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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini, Giacomo Pigatto, Andrea Tenucci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natural sex reversal imparts permanent compositional changes to the swamp eel gonadal microbiome

Microbiome
Background Microbial communities are increasingly recognized for their essential roles in the reproductive system. However, the microbial communities in healthy gonads—neither in the ovary nor the testis—have not been extensively explored, particularly ...
Kaifeng Meng, Meidi Hu, Yuanyuan Chen, Xing Lin, Chaolin Jiang, Jiarui Song, Yifan Bai, Yuanli Zhao, Fei Liu, Daji Luo   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The two-component system CpxAR controls biofilm formation by directly regulating the T3SS needle tip protein EseB in Edwardsiella piscicida

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
The type III secretion system (T3SS) translocon protein EseB (needle tip protein) forms filamentous appendages on the surface of Edwardsiella piscicida to facilitate autoaggregation and biofilm formation. By contrast, another T3SS translocon protein EseC
Shu Ya Zhang, Shan Shan Sun, Lu Yi Liu, Thusyakaanth Sivaranjan, Pin Nie, Hai Xia Xie   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pro‐Organic by Design: Choice Architecture Shaping Online Organic Grocery Purchases

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consumer uptake of organic food is shaped by both personal values and the way choices are structured in the retail environment. Unlike prior research, we here investigate how elements of supermarket choice architecture influence organic choices.
John Thøgersen, Darius‐Aurel Frank, Jessica Aschemann‐Witzel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Sustainable Aquaculture [PDF]

Oceanography & Fisheries Open access Journal, 2017
Tran Thi Nang, Thu, Lebailly, Philippe
openaire   +3 more sources

The Edwardsiella T3SS effector EseQ promotes invasion by altering the cell’s cytoskeleton and disrupting the epithelial barrier

mSphere
Edwardsiella piscicida is a Gram-negative, intracellular, enteric pathogen that primarily causes hemorrhagic septicemia in fish. It survives and replicates within host cells by delivering a subset of effector proteins via the type III secretion system ...
Xiu Long Jiang, Tian Tian He, Pu Yu Tang, Qin Wang, Pin Nie, Hai Xia Xie   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive Dataset for Polychaetes in the IPC: Species Distribution, DNA Barcodes, and Functional Traits

Scientific Data
The Indo Pacific Convergence Zone (IPC) is recognized as an area of highest taxonomic and functional diversity. The polychaetes have garnered attention as their enormous functional trait diversity and their significant role in biomonitoring ecosystems ...
Jieyang Weng, Xuwen Wu, Chenrui Li, Yongnan Li, Qian Li, Fangkun Dou, Tiantian Wang, Jie Li, Yue Wang, Linlin Zhang   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Type II grass carp reovirus utilizes autophagosomes for viroplasm formation and subclinical persistent infection

Journal of Virology
Grass carp reovirus (GCRV) is the most virulent pathogen within the genus Aquareovirus, belonging to the family Spinareoviridae. GCRV is categorized into three genotypes, with type II (GCRV-II) being the predominant strain circulating in China ...
Qian Wang, Zichao Peng, Pengfei Chu, Bin Gui, Yongming Li, Lanjie Liao, Zuoyan Zhu, Fei Ke, Yaping Wang, Libo He   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Quantitative Approach for Assessing and Monitoring the Social Licence of Forestry to Operate: A New Zealand Case Study

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social Licence to Operate (SLO) is an increasingly strategic concern in forestry, yet its evaluation remains largely qualitative. This study presents the first quantitative framework for assessing SLO in New Zealand's forestry sector, adapted from the Boutilier and Thomson model, originally developed for the mining sector.
Grace B. Villamor, Peter W. Clinton, Tim Payn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source