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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini, Karan Sethi, Emanuela Granata, Ekaterina Mogilnaia, Valeria Vitangeli, Giovanni Zanfei, Chiara Fedrigotti, Paolo Biella, Dino Scaravelli, Luigi Marchesi, Péter Batáry, Diego Rubolini, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Persistent low avian malaria in a tropical species despite high community prevalence. [PDF]

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl, 2019
Eastwood JR, Peacock L, Hall ML, Roast M, Murphy SA, Gonçalves da Silva A, Peters A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physical, mechanical and energy characterization of wood pellets obtained from three common tropical species. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Artemio CP, Maginot NH, Serafín CU, Rahim FP, José Guadalupe RQ, Fermín CM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Impact of climate change on extinction risk of montane tree species.

, 2014
The potential impacts of climate change on many species worldwide remains unknown, especially in those tropical regions that are centers of endemism and are highly biodiverse.
Tejedor Garavito, Natalia
core  

Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta, Eugenia Parodi, Celine Buschmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microclimate drives demographic compensation in a narrow endemic tropical species. [PDF]

New Phytol
Zupo T, Escobar DF, Santos GS, Kamimura VA, Dias YN, de Assis RL, Caldeira CF, Watanabe MTC, Portela RCQ, Tavares V, Carvalho CDS.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A phenol/chloroform-free method to extract nucleic acids from recalcitrant, woody tropical species for gene expression and sequencing. [PDF]

Plant Methods, 2019
Barbier FF, Chabikwa TG, Ahsan MU, Cook SE, Powell R, Tanurdzic M, Beveridge CA.   +6 more
europepmc   +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

Exploring dynamics of nature's raincoat: comparing how nano-scale silk fibers produced by dryland and tropical species of webspinning insects interact with water. [PDF]

Environ Entomol
Barber RP, Arias EA, Schatz AM, Kaneski A, Edgerly JS.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source