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Restoration Genetics – A Consideration of Lessons and Opportunities
Genetics has provided key insights for improving ecological restoration outcomes over several decades. It is now well established that low genetic...
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Using Plant Functional Traits to Inform Wetland Restoration
Plant functional trait frameworks have been increasingly used to understand plant community dynamics, linkages between plants and ecosystem function,...
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Temperate Forest Restoration
Eight thousand years ago, temperate and boreal forests covered 3200 million hectares, or a quarter of the earth’s land surface. They have been...
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Landscape Genetics in the Neotropics
Landscape genetics is an interdisciplinary field that aims at assessing the influence of environmental and landscape factors on microevolutionary...
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Genetic Diversity in Peatland Restoration: A Case of Jelutung
The target of the Indonesian government was to restore at least 2 million ha of degraded peatlands by 2020. This can be achieved by applying three...
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Population Genetics of Cuba’s Scleractinian Corals
Cuba’s coasts support a large area of diverse and relatively healthy coral communities that are centrally located at the interface of the northern...
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Genetics
Genetic research on insect natural enemies was, until relatively recently, rare and was essentially limited to parasitoid wasps and some coccinellid...
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Milestones in Biology, Genetics, and Breeding of Pearl Millet
Pearl millet is a fascinating species for conducting basic research in biology and genetics; and for applied research in breeding. With a small...
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Challenges with Conservation Genetics and Genomics in Neotropical Forest
Several accounts of the exceptional richness of neotropical forests were recognized by European peoples of the “New World”. For this reason, the...
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Ecological Restoration: An Overview of Science and Policy Regime
Ecological restoration projects require science-based assessment in association with policy development for making a strategic framework and...
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Cross-modality supervised image restoration enables nanoscale tracking of synaptic plasticity in living mice
Learning is thought to involve changes in glutamate receptors at synapses, submicron structures that mediate communication between neurons in the...
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Using Degree of Natural Regeneration Potential to Guide Selection of Plant Community Restoration Approaches at a Restoration Site
This chapter draws on global case study literature and eight case studies (from seven continents) to argue the benefits of adopting a...
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A Fresh Look at Conservation Genetics in the Neotropics
This chapter introduces a new perspective to the field of conservation genetics, driven by recent advancements in genomic technologies. It begins...
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Issues Embedded in the Human Context of Urban Landscape Restoration
It is understood that the practice of urban restoration, which is the restoration of ecosystem functions that have been disturbed by anthropogenic...
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Genetic diversity and the origin of Taiwania cryptomerioides plantations in South China: implications for conservation and restoration
Understanding the genetic diversity and origin of plantations will support the genetic monitoring and provenance selection in restoration projects...
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Stem Cells Application in Eye Regeneration and Restoration of Vision
Eye tissues mostly comprise terminally differentiated cells or limited sets of stem cells with little potential for differentiation and regeneration....
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Molecular Approaches in Restoration of Agro-Biodiversity
Agro-biodiversity is a prerequisite for the sustainability of any agroecosystem. Loss of agro-biodiversity is a serious global threat today. Numerous...
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Insight into the Genetics and Genomics Studies of the Fritillaria Species
The plant genus Fritillaria has been used for thousands of years as a source of various pharmaceutically active compounds. Research into the genome,...
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Agricultural landscape influences on the solitary bees and wasps that nest in ecological restoration sites
Global initiatives to reforest degraded areas have intensified in recent years, arising from advances in agricultural frontiers that mainly alter...
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Introduction to Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration in the Omics Age
The rapid decline of coral reefs worldwide has led to an increased focus on conservation and restoration of these marvelous ecosystems. Conservation...