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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
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Climate requirements for cultivated Liberica coffee (Coffea liberica) and consequences for its use and development as a crop species

Plants, People, Planet
Societal Impact Statement The global coffee industry, supporting 25 million smallholder farmers, is vulnerable to climate change. Diversifying the coffee species portfolio beyond Arabica and robusta is a promising intervention.
Isobel M. J. Wild, Aaron P. Davis, Kenny Wee Ting Lee, Justin Moat   +3 more
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Appreciating Multiple Realities in the Transformation towards a Sustainable Dairy Sector: An Explorative Study from the Inside-Out Perspective

Agronomy, 2021
The dairy sector is in a systemic lock-in due to reinforcing cycles. This qualitative study, based on 13 in-depth interviews with frontrunning dairy farmers and additional observations, challenges this impression by looking at the sustainable business ...
Liz Engelberts, Arjan van Rheede, Henk Kievit, André Nijhof   +3 more
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

Doe milk as a sustainable high-value dairy option for small-scale farms [PDF]

Biotechnology in Animal Husbandry
Global dairy production has undergone significant intensification, which has marginalized small-scale farms unable to compete with conventional dairy cattle systems.
Gantner Vesna, Steiner Zvonimir, Radović Čedomir, Gantner Ranko, Ljubojević Boris   +4 more
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Suitability evaluation of the rural settlements in a farming-pastoral ecotone area based on machine learning maximum entropy

Ecological Indicators, 2023
The suitability evaluation of rural settlements is the core foundation of planning and layout optimization. Settlements in a farming-pastoral ecotone are migrative, dynamic, and diverse, and thus their suitability changes constantly. However, our limited
Haitao Zhou, Xiaodong Na, Lin Li, Xiaoli Ning, Yanru Bai, Xiaodong Wu, Shuying Zang   +6 more
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Niche-based assessment of contributions of legumes to the nitrogen economy of Western Kenya smallholder farms

Plant and Soil, 2007
Nitrogen (N) deficiency is a major constraint to the productivity of the African smallholder farming systems. Grain, green manure and forage legumes have the potential to improve the soil N fertility of smallholder farming systems through biological N2-fixation.
Ojiem, J.O., Vanlauwe, B., de Ridder, N., Giller, K.E.   +3 more
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Engineering Microbial Particles for Next‐Generation Biomedical Platforms

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Microbe‐derived particles (MDPs), which include extracellular vesicles, outer membrane vesicles, inclusion bodies, polysaccharide particles, and virus‐like particles, represent a rapidly expanding category of bioinspired nanomaterials. With their natural origin, intrinsic biocompatibility, and highly programmable functionality, MDPs serve as a ...
Yuting Li, Yunjie Lu, Ziyan Huang, Jianjiang Chen, Yanbin Liu, Lei Qin, Chao Wang, Yumin Wu   +7 more
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The relationship between niche breadth and geographic range size in African Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae, Chiroptera) [PDF]

, 2011
According to Brown's hypothesis, generalists have high niche breadth and can tolerate a wide variety of environmental conditions resulting in large geographic range sizes. Conversely, specialists have low niche breadth and small range sizes.
Aronson, Jonathan
core   +1 more source

A Pan‐Methylome Framework for Population‐Scale Bacterial Epigenomics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A scalable quantitative framework unlocks population‐level comparative epigenomics in bacteria. By transforming site‐level data into standardized traits, this approach reconstructs methylation‐informed phylogenies and defines the core epigenome.
Bin Ma, Huimin Gong, Ran Zhuo, Zaixiao Rao, Yanxi Wan, Mingyang Wang, Zahra Zeinalzadeh, Yuan Gao, Aohan Guan, Xinrun Li, Wanting Chen, Xiliang Wang, Yun Wan, Sihua Zhang, Yuncai Xiao, Qi Huang, Paul R. Langford, Xiangru Wang, Rui Zhou, Rui Luo, Hongbo Zhou, Chengliang Zhu, Hui Jin   +22 more
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