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Lianas Suppress Seedling Growth and Survival of 14 Tree Species in a Panamanian Tropical Forest [PDF]

, 2016
Lianas are a common plant growth form in tropical forests, where they compete intensely with trees, decreasing tree recruitment, growth, and survival. If the detrimental effects of lianas vary significantly with tree species identity, as is often assumed,
Andrade, Beer, Bonan, Cahill, Cai, Carsten, Cavelier, Celis, Chen, Chen, Chittibabu, Clark, Clark, Cordero, Croat, Gibbs, Heijden, Heijden, Heijden, Hooper, IBM SPSS, Ingwell, Jennifer S. Powers, Kainer, Kira, Kitajima, Kitajima, Kurzel, Laura Martínez-Izquierdo, Laurance, Leigh, Lewis, María M. García, Nichols, Pan, Peña-Claros, Phillips, Poorter, Putz, Pérez-Salicrup, Pérez-Salicrup, Schnitzer, Schnitzer, Schnitzer, Schnitzer, Schnitzer, Schnitzer, Schnitzer, Schnitzer, Schnitzer, Schnitzer, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Stevens, Tanner, Tobin, Toledo-Aceves, Toledo-Aceves, Vleut, Windsor, Wright, Wright, Wright, Wyka, Yavitt, Zahawi, Álvarez-Cansino   +65 more
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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
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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

Tropical Convexity

, 2003
The notions of convexity and convex polytopes are introduced in the setting of tropical geometry. Combinatorial types of tropical polytopes are shown to be in bijection with regular triangulations of products of two simplices.
Develin, Mike, Sturmfels, Bernd
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The Tree of Life Synagogue Attack: A Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol‐18 Examination of Pre‐Attack Warnings and Post‐Attack Contagion and Copycat Effects

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
wiley   +1 more source

Morphological Analysis, Bud Differentiation, and Regulation of “Bud Jumping” Phenomenon in Oncidium Using Plant Growth Regulators

Horticulturae
Oncidium has an important market value, with important high-grade cut orchids and potted flowers on the flower market. In the Oncidium cut flowers production industry, there is a common phenomenon that the development of vegetative buds disrupts the ...
Hanqiao Lan, Le Liu, Weishi Li, Daicheng Hao, Shanzhi Lin, Beilei Ye, Minqiang Tang, Peng Ling   +7 more
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A Reply to Verbeeck and Kearsley: Addressing the Challenges of Including lianas in Global Vegetation Models [PDF]

, 2016
Verbeeck and Kearsley (1) rightfully point out that global vegetation models would greatly benefit from implicitly including the effects of lianas. Recent experimental evidence that lianas substantially reduce the capacity of tropical forests to uptake ...
Powers, Jennifer S., Schnitzer, Stefan A., van der Heijden, Geertje M. F.   +2 more
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Ucuúba Fat (Virola surinamensis) and Cellulose Nanocrystals Functionalizing Cassava (Manihot esculenta)  Starch Films

ChemFoodChem, EarlyView.
Cassava starch films were functionalized with Ucuúba fat and cellulose nanocrystals to tailor wettability, optical, mechanical, and barrier properties. Integrating Amazonian bioresources with nanotechnology enables sustainable edible coatings with tunable performance for fresh food preservation and enhanced UV protection.
Geovana Cristina Pinto Rodrigues, Fernanda Ramalho Procopio, Júlia Ferreira Henrique, Ramon Peres Brexó, Marcos David Ferreira   +4 more
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The Wonders of Vanilla: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Synthetic Vanillin

ChemFoodChem, EarlyView.
The year 2024 marked the 150th anniversary of the first commercial production of vanillin, one of the world's most cherished flavor ingredients. This review traces vanilla's history from Mesoamerica to modern production methods, examines its composition, the discovery of vanillin and Haarmann's early synthesis compared to modern methods, and highlights
Elisabetta Brenna, Francesco G. Gatti, Fabio Parmeggiani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reference vegetation for restoration? Three vegetation maps compared across 76 nature reserves in Uganda and Kenya

Ecosphere
Forest and landscape restoration are increasingly popular nature‐based solutions to mitigate climate change and safeguard biodiversity. Restoration planning and monitoring implies that a reference ecosystem has been defined to which the restored site can
Jens‐Peter Barnekow Lillesø, Davide Barsotti, James Kalema, Paulo vanBreugel, Fabio Pedercini, Lars Graudal, Ramni Jamnadass, Roeland Kindt   +7 more
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