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The current application of ecological connectivity in the design of marine protected areas

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an area-based conservation strategy commonly used to safeguard marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Ecological connectivity governs the exchange of individuals among spatially fragmented habitats and is often ...
Arieanna C. Balbar, A. Metaxas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The global costs and benefits of expanding Marine Protected Areas

Marine Policy, 2020
Marine ecosystems and the services they provide contribute greatly to human well-being but are becoming degraded in many areas around the world. The expansion of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has been advanced as a potential solution to this problem but ...
L. Brander, P. V. van Beukering, L. Nijsten, A. McVittie, C. Baulcomb, F. Eppink, Jorge Amrit Cado van der Lelij   +6 more
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Bioinspired Soft‐Skeleton Robotics With Cooperative Shape Transformation and Stiffness Adaptation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A bioinspired soft‐skeleton robot that integrates variable‐stiffness chain skeletons into a soft textile skin is developed. The chain skeletons are highly flexible initially but can stiffen upon pneumatic actuation, enabling large deformation and enhanced load‐bearing capacity.
Mengyuan Niu, Xiaorui Hu, Chenmin Yuan, Haoyun Li, Xuzhong Su, Fengxin Sun   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

A global network of marine protected areas for food

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance Strategically siting marine protected areas (MPAs) in overfished fisheries can have important conservation and food provisioning benefits. We use distribution data for 1,338 commercially important fisheries stocks around the world to model ...
R. Cabral, D. Bradley, Juan Mayorga, Whitney Goodell, A. Friedlander, E. Sala, C. Costello, S. Gaines   +7 more
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Prospects for marine protected areas in the Turkish Black Sea

, 2017
As stated in the Black Sea Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis 2007 (BSC, 2007) and confirmed in the Black Sea Strategic Action Plan 2008, Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) form a key element of the ecosystem‐based approach to managing and safeguarding the ...
Öztürk, Bayram, Fach Salihoğlu, Bettina Andrea, Topaloğlu, Bülent, Öztürk, Ayaka Amaha, Arkin, Sinan, Keskin, Çetin   +5 more
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A Pentaradial and Bilateral Combined Photoreception System in the Sea Cucumber is Mediated by a Blue Light‐Sensitive R‐Opsin

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota detects blue and adjacent wavelengths of light via an r‐opsin with a maximum absorption at 459 nm. In the oral tentacles, papillae, and tube feet, distinct light‐sensing structures with specialized morphologies are formed, constituting a unique pentaradial and bilateral combined photoreception system.
Jiasheng Huang, Chunhua Ren, Zhou Qin, Yimeng Cui, Bingbing Zhang, Peng Luo, Xuan Wang, Yaoqi Xie, Xin Zhang, Aifen Yan, Yang Zhang, Dingding Fan, Yang Liu, Wenjie Pan, Xiao Jiang, Lihong Yuan, Haipeng Qin, David M. Irwin, Chaoqun Hu, Yang Liu, Ting Chen   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marine Protected Areas: Economic and Social Implications [PDF]

This paper is a guide for citizens, scientists, resource managers, and policy makers, who are interested in understanding the economic and social value of marine protected areas (MPAs).
Emerson , Peter, Sanchirico, James, Cochran, Kathryn   +2 more
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Automated Extraction of Multicomponent Alloy Data Using Large Language Models for Sustainable Design

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A large language model (LLM) based pipeline is developed to automatically extract a comprehensive and accurate multicomponent alloy database from literature corpus. The extracted dataset is integrated with sustainability indicators to identify potential alloys that outperform existing industrial benchmark materials in terms of both performance and ...
Aravindan Kamatchi Sundaram, Mohit Chakraborty, Sai Mani Kumar Devathi, B. Pabitramohan Prusty, Rohit Batra   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Institutional Change of Marine Special Protected Areas in China

Haiyang Kaifa yu guanli, 2023
The theme throughout the process of institutional construction of marine special protected areas is based on the development of protection and the protection coordinated with development.
Hong MEI, Xuechun XU
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