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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, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Value‐Chain Risks Visible: Extending ENCORE for Systemic Insights

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Businesses in all sectors, including downstream segments, depend on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it sustains, yet firms also exert pressures that accelerate biodiversity loss. The latter generates material risks for both companies and their financial stakeholders.
Hjalmar Funke, Emmy Wassénius, Beatrice Crona, Christophe Christiaen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of experimental fires on litter decomposition in a seasonally dry Amazonian forest. [PDF]

, 2009
Litter decomposition is a fundamental process for nutrient cycling but we have a limited understanding of this process in disturbed tropical forests. We studied litter decomposition over a 10-mo period in a seasonally dry Amazon forest in Mato Grosso ...
Krusche, Alex V., Balch, Jennifer K., Silveira, Juliana M., Barlow, Jos, Moutinho, Paulo, Orwin, Kate H.   +5 more
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Use spectral derivatives for estimating canopy water content [PDF]

, 2010
Hyperspectral remote sensing has demonstrated great potential for accurate retrieval of canopy water content (CWC). This CWC is defined by the product of the leaf equivalent water thickness (EWT) and the leaf area index (LAI).
Clevers, J.G.P.W.
core  

Bond Formation: Shaken, Not Stirred

Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
Shaking of seismo‐molecules efficiently transforms kinetic energy into storable chemical potential, unlocking high‐utility Gibbs free energy. This innovative mechanism pioneers uncharted scientific frontiers, introducing fascinating phenomena like seismochemistry, seismochromism, and seismofluorescence that redefine the boundaries of molecular ...
Alexander D. Q. Li
wiley   +1 more source

An approach to detect and map forest canopy layers in Swiss mountain forests using nationwide airborne laser scanning data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
Understanding vertical forest structure is essential for forest management and is strongly linked to ecosystem functioning. In countries with protective forests, sustainable management is key to protecting humans and infrastructure from natural hazards ...
Alexander Bast, Martina L. Hobi, Christian Ginzler, Livia Piermattei, Christoph Fischer, Petia S. Nikolova, Leon J. Bührle, Tobias Kalt, Frank Graf   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Canopy Height Estimation Using Sentinel Series Images through Machine Learning Models in a Mangrove Forest

Remote Sensing, 2020
Canopy height serves as a good indicator of forest carbon content. Remote sensing-based direct estimations of canopy height are usually based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) or Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) interferometric data.
Sujit Madhab Ghosh, Mukunda Dev Behera, Somnath Paramanik   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental changes during secondary succession in a tropical dry forest in Mexico [PDF]

, 2011
Vegetation and environment change mutually during secondary succession, yet the idiosyncrasies of the vegetation effect on the understorey environment are poorly understood. To test whether the successional understorey environment changes predictably and
Lebrija Trejos, E.E., Pérez-Garcia, E.A., Meave, J., Bongers, F., Poorter, L.   +4 more
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Modified F‐tests for assessing tree radial growth under linear‐circular regression models with correlated errors: A comprehensive toolbox rooted in G. E. P. Box's theorems

Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Annual tree growth is a complex biological process. Modelling radial growth in the trunk by linear‐circular regression with one mode and correlated errors has allowed the definition and assessment of a preferred direction for 1 and 2 years. Here, modified F$$ F $$‐tests are presented for 3 years, 1 mode/year; 1 year, 2 modes for possible main ...
Pierre Dutilleul, Tomoaki Imoto, Kunio Shimizu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microclimate mediates the strength and direction of avian biotic interactions

Ecography, EarlyView.
Theory predicts that the strength and direction of species interactions can shift from being competitive in benign environments toward being facilitative in stressful environments. However, the environmental context dependency of species interactions has rarely been tested in animal communities.
Sarah J. K. Frey, Brian D. Gerber, Adam S. Hadley, Hankyu Kim, Madison Sutton, Nina C. Ferrari, Matthew G. Betts   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source