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Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment of Saihanba under the Change in Forest Landscape Pattern

Forests
Examining the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm, this study utilized Landsat remote sensing data from 1987, 1997, 2001, 2013, and 2020 to interpret land use from the Support Vector Machine (SVM) method, and to decipher evolving land use patterns over the last four decades. Grounded in landscape ecology theory, an innovative evaluation index for landscape
Jiemin Kang, Jinyu Yang, Yunxian Qing, Wei Lu   +3 more
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An assessment tool and integrated index for sustainable oil palm production [PDF]

, 2010
Many prominent sectors of the international agricultural commodities market have been calling upon their stakeholders to define and implement social responsibility and sustainability benchmarks, aiming at product quality and production practices ...
Caliman, Jean-Pierre, Stachetti Rodrigues, Géraldo, Verwilghen, Aude   +2 more
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Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang, Yadong Yang, Yongsheng Wang, Guirui Yu   +3 more
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Pattern change and ecological risk analysis of Shilin World Geopark landscape

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
This study considered Shilin World Geopark as the research object and constructed a landscape ecological risk assessment model based on the landscape pattern index by using remote sensing image data during five periods between 2000 and 2020. In addition,
Yiqi Shi, Hongxia Gao, Shucheng Tan, Shucheng Tan, Hongfu Qin, Zhuang Tian, Jingxian Meng, Xin Zheng   +7 more
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Biodiversity offsets can be a valuable tool in achieving sustainable development: Developing a holistic model for biodiversity offsets that incorporates environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable development [PDF]

, 2019
The interpretation and use of biodiversity offsets in planning and development is a contentious issue because they rarely encompass each of the environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable development.
Abdo, Linda, Coupland, Grey, Griffin, Sandy, Kemp, Annabeth   +3 more
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Does using the ecosystem services concept provoke the risk of assigning virtual prices instead of real values to nature? Some reflections on the benefit of ecosystem services for planning and policy consulting. [PDF]

, 2015
This forum article intends to discuss the question if using the ecosystem services concept in planning, management and decision-making can impair nature conservation objectives by hiding the intrinsic values of nature through overemphasizing ...
Fürst, Christine
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Large‐Scale Genomics Reveals Three‐Source Ancestry and Layered Adaptation to High Altitude in Tibetan Chickens

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Whole‐genome analysis of 1,054 chickens reveals three ancestral sources (NWC, SYA, and SHF) with distinct temporal entry patterns into the Tibetan Plateau. Route‐specific selection scans, calibrated against a demographic null, suggest complementary functional enrichments—vascular homeostasis (NWC), calcium signaling and cardiac adaptation (SYA), and ...
Zongyi Zhao, Ruixue Nie, Hailu Fan, Tenzin Ngodroup, Li Zhu, Hongbin Pan, Bo Zhang, Hao Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new legal approach to the protection of species and habit [PDF]

, 2012
The title of this conference “Growing Green” and its by line, suggests transformative measures for primary productive industries with a view to securing gains for the environment and potentially for the industries as well.
Wallace, Philippa Jane
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Deciphering the Evolution Pattern of Structural Variations Overlapped With Repetitive Sequence During Cattle Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The authors complement bovine pan‐SV with massive novel structural variations (SVs) identified through long‐read sequencing of 83 globally distributed cattle breeds. Repetitive sequence‐mediated SVs (rep‐SV) exhibit distinct dynamic patterns throughout cattle sub‐speciation and/or domestication processes, including uneven distribution between chr‐X and
Zhifan Guo, Jinxiu Li, Adeniyi C. Adeola, Xueyan Jiang, Juntao Ma, Jian Xiao, Dexiang Hu, Kaixing Qu, Haihong Wu, Junren Chen, Zhanxing He, Tingting Yin, Ali Esmailizadeh, Jing Luo, Olivier Hanotte, Ya‐Ping Zhang, Yan Li   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing European conservation and mitigation tools for pollination services: approaches of the STEP (Status and Trends of European Pollinators) project [PDF]

, 2011
Pollinating insects form a key component of European biodiversity, and provide a vital ecosystem service to crops and wild plants. There is growing evidence of declines in both wild and domesticated pollinators, and parallel declines in plants relying ...
Alexandra-Maria Klein, Ante Vujić, Antonio Felicioli, Bernard E Vaissière, David Kleijn, DICKS L V, EU COMMUNICATION, EU COMMUNICATION, FREEMAN S, Henrik G Smith, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Jacobus C Biesmeijer, Josef Settele, KLOTZ S, LILLELEHT V, Lyubomir D Penev, MACCAGNANI B, Markus Fischer, Martin Zobel, MATSUMURA C, Michal Woyciechowski, Montserrat Vilà, NATURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, Oliver Schweiger, Pekka Jokinen, Peter B Sørensen, Peter Neumann, Pierre Rasmont, RASMONT P, Riccardo Bommarco, Simon G Potts, SPEIGHT M C D, Stuart P M Roberts, Theodora Petanidou, William E Kunin, WILLIAMS I H   +35 more
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