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Ecosystem‐Centered Robot Design: Toward Ecoresorbable Sustainability Robots (ESRs)

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Robots exploring natural ecosystems can support monitoring and conservation, but must adopt ecosystem‐centered design to avoid pollution, waste, and damage. This review proposes guidelines for co‐designing ecoresorbable sustainability robots (ESRs), uniting materials, robotics, and ecological contexts in a single framework.
Tülin Yılmaz Nayır, Yuan Fang, Consuelo Contreras, Andrew K. Schulz, Florian Hartmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fuelwood demand and supply in Rwanda and the role of agroforestry [PDF]

, 2011
Fuelwood in Rwanda is assumed to come from forests and woodlands, thus contributing to large-scale deforestation. Available studies on fuelwood demand and supply support this assumption and indicate a continuously rising demand of fuelwood, notably from ...
Mohren, G.M.J., Ndayambaje, J.D.
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Divergent Responses of Bacterial Communities to Permafrost Degradation and Their Associations With Carbon Across Vertical Profiles

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Bacterial α‐diversity decreases, but stochasticity and community stability increase across the 15 m‐depth vertical profiles and along the degraded gradient within the active layer. The abundance and interaction of core taxa mainly control community stability in the active and permafrost layers, respectively.
Shengyun Chen, Yuzheng Gu, Ali Bahadur, Enyan Liu, Tonghua Wu, Xiaofan Zhu, Yuanqiang Zou, Hewei Liang, Peijie Wei, Linwei Wu, Qingbai Wu, Peizhi Yang, Hongyan Yu, Yunfeng Yang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carbon stock status of urban green space in Suqian City and carbon sink potential of major tree species [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
【Purpose】Urban green spaces mitigate carbon emissions, boost carbon sinks, and address environmental risks. Analyzing their types, carbon stocks, and key tree species' sequestration capacity aids in improving green space management.
Ge Zhiwei, Liu Lu, Bai Yanyan, Zhang Rui, Huang Xueshan, Wang Jie, Peng Sili   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inventory of Vegetation and Assessment of Carbon Storage Capacity towards a Low Carbon Campus: a Case Study of Universiti Tun Husein Onn Malaysia, Johor Malaysia [PDF]

, 2018
Carbon dioxide, a vital greenhouse gas plays a key role in Earth's carbon cycle, a concentration above ambient temperature results in global warming. High CO2 emission in Universiti Tun Husein Onn Malaysia is due to an increase in a number of automobiles
Linatoc, Alona, Yunusa, Audu
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Plant Robotics for Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Robots: Insights from Actuation Characteristics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Plants are promising materials for building sustainable and eco‐friendly robots due to their inherent multifunctionality, with actuation playing a crucial role. This article focuses on the physical movements of plants and, from the perspective of actuation characteristics, explores representative plant species and their behaviors, the current state of ...
Kazuya Murakami, Misao Sato, Yu Ikeda, Tatsuhiro Horii, Yukari Nagatoshi, Miki Fujita, Toshinori Fujie, Yasunari Fujita, Jun Shintake   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ideological Enlightenment and Practices of Sustainable Afforestation and Urban Greening: Historical Insights from Modern Guangdong, China

Land
The rapid industrialization and urbanization of the modern era caused widespread deforestation and ecological degradation, raising global concerns about sustainable planning, urban green space, and environmental governance.
Yanting Wang, Puaypeng Ho, Changxin Peng
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Land use in rural New Zealand: spatial land use, land-use change, and model validation [PDF]

, 2014
Land is an important social and economic resource. Knowing the spatial distribution of land use and the expected location of future land-use change is important to inform decision makers.
Corey Allan, Simon Anastasiadis, Suzi Kerr, Wei Zhang, William Power   +4 more
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Compartmentalized Homeostasis Drives High Bamboo Forest Productivity under Nutrient Imbalance

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study reveals how Moso bamboo achieves high productivity despite nutrient‐poor soils. It employs a unique strategy, maintaining strict nutrient balance in its leaves while using woody tissues as flexible storage reservoirs. This compartmentalized mechanism buffers the plant from soil phosphorus limitation and microbial competition, resolving the ...
Zhikang Wang, Quan Li, Man Shi, Marcio F.A. Leite, Xinli Chen, Eiko E. Kuramae, Viviane Cordovez, Tingting Cao, Chenglei Zhu, Libin Zhou, Wenjuan Yu, Zhiyao Tang, Changhui Peng, Xinzhang Song   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

How AI Shapes the Future Landscape of Sustainable Building Design With Climate Change Challenges?

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This review examines how artificial intelligence reshapes sustainable building design faced with climate change challenges. The authors synthesize existing studies to demonstrate AI's transformative potential across design lifecycle phases from climate‐aware form generation to performance optimization.
Pengyuan Shen, Xiaoni Gao, Shuai Lu, Yi Zhang, Xing Zheng, Matthaios Santamouris   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source