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Valuing ecosystem resilience [PDF]

The concept of ecosystem resilience is being increasingly discussed as a driver of biodiversity values. It implies that marginal deteriorations in ecosystem conditions can abruptly result in non-marginal and irreversible changes in ecosystem functioning ...
Bennett, Jeffrey W., Scheufele, Gabriela
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Polychip‐A High‐Throughput Droplet Microfluidics Platform for Interrogating Microbial Interactions

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Polychip, a fully integrated droplet microfluidics platform, enables high‐throughput, single‐cell resolution screening of polymicrobial interactions. By seamlessly combining six automated microfluidics operations on a single chip, the system accelerates antimicrobial discovery by 11 to 14 times compared to traditional robotic methods.
Jeong Jae Han, Adrian Ryan Guzman, Aifen Zhou, Han Zhang, Rohit Gupte, Haemin Jung, Kaylee Delgado, Sini Skariah, Ali Sultan, Arul Jayaraman, Paul de Figueiredo, Arum Han   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Barriers to Human‐Wildlife Coexistence: Evidence From Southern Sri Lanka

Ecology and Evolution
Human‐wildlife coexistence (HW‐coexistence) is a central goal of conservation. However, efforts to achieve coexistence have largely focused on mitigating human‐wildlife conflict, while overlooking the underlying barriers to promote coexistence.
Anuradhi Dulangi Jayasinghe, Georgette Leah Burns, Duan Biggs   +2 more
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Climate, ecosystem resilience and the slave trade [PDF]

, 2012
African societies exported more slaves in colder years. Lower temperatures reduced mortality and raised agricultural yields, lowering the cost of supplying slaves. Our results help explain African participation in the slave trade, which is associated with adverse outcomes today.
Fenske, James, Kala, Namrata
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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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Resilience: Accounting for the Noncomputable [PDF]

, 2009
Plans to solve complex environmental problems should always consider the role of surprise. Nevertheless, there is a tendency to emphasize known computable aspects of a problem while neglecting aspects that are unknown and failing to ask questions about ...
Carl Folke, Marten Scheffer, Folke, Carl, Westley, Frances, Frances Westley, Folke, C., Scheffer, M., Carpenter, Stephen R., Carpenter, S.R., Scheffer, Marten, Westley, F., Stephen R. Carpenter   +11 more
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Functional Disorder at the Neural Interface: How Disordered Nanostructures Promote Proper Growth and Differentiation in In Vitro Neural Cultures

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work provides a practical guide for neuroengineers to design advanced neural interfaces, embracing and tailoring the concept of functional disorder. By bridging 2D and 3D in vitro models, this work highlights how non‐periodic, spatially heterogeneous, multiscale nanotopography can enable more physiologically relevant platforms for studying neural ...
F. Maita, E. Palmieri, I. Lucarini, L. Montaina, L. Maiolo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Floristic classifications and bioregionalizations are not predictors of intra-specific evolutionary patterns

Nature Communications
The relationship between intra-specific and inter-specific patterns and processes over evolutionary time is key to ecological investigations. We examine this relationship taking an approach of focussing on the association between vegetation and floristic
Patrick S. Fahey, Richard J. Dimon, Marlien M. van der Merwe, Jason G. Bragg, Maurizio Rossetto   +4 more
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Bioengineered Exosome‐Loaded Immunomodulatory Bioadhesive Spray Reverses Liver Fibrosis and Metabolic Dysfunction That Triggers Beneficial Gut‐Liver Crosstalk in Chronic Fatty Liver Disease

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Umbilical cord stem cell‐derived exosomes encapsulated in an immunomodulatory bioadhesive hydrogel spray enable localized therapy, sustained vesicle delivery, macrophage polarization, suppress systemic inflammation, and mitigate glucose and insulin homeostasis impairments in MAFLD.
Triya Saha, Ayushi Mairal, Shreya Mehrotra, Shiv K. Sarin, Ashok Kumar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prospering from nature: helping landowners protect and enhance ecosystem services [PDF]

, 2013
2 pagesAround the country, ranchers and family forest landowners face complex challenges that threaten their ability to stay on the land and maintain their operations.
University of Oregon. Ecosystem Workforce Program
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