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Bridging Human and Plant Adaptations for Climate Resilience

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Medicane characteristics from high‐resolution satellite radar observations

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Potential and active functions in the gut microbiota of a healthy human cohort

open access: yesMicrobiome, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

The macrozoobenthic community of the Santa Gilla lagoon (southern Sardinia, Italy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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
core   +1 more source

Ground‐based robotic remote sensing for standardized biodiversity monitoring in coastal habitats

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Short-term physiological plasticity.Trade-off between drought and recovery responses in three Mediterranean cistus species [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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
core   +1 more source

Assessing the Performance of European Union Regions in the “People” and “Prosperity” Pillars of the SDGs

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Shaping identities through Street Art. Iconography of social claims in Orgosolo's Murales

open access: yesDisegnare con, 2020
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
doaj  

Ancient book heritage and religious libraries. The case of Sardinia

open access: yesBibliothecae.it, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of short-term land use change on soil evolution in the centre-south coastal areas of Sardinia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
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
core  

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