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Learning about social-ecological trade-offs [PDF]
Ecology and Society, 2017 Trade-offs are manifestations of the complex dynamics in interdependent social-ecological systems. Addressing trade-offs involves challenges of perception due to the dynamics of interdependence.
Diego Galafassi +5 more
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Compatibility and trade-off between performance: an alternative view [PDF]
, 1995 An issue on which opinions still differ concerns the presence or absence of trade-offs between different types of manufacturing performance. In an attempt to provide some empirical evidence to resolve this argument, a recent conference paper examined ...
Mapes, John
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Biophysical mechanisms that maintain biodiversity through trade-offs [PDF]
, 2015 Trade-offs are thought to arise from inevitable, biophysical limitations that prevent organisms from optimizing multiple traits simultaneously. A leading explanation for biodiversity maintenance is a theory that if the shape, or geometry, of a trade-off ...
Justin R. Meyer (12102370) +2 more
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Trade-offs among cost, integration, and segregation in the human connectome [PDF]
, 2023 The human brain structural network is thought to be shaped by the optimal trade-off between cost and efficiency. However, most studies on this problem have focused on only the trade-off between cost and global efficiency (i.e., integration) and have ...
Zhengjia Dai +5 more
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Environmental variability affects optimal trade‐offs in ecological immunology
Ecosphere, 2021 The costs of mounting and maintaining an immune response lead to trade‐offs with investment in (or maintenance of) other organ systems or functions such as reproduction, as has been observed in several taxa, including birds, insects, and mammals.
Devin Kirk +3 more
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Geography and Sustainability, 2021 The trade-offs and supply-demand relations of ecosystem services (ES) are at the frontier of geographical and ecological studies. However, previous studies have focused on either trade-offs or the supply-demand aspects, while ES conflicts and supply ...
Qiang Feng +4 more
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Politics and Governance, 2018 Whereas the measurement of the quality of democracy focused on the rough differentiation of democracies and autocracies in the beginning (e.g. Vanhanen, Polity, Freedom House), the focal point of newer instruments is the assessment of the quality of ...
Hans-Joachim Lauth, Oliver Schlenkrich
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A conceptual framework for understanding ecosystem trade-offs and synergies, in communal rangeland systems. [PDF]
, 2023 Communal rangelands are a global resource of significant benefit to society through the provision of critical ecosystem goods and services such as carbon sequestration, water and livestock forage.
Mapiye, Cletos +23 more
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Tragic trade‐offs accompany carnivore coexistence in the modern world
Conservation Letters, 2022 Two vital policy aims—biodiversity conservation and food production—are increasingly in conflict. Efforts to evaluate trade‐offs between agriculture and conservation have shaped scholarly discourse around two broad strategies to agricultural production ...
Jeremy T. Bruskotter +4 more
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Trade-Offs between Competitive Ability and Resistance to Top-Down Control in Marine Microbes
mSystems, 2023 Trade-offs between competitive ability and resistance to top-down control manifest the “kill-the-winner” hypothesis that explains how mortality caused by protists and viruses can promote bacterial diversity.
Jinny Wu Yang +7 more
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