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Restoring soil and tree nutrition through non‐industrial wood ash additions to sugarbushes

open access: yesRestoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Nutrient losses from forest soils caused by decades of acid deposition have affected tree growth and depleted soils of essential nutrients in eastern North America. Non‐industrial wood ash (NIWA) is rich in macronutrients and may be a potential remediation strategy to restore lost nutrients as a forest soil amendment.
Shelby M. Conquer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trait‐based recovery of insect functional diversity following pine removal in a shrubland biodiversity hotspot

open access: yesRestoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction A primary goal of habitat restoration is the return of both taxonomic and functional diversity to support ecosystem resilience and functioning. This study assessed how insect functional biodiversity (focusing on beetles [Coleoptera] and ants [Formicidae]) responds to invasive pine (Pinus spp.) removal, in a Mediterranean‐type ...
Rebecca A. Cawood   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land Grabbing in Ostdeutschland: Ursachen, Auswirkungen, Widerstand

open access: yes, 2019
Since 2006 investors of different sectors have invested increasingly in farms and land in Eastern Germany. This phenomenon can be described as land grabbing. The causes of land grabbing are state policies like the privatization of land, agrarian subsidies and the promotion of renewable energies.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Against the background of the European decarbonization strategy, this study examines the extent to which the expansion of renewable energies can lead to tensions with the social and ecological dimensions of the sustainability concept. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 66 experts conducted in the trinational metropolitan region ...
Franziska Leopold   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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