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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complexity affects habitat preference and predation mortality in postlarval Penaeus plebejus: implications for stock enhancement [PDF]

, 2009
Global attempts to offset declines in fishery populations through stock enhancement have had varied levels of success due to the absence of preliminary studies to determine which habitats best support release species and the mechanisms controlling their ...
Suthers, I.M., Ochwada-Doyle, F., Loneragan, N.R., Gray, C.A., Taylor, M.D.   +4 more
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How mechanisms of habitat preference evolve and promote divergence with gene flow [PDF]

, 2015
Habitat preference may promote adaptive divergence and speciation, yet the conditions under which this is likely are insufficiently explored. We use individual-based simulations to study the evolution and consequence of habitat preference during ...
Thibert-Plante, X., Berner, D.,, Thibert-Plante, Xavier,, X. Thibert‐Plante, Berner, Daniel,, Thibert-Plante, Xavier, Berner, Daniel, D. Berner   +7 more
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Molecular Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Habitat Preference Evolution of Marsupials [PDF]

Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2014
Marsupials exhibit great diversity in ecology and morphology. However, compared with their sister group, the placental mammals, our understanding of many aspects of marsupial evolution remains limited. We use 101 mitochondrial genomes and data from 26 nuclear loci to reconstruct a dated phylogeny including 97% of extant genera and 58% of modern ...
Mitchell, K., Pratt, R., Watson, L., Gibb, G., Llamas, B., Kasper, M., Edson, J., Hopwood, B., Male, D., Armstrong, K., Meyer, M., Hofreiter, M., Austin, J., Donnellan, S., Lee, M., Phillips, M., Cooper, A.   +16 more
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Regional Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Native Woody Shrubs With Varying Aesthetic Characteristics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn, Ariana P. Torres, Sue Barton, Bridget K. Behe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of locomotor preference on the evolution of mitochondrial genes in Bovidae

Scientific Reports
Locomotor preferences and habitat types may drive animal evolution. In this study, we speculated that locomotor preference and habitat type may have diverse influences on Bovidae mitochondrial genes. We used selection pressure and statistical analysis to
Lupeng Shi, Xibao Wang, Xiufeng Yang, Tianshu Lyu, Lidong Wang, Shengyang Zhou, Yuehuan Dong, Xiaoyang Wu, Yongquan Shang, Honghai Zhang   +9 more
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Detailed analysis of habitat suitability curves for macroinvertebrates and functional feeding groups

Scientific Reports, 2022
Environmental flows have primarily a practical purpose, being an important part of water management. Despite the widespread use of environmental flows, current studies rarely describe practical insights of the methods or consider environmental flows ...
Ewelina Szałkiewicz, Tomasz Kałuża, Mateusz Grygoruk   +2 more
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Diatom‐Inspired 1D Immobile Robots Capable of 2D Collective Mobility

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a diatom‐inspired robotic system that explores group coordination through limited physical interactions. The researchers tune groups of Barbots, simple robotic agents that possess neither individual mobility nor explicit communication capabilities, to achieve complex and adaptive collaboration based on environmental light.
Tianyi Hu, Yunjia Zhang, Chu Qiao, Tingrui Zhang, Shuguang Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variation in habitat preference and distribution of harbour porpoises west of Scotland [PDF]

, 2011
The waters off the west coast of Scotland have one of the highest densities of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in Europe. Harbour porpoise are listed under Annex II of the EU Habitats Directive, requiring the designation of Special Areas of ...
Booth, Cormac G
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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source