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Managing estuaries for ecosystem function [PDF]

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Estuary management is limited by lack of consensus on operational tools for handling multiple conflicting management objectives. One critical step to this goal is a shift from individual problems to a focus on maintaining ecosystem functions that benefit
R.S. Fulford, M. Russell, J.D. Hagy, III, D. Breitburg   +3 more
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Using SWAP to Study the Changes in Nonpoint Source Pollution in Burhatong River Basin

Guan'gai paishui xuebao, 2021
【Background】 Nonpoint source pollution can cause eutrophication and biodiversity loss in rivers and lakes. In China, nonpoint source pollution from agriculture has become an environmental concern and understanding its composition and spatial distribution
SHI Jinhao, ZHU Weihong, TIAN Le, JIN Ri
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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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Precipitation Variability Affects Aboveground Biomass Directly and Indirectly via Plant Functional Traits in the Desert Steppe of Inner Mongolia, Northern China

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Clarifying the response of community and dominance species to climate change is crucial for disentangling the mechanism of the ecosystem evolution and predicting the prospective dynamics of communities under the global climate scenario.
Huan Cheng, Huan Cheng, Yuanbo Gong, Xiaoan Zuo   +3 more
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What does the recovery debt really measure? [PDF]

Rethinking Ecology, 2017
Recently, Moreno-Mateos et al. (2017) coined the concept ‘recovery debt’, clearly a close relative of the ecosystem service debt (Isbell et al.
Merja Elo, Tuomas Haapalehto, Santtu Kareksela, Janne Kotiaho   +3 more
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Does selective logging affect litter deposition rates in central Brazilian Amazonia?

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2022
Selective logging is one of the main human activities that are drastically modifying tropical forests around the world. Reduced-impact logging emerged as a rational model of timber harvesting that reduces the impacts on the ecosystems and contributes to ...
JARLESON L. BARREIROS, NAIARA S. DE OLIVEIRA, RICARDO A.S. CERBONCINI, LOURI KLEMANN JUNIOR   +3 more
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Final report : verification of bay productivity measurement by remote sensors [PDF]

, 2004
From University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute to Texas Water Development BoardInteragency cooperative contract TWDB contract no. IA03-483-003July 2004Ecosystem function in estuarine environments is known to be an important indicator of ...
Montagna, Paul A., Russell, Marc James, 1975-   +1 more
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Red imported fire ant nesting affects the structure of soil microbial community

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023
The red imported fire ants (RIFA, Solenopsis invicta) have become a well-known invasive species that poses significant ecological and economic threats globally.
Jingjie Song, Zhenzhen Tang, Xueqing Zhao, Yanqiong Yin, Xiangyong Li, Fushou Chen, Aidong Chen, Ying Liu   +7 more
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Biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil [PDF]

, 2005
1. Soils are one of the last great frontiers for biodiversity research and are home to an extraordinary range of microbial and animal groups. Biological activities in soils drive many of the key ecosystem processes that govern the global system ...
Finlay B.J., Finlay B.J., Groombridge B., Kowalchuk G.A., Liu W.T., Manefield M., Meselson M., Morton J.B., Torsvik V., Wall D.   +9 more
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Environmental factors indirectly reduce phytoplankton community stability via functional diversity

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The biodiversity-stability relationship is a fundamental subject of ecological research. Considerable evidence demonstrates that biodiversity can either increase or decrease stability.
Xiaoguang Zhang, Xiaoguang Zhang, Lu Tan, Qinghua Cai, Lin Ye   +4 more
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