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Climate‐driven resource availability drives medium‐ and broad‐scale temporal changes in owl–prey interactions over 24 years in a semi‐arid ecosystem

Ecography, EarlyView.
Predator–prey interactions are vital to ecosystem functioning but may be disrupted by climate change. We investigated a food‐web network involving three owl species over 24 years in a semi‐arid ecosystem at Bosque Fray Jorge National Park, Chile.
Jazmin M. Quiroz‐Calizaya, Adriana Lozada, Douglas A. Kelt, Alejandra J. Troncoso, Peter L. Meserve, M. Andrea Previtali, W. Bryan Milstead, Julio R. Gutiérrez, Craig Weideman, Nicolas Gouin, Tyler R. Kartzinel, Karin Maldonado, Angéline Bertin   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pensamento socioambiental e a economia ecológica: nova perspectiva para pensar a sociedade

Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2015
Ecological Economics represents an attempt to overcome the disciplinary narrowness of the traditional sciences dealing with society, the economy and nature.
Clóvis Cavalcanti
doaj   +1 more source

Future warming enhances rates of population increase of arthropod crop pests globally

Ecography, EarlyView.
Arthropod herbivores cause severe crop yield losses worldwide. Global warming is expected to shift their ranges, phenologies and performances, highlighting the need for improved forecasts of their potential expansion and impacts on food security. After decades of experimental research on thermal biology of arthropod crop pests, available data and tools
Darío San‐Segundo Molina, Ignacio Morales‐Castilla, Sara Villén‐Pérez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A High‐Efficiency Yet Sustainable Fresh‐Keeping Strategy Inspired by Calyx of Physalis peruviana

Exploration, EarlyView.
This study presents a sprayable, calyx‐inspired food wrap engineered for safety and sustainability using handheld electrospraying. The wrap forms a health‐critical protective barrier with high antiviral and antibacterial efficacy, excellent breathability, and long‐term fresh‐keeping performance.
Yue Zhao, Chengbang Lu, Xiaopeng Bai, Shangyi Wu, Zeyu Wang, Yuqin Hu, Binxin Liang, Danlei Sun, Yunxiang Zhang, Yingning He, Yi Yang, Shengwen Duan, Taolin Sun, Xinjie Wang, Weijie Lan, Hong Zhang, Yang Luo, Xiangyu Liang   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling Sustainability Trade-Offs in a High-Andean Rural Community: Pine Plantations, Livestock, and Food Systems in Patapallpa Alta (Cusco, Peru)

Land
Rural development strategies in the Andes face persistent tensions between income generation, food provision, and the conservation of ecological functions.
Juan José Cadillo-Benalcazar, Pablito Marcelo López Serrano, Amilcar Quispe, María E. Holgado-Rojas, Janet Mamani, Hugo B. Ccopa Huayta, María A. Paucarmayta-Holgado, Richard R. Vargas-Tito, Richard Tito   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Early Socio-ecological Dimensions of Tricontinental (1967–1971): A Sovereign Social Metabolism for the Third World

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES
This article delves into the socio-ecological dimensions of OSPAAAL, the Cuban Third World solidarity institution, focusing particularly on the early years of its official organ: the magazine Tricontinental (1967–1971). Tricontinental’s articles and graphic works, even if not always in an explicit manner, addressed environmental concerns in a ...
Alberto García Molinero, Alejandro Pedregal   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Is quinoa‐farming sustainable in marginal environments? Social, economical and environmental aspects

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is an Andean grain crop introduced as a novel crop to many parts of the world in recent years. Recognized for nutritious seeds and high abiotic stress tolerance, it has been promoted as an element of climate‐resilient agriculture, particularly in marginal environments.
Anna Tabea Mengen, Damir Esenaliev, Jakhongir Babadjanov, Lukas John, Sandra M. Schmöckel, Botir Khaitov   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local and Tele‐Coupling Coordination Relationships Between Urban Resilience and Ecosystem Health in the Beijing‐Tianjin‐Hebei Region and Analysis of Their Influencing Factors

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban resilience and ecosystem health are essential foundations for regional sustainable development, yet their coupled and coordinated relationships remain insufficiently explored at the urban‐agglomeration scale. Taking the 13 prefecture‐level cities in the Beijing‐Tianjin‐Hebei urban agglomeration as the study area and using panel data for ...
Wang Mengyu, Huang Jianyi, Yuan Yitai, Yu Lixiao, Xu Waner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Major Latin America's contributions to global political ecology and environmental justice

Journal of Political Ecology
This article examines Latin America's critical contributions to global political ecology through concepts such as extractivism, ecological debt, ecologically unequal exchange, epistemic equity, body-territory, and political ontology.
Carlos Tornel, Aida Luz López, Joan Martinez-Alier   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Ecological engineering for controlling water pollution in Latin America [PDF]

, 2013
Ecological engineering is a discipline that combines ecology and engineering to design, construct, restore and manage ecosystems. The design of constructed wetlands (CWs) and anaerobic digesters (ADs) are two applications of ecological engineering to ...
Maria Elizabeth Hernandez
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