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Investigating plant awareness: Image composition affects student perceptions of flora and fauna

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
This study investigates the effect of the positoning of plants and animals in landscape photographs on their perception by students and the detail with which they get described. We conclude that the positioning of plants, among other factors, significantly influences how strongly they are perceived.
Lars Dietrich, Johanna Dittert, Lisa Biestek, Christiane Konnemann, Roman Asshoff   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling the female experience through adult mortality and survivorship in Milan over the last 2000 years. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Biehler-Gomez L, Yaussy S, Moro C, Morandini P, Mondellini M, Petrosino D, Mattia M, Del Bo B, Cattaneo C.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an evidence‐based and research‐driven restoration strategy for Britain's temperate rainforests

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Woodlands globally are threatened by environmental change and biodiversity loss. Temperate rainforests are an ecologically rich ecosystem found in wet regions of the temperate zone, and Britain has the potential for major temperate rainforest coverage in its nature‐depleted landscape.
Charles Norman, Jonathan Spencer, Ulf Büntgen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural innovation can increase and maintain biodiversity: A case study from medieval Europe. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Spitzig A, Rösch M, Woodbridge J, Bauch M, Guzowski P, Erhart P, Fyfe R, Marinova E, Izdebski A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Right tree, right place, right reason: Using knowledge exchange and research co‐design to explore current challenges and opportunities for sustainable urban forest management

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The urban forest provides important environmental and health and well‐being benefits to people living in cities. However, sustainable management of urban trees is challenging as they face interrelated pressures from the urban environment, pests and diseases and climate change.
Jill Edmondson, Eleanor Absalom, Raoul Blackman, Paul Brindley, Stuart Campbell, Alan Carter, Abigail Catterrall, Miriam Dobson, Kieron Doick, Mathew Dumelow, Sophia Cunningham, Fran Halsall, Liam Healy, Jamie Howe, Jonathan R. Leake, Nicola McHugh, Anthony Turner, Hannah Walker, Katie Pruszynski, Ian MacDermott, Jerry Gunton, Matthew North, Catherine Nuttgens, Toby Pillat, Holly Croft   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detecting extirpation: A localized approach to a global problem

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The global biodiversity crisis stems from a cascading series of extirpations driving species toward extinction. Addressing this crisis requires methods for early detection of extinction at local scales, where communities can mobilize conservation efforts.
Andrew D. F. Simon, Antranig Basman, R. Adam Martin, Caitlin Robinson, Quentin Cronk   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Most males in modern Poland carry Y-chromosomal lineages from clades that have recently expanded over Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. [PDF]

Hum Genet
Milewski M, Dawidziuk M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Novel applications of the tomato microbiome: Roles and considerations for agriculture, human health, and society

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Plants, like humans, have a microbiome that helps them grow, defend themselves against pathogens, acquire nutrients, and protect themselves against environmental stresses. The microbiome of tomatoes, a staple crop grown worldwide, could be utilized not only to reduce fertilizer and pesticide applications, but also to clean up harmful pollutants ...
Sean Lindert, Kathryn Kingsley, Peerapol Chiaranunt, James F. White   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A comparison of income inequality in the Roman and Chinese Han empires. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Alfani G, Bolla M, Scheidel W.
europepmc   +1 more source