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Climate Change Mitigation in the Dairy Sector: Uncovering Heterogeneity Through Eco‐Efficiency Clubs
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Combining climate change goals with economic targets is crucial for the dairy sector, which is a significant contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. In this paper, we assess economic and climate change implications of dairy production with panel data of Irish dairy farms from 2013 to 2021.
Doris Läpple +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Identifying the mechanisms that structure niche breadth and overlap between species is important for determining how species interact and assessing their functional role in an ecosystem.
Ryan B. Stephens +3 more
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Predicting trophic relations in ecological networks: a test of the Allometric Diet Breadth Model [PDF]
, 2009 Few of food web theory hypotheses/predictions can be readily tested using empirical data. An exception is represented by simple probabilistic models for food web structure, for which the likelihood has been derived.
Allesina, Stefano
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Foraging Bee Optimization Algorithm
IJIEM - Indonesian Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 2023 Honey bee colonies depend on pollen and nectar from flowers for their feed. The act of searching for this flowers by the bees is called foraging. The foraging behaviour of bees depends on the profitability of nectar and pollen sources as well as the needs of the colony.
Ebun Phillip Fasina +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu +4 more
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Brazilian Journal of BiologyIn order to verify possible preferential prey selection by Desmodus rotundus feeding on domestic herbivores in the Municipality of São Pedro (São Paulo, Brazil), vampire bat attacks were surveyed at rural properties where domestic herbivores were being ...
PJ Mialhe
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Coursing the mottled mosaic: Generalist predators track pulses in availability of neonatal ungulates
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The density and distribution of resources shape animal movement and behavior and have direct implications for population dynamics. Resource availability often is “pulsed” in space and time, and individuals should cue in on resource pulses when the ...
Katey S. Huggler +7 more
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Risso's dolphins perform spin dives to target deep-dwelling prey
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Foraging decisions of deep-diving cetaceans can provide fundamental insight into food web dynamics of the deep pelagic ocean. Cetacean optimal foraging entails a tight balance between oxygen-conserving dive strategies and access to deep-dwelling prey of ...
Fleur Visser +6 more
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Stimuli‐Responsive Electrofluidic Nervous System for Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A stimuli‐responsive electrofluidic nervous system (SENS) is introduced to achieve sensing, signal processing, and decision‐making using soft materials. Comprising fluidic switches and electroactive actuators, SENS enables multimodal stimuli‐responsiveness and autonomous control in soft robots.
Dip Kumar Saha +3 more
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Considerations When Applying the Consumer Functional Response Measured Under Artificial Conditions
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Since its creation, considerable effort has been given to improving the utility of the consumer functional response. To date, the majority of efforts have focused on improving mathematical formulation in order to include additional ecological processes ...
Blaine D. Griffen
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