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Software Ecosystems for Precision Agriculture
Software ecosystems play a critical role in enabling the development and deployment of precision agriculture solutions. In this entry, we define...
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Restoration and Governance Approaches of Mangrove Ecosystems in Africa
The management of mangrove ecosystems faced to serious problem while these ecosystems are among the world’s richest ecosystems and provide a wealth...
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Key questions for understanding drivers of biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships across spatial scales
ContextBiodiversity loss is predicted to have significant impacts on ecosystem services based on previous ecological work at small spatial and...
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A Spatial Database of Ecosystems of the Lake Baikal Basin
AbstractA database, including a map layer of ecosystems of the Lake Baikal basin, has been compiled at a scale of 1 : 500 000. The area is divided...
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Ecosystem services provided by river-floodplain ecosystems
River-floodplain ecosystems (RFEs) provide multiple ecosystem services. However, their importance may be underestimated because they are not...
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Terrestrial Habitats and Ecosystems of Kuwait
The habitat refers to a broad variety of resources, including biotic and abiotic elements supporting a particular species’ ability to survive and...
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Chilean long-term Socio-Ecological Research Network: progresses and challenges towards improving stewardship of unique ecosystems
Ecosystems provide a variety of benefits to human society and humanity’s utilization of ecosystems affects their composition, structure, and...
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Mangrove Ecosystems and Their Services
An ecosystem is a dynamic community consisting of biotic (microorganisms, plants and animals) and abiotic components (water, air and soil), each...
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Communities and Ecosystems
Traditionally, communities are defined as the totality of all populations interacting in a joint habitat, i.e. living space. The term ecosystem...
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Insects in Grassland Ecosystems
Insects serve as ecosystem engineers in grasslands. Their impacts are comparable in scale to those of mammals, but because they are so much smaller,...
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Resilience of breadfruit agro-ecosystems in Hawaiʻi during the COVID-19 pandemic
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic is interrupting domestic and global food supply chains resulting in reduced access to healthy diverse diets. Hawaiʻi...
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Search for Novel Halophilic and Halotolerant Producers of Antimicrobial Compounds in Various Extreme Ecosystems
Abstract —The recent increase of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microorganisms stimulated interest in the search for new antimicrobial compounds...
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Sarcoma microenvironment cell states and ecosystems are associated with prognosis and predict response to immunotherapy
Characterization of the diverse malignant and stromal cell states that make up soft tissue sarcomas and their correlation with patient outcomes has...
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Ecohydrological Gradient in Neotropical Montane Ecosystems: From Tropical Montane Forests to Glacier
Neotropical montane ecosystems are diverse and complex, ranging from glaciers, on top of highest mountains (above 4500 masl), with no vegetation at...
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Functional homogenization in aquatic ecosystems: a review and framework proposal
Functional homogenization can be defined as a simplification of functional communities or species traits over time. The purpose of this review was to...
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The footprint of large wildfires on the multifunctionality of fire-prone pine ecosystems is driven by the interaction of fire regime attributes
BackgroundMediterranean ecosystems dominated by Pinus pinaster Ait. (maritime pine) are subject to a shift from fuel-limited to drought-driven fire...
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Service-learning to improve training, knowledge transfer, and awareness in forest fire management
BackgroundForest fires represent a severe threat to Mediterranean ecosystems and are considered one of the major environmental and socioeconomic...
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Contribution of silica-scaled chrysophytes to ecosystems services: a review
Silica-scaled chrysophytes are a unique group of protists representing a major component of numerous aquatic habitats where they can significantly...
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The effects of land-based change on coastal ecosystems
The rapid increase in coastal urbanization profoundly impacts various environmental components and significantly transforms coastal ecosystems to the...
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Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of Cuba
This chapter reviews the current knowledge regarding Cuba’s mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs). The first studies of MCEs in Cuba were conducted by...