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David G. Angeler
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Open AccessTime series of freshwater macroinvertebrate abundances and site characteristics of European streams and rivers
Freshwater macroinvertebrates are a diverse group and play key ecological roles, including accelerating nutrient cycling, filtering water, controlling primary producers, and providing food for predators. Their...
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Open AccessParallels of quantum superposition in ecological models: from counterintuitive patterns to eco-evolutionary interpretations of cryptic species
Superposition, i.e. the ability of a particle (electron, photon) to occur in different states or positions simultaneously, is a hallmark in the subatomic world of quantum mechanics. Although counterintuitive a...
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Open AccessNavigating the multiple dimensions of the creativity-mental disorder link: a Convergence Mental Health perspective
This paper discusses a paradox in mental health. It manifests as a relationship between adverse “bad” effects (suffering, clinical costs, loss of productivity) in individuals and populations and advantageous “...
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Open AccessThe recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt
Owing to a long history of anthropogenic pressures, freshwater ecosystems are among the most vulnerable to biodiversity loss1. Mitigation measures, including wastewater treatment and hydromorphological restoratio...
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Panarchy theory for convergence
Co** with surprise and uncertainty resulting from the emergence of undesired and unexpected novelty or the sudden reorganization of systems at multiple spatiotemporal scales requires both a scientific proces...
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Open AccessPartitioning spatial, environmental, and community drivers of ecosystem functioning
Community composition, environmental variation, and spatial structuring can influence ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem service delivery. While the role of space in regulating ecosystem functioning is well ...
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Open AccessResilience in Environmental Risk and Impact Assessment: Concepts and Measurement
Different resilience concepts have different assumptions about system dynamics, which has implications for resilience-based environmental risk and impact assessment. Engineering resilience (recovery) dominates...
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Open AccessResilience concepts in psychiatry demonstrated with bipolar disorder
The term resilience describes stress–response patterns of subjects across scientific disciplines. In ecology, advances have been made to clearly distinguish resilience definitions based on underlying mechanist...
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Open AccessHeavy metal music meets complexity and sustainability science
This paper builds a bridge between heavy metal music, complexity theory and sustainability science to show the potential of the (auditory) arts to inform different aspects of complex systems of people and natu...
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Open AccessPanarchy use in environmental science for risk and resilience planning
Environmental sciences have an important role in informing sustainable management of built environments by providing insights about the drivers and potentially negative impacts of global environmental change. ...
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Open AccessViewing biodiversity through the lens of science…and art!
With global environmental sustainability at the crossroads, approaches are needed to build an ecologically literate culture for collective societal navigation through the intricacies of swift environmental cha...
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Open AccessAssessing and managing freshwater ecosystems vulnerable to environmental change
Freshwater ecosystems are important for global biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem services. There is consensus in the scientific literature that freshwater ecosystems are vulnerable to the impacts of...
