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Exploring the ecosystem health of a tropical Indian estuary using mass-balanced ecosystem model
Estuaries provide life support to aquatic biota and livelihood support to fishermen and local inhabitants. However, the ecosystem function of...
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Tropical Forest Ecosystem Services in Improving Livelihoods For Local Communities
This edited book covers major importance of tropical forest diversity and its values to vegetation, wildlife, and the local community. It addresses...
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Quantifying Climate Influence on Net Ecosystem Exchange in Lowland Tropical Rice: A Five-Year Eddy Covariance Study
A five-year study on net ecosystem exchange (NEE) to assess the impact of climatic drivers on inter-annual variability (IAV) was conducted using eddy...
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Ten Guidelines for Phycosecurity Implemented as Biosecure Ecosystem Services Management of Tropical Seaweed Farms
Lessons learned during the Phyconomy.org Topical Phyconomy Collaboration Development (TPCD) eucheumatoid...
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Ants vs crabs: competition over seeds on a tropical island ecosystem
Seed dispersal by ants plays a major role globally in plant dynamics for many angiosperms and can be influenced by multiple factors. One of those...
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Land uses shifts the abundance and structure of soil biota and soil chemical traits in tropical ecosystem, Apodi Plateau, Brazil
Land uses may shift soil biota community composition, and soil chemical traits. Our aims were to assess if the land uses may influence the soil biota...
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Weight-of-evidence approach for assessing agroforestry contributions to restore key ecosystem services in tropical dry forests
Worldwide deforestation and degradation are limiting the capacity of tropical dry forests (TDFs) to provide environmental services. Agroforestry...
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Vegetation–soil–microbial diversity influences ecosystem multifunctionality across different tropical coastal ecosystem types
An improved understanding of the vegetation and microbial diversity across different coastal landscape and it’s interlink with ecosystem...
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The Relationship Between Phytoplankton Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning Changes with Disturbance Regimes in Tropical Reservoirs
The relationship between species diversity and ecosystem functioning is one of central topics in modern ecology, but variable and controversial...
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Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation
The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide....
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Hurricane driven changes in vegetation structure and ecosystem services in tropical urban yards: a study case in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Urban forests are valuable spaces for species conservation, protection of local biodiversity and provision of ecosystem services. However, they are...
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Ecosystem Service of Tropical Flooded Forests and its Relation to Characteristics of Local Communities
Flooded forests are unique ecosystems necessary for humans through their services. However, little is known about their ecosystem services (ES) in...
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Invertebrate-Mediated Ecosystem Processes are Resilient to Disturbance Across a Land-Use Gradient in Borneo
A fundamental challenge for ecologists is to evaluate the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on ecosystem processes and functions. Tropical...
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Ocean Warming Will Reduce Standing Biomass in a Tropical Western Atlantic Reef Ecosystem
Ocean warming is altering life on Earth from individuals to ecosystems. The impacts on standing biomass and food webs functioning are less evident...
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Tropical wetland-associated mosquitoes: species composition and implications for public health and ecosystem conservation
Mosquitoes are closely associated with wetlands, as stagnant water in these ecosystems provides an ideal environment for the development of their...
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Southern Hot Tropical Biomes
The wet Tropics, home to the zonobiome E1, under the strong influence of the high tropical high temperatures and the Intertropical Convergence Zone...
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Respiratory Acclimation of Tropical Forest Roots in Response to In Situ Experimental Warming and Hurricane Disturbance
Climate projections predict higher temperatures and more frequent hurricanes in the tropics. Tropical plants subjected to these stresses may respond...
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New criteria for sustainable land use planning of metropolitan green infrastructures in the tropical Andes
ContextUrbanization is rapidly increasing worldwide, with about 60% of the global population currently residing in cities and expected to reach 68%...
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Exploring extended-spectrum beta lactamase resistance in Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio cholerae within the tropical mangrove ecosystem of southwest India
Multidrug-resistant pathogenic vibrios are a crisis of concern as they cause multiple illnesses, including gastroenteritis in humans and acute...
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Aquaculture Ecosystem
Aquaculture ecosystem is a special type of industrial ecosystem, which is similar to aquatic ecosystem in natural attributes, and similar to...