosme Bezerra, Marcela Marques Vieira, Júlio Francisco Dantas de Rezende   +2 more
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Heterogeneous effect of “Belt and Road” on the two-stage eco-efficiency in China's provinces

Ecological Indicators, 2021
This paper divides the industrial eco-economic system into manufacturing stage and environmental protection stage, uses the improved metabolic GM(1,1) model and TOPSIS-DEA cross-efficiency model to evaluate the two-stage eco-efficiency of China’s ...
Fanlin Meng, Wenping Wang
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Nitrate-reducing bacteria bridge nitrogen cycling and antibiotic resistance in river ecosystems

Nature Communications
River ecosystems, crucial components of the global nitrogen cycle, are increasingly affected by antibiotic pollution. However, the mechanistic interplay between nitrogen cycling and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) dissemination remains poorly ...
Chunfang Deng, Hetong Cai, Kongyan Luo, Songfeng Liu, Qian Chen, Weiling Sun, Jinren Ni   +6 more
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