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Hybrid Knowledge: Place, Practice, and Knowing in a Volunteer Ecological Restoration Project

Ecology and Society, 2011
Wide community participation in ecological restoration projects is encouraged because of the multiple values generated. However, it is often assumed that volunteer projects cannot contribute to the production of generalizable ecological knowledge ...
Karen A. Reid, Kathryn J H. Williams, Mark S. Paine   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ecosystem‐Centered Robot Design: Toward Ecoresorbable Sustainability Robots (ESRs)

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Robots exploring natural ecosystems can support monitoring and conservation, but must adopt ecosystem‐centered design to avoid pollution, waste, and damage. This review proposes guidelines for co‐designing ecoresorbable sustainability robots (ESRs), uniting materials, robotics, and ecological contexts in a single framework.
Tülin Yılmaz Nayır, Yuan Fang, Consuelo Contreras, Andrew K. Schulz, Florian Hartmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE (TEK) AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN SOUTH INDIA: PERSPECIVE FROM LOCAL COMMUNITIES [PDF]

, 2015
The study throws light on the challenges and complexities in the protection and promotion of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in a semi-arid tropical forest area of South India.
HARISHA, R.P., NAGARAJA, B.C, PADMAVATHY, S.   +2 more
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Precision Editing of NLRS Improves Effector Recognition for Enhanced Disease Resistance

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Precision engineering of plant NLR immune receptors enables rational design of enhanced pathogen resistance through mismatched pairing, domain swapping, and targeted mutagenesis. These approaches achieve multi‐fold expansion in recognition breadth while minimizing autoimmunity risks and fitness penalties.
Vinit Kumar, Vishwa I. P. W. A. Kumara, Pradeepa C. G. Bandaranayake, Dong Yawen, Yang‐Yang Gao, Junfeng Liu, Ge‐Fei Hao, Xiu‐Fang Xin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plant Robotics for Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Robots: Insights from Actuation Characteristics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Plants are promising materials for building sustainable and eco‐friendly robots due to their inherent multifunctionality, with actuation playing a crucial role. This article focuses on the physical movements of plants and, from the perspective of actuation characteristics, explores representative plant species and their behaviors, the current state of ...
Kazuya Murakami, Misao Sato, Yu Ikeda, Tatsuhiro Horii, Yukari Nagatoshi, Miki Fujita, Toshinori Fujie, Yasunari Fujita, Jun Shintake   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biocultural stewardship, Indigenous and local ecological knowledge, and the urban crucible

Ecology and Society, 2020
Although biocultural stewardship models have been written about widely, especially in Indigenous and rural communities, the practice of applying them in multicultural, urban environments has rarely been explored. We have yet to realize the full potential
Heather L. McMillen, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika S. Svendsen, Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, Kainana S. Francisco, Christian P. Giardina   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

MGM as a Large‐Scale Pretrained Foundation Model for Microbiome Analyses in Diverse Contexts

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We present the Microbial General Model (MGM), a transformer‐based foundation model pretrained on over 260,000 microbiome samples. MGM learns contextualized microbial representations via self‐supervised language modeling, enabling robust transfer learning, cross‐regional generalization, keystone taxa discovery, and prompt‐guided generation of realistic,
Haohong Zhang, Yuli Zhang, Zixin Kang, Jiayun Xiong, Ronghua Yang, Kang Ning   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social-Ecological Guilds: Putting People into Marine Historical Ecology

Ecology and Society, 2011
Marine historical ecology provides historic insights into past ocean ecosystems that are crucial to effectively confronting the declining health and resilience in marine ecosystems.
Janna M. Shackeroff, Lisa M. Campbell, Larry B. Crowder   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bio‐Based Wax Interfaces for Droplet Energy Harvesting at Fluoropolymer‐Like Output Levels

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Replacing unsustainable fluorinated polymers in droplet‐based energy harvesters is usually limited by low power outputs, but carefully selected bio‐based polymers are capable of creating fluoropolymer‐like voltage outputs. Abstract Droplet impact and rebound on solid surfaces has emerged as a promising method for energy harvesting, typically ...
Behnam Kamare, Mahla Shahabi, Matteo Carpi de Resmini, Tiago Fernandes, Fabian Meder   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A integração da pesquisa ao conhecimento ecológico local no subsídio ao manejo: variações no estoque natural da ostra de mangue crassostrea spp. na reserva extrativista do Mandira, Cananéia-SP, Brasil

Ambiente & Sociedade, 2011
Este estudo teve o objetivo de descrever uma experiência de integração entre conhecimento científico e comunitário no subsídio ao manejo, a partir das avaliações do estoque da ostra de mangue Crassostrea spp.
Ingrid Cabral Machado, Nivaldo Nordi, Marcelo Barbosa Henriques, Thaís Almeida Cardoso, Orlando Martins Pereira   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source