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Area and isolation influence on bird diversity in Eucalyptus plantations: An island biogeography perspective [PDF]
Frontiers of BiogeographyWe explored how patch area and isolation from a mainland affect biodiversity distribution patterns in anthropogenic monocultures resembling habitat islands and surrounded by a structurally contrasting matrix.
José A. Oddi +2 more
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini +13 more
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Slowing deforestation in Indonesia follows declining oil palm expansion and lower oil prices.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Much concern about tropical deforestation focuses on oil palm plantations, but their impacts remain poorly quantified. Using nation-wide interpretation of satellite imagery, and sample-based error calibration, we estimated the impact of large-scale ...
David L A Gaveau +8 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyzed Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technology applications in agribusiness and the role of strategic stakeholders, engagement methods, and other critical aspects data sharing, confidentiality, integrity, decision‐making, and sector‐specific requirements in promoting circularity.
Simone Sehnem +3 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2022 Tea plantations encroachment into forests has occurred in the major tea planting area of Yunnan province, China in the past decades. However, the dynamics of tea plantation encroachment into forests and the effect on forest landscape pattern is not clear.
Yuan Xiong +7 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta +2 more
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Forest Plantations and Clearings
, 2017 Largely artificial conifer plantations now cover much larger areas of Central Europe than the semi-natural broadleaved forests. In the North German Plain, the Harz and Ore Mountains and most other non-carbonate low mountains, the Upper Rhine Plain, the region of Nuremberg, the northern Prealps and the southwest Vienna Basin, forestry monocultures ...
Leuschner, Christoph, Ellenberg, Heinz
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Tensions of Sustainability Logics: Performance of a Company Utilizing a Sustainable Business Model
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have used sustainable business models to gain a competitive advantage. However, there are tensions due to the inconsistency between social, environmental, and economic logic in sustainable business models, making it difficult for companies to change. To understand the existing tensions and interactions between logics,
Ann‐Kristin Thienemann
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite global commitments under the Paris Agreement, empirical evidence on the involvement of the land‐based private sector of emerging economies in carbon trading remains limited. The study analyses how behavioural factors and institutional complexities influence the involvement of the land‐based private sector in carbon trading in Indonesia.
Iis Alviya +3 more
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A REGENERAÇÃO NATURAL SOB PLANTAÇÕES FLORESTAIS: DESERTOS VERDES OU REDUTOS DE BIODIVERSIDADE?
Ciência Florestal, 2010 Although commercial forest plantations have been termed "green deserts", several studies from the last two decades have reported the opposite. These studies suggest that forest plantations can catalyze the natural regeneration in their understory and ...
Ricardo Augusto Gorne Viani +2 more
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