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Ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services and rooibos production as affected by connectivity to natural vegetation and agrochemical use in rooibos tea (Aspalathus linearis) farming [PDF]

, 2011
Globally, increasing land-use intensity has led to more intensive farming practices at the local scale and the loss of non-crop habitats at the landscape scale which may affect various ecosystem services.
Herbst, Marianté
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THE RATE OF WATER EROSION AND ITS RELATION TO SOIL COVERAGE BY GRAVEL AND NATURAL VEGETATION [PDF]

Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering, 2004
Two Field experiments were carried out in Wadi-Maged, west Matrouh city, North Western Coastal Zone of Egypt (NWCZ), under natural rainfall conditions, during winter seasons 2001-2002 and 2002-2003, to evaluate the rate of water soil erosion under ...
M. Wassif, S. Sharkawy, A. Ali,
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Impacts of Land Abandonment on Vegetation: Successional Pathways in European Habitats [PDF]

, 2011
Changes in traditional agricultural systems in Europe in recent decades have led to widespread abandonment and colonization of various habitats by shrubs and trees.
Brandl, Roland, Jan Van Uytvanck, Loek Kuiters, Jutta Stadler, Daniel Kreiner, Bernhardt-Roemermann, Markus, Bohner, Andreas, Schmidt, W., Stephan Klotz, Klotz, Stephan, Wolfgang Schmidt, Prévosto, Bernard, Maurice Hoffmann, Bohner, A., Kuiters, L., Kuiters, Loek, Hoffmann, Maurice, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Klotz, S., Kreiner, D., Kreiner, Daniel, Michaela Dölle, Brandl, R., Stadler, Jutta, Bernard Prévosto, Dölle, Michaela, Hoffmann, M., Stadler, J., Schmidt, Wolfgang, Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Uytvanck, J., Van, Dölle, M., Andreas Bohner, Roland Brandl, Doelle, Michaela, Kuiters, A.T., Prévosto, B., Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus, Van Uytvanck, Jan, van Uytvanck, J.   +39 more
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Biodegradable 3D‐Printable and Coatable Antifouling Composites for Marine Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Marine biofouling damages submerged surfaces and raises greenhouse gas emissions. Biodegradable antifouling biocomposites were developed by hot‐mixing beeswax, Tween 80, and calcium stearate or stearic acid. Adjusting the component ratio enables processing via hot‐pressing, 3D‐printing, or dip‐coating.
Gabriele Corigliano, Lorenzo Ravelli, Martina Nardi, Ruowen Tu, Elena Bellini, Valerio Isa, Carlo Filippeschi, Roberta Finazzi, Luca Ceseracciu, Niloofar Paknezhad, Vincenzo Scribano, Paolo Galli, Silvia Lavorano, Simone Montano, Barbara Mazzolai, Marco Contardi, Pietro Cataldi, Athanassia Athanassiou   +17 more
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Exploration on the outstanding universal values of Hainan potential world natural heritage site

Guangxi Zhiwu, 2023
World natural heritage sites are some of the most important and valuable protected areas in the world, and their designation aims to give recognition to the uniqueness and protect the integrity of the sites, which are of global outstanding universal ...
Jiaxin HUANG, Yanjun DU, Donghai LI, Wenxing LONG, Jichao WANG, Yanfei TANG   +5 more
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Biomass DNA: An Emerging Building Block for Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Biomass DNA is rapidly emerging from its traditional role as a genetic blueprint to serve as a versatile abundant, highly programmable polymeric building block. This review highlights the transformation of macroscopic bulk biomass DNA into next generation of functional materials, spanning from dynamic hydrogels, sustainable bioplastics, and high ...
Yuwei Hu, Itamar Willner, Li Niu
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Culinary Chemistry as a Platform for Interfacial Materials Design

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Culinary processes control interfaces through heating, shear, gelation, and molecular transport. This Review connects selected gastronomic examples with food‐derived nanomaterials, plasmonic sensing, anthocyanin photovoltaics, and intelligent packaging. Original agar‐based plasmonic films illustrate the proposed translation.
Josep Moreno, I. Brian Becerril‐Castro, Irene Calderon‐Gonzalez, Jaslyn Ru Ting Chen, Zhiming Wang, Alexander O. Govorov, José Manuel Romo‐Herrera, Neus Feliu, Wolfgang J. Parak, Miguel A. Correa‐Duarte, In Yee Phang, Xing Yi Ling, Ramón A. Alvarez‐Puebla   +12 more
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Are potential natural vegetation maps a meaningful alternative to neutral landscape models?

, 2002
In this paper, we present a short overview of neutral landscape models traditionally adopted in the landscape ecological literature to differentiate landscape patterns that are the result of simple random processes from patterns that are generated from ...
AVENA, Giancarlo, Carlo Ricotta, Giancarlo Avena, RICOTTA, Carlo, Maria Laura Carranza, BLASI, Carlo, Carlo Blasi   +6 more
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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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The seed bank of subtropical grasslands with contrasting land-use history in southern Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2015
The expansion of land use for agriculture is among the main reasons for the reduction of natural grasslands around the world, and little is known about the recovery potential of original native grassland vegetation from seed banks.
Mariana de Souza Vieira, Camila Leal Bonilha, Ilsi Iob Boldrini, Gerhard Ernst Overbeck   +3 more
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