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ecosystemmanagement, etc ; biodiversity; ecosystems; models; stakeholders; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Urban biodiversity is now recognized as playing a critical role in supporting global biodiversity. However, it is important to note that biodiversity is a systematic and holistic concept and prior studies have not generally focused on cross-border or multi-scale management problems. On one hand, the ecosystems of cities are interconnected with adjacent cities by natural landscapes, so they are lik ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; Protozoa; biofilm; botany; epiphytes; freshwater; macrophytes; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Epiphytic biofilm is an important component in freshwater ecosystems and is one of the main primary producers in shallow freshwater ecosystems. The epiphytic biofilm is comprised of an autotrophic community made up of diatoms, green algae, and cyanobacteria, and a heterotrophic community consisting of bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and other microorganisms. Macrophytes are the host domain for epiphyti ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; environmental health; humans; models; mountains; population density; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... A deeper understanding of the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of ecosystem health and its driving mechanism are important for ecosystem management and restoration. Under the complex environment in the southwestern mountainous area of China, various natural and anthropogenic factors interact with each other, complicating the mechanism driving ecosystem health. Quantitatively exploring the ...
Herman Hummel; Valerie Kalle; Louise Bienfait; Yolande Boyer; Marco Heurich; Juraj Svajda; Mihai Adamescu; Constantin Cazacu; Félix Manuel Medina; Rasa Morkūnė; Arturas Razinkovas-Baziukas; Dimitris Poursanidis; Orhideja Tasevska; Ajman Al Malla; Ana Stritih; Christian Rossi; Salvador Arenas-Castro; Claudia Carvalho-Santos; Izak P.J. Smit; Emiliana Valentini; Alessandra Nguyen Xuan; Daniel Orenstein; Antonello Provenzale; Rutger de Wit; Christiaan Hummel
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; conservation areas; ecosystems; environmental factors; issues and policy; socioeconomics; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Assessing the environmental status of Protected Areas (PAs) is a challenging issue. To indicate that status, the identification of a common set of variables that are scientifically sound, and easy to assess and monitor by the PA practitioners, is particularly important. In this study, a set of 27 Essential Variables (EVs) for PA management was selected in a bottom-up process from 67 harmonised var ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; case studies; ecosystems; eutrophication; lakes; macrophytes; water; watersheds; China; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Critical transitions between ecosystem states can be triggered by relatively small external forces or internal perturbations and may show time-lagged or hysteretic recovery. Understanding the precise mechanisms of a transition is important for ecosystem management, but it is hampered by a lack of information about the preceding interactions and associated feedback between different components in a ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; applied ecology; bycatch; economic performance; environmental impact; models; socioeconomics; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Ecosystem‐based fisheries management aims to ensure ecologically sustainable fishing while maximising socio‐economic benefits. Achieving this goal for mixed fisheries requires better understanding of the effects of competing fishing fleets on shared resources and economic performance. Proposed management strategies that promote either specialisation or diversification of catches may result in unin ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; algorithms; ecosystems; marshes; river deltas; sustainable development; Yellow River; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services (ESs) is important for ecosystem management and sustainable development. However, most studies used synergies and trade-offs to infer ESs relationships, while ESs bundles was infrequently involved. Research on the spatiotemporal dynamics and potential drivers of changes of ESs bundles is still lacking. In this study, we quantified and mapp ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; COVID-19 infection; animal welfare; humans; pandemic; wild animals; wildlife; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The COVID-19 crisis remains an international health disaster with serious impacts on health and business. As countries asked, and continue to ask, their human populations to stay at home to limit the spread of coronavirus, wild animals have been spotted exploring the empty streets of some of the world’s largest urban areas.E This period of unusually reduced human mobility can provide invaluable in ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; desertification; latitude; population growth; regression analysis; temporal variation; vegetation; China; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Xinjiang, northwestern China, has the largest area of sandy desert landscapes in the northern hemisphere mid-latitudes and is known to be subject to so-called sandy desertification. Longer-term records of changes in the distribution of sandy desert landscapes are required to develop a more comprehensive understanding of mechanisms underlying their spatial and temporal dynamics. Here, we integrate ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; decision making; ecological resilience; politics; stakeholders; terminology; wildlife management; Canada; Mexico; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Globally, ecosystem structure and function have been degraded by the cumulative effects (CE) of multiple stressors. To maintain ecosystem resilience, there is an urgent need to better account for CE in management decision‐making at various scales. Current laws and regulations are supported by a multitude of frameworks and strategies that vary in application and terminology use across management ag ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; ecological restoration; environmental health; landscapes; mountains; pollution; research; traffic; China; Yangtze River; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Anthropogenic activities have reshaped the structure and function of ecosystems in global urban agglomerations. Evaluating the spatiotemporal features of ecosystem health for sustainable and high-quality development and the strategic deployment of ecological civilisation in urban agglomerations is essential. However, existing research lacks a multi-scale assessment of ecosystem health in urban agg ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; climate change; decision making; energy; issues and policy; stakeholders; tourism; wildlife management; Show all 8 Subjects
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... This editorial introduces the Special Issue on the role and use of discrete choice modelling in informing environmental and energy decision making and summarises the main insights provided. The papers collected in this Special Issue address a range of applications of discrete choice modelling, from energy decisions to climate change and transport choices, from tourism preferences for climate chang ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; condensation reactions; pollution; research; river deltas; rivers; urban areas; urbanization; China; Yangtze River; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Exploring the changes in ecological networks (ENs), its eco-environment effects and the differences in urban agglomerations in various urbanization stages are important for achieving sustainable ecosystem management and a better layout of ecological network. In this study, China’s three typical urbanization agglomerations, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration (BTH), Yangtze River Delta urban ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; conservation areas; credit; diagnostic techniques; ecosystems; environmental management; land policy; markets; national parks; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Maintaining community resource use and securing ecosystem services for the public is a major issue in protected area management. This research developed an institutional diagnostic tool for community resource use based on the theories of “Common-Pool Resources”, “Environment Entitlement” and “Socio-ecological System”. This tool is maturing and tested in the Wuyishan National Park through a knowled ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; climate; data collection; freshwater; geographical distribution; lotic systems; macroinvertebrates; model validation; rivers; variance; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Lotic freshwater macroinvertebrate species distribution models (SDMs) have been shown to improve when hydrological variables are included. However, most studies to date only include data describing climate or stream flow-related surrogates. We assessed the relative influence of climatic and hydrological predictor variables on the modelled distribution of macroinvertebrates, expecting model perform ...
... Ecotourism, as a cultural ecosystem service, is an essential part of rural economic growth. Developing feasible methods and indicators for ecotourism values is vital to exploring the interactions between public preferences and ecosystems, thus providing information for sustainable ecosystem management. However, forest ecotourism value assessments at the regional scale still lack scientific framewo ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; Japan; basins; control methods; developmental stages; drawdown; ecosystems; environment; lakes; observational studies; summer; water quality; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Although long-term ecosystem monitoring provides essential knowledge for practicing ecosystem management, analyses of the causal effects of ecological impacts from large-scale observational data are still in an early stage of development. We used causal impact analysis (CIA)—a synthetic control method that enables estimation of causal impacts from unrepeated, long-term observational data—to evalua ...
ecosystemmanagement, etc ; ataxia (disorder); decision making; ecosystem services; ecosystems; issues and policy; models; society; vegetation cover; China; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Accurate spatio-temporalquantifying of ecosystem services (ESs) supply and social demand and their coordination dynamics, and determining which factors affect such coordination and the spatial distribution patterns of these effects, is essential to guide targeted ecosystem management decisions. Unfortunately, quantitative data demonstrating the explicit spatial relationships between the biophysica ...
... The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is an ecologically fragile region that is sensitive to climate change. It has a strong influence on the East Asian atmospheric circulation. The vegetation of the TP has experienced changes in its range and abundance, mainly due to global warming. This study provides an in-depth and updated analysis of vegetation change and examines the influence of climate change on the ch ...
... Fisheries ecosystem-based management is an important tool for sustainable harvesting of fisheries worldwide. Knowledge of trophic interactions is crucial since changes in trophic balances can induce severe changes in the structure of marine communities. While advocated for deep-sea fisheries, a lack of studies in the benthopelagic area persist. The Antarctic toothfish, Dissostichus mawsoni, is a t ...