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AtmosphereFlowering street trees provide ecological services and health benefits to humans. In this study, three commonly used flowering street trees, Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Steud., Melia azedarach L., and Magnolia grandiflora L., were selected for analysis ...
Xi Wang +7 more
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Beyond Structural Interventions: The Human Architecture Shaping ESG Integration in Corporate Systems
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the promotion of ESG in corporate discourse, substantive integration of ESG principles into business practices remains challenging. This study applies and extends Meadows' leverage framework to examine ESG integration in UAE‐listed firms.
M. Schulte, Dimitris Christopoulos
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The bee, the flower and the electric field
BIO Web of Conferences, 2016 Insects use several different senses to forage on flowers, and detect floral cues such as color, shape, pattern, humidity and chemical volatiles. This presentation will present our discovery of a previously unappreciated sensory capacity in bumblebees ...
Robert Daniel +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability is widely framed as strategic, yet its relationship with financial brand value remains contested. We explain why prior research reports divergent results by distinguishing between activity‐based ESG metrics and customer perception‐based sustainability metrics and by theorising how each activates different value‐creation ...
Gabriela Salinas, Carmen Abril
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Sexual and temporal variations in floral scent in the subdioecious shrub Eurya japonica Thunb
Ecology and Evolution, 2018 In many flowering plants, floral scents are a significant trait for visitors, playing an important role in attracting pollinators and/or detracting herbivores.
Hui Wang +7 more
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of Murraya paniculata sheds light on biosynthesis of floral volatiles. [PDF]
BMC Biol, 2023 Yang T +6 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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Altered profile of floral volatiles and lignin content by down-regulation of Caffeoyl Shikimate Esterase in Petunia. [PDF]
BMC Plant Biol, 2023 Kim JY, Cho KH, Keene SA, Colquhoun TA.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certified companies translate voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) into local practice, yet little is known about how company‐level implementation of VSS relates to farmer compliance. This paper examines Rainforest Alliance (RA) implementation by three certified companies in the Indonesian cocoa sector. Drawing on compliance and regulatory
Charline Depoorter +4 more
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Floral volatiles evoke partially similar responses in both florivores and pollinators and are correlated with non-volatile reward chemicals. [PDF]
Ann Bot, 2023 Sasidharan R +3 more
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