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Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity [PDF]

open access: yesMountain Research and Development, 2007
High-Elevation Land Use, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Functioning Christian Korner, Gia Nakhutsrishvili, and Eva Spehn Diversity of Afroalpine Vegetation and Ecology of Treeline Species in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia, and the Influence of Fire Masresha Fetene, Yoseph Assefa, Menassie Gashaw, Zerihun Woldu, and Erwin Beck Is Afroalpine Plant ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Business and Biodiversity: Scaling Conservation Enterprises Within and Beyond Place for Transformative Change

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transformative change is required to address persistent and systemic drivers of biodiversity loss. There is an urgent need for innovative solutions that tackle root causes in place‐specific contexts. Evidence indicates that small, innovative, purpose‐driven businesses can serve as vehicles for developing place‐based solutions.
Shova Thapa Karki, Bradley D. Parrish
wiley   +1 more source

Characterizing the composition, metabolism and physiological functions of the fatty liver in Rana omeimontis tadpoles

open access: yesFrontiers in Zoology, 2019
Background Fat storage is required for the life cycle of many organisms. The primary fat depot for most vertebrates is white adipose tissue. However, in primitive vertebrates (e.g., agnathan group and elasmobranchs), the liver is usually responsible for ...
Wei Zhu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Quantitative Approach for Assessing and Monitoring the Social Licence of Forestry to Operate: A New Zealand Case Study

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social Licence to Operate (SLO) is an increasingly strategic concern in forestry, yet its evaluation remains largely qualitative. This study presents the first quantitative framework for assessing SLO in New Zealand's forestry sector, adapted from the Boutilier and Thomson model, originally developed for the mining sector.
Grace B. Villamor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hologenomics Reveals Specialized Dietary Adaptations in the Mengla Snail‐Eating Snake

open access: yesAdvanced Science
Serpents, as highly adaptable vertebrates, provide robust models for studying the mechanisms of dietary specialization. Using an integrative multi‐omics approach, encompassing host genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, gut metagenomic, and enzymatic ...
Chaochao Yan   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A study on the characteristics of Songyang Duanwu tea, a classic traditional knowledge of Southwest Zhejiang, China

open access: yesTrees, Forests and People
Duanwu Tea is a popular and ancient biodiversity-related traditional knowledge in Songyang, China. It has the remarkable function of dispelling dampness and relieving summer heat.
Yue Ma   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Sustainability Labelling on Consumers' Evaluation and Choice of Food Products: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting Tides: A Decade of Business Climate Adaptation and Resilience Research (2013–2023)

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is causing significant disruptions to the socio‐ecological systems in which organizations operate, presenting unprecedented challenges for businesses across sectors in adapting to shifting environmental conditions and building resilience to extreme weather events.
Domenico Villano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Morphology and Chloroplast Genomics: A New East Asian Species of Aletris (Nartheciaceae) With Insights Into Regional Phylogeny and Evolution

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
The genus Aletris L. (Nartheciaceae) encompasses approximately 21–24 species distributed in East Asia and North America, yet taxonomic ambiguity persists due to overlapping morphological traits among closely related species.
Xiong Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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