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Soil Functions & Ecosystem Services [PDF]
, 2015 In order to fulfil RECARE’s aim to quantify in a harmonized, spatially explicit way impacts of degradation and conservation on soil functions and ecosystem services, it is important to understand the concept and review the current scientific debate. This
Bernet, Lea +11 more
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Land, 2022 Green infrastructures deliver countless functions for counteracting climate change, air pollution, floods, and heat islands, contributing at the same time to water and carbon recycling as well as to renewable energies and feedstock provisioning. Properly
Mariana Oliveira +7 more
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Microbial diversity-ecosystem function relationships across environmental gradients [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2020 In light of increasing anthropogenic pressures on ecosystems around the globe, the question how biodiversity change of organisms in the critical zone between Earth’s canopies and bedrock relates to ecosystem functions is an urgent issue, as human life ...
Anna Heintz-Buschart +10 more
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Plants, 2023 (1) Background: Maintaining soil fertility and crop productivity using natural microbial diversity could be a feasible approach for achieving sustainable development in agriculture.
Rafael Alcalá-Herrera +6 more
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Modelling Agroforestry’s Contributions to People—A Review of Available Models
Agronomy, 2021 Climate change, increasing environmental pollution, continuous loss of biodiversity, and a growing human population with increasing food demand, threaten the functioning of agro-ecosystems and their contribution to people and society.
Philipp Kraft +7 more
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The role of recurrent disturbances for ecosystem multifunctionality [PDF]
, 2013 Ecosystem functioning is threatened by an increasing number of anthropogenic stressors, creating a legacy of disturbance that undermines ecosystem resilience.
Hietanen, Susanna +5 more
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The Restoration of Degraded Lands by Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples
Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022 One of Earth's foremost ecological challenges is the degradation of land habitats. This degradation is often caused by deforestation and desertification resulting from the unsustainable management of natural resources.
Nadia S. Santini, Yosune Miquelajauregui
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Fish extinctions and ecosystem functioning in tropical ecosystems [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007 The activities of modern humans have increased the extinction rate of the world's species by up to 1,000 times that observed from the fossil record (1). This extinction crisis has motivated the scientific community to understand the consequences of reduced biodiversity for the dynamics of ecosystems, especially those that provide basic services to ...
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Molecular cancer prevention: Intercepting disease
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Oncological practice must evolve, from treating established tumours to proactive cancer interception before clinical manifestation. This will require mechanistic insight into tumour initiation, validated biomarkers of early disease development and redesigned clinical trials, enabling cancer interception to become a core pillar of oncology with the ...
Charlotte Grieco +2 more
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Ecosystem Functions of Microbial Consortia in Sustainable Agriculture
Agronomy, 2020 Knowledge of the agricultural soil microbiota, of the microbial consortia that comprise it, and the promotion of agricultural practices that maintain and encourage them, is a promising way to improve soil quality for sustainable agriculture and to ...
Ana Aguilar-Paredes +2 more
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