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Understory functional groups and fire history but not experimental warming drive tree seedling performance in unmanaged boreal forests

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
IntroductionSurvival and growth of tree seedlings are key processes of regeneration in forest ecosystems. However, little is known about how climate warming modulates seedling performance either directly or in interaction with understory vegetation and ...
Maria-Theresa Jessen   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

One More Awareness Gap? The Behaviour–Impact Gap Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Preceding research has made hardly any attempt to measure the ecological impacts of pro-environmental behaviour in an objective way. Those impacts were rather supposed or calculated.
A Druckman   +28 more
core   +1 more source

Implementation of real-time source apportionment approaches using the ACSM–Xact–Aethalometer (AXA) setup with SoFi RT: the Athens case study [PDF]

open access: yesAtmospheric Measurement Techniques
Air pollution, particularly from particulate matter (PM), poses serious public health and environmental risks, especially in urban areas. To address this, accurate source apportionment (SA) of PM is essential for effective air quality management ...
M. I. Manousakas   +13 more
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Molecular-scale description of interfacial mass transfer in phase-separated aqueous secondary organic aerosol [PDF]

open access: yesAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021
Liquid–liquid phase-separated (LLPS) aerosol particles are known to exhibit increased cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity compared to well-mixed ones due to a complex effect of low surface tension and non-ideal mixing.
M. Lbadaoui-Darvas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life cycle environmental impacts of disposable medical masks

open access: yesEnvironmental science and pollution research international, 2021
A massive increase in the use and production of masks worldwide has been seen in the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has contributed to reducing the transmission of the virus globally.
Burçin Atılgan Türkmen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The different dimensions of livelihood impacts of Payments for Environmentals Services (PES) schemes: A systematic review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Through a systematic review of peer-reviewed and grey literature, this paper analyzes evidence of the livelihood impacts of Payments for Environmental Services (PES). Forty-six studies assessed PES livelihood impacts.
Bax, Vincent   +5 more
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Measuring the health effects of air pollution : to what extent can we really say people are dying from bad air? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Estimation of the effects of environmental impacts is a major focus of current theoretical and policy research in environmental economics. Such estimates are used to set regulatory standards for pollution exposure; design appropriate environmental ...
Alberini   +36 more
core   +1 more source

Wind power compensation is not for the birds : an opinion from an environmental economist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article advocates for better implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) framework as applied to wind power development, with a particular focus on improving compensatory restoration scaling.
Cole, Scott
core   +1 more source

Contributions to local- and regional-scale formaldehyde concentrations [PDF]

open access: yesAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019
Reducing ambient formaldehyde concentrations is a complex task because formaldehyde is both a primary and a secondary air pollutant, with significant anthropogenic and biogenic sources of volatile organic compound (VOC) precursor emissions.
L. A. J. Bastien   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economic Transition, Technology Change, and Energy Consumption in China: A Provincial-Level Analysis

open access: yesEnergies, 2019
This paper conducts panel analysis to evaluate the effects of a structural economic shift from the industrial to the tertiary sector, a reduction in industrial overcapacity, and improvements in energy efficiency on energy consumption using data for 30 ...
Xu Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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