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Ecosystem service bundles highlight priorities and trade-offs for marine spatial planning
Ecosystems and PeopleThere is an increasing demand for ecosystem service (ES) assessments as part of international and national efforts to enhance and safeguard the valuable benefits ecosystems provide.
Kara E. Pellowe +12 more
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Resilience, adaptive capacity, and the lock-in trap of the Western Australian agricultural region [PDF]
, 2004 Using the Western Australian (WA) agricultural region as an example of a large-scale social-ecological system (SES), this paper applies a framework based on resilience theory to examine the region's resilience and capacity for change and renewal. Despite
Allison, H.E. +3 more
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova +9 more
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Resilience and stability of a pelagic marine ecosystem [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016 The accelerating loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide has accentuated a long-standing debate on the role of diversity in stabilizing ecological communities and has given rise to a field of research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF).
Lindegren, Martin +4 more
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A framework for ecosystem resilience in policy and practice: DECCA
, 2021 Ecosystem resilience is increasingly considered within political responses to environmental problems, and is a key element of recent environmental legislation in Wales.
Thomas, Rhian +5 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
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To Clamp or Not to Clamp: Enhancing Seed Endophyte Metabarcoding Success
SeedsSeed microbes play crucial roles in plant health, but studying their diversity is challenging due to host DNA contamination. This study aimed to optimise methodologies for investigating seed microbiomes across diverse plant species, focusing on the ...
Allison A. Mertin +4 more
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Biodegradable 3D‐Printable and Coatable Antifouling Composites for Marine Applications
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Marine biofouling damages submerged surfaces and raises greenhouse gas emissions. Biodegradable antifouling biocomposites were developed by hot‐mixing beeswax, Tween 80, and calcium stearate or stearic acid. Adjusting the component ratio enables processing via hot‐pressing, 3D‐printing, or dip‐coating.
Gabriele Corigliano +17 more
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Making Sense of Biodiversity: The Affordances of Systems Ecology
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 We see two related, but not well-linked fields that together could help us better understand biodiversity and how it, over time, provides benefits to people.
Erik Andersson +3 more
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The Economic Insurance Value of Ecosystem Resilience [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 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 risk-averse ecosystem users against potential welfare losses.
Baumgärtner, Stefan, Strunz, Sebastian
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