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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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Provisional atlas of the freshwater leeches of the British Isles [PDF]

, 1981
Distribution maps were included in the second edition of the F.B.A. Scientific Publication on British freshwater leeches (Mann 1964). When that publication was extensively revised and enlarged to include a review of the literature on the ecology of ...
Elliott, J.M., Tullet, P.A.
core  

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
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When Do Robots Go Green? Unveiling Mechanisms, Thresholds, and Spillovers of Industrial Robotics on Global Ecological Capacity

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between industrial robotics adoption and ecological capacity, measured by biocapacity, using panel data from 50 countries over the period 2000–2024. We investigate the transmission mechanisms, non‐linearities, spatial spillovers, and heterogeneity characterizing this relationship.
Brahim Bergougui, Hamid Ghazi H. Sulimany   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang, Sultan Sikandar Mirza, Chengwei Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors affecting ammonium uptake in streams - an inter-biome perspective [PDF]

, 2003
The Lotic Intersite Nitrogen experiment (LINX) was a coordinated study of the relationships between North American biomes and factors governing ammonium uptake in streams. Our objective was to relate inter-biome variability of ammonium uptake to physical,
Bowden, William B., Dahm, Clifford N., Dodds, Walter K., Findlay, Stuart, Gregory, Stanley V., Grimm, Nancy B., Hamilton, Stephen K., Johnson, Sherri L., Marti, Eugenia, McDowell, William H., Meyer, Judy L., Morrall, Donna D., Mulholland, Patrick J., Peterson, Bruce J., Tanks, Jennifer L., Thomas, Steven A., Valett, H. Maurice, Webster, Jackson R., Wollheim, Wilfred M.   +18 more
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Exploring lake ecological water levels via the Lake Ecological Comprehensive Evaluation Index (LECEI) approach in conjunction with terrestrial and aquatic environments

Ecological Indicators
Determining ecological water levels crucially lies in elucidating the relationship between water levels and ecological environmental quality, which are essential for the sustainable development of lake ecosystems. However, the response of lake environmental quality to water level fluctuations remains incompletely understood. This study employed forward
Weifeng Yue, Changming Cao, Qingqing Fang, Guoqiang Wang, Ziyi Zan, Kun Wang, Tingxi Liu   +6 more
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Sectoral Heterogeneity in Corporate Biodiversity Disclosure: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies Across Industries, 2001–2023

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines sectoral heterogeneity in corporate biodiversity disclosure (CBD) among Chinese listed firms over the period 2001–2023. Drawing on stakeholder, institutional, and resource dependency theories, it investigates how environmental exposure, ownership structures, and market dynamics influence biodiversity risk recognition and ...
Orkun Bayram, Irmak Aksoy, Yavuz Selim Balcıoğlu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simple shell measurements do not consistently predict habitat in turtles: a reply to Lichtig and Lucas (2017)

Peer Community Journal
Inferring palaeoecology for fossils is a key interest of palaeobiology. For groups with extant representatives, correlations of aspects of body shape with ecology can provide important insights to understanding extinct members of lineages. The origin and
Evers, Serjoscha W., Foth, Christian, Joyce, Walter G., Hermanson, Guilherme   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Transformation and Trophic Transfer of Engineered Nanomaterials in the Agri‐Food Chain and Implications for human Health

ChemFoodChem, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are increasingly applied in agriculture to improve crop yield, nutrient efficiency, and food quality. This study examines the environmental transformation of ENMs, their uptake in plants, and their transfer across the agri‐food chain leading to human exposure.
Soumitra Nath
wiley   +1 more source