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Effects of intraguild predation and cannibalism in two generalist phytoseiid species on prey density of the pink citrus rust mite in the presence of high-quality food
Intraguild predation (IGP) and cannibalism influence the effectiveness of biological control with generalist predators. In Japanese citrus orchards,...
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Weather and food availability additively affect reproductive output in an expanding raptor population
The joint effects of interacting environmental factors on key demographic parameters can exacerbate or mitigate the separate factors’ effects on...
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Effects of the invasive aquatic snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1853) on ecosystem properties and services
Ecosystems provide benefits to humans, including provisioning, regulating, and cultural services. However, invasive species can threaten ecosystem...
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Biotin provisioning by horizontally transferred genes from bacteria confers animal fitness benefits
Insect symbionts are widespread in nature and lateral gene transfer is prevalent in insect symbiosis. However, the function of horizontally...
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Institutional Governance Tensions of Food Movements in Toronto and Brussels
This chapter focuses on institutional governance tensions as triggers for the growth and development pathways of the food movements in Toronto and...
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Agricultural seasonality, market access, and food security in Sierra Leone
Seasonal variations in agriculture is a major contributor to undernutrition in many agrarian economies. While recent studies have highlighted the...
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The role of food transfers in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia): Support for the informational and nutritional hypothesis
Callitrichidae is a unique primate family not only in terms of the large number of food transfers to infants but also for the prevalence of transfers...
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Restoring tropical coastal wetland water quality: ecosystem service provisioning by a native freshwater bivalve
Freshwater bivalves can influence water quality by reducing phytoplankton levels through filter-feeding and altering nutrient levels through...
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Food Security: A Pathway Towards Improved Nutrition and Biodiversity Conservation
Food is required by all living things without which life processes will be on halt. Food security defined by the United Nations’ Committee on World...
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Provisioning Ecosystems Services
Chapter provides the analysis and assessment of five provisioning ES – P1 Biomass: Agricultural crops; P2 Biomass: Timber and fibre; P3 Drinking...
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Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies and Food Security: Experiences from Zimbabwe
The reliance of African smallholder farmers on rain-fed agriculture exposes farmers to the deleterious effects of climate change. Climate change has...
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Twinning in wild, endangered lion-tailed macaques Macaca silenus in the Anamalai Hills of the Western Ghats, India
Many primate species show various behavioural and ecological adaptations to provisioning, one of which is the unusual occurrence of twins. Here, we...
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Home sweet home: Comparison of epibiont assemblages associated with cultivated and wild sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima), co-cultivated blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) and farm infrastructure
Seaweed farming is expanding in Europe and may provide environmental benefits similar to those from natural kelp forests and shellfish farms,...
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Forest Pathology in Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem services are processes in which the environment supplies benefits to humans and are classified into four major categories, including...
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Ecosystem services provided by freshwater macrophytes
Macrophytes are considered key components of aquatic ecosystems and they also provide multiple benefits for humans. In this review, I identified and...
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Homegarden diversity and food security in southern Mexico
Home gardens are recognised in the literature for their contribution to food security, yet the process by which agrobiodiversity and household...
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Effects of meteorological conditions on brood care in cooperatively breeding carrion crow and consequences on reproductive success
Meteorological stressors (e.g., temperature and rain shortage) constrain brood provisioning in some bird species, but the consequences on...
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Ecosystem services provided by fungi in freshwaters: a wake-up call
The set of functions and resources derived from ecosystems are broadly described as ecosystem services. Human society is gratified by a diverse range...
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How do ecosystem services evolve across urban–rural transitional landscapes of Bei**g–Tian**–Hebei region in China: patterns, trade-offs, and drivers
ContextUrbanization process has greatly changed urban–rural landscape patterns and the ecosystem services (ESs) they provide. Understanding how ESs...
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Impacts of the 2011 Disaster on Food–Energy–Water Material Flows and Resource Use Efficiency in Yokohama City
With Yokohama City as the study area, this chapter uses input–output analysis to study impacts of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster on...