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Woody plants diversity and the associated provisioning ecosystem services across three contrasting forest management regimes in Southwest Ethiopia

Frontiers in Conservation Science
Woody plants are a source of provisioning ecosystem services. Coffee management impacts forest composition, structure, and diversity. We studied the effect of coffee management intensification on woody plants and their associated provisioning ecosystem ...
Zerihun Kebebew, Zerihun Kebebew, Claire Ozanne   +2 more
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Forest ecosystem service functions and their associations with landscape patterns in Renqiu City.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Forest ecosystems are crucial to the survival and development of human societies. Urbanization is expected to impact forest landscape patterns and consequently the supply of forest ecosystem services.
Yunlu Zhang, Tingting Su, Yue Ma, Yanyinuo Wang, Weiqi Wang, Niyi Zha, Ming Shao   +6 more
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Polymer Substrates for Flexible Sensors: Advances and Contributions to Smart Agriculture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in polymer‐based flexible sensors for smart agriculture, focusing on polymer substrate design, interface engineering, and applications in soil, plant, animal, aquaculture, and post‐harvest monitoring.
Yihui Li, Zhangzheng Xiao, Zheng Yan, Adnan Raza Altaf, Qun Song, Dingding Yao, Afshan Sohail, Yixin Wang, Wenxiu Ma, Shanjun Li, Yaohui Chen, Peiwen Liu, Kai Zhang   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tools for prioritizing Ecosystem Services provided by fragments forest in the context of cities

Ambiente & Sociedade, 2021
Forest remnants are essential in the provision of ecosystem services in cities. However, adequate ecological parameters are still needed to assess them.
Alessandra Leite da Silva, Admilson Írio Ribeiro, Regina Márcia Longo   +2 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Payments for forest ecosystem services in China: a multi-function quantitative ecological compensation standard based on the Human Development Index

Frontiers in Earth Science
Forest ecosystems provide many ecosystem services, and payment for these ecosystem services has recently become a policy-relevant issue. This paper puts forward a multi-function quantitative standard (MQECS) for forest ecosystem services based on the ...
Xiang Niu, Xiang Niu, Xiang Niu, Tingyu Xu, Tingyu Xu, Tingyu Xu, Bing Wang, Bing Wang, Bing Wang   +8 more
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Importance of Forest Ecosystem Services to Secondary School Students: a Case from the North-West Slovenia

South-East European Forestry, 2014
Background and Purpose: Forest managers are facing challenges in balancing the demands for forest social services raised by the general public and forest productive services.
Gregor Torkar, Andrej Verlič, Urša Vilhar   +2 more
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Forest Inventory Data Provide Useful Information for Mapping Ecosystem Services Potential

Land, 2023
The ecosystem services framework is a convenient approach for identifying and mapping nature’s contributions to people, and an accurate assessment of ecosystem services potential is the first step in the decision support process of well-informed land ...
Edgars Jūrmalis, Arta Bārdule, Jānis Donis, Linda Gerra-Inohosa, Zane Lībiete   +4 more
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Polychip‐A High‐Throughput Droplet Microfluidics Platform for Interrogating Microbial Interactions

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Polychip, a fully integrated droplet microfluidics platform, enables high‐throughput, single‐cell resolution screening of polymicrobial interactions. By seamlessly combining six automated microfluidics operations on a single chip, the system accelerates antimicrobial discovery by 11 to 14 times compared to traditional robotic methods.
Jeong Jae Han, Adrian Ryan Guzman, Aifen Zhou, Han Zhang, Rohit Gupte, Haemin Jung, Kaylee Delgado, Sini Skariah, Ali Sultan, Arul Jayaraman, Paul de Figueiredo, Arum Han   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping tsunami impacts on land cover and related ecosystem service supply in Phang Nga, Thailand [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2013
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caused damages to coastal ecosystems and thus affected the livelihoods of the coastal communities who depend on services provided by these ecosystems. The paper presents a case study on evaluating and mapping the spatial and
G. Kaiser, B. Burkhard, H. Römer, S. Sangkaew, R. Graterol, T. Haitook, H. Sterr, D. Sakuna-Schwartz   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source