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The economic insurance value of ecosystem resilience [PDF]

Ecosystem resilience, i.e. an ecosystem’s ability to maintain its basic functions and controls under disturbances, is often interpreted as insurance: by decreasing the probability of future drops in the provision of ecosystem services, resilience insures
Sebastian Strunz, Stefan Baumgärtner
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Biodiversity performance of organic farms in Austria - results from eight years of biodiversity assessment [PDF]

, 2018
Assessing the biodiversity performance of agricultural farms has gained importance in recent years since conserving and promoting biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions in cultural landscapes is a key aspect in making agriculture more ...
Drapela, T., Markut, T., Meier, M. S., Pfiffner, L., Schader, C.   +4 more
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What is marine biodiversity? Towards common concepts and their implications for assessing biodiversity status [PDF]

, 2016
Biodiversity' is one of the most common keywords used in environmental sciences, spanning from research to management, nature conservation, and consultancy.
Angel Borja, Herman Hummel, Hugues Blanchet, Jacob Carstensen, Jesper H. Andersen, Michael Elliott, Nathalie Niquil, Paul E Renaud, Sabine Cochrane, Sabine Cochrane, Torsten Berg   +10 more
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Pulsed Electrolysis Prevents Sulfur Poisoning for Sustained Sulfide Valorization

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Integrating pulsed electrolysis with Sc‐doped NiFe‐LDH enables sustainable sulfide valorization, achieving >500 h stability, 99.8% efficiency. Moreover, this technology produces high‐purity sulfur and sodium formate, boosting profit by 121% to $1,294.7 per tonne of hydrogen.
Zhiyan Hou, Yangbo Ma, Yufeng Wu, Weijin Cao, Zhengxiao Guo, Changlong Wang   +5 more
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Taxonomic Diversity and Abundance of Soil Macrofauna in Temperate Forests Under Different Types of Forest Management: A Case Study in European Russia

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Soil fauna perform a plethora of vital ecological functions and are often used as indicators of ecosystem disturbances. Investigating their taxa, functional diversity, and abundance is essential to assess ecosystem resilience, detect environmental stress,
Daniil I. Korobushkin, Nina A. Pronina, Ruslan A. Saifutdinov, Polina A. Guseva, Sergey M. Tsurikov, Ksenia V. Dudova   +5 more
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Microbial Population Dynamics and Ecosystem Functions of Anoxic/Aerobic Granular Sludge in Sequencing Batch Reactors Operated at Different Organic Loading Rates

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
The granular sludge process is an effective, low-footprint alternative to conventional activated sludge wastewater treatment. The architecture of the microbial granules allows the co-existence of different functional groups, e.g., nitrifying and ...
Enikö Szabó, Raquel Liébana, Malte Hermansson, Oskar Modin, Frank Persson, Britt-Marie Wilén   +5 more
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Organic farming effects on clay dispersion in carbon-exhausted soils [PDF]

, 2009
Many Danish soils are depleted in organic matter (OM) after decades of intensive cereal cultivation (Schjønning et al., 2009). In this paper we show that clay particles (colloids) in soils that are low in OM content are easily dispersed in the soil water,
de Jonge, L.W., Greve, M.H., Olesen, J.E., Schjønning, P.   +3 more
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Boosting Seawater Desalination by Ampere‐Level Nitrate Electroreduction On Defect‐Rich Ultrathin RuCu Alloy Nanostructures

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Defect engineering of ultrathin RuCu alloy nanostructures has been successfully achieved to enhance ammonia electrosynthesis under indutrial‐level current density. Simultaneously, the stable ampere‐level operation of nitrate electroreduction on defective RuCu nanostructures can drive seawater desalination at an ultrafast salt removal rate, offering an ...
Juan Wang, Liang Guo, Qingbo Wa, Fengkun Hao, Fu Liu, Chaohui Wang, Yunhao Wang, Mingzheng Shao, Yiwei Guo, Guozhi Wang, Xiang Meng, Fangren Qian, Xiuyun Zhang, Chongyi Ling, Shengqi Chu, Zhanxi Fan   +15 more
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Fungal Networks Constrain Microfauna‐Stimulated Nitrogen Mineralisation in a Soil Microcosm Experiment

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
Soil microfauna are recognised as key regulators of nitrogen (N) transformations, primarily through grazing and translocation mechanisms. The interactions between soil microorganisms and their microfaunal grazers play a crucial role in controlling N ...
Reza Ghaderi, Helen L. Hayden, Ramesha H. Jayaramaiah, Thi Bao Anh Nguyen, Hang‐Wei Hu, Ji‐Zheng He   +5 more
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Pattern Formation in Non‐Equilibrium Architected Materials

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This article demonstrates an artificial mechanical system ‐ a robotic metamaterial ‐ as an accessible and versatile platform within which to explore and prescribe the reaction‐diffusion driven pattern formation hitherto associated with comparatively less accessible and versatile non‐equilibrium biological and chemical systems.
Vinod Ramakrishnan, Michael J. Frazier
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