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A framework for lotic macrosystem research

Ecosphere, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2021., 2021
Abstract We analyze here the nature of research in freshwater macrosystem biology (especially lotic studies) from both conceptual and current research perspectives. The boundaries of permanent and transitional lotic macrosystems from the smallest to largest spatial extents are described. We contrast ecosystem vs.
James H. Thorp, Walter K. Dodds, Caleb J. Robbins, Alain Maasri, Emily R. Arsenault, Jackob A. Lutchen, Flavia Tromboni, Barbara Hayford, Mark Pyron, Gregory S. Mathews, Anne Schechner, Sudeep Chandra   +11 more
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Synergies and tradeoffs among Sustainable Development Goals across boundaries in a metacoupled world [PDF]

Science of The Total Environment, 2021
Synergies and tradeoffs among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within specific locations have been widely studied. However, there is little understanding of SDG synergies and tradeoffs across spatial/administrative boundaries although the world is increasingly interconnected and the United Nations aims to achieve SDGs everywhere ...
Zhiqiang Zhao, Meng Cai, Fang Wang, Julie A. Winkler, Thomas Connor, Min Gon Chung, Jindong Zhang, Hongbo Yang, Zhenci Xu, Ying Tang, Zhiyun Ouyang, Hemin Zhang, Jianguo Liu   +12 more
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Macrosystems revisited: challenges and successes in a new subdiscipline of ecology

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 4-10, February 2021., 2021
Macrosystems biology research has expanded and evolved over the past decade as the scientific community grapples with ecological issues at regional to continental scales relevant to human interactions within the biosphere. Macrosystems biology builds on established fields of study like population and community ecology, biogeography, and global ...
Walter K Dodds, Kevin C Rose, Songlin Fei, Sudeep Chandra   +3 more
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The evolution of macrosystems biology

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 11-19, February 2021., 2021
In an era of unprecedented human impacts on the planet, macrosystems biology (MSB) was developed to understand ecological patterns and processes within and across spatial and temporal scales. We used machine‐learning and qualitative literature review approaches to evaluate the thematic composition of MSB from articles published since the 2010 creation ...
Elizabeth A LaRue, Jason Rohr, Jonathan Knott, Walter K Dodds, Kyla M Dahlin, James H Thorp, Jeremy S Johnson, Mayra I Rodríguez González, Brady S Hardiman, Michael Keller, Robert T Fahey, Jeff W Atkins, Flavia Tromboni, Michael D SanClements, Geoffrey Parker, Jianguo Liu, Songlin Fei   +16 more
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Multi‐scale biodiversity drives temporal variability in macrosystems

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 47-56, February 2021., 2021
High temporal variability in environmental conditions, populations, and ecological communities can result in species extinctions and outbreaks of agricultural pests and disease vectors, as well as impact industries dependent on reliable provisioning of ecosystem services. Yet few empirical studies have focused on testing hypotheses about the drivers of
Christopher J Patrick, Kevin E McCluney, Albert Ruhi, Andrew Gregory, John Sabo, James H Thorp   +5 more
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Sustainability Evaluation on the Grain to Green Program in the Hexi Corridor of China: A Metacoupled System Perspective [PDF]

Sustainability, 2021
Most previous studies aim to predict ecosystem sustainability from the perspective of a sole human or natural system and have frequently failed to achieve their desired outcome. Based on the coupled human and natural system (CHANS) and its interaction with other systems, we attempted to analyze the effectiveness of the Grain to Green Program and ...
Jian Zhang, Tao Tian, Jinying Cui, Gordon M. Hickey, Rui Zhou, Jianguo Liu, Youcai Xiong   +6 more
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2D materials integrated with metallic nanostructures: fundamentals and optoelectronic applications

Nanophotonics, Volume 9, Issue 7, Page 1877-1900, February 2020., 2020
Abstract Due to their novel electronic and optical properties, atomically thin layered two‐dimensional (2D) materials are becoming promising to realize novel functional optoelectronic devices including photodetectors, modulators, and lasers. However, light–matter interactions in 2D materials are often weak because of the atomic‐scale thickness, thus ...
Siqi Yan, Xiaolong Zhu, Jianji Dong, Yunhong Ding, Sanshui Xiao   +4 more
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A Review of Unidirectional Surface Plasmon Polariton Metacouplers

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2019
Efficient and unidirectional excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and their low-frequency counterparts (i.e., spoof SPPs) is highly desired in the research area of photonics and plasmonics, while being at the same time rather challenging. Recent progress in gradient metasurfaces, ultrathin, and planar materials composed of sub-wavelength ...
Fei Ding, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
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Global Energy Transition Through the Lens of Metacoupling

Engineering
Canbing Li
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Virtual pollination flows as a key element in the typology of transboundary flows: a response to Li et al. (2023)

Ecology and Society
Li et al. (2023) published a timely and insightful contribution to the study of global sustainability through the development of a typology of transboundary flows within and between coupled human-natural systems.
Frédéric Mertens, Felipe D. S. Silva, Luisa G. Carvalheiro   +2 more
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