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Open AccessThe neglected role of abandoned cropland in supporting both food security and climate change mitigation
Despite the looming land scarcity for agriculture, cropland abandonment is widespread globally. Abandoned cropland can be reused to support food security and climate change mitigation. Here, we investigate the...
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Author Correction: Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii
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Open AccessClimate co-benefits of tiger conservation
Biodiversity conservation is increasingly being recognized as an important co-benefit in climate change mitigation programmes that use nature-based climate solutions. However, the climate co-benefits of biodiv...
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Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii
Coral reefs are popular for their vibrant biodiversity. By combining web-scraped Instagram data from tourists and high-resolution live coral cover maps in Hawaii, we find that, regionally, coral reefs both att...
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Evaluation of hydraulic conductivity of gap-graded granular soils based on equivalent void ratio concept
Gap-graded granular soils are used as construction materials worldwide, and their hydraulic conductivity depends on their relative content of coarse and fine grains, initial conditions, and particle shape. In ...
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Open AccessCo-benefits of forest carbon projects in Southeast Asia
Forest carbon projects can deliver multiple benefits to society. Within Southeast Asia, 58% of forests threatened by loss could be protected as financially viable carbon projects, which would avoid 835 MtCO2e of ...
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Threats to land and environmental defenders in nature’s last strongholds
Land and environmental defenders are a major bulwark against environmental destruction and biodiversity loss resulting from unsustainable nature resource extraction. Resultant conflicts can lead to violence ag...
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Anthropogenic water conditions amplify predatory impact of the non-native Oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense
Investigating non-native species’ impacts on recipient communities in the context of local habitat conditions is vital to understanding their potential invasiveness. This study used comparative functional resp...
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Open AccessCarbon prospecting in tropical forests for climate change mitigation
Carbon finance projects that protect tropical forests could support both nature conservation and climate change mitigation goals. Global demand for nature-based carbon credits is outpacing their supply, due pa...
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Environmental destruction not avoided with the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were designed to reconcile environmental protection with socioeconomic development. Here, we compare SDG indicators to a suite of external measures, showing that while ...
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Economic and social constraints on reforestation for climate mitigation in Southeast Asia
As climate change continues to threaten human and natural systems, the search for cost-effective and practical mitigation solutions is gaining momentum. Reforestation has recently been identified as a promisin...
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Open AccessA global review and meta-analysis of applications of the freshwater Fish Invasiveness Screening Kit
The freshwater Fish Invasiveness Screening Kit (FISK) has been applied in 35 risk assessment areas in 45 countries across the six inhabited continents (11 applications using FISK v1; 25 using FISK v2). The pre...
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Competition between a native freshwater crab and an invasive crayfish in tropical Southeast Asia
The freshwater crayfish, Cherax quadricarinatus, has been introduced across many tropical regions globally. This popular aquarium and aquaculture species, similar to many other non-native crayfish, is widely esta...
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Open AccessClinical application of the pedicle in vitro restorer in percutaneous kyphoplasty
Percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) is widely applied for the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs) and has achieved satisfactory clinical results. With the accumulation of clinical case...
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Synthesis and properties of novel stilbene-twelve alkyl quaternary ammonium salts as antibacterial optical whitening agents
Four novel stilbene-twelve alkyl quaternary ammonium salts 5a–d were synthesized. All synthesized compounds were characterized by FT-IR, 1H-NMR and elemental analysis. Compounds 5a–d showed efficient whitening ef...
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Disregarding human pre-introduction selection can confound invasive crayfish risk assessments
Trait-based risk assessments of invasive species focus on identifying intrinsic biological or ecological traits associated with invasion success, which allows for a new species’ invasion risk to be assessed a ...
