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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

Climate Adaptive Silviculture for the City: Practitioners and Researchers Co-create a Framework for Studying Urban Oak-Dominated Mixed Hardwood Forests

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Urban forested natural areas are an important component of the forest and tree canopy in northeastern United States urban areas. Although similar to native forests in surrounding regions in structure, composition, and function, these natural areas are ...
Max R. Piana, Richard A. Hallett, Michelle L. Johnson, Nancy F. Sonti, Leslie A. Brandt, Myla F. J. Aronson, Mark Ashton, Max Blaustein, David Bloniarz, Ashley A. Bowers, Megan E. Carr, Vince D’Amico, Laura Dewald, Heather Dionne, Danica A. Doroski, Robert T. Fahey, Helen Forgione, Todd Forrest, Jack Hale, Eric Hansen, Lisa Hayden, Sarah Hines, Jessica M. Hoch, Taro Ieataka, Susannah B. Lerman, Charles Murphy, Eliot Nagele, Keith Nislow, Dhan Parker, Clara C. Pregitzer, Luke Rhodes, Jessica Schuler, Alexander Sherman, Tara Trammell, Brittany M. Wienke, Thomas Witmer, Thomas Worthley, Ian Yesilonis   +37 more
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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

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

Tree Composition and Seedling Recruitment in Urban and Rural Forests [PDF]

, 2015
In 1993, Dr. Nancy Broshot randomly located 25 permanent study sites in Forest Park in Portland, Oregon to examine the effects of urbanization on forest health. Plant community structure was examined. In 2003, Dr. Broshot reexamined the plant communities
Fahy, Robin H., Hanson, Wes
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The forests of the Congo Basin : State of the forest 2010 [PDF]

, 2012
The 2010 State of the Forest report (SOF) benefited from financial support from the European Union, the United States, Germany, France and UNESCO. It represents the collaborative effort of over 100 individuals from a diversity of institutions and the ...
Bayol, Nicolas (ed.), Billand, Alain (ed.), De Marcken, Paya (ed.), De Wasseige, Carlos (ed.), Desclée, B. (ed.), Hiol Hiol, François (ed.), Mayaux, Philippe (ed.), Nasi, Robert (ed.)   +7 more
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Stump and Site Factor Analysis After Sanitary Logging of Bark Beetle-Infested Forests

South-East European Forestry
Coniferous forests cover 41% of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Norway spruce (Picea abies) being an ecologically and economically important species. Bark beetles, especially the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), pose a major threat, often ...
Naida Gadžo, Osman Mujezinović, Damir Prljača, Sabina Mahmutović, Milan Pernek, Kenan Zahirović, Sead Ivojević, Mirza Dautbašić   +7 more
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Anthropogenic effects on understorey vegetation in Myrtillus type urban forests in southern Finland

Silva Fennica, 2002
The growth of urban population in Finland has resulted in increased fragmentation of urban forests and consequently increased recreational pressure on these forests.
Malmivaara, Minna, Löfström, Irja, Vanha-Majamaa, Ilkka   +2 more
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Assessing urban forest effects and values, Casper's urban forest

, 2006
An analysis of trees in Casper, WY reveals that this city has about 123,000 trees with canopies that cover 8.9 percent of the area. The most common tree species are plains cottonwood, blue spruce, and American elm. The urban forest currently store about 37,000 tons of carbon valued at $689,000. In addition, these trees remove about 1,200 tons of carbon
David J. Nowak, Robert E., III Hoehn, Daniel E. Crane, Jack C. Stevens, Jeffrey T. Walton   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Brushfire [PDF]

, 2015
“Brushfire” concerns itself with how people use urban forests, from indecent exposure to poaching to teenage drinking party-bonfires that get out of control.
Gordon, Ariel
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