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ecosystems, etc ; catalytic activity; financial economics; human health; magnetism; nanocatalysts; oxidation; ozonation; ozone; wastewater; wastewater treatment; China; Show all 12 Subjects
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... With the continuous development of nanomaterials in recent years, the application of nanocatalysts in catalytic ozone oxidation has attracted more and more researchers' attention due to their excellent catalytic properties. In this review, we systematically summarized the current research status of nanocatalysts mainly involving material categories, mechanisms and catalytic efficiency. Based on su ...
terrestrial ecosystems, etc ; COVID-19 infection; carbon dioxide; greenhouse gases; river deltas; temporal variation; China; Yangtze River; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The temporal variation of greenhouse gas concentrations in China during the COVID-19 lockdown in China is analyzed in this work using high resolution measurements of near surface △CO₂, △CH₄ and △CO concentrations above the background conditions at Lin'an station (LAN), a regional background station in the Yangtze River Delta region. During the pre-lockdown observational period (IOP-1), both △CO₂ a ...
ecosystems, etc ; adsorbents; adsorption; chromium; formic acid; heavy metals; human health; pH; pollution; porosity; surface area; toxicity; wastewater; water quality; China; Show all 15 Subjects
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... Zr-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been developed in recent years to treat heavy metals, e.g. hexavalent chromium Cr⁶⁺ pollution, which damages the surrounding ecosystem and threaten human health. This kind of MOF is stable and convenient to prepare, but has the disadvantage of low adsorption capacity, limiting its wide application. To this end, a novel formic acid and amino modified MO ...
... Biological behaviour‐driven self‐organized patterns have recently been confirmed to play a key role in ecosystem functioning. Here, we develop a theoretical phase‐separation model to describe spatiotemporal self‐similar dynamics, which is a consequence of behaviour‐driven trophic interactions in short‐time scales. Our framework integrates scale‐dependent feedback and density‐dependent movement int ...
... LEGO® is a brand of toys that have entertained generations of children. Beyond amusement, LEGO® bricks also constitute a building ecosystem of their own that creators from the general public, as well as scientists and engineers, can use to design and assemble devices for all purposes, including scientific research and biotechnology. We describe several of these constructions to highlight the const ...
Maria Kristina O. Paler; Ian Dominic F. Tabañag; Francis Dave C. Siacor; Paul John L. Geraldino; Mark Edward M. Walton; Christian Dunn; Martin W. Skov; Jan G. Hiddink; Evelyn B. Taboada
mangrove ecosystems; marine ecosystems, etc ; Philippines; coasts; education; environment; infrastructure; issues and policy; pollution; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The Philippines is identified as one of the major marine plastic litter polluters in the world with a discharge of approximately 0.75 million tons of marine plastic debris per year. However, the extent of the plastic problem is yet to be defined systematically because of limited research. Thus, this study aims to quantify plastic litter occurrence in mangrove areas as they function as sinks for pl ...
... Social media platforms represent a potentially cost-effective solution to obtaining stated preference data. We use data from a representative sample and a sample of convenience to investigate how willingness to pay (WTP) for increased cultural (recreational) use of an ecologically unique site differs across the two groups. We find mixed evidence of differences in WTP estimates between the two samp ...
María R. Felipe-Lucia; Angela M. Guerrero; Steven M. Alexander; Jaime Ashander; Jacopo A. Baggio; Michele L. Barnes; Örjan Bodin; Aletta Bonn; Marie-Josée Fortin; Rachel S. Friedman; Jessica A. Gephart; Kate J. Helmstedt; Aislyn A. Keyes; Kailin Kroetz; François Massol; Michael J.O. Pocock; Jesse Sayles; Ross M. Thompson; Spencer A. Wood; Laura E. Dee
... Social–ecological networks (SENs) represent the complex relationships between ecological and social systems and are a useful tool for analyzing and managing ecosystem services. However, mainstreaming the application of SENs in ecosystem service research has been hindered by a lack of clarity about how to match research questions to ecosystem service conceptualizations in SEN (i.e., as nodes, links ...
... Setting appropriate reference conditions (RCs) is critical for classifying the Ecological Quality Status (EcoQS) which is extremely challenging, considering the present-day estuaries. The EcoQS of three tropical estuaries was assessed by applying five different RCs to identify the best applicable method for the area. The AZTI's indices (AMBI and M-AMBI) categorised areas with sharper pollution gra ...
... Understanding and quantifying ES flows is essential for the sustainable management of social-ecological systems, as it directly captures the human-nature interactions within the system and not solely its individual elements. Especially in degrading marine systems, most ES assessments focus solely on either biophysical or socio-economic elements of these social-ecological systems, failing to direct ...
... Despite the relevance of ecosystem services (ES) to society and modern ecological research, current methods of measurement and mapping remain inconsistent and often lack primary data in estimating and modeling ES. A key player in our understanding of ES and their measurements are plant functional traits—chemical and physical aspects of plants—which are often cited as one of the drivers of ecosyste ...
... Inevitable environmental changes empower the researchers to understand and analyze the plant traits for improving the ecosystem. Solar-induced fluorescence (SIF) is one of the functional traits to analyze the vegetation and assess plant phenotyping. Estimation of SIF through hyperspectral imaging technique gaining its popularity in the recent days than any other estimating techniques due to its co ...
... The stability of ecological system is inseparable from the self-healing ability of population. Therefore, exploring the self-healing of population after disturbance is of great significance to deeply understand the ecological stability. By constructing a pair approximation model, the special explicit dynamics of one population on disturbance is studied in this paper. In which, dynamic disturbance ...
... Ecological network (EN) resilience is important for the integrity and connectivity of ecosystems. However, most of the current studies have conducted resilience assessment studies on abstract complex ENs composed of points and lines, ignoring the fact that ENs are landscape entities with considerable spatial range and landscape characteristics in ecosystems. In this study, taking the Shandong Peni ...
Maren Wellenreuther; Rachael Y Dudaniec; Anika Neu; Jean-Philippe Lessard; Jon Bridle; José A Carbonell; Sarah E Diamond; Katie E Marshall; Camille Parmesan; Michael C Singer; Janne Swaegers; Chris D Thomas; Lesley T Lancaster
... Evolutionary change impacts the rate at which insect pests, pollinators, or disease vectors expand or contract their geographic ranges. Although evolutionary changes, and their ecological feedbacks, strongly affect these risks and associated ecological and economic consequences, they are often underappreciated in management efforts. Greater rigor and scope in study design, coupled with innovative ...
... Ecosystems are linked through spatial flows of organisms and nutrients that impact their biodiversity and regulation. Theory has predominantly studied passive nutrient flows that occur independently of organism movement. Mobile organisms, however, commonly drive nutrient flows across ecosystems through nutrient recycling. Using a meta‐ecosystem model where consumers move between ecosystems, we stu ...
soil ecosystems; terrestrial ecosystems, etc ; DNA barcoding; autotrophs; detritus; energy flow; fungi; global change; herbivores; predation; soil; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Soil ecosystems are both particularly important to humans and vulnerable to human‐made global change. Here, we identify some key aspects of soil community and ecosystem research that need to be more widely studied to understand soil responses to global change and enable us to efficiently protect them. This perspective integrates multiple taxa and trophic levels, combines structural community varia ...
... The European Programme Copernicus, one of the principal sources of free and open Earth Observation (EO) data, intends to sustain social and economic advancements to the European Union. To this end, User Uptake initiatives have been undertaken to increase Copernicus awareness, dissemination, and competencies, thus supporting the development of downstream applications. As part of the activities perf ...
... Molecular hydrogen (H₂) is available in trace amounts in most ecosystems through atmospheric, biological, geochemical, and anthropogenic sources. Aerobic bacteria use this energy-dense gas, including at atmospheric concentrations, to support respiration and carbon fixation. While it was thought that aerobic H₂ consumers are rare community members, here we summarize evidence suggesting that they ar ...