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Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change
Environmental Reviews, 2020 Unprecedented rates of introduction and spread of non-native species pose burgeoning challenges to biodiversity, natural resource management, regional economies, and human health.
A. Ricciardi +18 more
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Efficient pathways to zero-carbon energy use by water supply utilities: an example from London, UK
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Urban water utilities are increasing their use of energy-intensive technologies such as desalination and long-distanced pumped transfers. Under pressure to reduce their energy-related carbon emissions to zero, water utilities have devised a variety of ...
Aman Majid +2 more
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Quaternary, 2019 Asian summer monsoon (ASM) variability significantly affects hydro-climate, and thus socio-economics, in the East Asian region, where nearly one-third of the global population resides.
Haiwei Zhang +11 more
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Unexpected cold season warming during the Little Ice Age on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau
Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 There is a general agreement that Northern Hemisphere temperatures have cooled over the past two millennia, culminating in the Little Ice Age. However, this understanding partly relies on the compilation of existing proxy records, the majority of which ...
Yuan Yao +11 more
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Assessing diatom-mediated fatty acids in intertidal biofilm: a new conservation concern
Environmental Systems Research, 2021 Biofilm communities on intertidal mudflats are recognized as major producers of nutrients, especially fatty acids. The rising threats posed by both climatic and anthropogenic stressors increase the necessity of understanding and conserving these ...
Jessica E. Ollinik +8 more
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Ecological Response of Plankton to Environmental Change: Thresholds for Extinction
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, 2020 Severe climatic and environmental changes are far more prevalent in Earth history than major extinction events, and the relationship between environmental change and extinction severity has important implications for the outcome of the ongoing ...
C. Lowery, P. Bown, A. Fraass, P. Hull
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Geo: Geography and Environment, 2019 In the absence of long‐term monitoring records, paleoecology can be used to extend knowledge of species and community ecology into the past. The rare and declining aquatic plant Najas flexilis is a priority species for conservation across Europe, and is ...
Isabel J. Bishop +4 more
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Balancing climate change mitigation and environmental protection interests in the EU Directive on carbon capture and storage [PDF]
, 2012 The EU Climate and Energy Package highlights the potential contradictions between the climate change imperative of reducing GHGs emissions and the importance to maintain environmental integrity. While the package supports climate change mainstreaming, it
Montini, Massimiliano, Orlando, Emanuela
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Fabric first: is it still the right approach?
Buildings & Cities, 2023 ‘Fabric first’ describes an approach to improving the thermal performance of residential buildings by prioritising the improvement of fabric. It has historically been widely advocated.
Nick Eyre +6 more
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The impact of global environmental change on transport in Malta [PDF]
, 2015 This study addresses the impact of global environmental change, speci fically on transport in the Maltese Islands, with special attention to the economic implications of changes on: (i) employment, (ii) product or service growth/decline, (iii ...
Attard, Maria
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