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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced 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
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Field-based assessments of the seasonality of Culex pipiens sensu lato in England: an important enzootic vector of Usutu and West Nile viruses

Parasites & Vectors
Background Usutu virus (USUV), which is closely related to West Nile virus (WNV), sharing a similar ecology and transmission cycle, was first reported in the UK in the southeast of England in 2020.
Nicola Seechurn, M. Trent Herdman, Arturo Hernandez-Colina, Alexander G. C. Vaux, Colin Johnston, Morgan Berrell, Javier Lopez, Lindsay Eckley, Merit Gonzalez-Olvera, Lisa Gillespie, Paul Pearce Kelly, Matthew Baylis, Jolyon M. Medlock   +12 more
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Technical Feasibility Study of Autonomous Field Robot‐Based on‐the‐go Assessment of Soil Nutrients Using Ion‐Sensitive Field‐Effect Transistors

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Autonomous field robots equipped with ISFET‐based sensors enable rapid, spatially resolved soil nutrient analysis directly in the field. An automated system based on the BoniRob platform is presented for standardized on‐site extraction and measurement of key macronutrients and soil pH.
Vadim Riedel, Stefan Hinck, Edgar Peiter, Arno Ruckelshausen   +3 more
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EFL teachers’ agency in Chinese universities against the backdrop of “Curriculum Ideology and Politics”—an ecological perspective

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
As a language education policy, Curriculum Ideology and Politics (CIP) has constructed an ecological environment for teacher agency. From the ecological perspective, this study explores the manifestations of and influencing factors in university EFL ...
Tingqun Zhang, Yuhong Wang, Zhanhao Jiang   +2 more
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Understanding multiple ecological responses to anthropogenic disturbance: rivers and potential flow regime change [PDF]

, 2012
Human-induced alteration of the natural flow regime is a major threat to freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity. The effects of hydrological alteration on the structural and functional attributes of riverine communities are expected to be multiple and ...
Catherine Leigh, Sheldon, Fran, Michele A. Burford, Ben Stewart-Koster, Burford, Michele A, Stewart-Koster, Ben, Fran Sheldon, Leigh, Catherine, Burford, Michele   +8 more
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial distribution of Culex mosquitoes across England and Wales, July 2023

Parasites & Vectors
Background With medically important arboviruses such as West Nile virus (WNV) circulating in Europe and Usutu virus (USUV) currently present in the UK, it is imperative to identify areas in the UK at risk of establishment and spread of these viruses ...
Emma Widlake, Roksana Wilson, Jack Pilgrim, Alexander G. C. Vaux, Jolanta Tanianis-Hughes, Amirah Haziqah-Rashid, Ken Sherlock, Agata Delnicka, Amelia Simpson, Anthony J. Abbott, Colin J. Johnston, Jude Martin, Kendall Barlow, Eloise Aliski, Saffron Shiels, Sara Gandy, Sarah M. Biddlecombe, Joanna de Klerk, Luigi Sedda, Jolyon M. Medlock, Matthew Baylis, Marcus S. C. Blagrove   +21 more
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Nature Speaks: Agency and Environment in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

Arbitrer
This study explores the linguistic strategies in Ben Okri’s “The Famished Road” to construct ecological interdependencies and agency in the novel.
Olarotimi Ogungbemi
doaj   +1 more source

Promoting agency for social-ecological transformation: a transformation-lab in the Xochimilco social-ecological system

Ecology and Society, 2018
Experiments to create spaces for social-ecological transformation are multiplying. These experiments aim at transcending traditional spaces for rational deliberation, planning, and participatory decision-making.
Lakshmi Charli-Joseph, J. Mario Siqueiros-Garcia, Hallie Eakin, David Manuel-Navarrete, Rebecca Shelton   +4 more
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source