Bridging Human and Plant Adaptations for Climate Resilience
Climate change is transforming agriculture through both gradual shifts and increasingly unpredictable extremes, challenging farmers' ability to protect crops and livelihoods. This study brings together farmer experiences and plant adaptation strategies to explore how people and plants respond to similar climate pressures.
Nicola Favretto +3 more
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Medicane characteristics from high‐resolution satellite radar observations
This study uses high‐resolution observations from satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to reveal that medicanes, cyclones with tropical features in the Mediterranean basin, have dynamical characteristics with attributes comparable with those of tropical cyclones of similar intensities, but smaller outer sizes and Rossby numbers.
Arthur Avenas +6 more
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Potential and active functions in the gut microbiota of a healthy human cohort
Background The study of the gut microbiota (GM) is rapidly moving towards its functional characterization by means of shotgun meta-omics. In this context, there is still no consensus on which microbial functions are consistently and constitutively ...
Alessandro Tanca +7 more
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The macrozoobenthic community of the Santa Gilla lagoon (southern Sardinia, Italy) [PDF]
1 - Macrozoobenthos is one of the most significant communities of hydrobionts for assessing the ecological state of a water body. In spite of its importance, only few data concerning the macrobenthic community of Santa Gilla lagoon are available; 2 ...
Cabiddu, Serenella +4 more
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Ground‐based robotic remote sensing for standardized biodiversity monitoring in coastal habitats
Illustrated workflow of the proposed citizen‐to‐robot monitoring pipeline: (i) expert‐validated citizen observations are translated into AI models, (ii) deployed on a ground‐based robotic platform for proximal sensing of coastal dune habitats, (iii) enabling standardized detection of ecological targets (e.g., Pancratium maritimum & Brithys crini), and (
Giovanni Di Lorenzo +5 more
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Short-term physiological plasticity.Trade-off between drought and recovery responses in three Mediterranean cistus species [PDF]
Short-term physiological plasticity allows plants to thrive in highly variable environments such as the Mediterranean ecosystems. In such context, plants that maximize physiological performance under favorable conditions, such as Cistus spp., are ...
Catoni, Rosangela +4 more
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ABSTRACT This paper addresses the gap in subnational assessments of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by benchmarking the performance of European Union NUTS‐2 regions in the People and Prosperity pillars of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Pablo Arocena +2 more
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Shaping identities through Street Art. Iconography of social claims in Orgosolo's Murales
Nowadays, street art is one of the most common public art manifestations in bigger cities. However, there are case studies that show how this form of visual communication has a long history and can strengthen the capacity of the self-assertion also of ...
Michele Valentino, Enrico Cicalò
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Ancient book heritage and religious libraries. The case of Sardinia
The essay studies the presence of the ancient book heritage in the libraries of Sardinia where, apart from the case of the two University Libraries of Cagliari and Sassari, the most important institutions for the presence of ancient collections are the ...
Giovanna Granata
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The Influence of short-term land use change on soil evolution in the centre-south coastal areas of Sardinia [PDF]
The land use change in short-term (time and space) in the Mediterranean context can be induced by phenomena like destruction of the autochthonous plant species, land abandonment, overgrazing, fire, urbanization (above all for touristic purpose), etc ...
Buondonno, Andrea +3 more
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