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Underground Signals: The Ecological Power of Root Volatiles

open access: yesAdvanced 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   +31 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eliciting the implicit knowledge and perceptions of on-ground conservation managers of the Macquarie Marshes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Knowledge that has been developed through extensive experience of receiving and responding to ecological feedback is particularly valuable for informing and guiding environmental management.
Johnson, Bill   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Local Ecological Knowledge Informs Nocturnal Mammal Conservation in Ba’Aka Culture in the Central African Republic

open access: yesDiversity
Local ecological knowledge has been shown to convey key information about elusive mammal species. Many of Africa’s nocturnal mammals are not yet considered globally threatened, yet behavioural ecology and population trends across their diverse ranges ...
Annette S. Gunn   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Frequent Sweetened Beverage Consumption Is Associated With Accelerated Biological Aging: Evidence From a Population‐Based Study and Gut Microbiota Analysis

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Frequent sweetened beverage consumption is associated with accelerated biological aging in a large Chinese population. Five gut microbial genera are consistently enriched in both frequent sweetened beverage consumers and individuals with accelerated aging and show significant mediating effects, suggesting a potential microbiota‐related pathway linking ...
Yuwei Shi   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interview-based sighting history to investigate the historical range and dynamics of dugongs in China

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science
The dugong (Dugong dugon) is the first marine megafauna to be declared functionally extinct in China, yet its historical range and extinction dynamics remain poorly understood.
Mingli Lin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The linkages between local Ecological knowledge and land-use allocation among rural communities in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yesPresent Environment and Sustainable Development
Land-use allocation is a management framework for sharing land resources among different uses for diverse purposes. This study investigated household local knowledge and land-use allocation using two local municipalities in South Africa.
Muhammad MUBBIN   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Traditional ecological knowledge and medicinal plant diversity in Ecuadorian Amazon home gardens

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Medicinal plants are an ecosystem service directly implicated in human well-being. In many rural communities, they constitute a main treatment for disease or a source of disease prevention.
Verónica Caballero-Serrano   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

LakeBase Semantic Service [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We present the features and architecture of the LakeBase Semantic Service. The LakeBase Semantic Service is a web service for the management of semantic annotations and semantic search of ecological research data.
Keil, Jan Martin
core   +1 more source

A Comprehensive Microbial Gene Catalog of the Human Airway Microbiome Across Anatomical Sites and Geographic Regions

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
An integrated Human Airway Microbiome Gene Catalog (iHAMGC) is constructed from 12,273 metagenomic airway samples, providing a high‐resolution reference of respiratory microbial genes. The catalog enables systematic exploration of taxonomic and functional variation across airway niches and geographic regions, revealing site‐specific and region ...
Qing Zhang   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

When the Evidence Points to the Non-Invasive Nature of an Allegedly Invasive Alien Species: The Case of the Aoudad in Mainland Spain

open access: yesAnimals
Here we reveal a first comparative analysis of the use of food resources of wild populations of the aoudad Ammotragus lervia and the Iberian ibex Capra pyrenaica, both in sympatric and allopatric conditions.
Jorge Cassinello   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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