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Management and incipient domestication of Chamaedorea tepejilote in agroforestry systems in Mexico

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Native wild plants are key elements in addressing global biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable food systems. We investigated how rural communities in Mexico manage Chamaedorea tepejilote, a wild palm with edible male inflorescences, by combining ethnobotanical, genetic, morphological and ecological approaches.
Viviana Andrade, Alejandro Casas, Edna Arévalo‐Marín, Gonzalo D. Álvarez‐Ríos, Hernán Alvarado‐Sizzo, Vanessa Guerrero‐Hernández, Paola Ubiergo‐Corvalán, Maite Lascurain‐Rangel   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental and Numerical Studies of "Wood-Composite" Reinforcement in Bending Sheared Wooden Beams Using Pre-Stressed Natural and Artificial Fibers. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Wdowiak-Postulak AK, Świt G, Krampikowska A, Minh Chinh L.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Close‐to‐nature management regulates ecosystem carbon storage through its effects on vegetation community structure in Pinus massoniana plantations

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Forest plantations play an increasingly important role in climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration, yet management strategies that enhance long‐term ecosystem carbon storage remain insufficiently understood. We investigated the effects of more than a decade of close‐to‐nature management on community structure and ecosystem carbon storage ...
Yuwen Luo, Yunliang Ni, Zongzheng Chai
wiley   +1 more source

Defect-Mask2Former: An Improved Semantic Segmentation Model for Precise Small-Sized Defect Detection on Large-Sized Timbers. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Qin M, Li H, Huang Y, Tong X, Liang Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Application of a Presumptive Standards Approach to Evaluate Environmental Flows in a Highly Regulated River Basin

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The presumptive standards approach to environmental flows offers a method to develop interim guidelines for ecological and social‐cultural flow needs. The approach is based on deriving acceptable percent‐of‐flow limits based on naturalised flows (the absence of depletion or alteration of flow), and it can be an effective precursor to a full ...
Jennifer Lento, Wendy A. Monk, Fuad Yassin, Mustakim Ali, Hayley Carlson, Saman Razavi, Timothy D. Jardine   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Role of Social Capital in the Sustainable Use of Common-Pool Resource Use: Evidence from Participatory Forest Management in Ethiopia. [PDF]

Environ Manage
Tegenie YA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Ecological and Technological Insights to Enhance Rice Production: A Machine Learning Approach for Sustainable Agriculture in Granma, Cuba

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid the quest for sustainable agriculture, this study explores key ecological and technological factors influencing crop production under climate change. We conduct a comprehensive assessment of temperature, biomass, farmer education, renewable energy devices, greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on rice yields in Granma, Cuba, from ...
Afzal Ahmed Dar, Zhi Chen, Sergio RodrIguez‐Rodríguez, Fariborz Haghighat, Chunjiang An, Roberto Alejandro García Reyes, Beatriz González‐Rosales   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying beech round wood quality - distribution of beech timber qualities and influencing defects

Drewno, 2013
Zbigniew Karaszewski, Mariusz Bembenek, Piotr S. Mederski, Anna Szczepańska-Alvarez, Rafał Byczkowski, Anna Kozłowska, Klaudiusz Michnowicz, Wojciech Przytuła, Dieter F. Giefing   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimising Embodied Carbon in Axial Tension Piles: A Comparative Study of Concrete, Steel, and Timber Piles Using a Hybrid Genetic Approach. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Abushama K, Hawkins W, Pelecanos L, Ibell T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Aslihan Arslan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source