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Managing Soil Quality: Challenges in Modern Agriculture [PDF]
, 2004 Soil quality is a concept that allows soil functions to be related to specific purposes. Previous books on soil quality have emphasized descriptive aspects, by focusing on e.g. soil quality indicators, indexing, and minimum data sets.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 781-801, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper empirically examines the effect of biomass energy consumption and economic complexity on environmental sustainability in G7 economies. The current study attempts to report a comprehensive analysis of biomass energy and economic complexity on ecological and carbon footprints and carbon emissions.
Umer Shahzad +4 more
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Effects of temperature on the composition and diversity of bacterial communities in bamboo soils at different elevations [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2017 Bamboo is an important resource distributed in mountain areas in Asia. Little is known about the impact of temperature changes on bamboo soil bacterial communities.
Y.-T. Lin, Z. Jia, D. Wang, C.-Y. Chiu
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BEFANA: A Tool for Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Assessment by Network Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 BEFANA is a free and open-source software tool for ecological network analysis and visualisation. It is adapted to ecologists' needs and allows them to study the topology and dynamics of ecological networks as well as apply selected machine learning algorithms.
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Effects of forest fire severity on terrestrial carbon emission and ecosystem production in the Himalayan region, India [PDF]
Science of the Total Environment, 2020, 2018 Remote sensing techniques have been used effectively for measuring the overall loss of terrestrial ecosystem production and biodiversity due to the forest fire. The current research focuses on assessing the impact of forest fire severity on terrestrial ecosystem productivity using different burn indices in Uttarakhand, India.
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Soil biodiversity: functions, threats and tools for policy makers [PDF]
, 2010 Human societies rely on the vast diversity of benefits provided by nature, such as food, fibres, construction materials, clean water, clean air and climate regulation.
Benito, Patricia +8 more
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Humusica: Soil biodiversity and global change [PDF]
Bulletin of Geography. Physical Geography Series, 2018 Abstract Born in Trento (Italy, 2003) for the purpose of standardising vocabulary and units of humus form classification, after publishing a first synthetic classification e-book (Zanella et al. 2011) they do not cover all site conditions in the European area.
Augusto Zanella +8 more
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Advancements in Biochar as a Sustainable Adsorbent for Water Pollution Mitigation
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Biochar, obtained through pyrolysis of organic waste, serves as a sustainable solution for wastewater treatment due to its adaptability and low‐cost nature. This review comprehensively examines recent advancements in biochar production, functional modifications, and applications, highlighting the integration of machine learning and artificial ...
Devika Laishram +3 more
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The effects of global change on soil faunal communities: a meta-analytic approach [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2019 Human impacts are causing an unprecedented change of biodiversity across scales. To quantify the nature and degree of the biodiversity change, there have been a number of meta-analysis studies investigating the effects of global change drivers (land use,
Helen Phillips +6 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Assessing species' vulnerabilities across geographical gradients is essential for biodiversity conservation under climate change. To address this challenge, the semi‐natural climate chamber across latitudes (SCCAL) is developed, a validated system capable of simulating thermal environments for ecological experiments without reliance on water or ...
Bao‐Jun Sun +15 more
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