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Agriculture’s ‘multifunctionality’ and the WTO [PDF]

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2000
Are the agricultural policy reforms embodied in the Uruguay Round consistent with meeting domestic policy objectives such as providing adequate food security, environmental protection and viability of rural areas? This article examines the claim that agriculture deserves more price support and import protection than other sectors because of the non ...
Anderson, Kym
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Multifunctionality in a reservoir computer [PDF]

open access: yesChaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2021
Multifunctionality is a well observed phenomenological feature of biological neural networks and considered to be of fundamental importance to the survival of certain species over time. These multifunctional neural networks are capable of performing more than one task without changing any network connections.
Andrew Flynn   +2 more
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Precipitation preferences alter the relative importance of herbaceous plant diversity for multifunctionality in the drylands of China

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
BackgroundMultiple components of biodiversity are excellent predictors of precipitation-induced changes in ecosystem function. However, the importance of differing scales (alpha versus beta) is usually overlooked in biodiversity–ecosystem ...
Hao Guo   +16 more
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Species diversity is a strong predictor of ecosystem multifunctionality under altered precipitation in desert steppes

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2022
With the intensification of global climate change, the precipitation patterns are altered and grassland ecosystem is facing biodiversity loss and ecosystem services decline.
Ya Hu   +7 more
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Positive effects of fungal β diversity on soil multifunctionality mediated by pH in the natural restoration succession stages of alpine meadow patches

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2023
It is important to have a deep understanding of microbial diversity–multifunctionality relationships. Studies on α diversity of microorganisms have been reported extensively, but the different microbial species of diversity at β scale is still unclear ...
Chengwei Duan   +5 more
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The ecological clusters of soil organisms drive the ecosystem multifunctionality under long-term fertilization

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2022
Long-term fertilization is known to impact the biodiversity and community structures of soil organisms, which are responsible for multiple soil ecosystem functions (multifunctionality).
Yi-Fei Wang   +9 more
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Does Digital Inclusive Finance Development Affect the Agricultural Multifunctionality Extension? Evidence from China

open access: yesAgriculture, 2023
This paper constructs a comprehensive index system for agricultural multifunctionality extension to measure the agricultural multifunctionality development level in 30 sample provinces in China from 2011 to 2019, builds a model to explain theoretically ...
Yafei Wang   +4 more
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Bacterial richness is negatively related to potential soil multifunctionality in a degraded alpine meadow

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
Fungal richness and community composition are known to be positively associated with soil multifunctionality. However, the contributions of bacterial and fungal communities to the multiple soil functions of alpine meadow ecosystems have not been widely ...
Jie Wang   +4 more
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Trophic complexity alters the diversity–multifunctionality relationship in experimental grassland mesocosms

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
Plant diversity has a positive influence on the number of ecosystem functions maintained simultaneously by a community, or multifunctionality. While the presence of multiple trophic levels beyond plants, or trophic complexity, affects individual ...
Krishna Anujan   +4 more
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Impacts of human pressure and climate on biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2023
Many studies have investigated the effects of environmental context on biodiversity or multifunctionality in alpine regions, but it is uncertain how human pressure and climate may affect their relationships.
Chongchong Ye   +4 more
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