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When do people take action? The importance of people’s observation that nature is changing for pro-environmental behavior within the field of impersonal, environmental risk

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 2017
Prior experience has shown to be a highly influencing factor for risk perceptions and behavioral patterns. Yet, often prior experience is connected to a personal threat and damage.
Rebecca Rogers, Cornelia Wallner, Bernhard Goodwin, Werner Heitland, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Hans-Bernd Brosius   +5 more
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Digital Ecosystems: Ecosystem-Oriented Architectures

, 2011
We view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems. Here, we are concerned with the creation of these Digital Ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems to evolve high-level software ...
Briscoe, Gerard, De Wilde, Philippe, Sadedin, Suzanne   +2 more
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Emergent global patterns of ecosystem structure and function from a mechanistic general ecosystem model [PDF]

, 2014
Anthropogenic activities are causing widespread degradation of ecosystems worldwide, threatening the ecosystem services upon which all human life depends.
A Friedlander, A Hardisty, B Cho, B Collen, B-E Sæther, BJ McGill, C Mora, C Ward-Paige, CA Deutsch, CB Field, CD Thomas, CEL Ferreira, CH Sekercioglu, CM Duarte, CR McClain, D Griffiths, D Policansky, D Post, D Yates, Derek P. Tittensor, DG Jenkins, Drew W. Purves, DW Purves, E Jeppesen, E Macpherson, E Odum, E Siemann, EA Fulton, FS Chapin, G Krinner, GA Kaufman, GM Mace, H Cyr, H Stibor, HR Peinetti, J Cebrian, J Chase, J Gasol, J Merilä, JA Carton, JE Cohen, JH Brown, JL Frangi, JM Sunday, Jon Hutton, JP Rodríguez, JS Millar, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, K Rose, KA Nagy, KA Schubert, KE Jones, KR Buck, L Tremblay-Boyer, LLM Fedigan, LW Oring, M Behrenfeld, M González-Suárez, Matthew J. Smith, MBJ Harfoot, ME Power, Michael B. J. Harfoot, Michel Loreau, MJ Coe, MJ Morgan, MJ Smith, MJ Vander Zanden, MK Litvak, MR Evans, MW McCoy, N Blakley, N Loeuille, NG Hairston, O Krüger, P Abrams, P Del Giorgio, PK Holland, R Alkemade, R Bustamante, R Gentile, R Meek, R Shine, R Shine, RE Ricklefs, RE Ricklefs, RJ Williams, RJ Williams, RW Sheldon, RW Wilson, S Díaz, S Fretwell, S Jain, S Jennings, S Jennings, S Meiri, S Sitch, SA Sandin, SD Pletcher, Stephen Emmott, T Newbold, T Sousa, Tim Newbold, TJ Case, TJ Webb, U Brose, V Christensen, Vassily Lyutsarev, W Sprules, X Irigoien, Y-J Shin   +109 more
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The Transformation of the Concept of an Urban Ecosystem: Classical and Modern Urban Ecology

Sociologija: Mintis ir Veiksmas, 2018
Contemporary trends in urban development indicate that its processes rarely observe ecocentric perspectives, under which nature is considered as a value. This concept is represented by modern urban ecology. Meanwhile, the urban ecosystem, as a concept of
Darius Žiemelis
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Endangered Plants in Novel Urban Ecosystems Are Filtered by Strategy Type and Dispersal Syndrome, Not by Spatial Dependence on Natural Remnants

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Understanding the contribution of cities to nature conservation is gaining increasing importance with a globally accelerating urbanization and requires insights into the mechanisms that underlie urban distribution patterns. While a considerable number of
Greg Planchuelo, Ingo Kowarik, Ingo Kowarik, Moritz von der Lippe, Moritz von der Lippe   +4 more
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Impacts of farming practice within organic farming systems on below-ground ecology and ecosystem function [PDF]

, 2006
Maintaining ecosystem function is a key issue for sustainable farming systems which contribute broadly to global ecosystem health. A focus simply on the diversity of belowground organisms is not sufficient and there is a need to consider the contribution
Phillips, L, Stockdale, E A, Watson, C A
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Does using the ecosystem services concept provoke the risk of assigning virtual prices instead of real values to nature? Some reflections on the benefit of ecosystem services for planning and policy consulting. [PDF]

, 2015
This forum article intends to discuss the question if using the ecosystem services concept in planning, management and decision-making can impair nature conservation objectives by hiding the intrinsic values of nature through overemphasizing ...
Fürst, Christine
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The current state of uncertainty reporting in ecosystem studies: a systematic evaluation of peer‐reviewed literature

Ecosphere, 2021
Transparency in reporting is essential to scientific progress. No report should be considered complete without a full account of uncertainties, including those due to natural variation and measurement and model error and those incurred by handling ...
Ruth D. Yanai, Thomas A. Mann, Sunghoon D. Hong, Ge Pu, Jenna M. Zukswert   +4 more
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Ecosystem Management and Ecological Modeling [PDF]

The Scientific World JOURNAL, 2002
It is the intention of this paper to demonstrate that environmental technology must be supplemented by other tools to be able to solve environmental problems properly. Five cases are used to illustrate the possibilities of ecological engineering, a new engineering field based on ecology, as chemical engineering is based on chemistry.
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Throughflow centrality is a global indicator of the functional importance of species in ecosystems

, 2012
To better understand and manage complex systems like ecosystems it is critical to know the relative contribution of system components to system functioning. Ecologists and social scientists have described many ways that individuals can be important; This
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