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Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

PLoS ONE, 2011
The accelerating rate of change in biodiversity patterns, mediated by ever increasing human pressures and global warming, demands a better understanding of the relationship between the structure of biological communities and ecosystem functioning (BEF). Recent investigations suggest that the functional structure of communities, i.e. the composition and
Mouillot, David, Villéger, Sébastien, Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael, Mason, Norman W. H.   +3 more
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Reprogramming tumor immune microenvironment by ultrasound‐responsive nanoplatforms for enhanced cancer immunotherapy

BMEMat, EarlyView.
Ultrasound‐responsive nanoplatforms reprogram the tumor immune microenvironment by targeting tumor cells, immune cells, and non‐immune stromal cells to enhance the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy. Abstract Cancer immunotherapy represents a significant advancement in cancer treatment by enhancing the specific recognition and elimination of cancer cells.
Shilong Zhao, Rui Qu, Zan Dai, Xiqun Jiang, Xu Zhen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel, Stephanie Ligan, Alice Bischof, Edi Emilov Ivanov, Laura Martinez‐Izquierdo, Sara Noémie Plassnig, Marisa Pettit   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability in Italian Dining: A Comparative Study of Perceptions in Full‐Service Restaurants and Agritourism

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how sustainability is perceived and prioritized by consumers within full‐service restaurants and rural agritourism settings in Italy, examining the socio‐cultural and economic role of the HoReCa sector in promoting sustainable practices and analyzing gender and generational differences in consumer behavior.
Roberta Minazzi, Patrizia Gazzola, Daniele Grechi, Andrea Vitareti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of management practices on the ecosystem-service multifunctionality of temperate grasslands

Nature Communications
Human wellbeing depends on ecosystem services, highlighting the need for improving the ecosystem-service multifunctionality of food and feed production systems. We study Swiss agricultural grasslands to assess how employing and combining three widespread
Franziska J. Richter, Matthias Suter, Andreas Lüscher, Nina Buchmann, Nadja El Benni, Rafaela Feola Conz, Martin Hartmann, Pierrick Jan, Valentin H. Klaus   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Productivity and Emissions in Italian Agriculture: A Farm‐Level Efficiency Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving the European Union climate‐neutrality objectives requires metrics that jointly assess farm productivity and greenhouse gas emissions at a granular level. However, harmonized evidence for benchmarking the productivity–emissions nexus of Italian farms remains limited.
Giulio Fusco, Yari Vecchio, Margherita Masi, Michele Borgia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plant diversity and community age stabilize ecosystem multifunctionality

Global Change Biology
AbstractIt is well known that biodiversity positively affects ecosystem functioning, leading to enhanced ecosystem stability. However, this knowledge is mainly based on analyses using single ecosystem functions, while studies focusing on the stability of ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) are rare. Taking advantage of a long‐term grassland biodiversity
Dietrich, Peter, Ebeling, Anne, Meyer, Sebastian T, Asato, Ana Elizabeth Bonato, Bröcher, Maximilian, Gleixner, Gerd, Huang, Yuanyuan, Roscher, Christiane, Schmid, Bernhard, Vogel, Anja, Eisenhauer, Nico   +10 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enabling Factors for the Shift From ESG Scores to ESG Performance Management System in SMEs: An Interventionist Approach

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) transition from a symbolic, disclosure‐oriented ESG logic toward a substantive ESG‐oriented performance management system (PMS) grounded in actionable KPIs. Drawing on evidence from the Apuan‐Versilian Stone Industrial District through an interventionist research design, we ...
Alessandra Rigolini, Claudia Presti, Katia Corsi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Impact of Alternative Policy Scenarios on Multifunctionality: A Case Study of Finland. CEPS ENARPRI Working Papers No. 13, 1 July 2005 [PDF]

, 2005
This paper provides first results of the sector-model approach to analysing the effects of alternative policy scenarios on the multifunctional role of Finnish agriculture.
Lehtonen, Heikki, Lankoski, Jussi, Niemi, Jyrki.   +2 more
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