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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Since recent climate change has caused more natural disasters (NDs) than ever before, there is a worldwide concern that this could have both short-term and long-term economic and health consequences.
Fami Lu, Muhammad Tayyab Sohail
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Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE JournalThis paper provides a brief on the economics of biodiversity. The human economy is seen here as being embedded in the biosphere, which is an all-embracing planetary capital asset.
Partha Dasgupta
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From natural capital accounting to natural capital banking [PDF]
Nature Sustainability, 2021 Natural capital accounting will confirm what we know — without change, we are headed for environmental disaster resulting from economic growth. We propose a natural capital bank, a new institution to help maintain natural capital adequacy and chart a course to a sustainable future via accounting.
Michael J. Vardon +3 more
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A new cockroach (Blattodea, Corydiidae) with pectinate antennae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 A new species of fossil cockroach, Fragosublatta pectinata gen. et sp. nov., is described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The new species is assigned to the family Corydiidae based on the following combination of characters: pronotum with tubercles ...
Guanyu Chen +4 more
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A new genus of anaxyelid wood wasps from the mid-Cretaceous and the phylogeny of Anaxyelidae (Hymenoptera) [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2021 Two new species of wood wasps (Anaxyelidae), Orthosyntexis elegans gen. et sp. nov. and Orthosyntexis thanti sp. nov., are described from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Orthosyntexis gen. nov.
Jia Gao +4 more
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New archidermapteran earwigs (Dermaptera) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 Two new species of Archidermaptera are described and figured from the Middle Jurassic Jiulonghsan Formation of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Aneuroderma oiodes gen. & sp. nov.
Shurong Xiong +3 more
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The first queen-worker association for Cretaceous Formicidae: the winged caste of Haidomyrmex cerberus [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 Two queen ant specimens, one alate and one dealate, from mid-Cretaceous (Late Albian–Early Cenomanian) Burmese amber are herein reported as belonging Haidomyrmex cerberus Dlussky, 1996.
Yuanyuan Guo +5 more
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npj Urban Sustainability, 2022 Globally, rising seas threaten massive numbers of people and significant infrastructure. Adaptation strategies increasingly incorporate nature-based solutions.
A. D. Guerry +12 more
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How substitutable is natural capital? [PDF]
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2006 One of the recurring themes in the sustainability literature has been the legitimacy of using an economic framework to account for natural resources. This paper examines the potential for substituting between different inputs in the generation of income, where the inputs include natural resources such as land and energy resources.
Anil Markandya, S. Pedroso
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Endophytic fungal diversity of Fragaria vesca, a crop wild relative of strawberry, along environmental gradients within a small geographical area [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Fungal endophytes are highly diverse ubiquitous asymptomatic microorganisms, some of which appear to be symbiotic. Depending on abiotic conditions and genotype of the plant, the diversity of endophytes may confer fitness benefits to plant ...
Kazutomo Yokoya +3 more
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