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Integrating Ecology and Economics in Agent‐Based Models to Support Agricultural Policy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Agent‐based models are valuable tools for studying social‐ecological systems in agriculture. This review maps how existing agent‐based models represent the human and natural domains of agriculture, and discusses developments in economic and ecological agent‐based modeling.
Daniel Vedder, Judith Josephin Rakowski, Lea‐Deborah Kolb, Greta Sophie Theilen‐Loges, Sebastian Lakner, Guy Pe'er   +5 more
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Ecological engineering for controlling water pollution in Latin America [PDF]

, 2013
Ecological engineering is a discipline that combines ecology and engineering to design, construct, restore and manage ecosystems. The design of constructed wetlands (CWs) and anaerobic digesters (ADs) are two applications of ecological engineering to ...
Maria Elizabeth Hernandez
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Ecology: Complexity and functionality in forests

Current Biology
Forests are species-rich ecosystems and provide vital ecosystem services. A new study highlights how tree diversity, mycorrhizal fungi and soil food web structure govern forest functionality, and how tiny energy fluxes can be critical for community persistence. The findings provide new insights into how to sustainably manage forests.
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Response of microbial diversity and function to the degradation of Barkol Saline Lake

Frontiers in Microbiology
Barkol Lake, a shrinking hypersaline lake situated in the northeast of Xinjiang, China, has experienced the exposure of its riverbed and the gradual drying up of its original sediment due to climate change and human activities, resulting in the formation
Yong-Hong Liu, Yong-Hong Liu, Lei Gao, Hong-Chen Jiang, Bao-Zhu Fang, Yin Huang, Li Li, Shuai Li, Rashidin Abdugheni, Wen-Hui Lian, Jing-Yi Zhang, Zhen-Dong Yang, Osama Abdalla Abdelshafy Mohamad, Osama Abdalla Abdelshafy Mohamad, Wen-Jun Li, Wen-Jun Li   +15 more
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Transcription Factor Promiscuity Drives Regulatory Rewiring and Evolvability in Gene Networks in Bacteria

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
When a master transcription factor (TF) is lost, bacteria can rapidly rewire gene regulatory networks by co‐opting related regulators. Using experimental evolution in Pseudomonas fluorescens, we show that TF promiscuity (low‐level, non‐cognate binding) provides the raw material for rewiring. Successful co‐option follows a predictable hierarchy governed
Tiffany B. Taylor, Alan M. Rice
wiley   +1 more source

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
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Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions

Ecology Letters
ABSTRACT Biodiversity can buffer ecosystem functioning against disturbances by allowing species to compensate for the functions lost through the extirpation of other species, a key process known as ecological insurance. Functional ecology has extended this idea by emphasising trait redundancy amongst species that help buffer core ...
Mouquet, N., Mahaut, Lucie, Thuiller, W., Auber, Arnaud, Casajus, N., Enquist, B. J., Gaüzère, P., Loiseau, Nicolas, Mouillot, D., Munoz, F., Villéger, S., Violle, Cyrille   +11 more
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Underground Signals: The Ecological Power of Root Volatiles

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Root volatiles mediate rhizosphere chemical communication, shaping interactions among plants, microbes, herbivores, and natural enemies. Their production, transport, and perception underpin ecological adaptation, multitrophic interactions, and plant resilience, offering opportunities for sustainable crop protection, resilient agroecosystems, and ...
Xueyao Cao, Nanli Song, François Verheggen, Meritxell Pérez‐Hedo, Andrea Clavijo McCormick, Antonino Cusumano, Arthur de Fouchier, Bing Wang, Chen‐Zhu Wang, Emmanuelle Jacquin‐Joly, Gary W. Felton, Geoff M. Gurr, Hao Guo, Jiancai Li, Jin Zhang, Li Chen, Manqun Wang, Michele Ricupero, Peng Han, Peng He, Qi Yan, Qingbo Tang, Qingsong Liu, Shiheng An, Xiangbo Kong, Xiaoling Sun, Xueming Ren, Yuanyuan Song, Yang Liu, Yanhui Guo, Yunhe Li, Xiao Sun   +31 more
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Benchmarking local ecological performance using ecological footprint accounts [PDF]

Ecological footprint is good at telling us how much we weight relative to global ecological ressources. However it tells us nothing on their geographical origin and makes no distinction be-tween ecological ressources used from distant or local land ...
J. Alapetite
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Ecological Principles and Guidelines for Managing the Use of Land

, 2000
The many ways that people have used and managed land throughout history has emerged as a primary cause of land‐cover change around the world. Thus, land use and land management increasingly represent a fundamental source of change in the global ...
Turner, M. G., Dale, V. H., Naiman, R. J., Brown, S., Valone, T. J., Haeuber, R. A., Riebsame, W. E., Hobbs, N. T., Huntly, Nancy J.   +8 more
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