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frameworks, challenges and gaps
Integrated Environmental Models (IEMs) incorporating ecosystem services (ES) can be useful tools to support the decision-making. However, their successful application strongly... -
A comparative analysis for selected civil law jurisdictions
Condominium is a special and relatively new type of property right emerged in the last century to be a remedy for the management problems in multi-unit buildings. There are many... -
Mainly a matter of cognitive lock-in?
Agroforestry (AF) is promoted as an environmentally sound farming practice to address the pressing challenges of meeting a rising global demand for agricultural commodities... -
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Capsule: The endangered Gran Canaria Blue Chaffinch Fringilla teydea polatzeki has been bred in captivity with the aim of reinforcing wild populations. We released and monitored... -
A meta-regression analysis
The considerable gap between urban and rural areas in China has been one of those social problems during the urbanization process. Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of... -
Managing the vanishing North American hunter: a novel framework to address de...
As long as the funding mechanism supporting state wildlife conservation relies heavily on hunter-generated funds, declines in hunter participation are a threat to the... -
Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management
Agroforestry and sustainable landscape management are key strategies for implementing the UN-Sustainable Development Goals across the world’s production landscapes. However,... -
Natural and anthropogenic causes of mortality in wild birds in a wildlife reh...
Capsule: A ten-year study of the causes of mortality in birds brought to a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Portugal, reveals that most deaths were due to trauma. Aims: This... -
Trade-offs among ecosystem services under different pinion harvesting intensi...
Assessing the consequences of human exploitation at different intensities on ecosystem services is important in the Brazilian Araucaria Forest biome, because it has been... -
Tropical forest-transition landscapes: a portfolio for studying people, tree ...
Nudging the development trajectory of tropical landscapes towards sustainability requires a global commitment and policies that take diverse contexts and forest transitions into... -
Does mapping improve public participation? Exploring the pros and cons of usi...
Abstract While participatory urban and regional planning have become a widely accepted approach to enhance the democratic aims of community and urban development, challenges... -
Nutrient optimization of tree growth alters structure and function of boreal ...
Abstract Nutrient optimization has been proposed as a way to increase boreal forest production, and involves chronic additions of liquid fertilizer with amounts of micro- and... -
Uses, toxicity levels, and environmental impacts of synthetic and natural pes...
Nowadays, pesticides are used pervasively in Asian rice production areas. Nonetheless, information is scarce regarding chemicals’ application and synergistic toxicity and... -
The Network of Knowledge approach: improving the science and society dialogue...
The absence of a good interface between scientific and other knowledge holders and decision-makers in the area of biodiversity and ecosystem services has been recognised for a... -
Do ecosystem service maps and models meet stakeholders’ needs? A preliminary ...
AbstractTo achieve sustainability goals, it is important to incorporate ecosystem service (ES) information into decision-making processes. However, little is known about the... -
Latitudinal, longitudinal and weather-related variation in breeding parameter...
Capsule Clutch initiation date decreased with longitude, clutch size increased with latitude and decreased with maximum temperature, whereas the number of fledglings increased... -
Seashell and debris ingestion by African penguins
African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) are pursuit-diving seabirds endemic to the coast of southern Africa. In this study, we investigate the presence of seashells and... -
An improved theoretical model of canopy gap probability for Leaf Area Index e...
Abstract This study presents an improved theoretical formulation of the gap probability (Pgap) model, typically applied to indirectly estimate LAI in woody ecosystems.... -
Identifying agents of change for sustainable land governance
Abstract Sustainable land governance in a telecoupled world is currently a challenge. Distant actors, institutions, and interactions shape local land uses and are assumed to... -
Ecosystem service responses to rewilding: first-order estimates from 27 years...
Rewilding as a conservation strategy is gaining increasing scientific, political and public attention, yet empirical evaluations of its impacts remain scarce, especially with...
