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Ṇitrogen footprint of Korean beef cattle farms: Scenarios toward more sustainable production
Nitrogen (N) lost during beef cattle production accompanies various environmental risks and has become a rising concern among agricultural...
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Random Frogs: using future climate and land-use scenarios to predict amphibian distribution change in the Upper Missouri River Basin
ContextClimate change and anthropogenic stressors have contributed to rapid declines in biodiversity worldwide, particularly for amphibians....
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Assessment of pollution state of Beira Lake in Sri Lanka using water quality index, trophic status, and principal component analysis
Beira Lake, in the heart of Colombo City in Sri Lanka, is a prominent landmark, serving a variety of important services such as flood control, and...
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An overview of the ecological roles of Mediterranean chondrichthyans through extinction scenarios
Fisheries, climate change, and habitat degradation are triggering the depletion of marine animal populations worldwide. The ecological impacts of the...
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Genetic regions determine tolerance to nitrogen deficiency in European elite bread wheats grown under contrasting nitrogen stress scenarios
Key messageClustering 24 environments in four contrasting nitrogen stress scenarios enabled the detection of genetic regions determining tolerance to...
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Air pollution in Venice and in its mainland: a first assessment of air quality control policies
This article provides, for the first time, direct information on the levels and trends of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter measured by a...
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Integrating ecosystem services, stakeholders’ perspective, and land-use scenarios to safeguard sustainability of the Mulberry-Dyke and Fish-Pond System
ContextOptimizing landscape patterns by considering ecosystem services and human well-being is crucial for landscape sustainability research. Such...
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Biomass partitioning of plants under soil pollution stress
Polluted sites are ubiquitous worldwide but how plant partition their biomass between different organs in this context is unclear. Here, we...
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Avoidance, confusion or solitude? Modelling how noise pollution affects whale migration
Many baleen whales are renowned for their acoustic communication. Under pristine conditions, this communication can plausibly occur across hundreds...
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Predictions of current and potential global invasion risk in populations of lionfish (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles) under climate change scenarios
Populations of lionfish ( Pterois volitans Linnaeus, 1758; Pterois miles Bennett, 1828) have expanded in the western Atlantic Ocean and the...
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Cleaner seas: reducing marine pollution
In the age of the Anthropocene, the ocean has typically been viewed as a sink for pollution. Pollution is varied, ranging from human-made plastics...
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Projected biodiversity in the Hyrcanian Mountain Forest of Iran: an investigation based on two climate scenarios
An important principle of forest management worldwide is the sustained conservancy of regional biodiversity. The aim of this study was to investigate...
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Deforestation scenarios show the importance of secondary forest for meeting Panama’s carbon goals
ContextTropical forest loss has a major impact on climate change. Secondary forest growth has potential to mitigate these impacts, but uncertainty...
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The environmental performance of different pork production scenarios: a life cycle assessment study
In order to evaluate the environmental performance generated by a “semi-technified” pig farm, as well as the comparison of different pig production...
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Natural Hazards as a Source of Environmental Pollution in the Global South
Natural Hazards (NHs) are characterized as clusters of events that have a detrimental effect on ecosystems and the surrounding environment. Several...
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Nitrogen pollution promotes changes in the niche space of fish communities
Historically, anthropogenic fixed nitrogen has been purposely increased to benefit food production and global development. One consequence of this...
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Problems of Increasing Air Pollution and Certain Management Strategies
Man cannot survive without fresh air, it becomes our bitter enemy as and when it gets polluted, since it causes a number of diseases in our body. The...
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Ecosystem Services and Their Future Scenarios Centering on Mangrove Ecosystem in Ishigaki Island, Japan
This chapter contributes to a comprehensive understanding of the island socio-ecological system by a synthesis of the state and trend of, and the...
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Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases Emissions: Implications in Food Production and Food Security
Future food production is highly vulnerable to climate change with implications for global food security. This effect is exacerbated by air pollution...
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Leveraging Multi-target Strategies to Address Plastic Pollution in the Context of an Already Stressed Ocean
The ocean is the ultimate sink for anthropogenic pollution. According to the HydroSHED model, over 80% of the land mass on Earth is in a watershed...