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Seawater intrusion is a growing pressure in coastal communities worldwide, putting millions of people at risk of excess salinity in drinking water. This study examines the impact of saline water on people's he...
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Collaborative Research Across Boundaries: Mangrove Ecosystem Services and Poverty Traps as a Coupled Natural-Human System
Mangrove wetlands are one of the most threatened ecosystems in coastal zones, and are being degraded globally at a high rate due to human activities. Impoverished and vulnerable populations living in rural coa...
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Anthropogenic Drivers of Mangrove Loss: Geographic Patterns and Implications for Livelihoods
National and global mangrove monitoring efforts provide an invaluable picture of changes to these dynamic and valuable ecosystems, the global threats they face, and the outcomes of recovery efforts. However, m...
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Motion is an essential process for many living organisms and for artificial robots and machines. To date, creating self-propelled motion in nano-to-macroscopic-sized objects has been a challenging issue for sc...
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Establishment of the DNA Repair-Defective Mutants in DT40 Cells
The chicken B cell line DT40 has been widely used as a model system for reverse genetics studies in higher eukaryotes, because of its advantages including efficient gene targeting and ease of chromosome manipu...
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Do Trees Grow with the Economy? A Spatial Analysis of the Determinants of Forest Cover Change in Sichuan, China
This paper aims to identify the relationship between economic growth and forest cover change in Sichuan, China. Using a set of panel land use data based on Landsat TM/ETM digital images, we show that during th...
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Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services with Dual Goals of Environment and Poverty Alleviation
The goal of this article is to understand strategies by which both the environmental and poverty alleviation objectives of PES programs can be achieved cost effectively. To meet this goal, we first create a co...
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Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain for Green Program on Rural Households in China
This study evaluates the labor response of rural households participating in the Grain for Green program in China, the largest payments for ecosystem services program in the develo** world. Using a panel data s...
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