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What motivates West African cocoa farmers to value trees? Taking the 4 W approach to the heart of the field

People and Nature
West Africa, the largest cocoa‐producing region globally, has experienced significant deforestation in recent decades, leading countries to implement large‐scale agroforestry policies; however, most studies on farmers' adoption of agroforestry fail to ...
Marie Ruth Dago, Irié Casimir Zo‐Bi, Isaac Kouamé Konan, Aimé Kouadio Kouassi, Stéphane Guei, Patrick Jagoret, Anny Estelle N'Guessan, Elsa Sanial, Chloé Tankam, Soulemane Traoré, Bruno Hérault   +10 more
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Evidence-Based Behavioral Interventions to Improve the Double-Duty Actions Impacting the Dual Burden of Malnutrition: A Scoping Review. [PDF]

Food Sci Nutr
No scoping review summarizes evidence‐based behavioral interventions that improve double duty actions to prevent stunting and obesity. Inclusion criteria included articles from 2010 to 2024, behavioral interventions to improve breastfeeding, young child nutrition, and antenatal care, and were set in sub‐Saharan Africa or Asia.
Hearst MO, Weinfurter E, Norman L, Normile CA, Mekonnen H, Laska MN.   +5 more
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High intraspecific growth variability despite strong evolutionary legacy in an Amazonian forest

Ecology Letters, Volume 26, Issue 12, Page 2135-2146, December 2023., 2023
Based on 36 years of diameter surveys for 7961 trees of 138 species, we found the greatest variation in growth between individuals within the same species in an Amazonian forest, although taxonomy explained a third of the variation. Species growth was conserved up to the genus and predicted by root, wood and leaf traits.
Sylvain Schmitt, Bruno Hérault, Géraldine Derroire   +2 more
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Geographic, Taxonomic and Metric Gaps in Biodiversity Research Limit Evidence-Based Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes: An Umbrella Review. [PDF]

Ecol Lett
We systematically reviewed 200 meta‐analyses (gathering over 9000 primary studies) on the effects of agriculture on biodiversity in croplands. Our systematic map of secondary research highlights significant geographical and taxonomic gaps, uncovering an overfocus on simple biodiversity metrics and on individual agricultural practices rather than ...
Bonfanti J, Langridge J, Avadí A, Casajus N, Chaudhary A, Damour G, Estrada-Carmona N, Jones SK, Makowski D, Mitchell M, Seppelt R, Beillouin D.   +11 more
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Thresholds for persistent leaf photochemical damage predict plant drought resilience in a tropical rainforest

New Phytologist, Volume 239, Issue 2, Page 576-591, July 2023., 2023
Summary Water stress can cause declines in plant function that persist after rehydration. Recent work has defined ‘resilience’ traits characterizing leaf resistance to persistent damage from drought, but whether these traits predict resilience in whole‐plant function is unknown.
Claire Fortunel, Clément Stahl, Sabrina Coste, Camille Ziegler, Géraldine Derroire, Sébastien Levionnois, Isabelle Maréchaux, Damien Bonal, Bruno Hérault, Fabien H. Wagner, Lawren Sack, Jérôme Chave, Patrick Heuret, Steven Jansen, Grace John, Christine Scoffoni, Santiago Trueba, Megan K. Bartlett   +17 more
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Nutrient‐based species selection is a prevalent driver of community assembly and functional trait space in tropical forests

Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 6, Page 1218-1230, June 2023., 2023
Our results demonstrate that soil nutrient‐based species selection is a prevalent driver of community assembly in tropical forests, a process mediated by key functional traits within the leaf and wood economics spectrum. Functional space size and its filling increase with soil nutrient concentration, whereas niche vacancy decreases.
Guille Peguero, Fernando Coello, Jordi Sardans, Dolores Asensio, Oriol Grau, Joan Llusià, Romà Ogaya, Ifigenia Urbina, Leandro Van Langenhove, Lore T. Verryckt, Clément Stahl, Laëtitia Bréchet, Elodie A. Courtois, Jérôme Chave, Bruno Hérault, Ivan A. Janssens, Josep Peñuelas   +16 more
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Analysis of Land Use Change in the N'ZI Watershed of Côte d'Ivoire Using Landsat Satellite Images

Earth and Space Science, 2023
Uncontrolled population growth and strong industrialization are enormous pressures on natural resources. To monitor land use changes in the N'ZI watershed, remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) were used from three satellite images ...
K. L. Yao, K. E. Kouakou, A. M. Kouassi, A. J.‐P. Deguy, M. Camara   +4 more
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Multiplane Image Restoration Using Multivariate Curve Resolution: An Alternative Approach to Deconvolution in Conventional Brightfield Microscopy

Photonics, 2023
Three-dimensional reconstruction in brightfield microscopy is challenging since a 2D image includes from in-focus and out-of-focus light which removes the details of the specimen’s structures.
Sylvere Bienvenue Dion, Don Jean François Ulrich Agre, Akpa Marcel Agnero, Jérémie Thouakesseh Zoueu   +3 more
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Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness

Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 6, Page 1308-1326, June 2023., 2023
Collectively, these results demonstrate that evenness is an integral component of the relationship between biodiversity and productivity, and that the attenuating effect of richness on forest productivity might be partly explained by low evenness in speciose communities.
Iris Hordijk, Daniel S. Maynard, Simon P. Hart, Mo Lidong, Hans ter Steege, Jingjing Liang, Sergio de‐Miguel, Gert‐Jan Nabuurs, Peter B. Reich, Meinrad Abegg, C. Yves Adou Yao, Giorgio Alberti, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Braulio V. Alvarado, Alvarez‐Davila Esteban, Patricia Alvarez‐Loayza, Luciana F. Alves, Christian Ammer, Clara Antón‐Fernández, Alejandro Araujo‐Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Timothy Baker, Radomir Bałazy, Olaf Banki, Jorcely Barroso, Meredith L. Bastian, Jean‐Francois Bastin, Luca Birigazzi, Philippe Birnbaum, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Susanne Brandl, Roel Brienen, Eben N. Broadbent, Helge Bruelheide, Filippo Bussotti, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Ricardo G. César, Goran Cesljar, Robin Chazdon, Han Y. H. Chen, Chelsea Chisholm, Emil Cienciala, Connie J. Clark, David B. Clark, Gabriel Colletta, David Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Jose J. Corral‐Rivas, Philip Crim, Jonathan Cumming, Selvadurai Dayanandan, André L. de Gasper, Mathieu Decuyper, Géraldine Derroire, Ben DeVries, Ilija Djordjevic, Amaral Iêda, Aurélie Dourdain, Engone Obiang Nestor Laurier, Brian Enquist, Teresa Eyre, Adandé Belarmain Fandohan, Tom M. Fayle, Leandro V. Ferreira, Ted R. Feldpausch, Leena Finér, Markus Fischer, Christine Fletcher, Lorenzo Frizzera, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Damiano Gianelle, Henry B. Glick, David Harris, Andrew Hector, Andreas Hemp, Geerten Hengeveld, Bruno Hérault, John Herbohn, Annika Hillers, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Cang Hui, Hyunkook Cho, Thomas Ibanez, Il Bin Jung, Nobuo Imai, Andrzej M. Jagodzinski, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Vivian Johanssen, Carlos A. Joly, Tommaso Jucker, Viktor Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Elizabeth Kearsley, David Kenfack, Deborah Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer‐Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Timothy Killeen, Hyun Seok Kim, Kanehiro Kitayama, Michael Köhl, Henn Korjus, Florian Kraxner, Diana Laarmann, Mait Lang, Simon Lewis, Huicui Lu, Natalia Lukina, Brian Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Eric Marcon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon‐Junior, Andrew Robert Marshall, Emanuel Martin, Olga Martynenko, Jorge A. Meave, Omar Melo‐Cruz, Casimiro Mendoza, Cory Merow, Stanislaw Miscicki, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Vanessa Moreno, Sharif A. Mukul, Philip Mundhenk, Maria G. Nava‐Miranda, David Neill, Victor Neldner, Radovan Nevenic, Michael Ngugi, Pascal A. Niklaus, Jacek Oleksyn, Petr Ontikov, Edgar Ortiz‐Malavasi, Yude Pan, Alain Paquette, Alexander Parada‐Gutierrez, Elena Parfenova, Minjee Park, Marc Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo L. Peri, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, Nicolas Picard, Maria Teresa Piedade, Daniel Piotto, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Irina Polo, Lourens Poorter, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Zorayda Restrepo‐Correa, Mirco Rodeghiero, Samir Rolim, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Christian Salas‐Eljatib, Peter Schall, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Jochen Schöngart, Eric B. Searle, Vladimír Šebeň, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Douglas Sheil, Anatoly Shvidenko, Javier Silva‐Espejo, Marcos Silveira, James Singh, Plinio Sist, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonké, Alexandre F. Souza, Krzysztof Stereńczak, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Miroslav Svoboda, Ben Swanepoel, Natalia Targhetta, Nadja Tchebakova, Raquel Thomas, Elena Tikhonova, Peter Umunay, Vladimir Usoltsev, Renato Valencia, Fernando Valladares, Fons van der Plas, Do Van Tran, Michael E. Van Nuland, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Hans Verbeeck, Helder Viana, Alexander C. Vibrans, Simone Vieira, Klaus von Gadow, Hua‐Feng Wang, James Watson, Gijsbert D. A. Werner, Susan K. Wiser, Florian Wittmann, Verginia Wortel, Roderick Zagt, Tomasz Zawila‐Niedzwiecki, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Mo Zhou, Zhi‐Xin Zhu, Irie Casimir Zo‐Bi, Thomas W. Crowther   +220 more
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Evolution of shrinkage, real density, porosity, heat and mass transfer coefficients during indirect solar drying of cocoa beans

Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences, 2019
Drying is a main process of conservation used for cocoa beans and it is so essential to control its drying parameters. In this study, shrinkage, density, porosity, and heat and mass transfer coefficients of cocoa beans during indirect solar drying were ...
Blaise Kamenan Koua, Paul Magloire Ekoun Koffi, Prosper Gbaha   +2 more
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