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Uncertainty in soil data can outweigh climate impact signals in global crop yield simulations
Nature Communications, 2016 Global gridded crop models are increasingly used to assess climate change impacts on food production. Here, the authors assess crop yield uncertainty associated with soil data input, reporting that soil type strongly influences yield estimates, and may ...
Christian Folberth +6 more
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Ecology and Society, 2012 Indigenous peoples now engage with many decentralized approaches to environmental management that offer opportunities for integration of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) and western science to promote cultural diversity in the management of social ...
Rosemary Hill +5 more
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International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystems Services and Management, 2015 Despite the growing popularity of the concept of ecosystem services, policy makers and practitioners continue to struggle with the challenge of translating it into practice. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, this volume takes up the challenge to provide a framework for the effective implementation of simple concepts into complex ...
Gissi, Elena +2 more
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An individual-based modelling approach to estimate landscape connectivity for bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Background. Preserving connectivity, or the ability of a landscape to support species movement, is among the most commonly recommended strategies to reduce the negative effects of climate change and human land use development on species.
Corrie H. Allen +2 more
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Identifying hotspots and management of critical ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta Region, China [PDF]
, 2017 Rapid urbanization has altered many ecosystems, causing a decline in many ecosystem services, generating serious ecological crisis. To cope with these challenges, we presented a comprehensive framework comprising five core steps for identifying and ...
Cai, Wenbo +4 more
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Plants, 2022 Ageratina adenophora (Spreng.) R.M.King & H.Rob. is one of the most threatening invasive alien plants in China. Since its initial invasion into Yunnan in the 1940s, it spread rapidly northward to southern Mount Nyba in Sichuan, which lies on the eastern ...
Yi Zhang +6 more
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Modeling cultural ecosystem services (Case study: Recreational Ecosystem Services in Behbahan county) [PDF]
علوم محیطی, 2023 Extended abstractIntroduction: Goods and services that are provided by ecosystems in favorable environmental conditions, for the welfare of humans, are called ecosystem services.
Fatemeh Mohammadyari +2 more
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Assessing, quantifying and valuing the ecosystem services of coastal lagoons [PDF]
, 2018 The natural conservation of coastal lagoons is important not only for their ecological importance, but also because of the valuable ecosystem services they provide for human welfare and wellbeing.
Angus, Stewart +35 more
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Social preferences for ecosystem services in a biodiversity hotspot in South America [PDF]
, 2019 Identifying which ecosystem services are relevant to different stakeholders and understanding stakeholders’ perceptions of such services is useful for making informed decisions, especially in regions of the world where the achievement of biodiversity ...
Bidegain, Iñigo +4 more
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Agroforestry-Based Ecosystem Services
Land, 2021 Agroforestry, land use at the agriculture-forestry interface that implies the presence of trees on farms and/or farmers in forests, has a history that may be as old as agriculture, but as an overarching label and topic of formal scientific analysis, it ...
Meine van Noordwijk
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