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The contributions of soil biota to litter mass loss and home-field advantage in temperate forests
Ecological ProcessesBackground Soil biotic communities play an important ecological role in driving the litter decomposition, and moreover the home-field advantage (HFA). However, whether and how these communities with different body sizes regulate litter mass loss and HFA ...
Yixin Sun +7 more
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Detection of polymorphisms in six genes and their association analysis with litter size in sheep
Animal BiotechnologyLitter size in sheep is a complex trait controlled by micro-effective polygenes. APAF1, CLSTN2, CTH, PLCB1, PLCB4, and CHST11 are all involved in mammalian reproduction.
Kai Liu, Yufang Liu, Mingxing Chu
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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini +2 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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Soil OrganismsLitter decomposition is strongly influenced by soil communities, composed of soil biota which display large variations in body size. Body size plays a central role in metabolism and mediates the functional potential of soil biota, but the influence of ...
Zhaoxing Li +3 more
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Ohio statewide litter study final report
, 2004 Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Apr. 14, 2005).; "June, 2004."; Harvested from the web on 4/15/05Includes: Procedures manual, Ohio statewide litter survey / conducted by Davey Resource Group ... and Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Recycling
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, 2017 Year and site of breeding recommendation; dam age, origin (C = captive-born, W = wild-born), generation, inbreeding coefficient (F); management (I = intensive site, F = free-range site); and litter size coded as a two-column matrix of successes (no ...
Hogg, Carolyn +2 more
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Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
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Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2009 The following notes on gestation periods and litter size in seven specimens of Leiurus quinquestriatus are presented as observational data. Specimens of Leiurus quinquestriatus from southern Egypt and southern Israel were mated in the laboratory during ...
LK Ross
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transition of consumption models towards a circular economy is fundamental, particularly in the food packaging sector, which generates a high proportion of waste. In this context, consumers play a fundamental role, especially at the domestic level through separate waste collection, to limit the use of virgin materials and facilitate the reuse ...
Maria Vittoria Rizzo +3 more
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