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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Weizhi Lu, Jingfeng Xiao, Haiqiang Gao, Qingyu Jia, Zhengjie Li, Jie Liang, Qinghui Xing, Dehua Mao, Hong Li, Xiaojing Chu, Hui Chen, Haiqiang Guo, Guangxuan Han, Bin Zhao, Luzhen Chen, Derrick Y F Lai, Shuguang Liu, Guanghui Lin
Coastal wetlands play an important role in regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 ) concentrations and contribute significantly to climate change mitigation. However, climate change, reclamation, and restoration have been causing substantial changes in coastal wetland areas and carbon exchange in China during recent decades. Here we compiled a carbon flux database consisting of 15 coastal wetland sites to assess the magnitude, patterns, and drivers of carbon fluxes and to compare fluxes among contrasting natural, disturbed, and restored wetlands...
April 2024: Global Change Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lise Comte, Romain Bertrand, Sarah Diamond, Lesley T Lancaster, Malin L Pinsky, Brett R Scheffers, J Alex Baecher, R M W J Bandara, I-Ching Chen, Jake A Lawlor, Nikki A Moore, Brunno F Oliveira, Jerome Murienne, Jonathan Rolland, Madeleine A Rubenstein, Jennifer Sunday, Laura M Thompson, Fabricio Villalobos, Sarah R Weiskopf, Jonathan Lenoir
Ecological and evolutionary theories have proposed that species traits should be important in mediating species responses to contemporary climate change; yet, empirical evidence has so far provided mixed evidence for the role of behavioral, life history, or ecological characteristics in facilitating or hindering species range shifts. As such, the utility of trait-based approaches to predict species redistribution under climate change has been called into question. We develop the perspective, supported by evidence, that trait variation, if used carefully can have high potential utility, but that past analyses have in many cases failed to identify an explanatory value for traits by not fully embracing the complexity of species range shifts...
April 2024: Global Change Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shyam M Thomas, Michael R Verhoeven, Jake R Walsh, Daniel J Larkin, Gretchen J A Hansen
Forecasting invasion risk under future climate conditions is critical for the effective management of invasive species, and species distribution models (SDMs) are key tools for doing so. However, SDM-based forecasts are uncertain, especially when correlative statistical models extrapolate to nonanalog environmental domains, such as future climate conditions. Different assumptions about the functional form of the temperature-suitability relationship can impact predicted habitat suitability under novel conditions...
April 13, 2024: Ecology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jacopo Dolcini, Manuela Chiavarini, Elisa Ponzio, Giorgio Firmani, Marcello Mario D'Errico, Pamela Barbadoro
Safe water is a global public health concern amid increasing scarcity and pollution. Bottled water production and consumption contribute to these problems. This study examines tap water consumption in Italy, assessing associated sociodemographic factors and related health outcomes such as obesity and self-perceived health status. Data from the Italian National Statistics Institute's "Aspects of daily life" survey (N = 45,597) were analyzed. Covariates included education, age, gender, economic status, region, concerns about waste and climate change, consumption of carbonated drinks excluding water, alcohol consumption, consumption of vegetables, consumption of snacks, body mass index, and self-perceived health status...
March 25, 2024: Nutrients
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REVIEW
Ngawang Gempo, Karma Yeshi, Darren Crayn, Phurpa Wangchuk
The Australian Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (WTWHA) in northeast Queensland is home to approximately 18 percent of the nation's total vascular plant species. Over the past century, human activity and industrial development have caused global climate changes, posing a severe and irreversible danger to the entire land-based ecosystem, and the WTWHA is no exception. The current average annual temperature of WTWHA in northeast Queensland is 24 °C. However, in the coming years (by 2030), the average annual temperature increase is estimated to be between 0...
April 3, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lucas Van der Cruysse, Andrée De Cock, Koen Lock, Pieter Boets, Peter L M Goethals
Streams are biodiversity hotspots that provide numerous ecosystem services. Safeguarding this biodiversity is crucial to uphold sustainable ecosystem functioning and to ensure the continuation of these ecosystem services in the future. However, in recent decades, streams have witnessed a disproportionate decline in biodiversity compared to other ecosystems, and are currently considered among the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. This is the result of the combined effect of a multitude of stressors. For freshwater systems in general, these have been classified into five main pressures: water pollution, overexploitation, habitat degradation and destruction, alien invasive species, and hydromorphological pressures...
April 2, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jingwen Yuan, Chul Soo Kim
With global climate change and accelerating urbanization, marine cities face unique environmental challenges. Ecological landscape creation is a form of design planning guided by the disciplines of landscape ecology and ecological aesthetics in the process of urban planning and construction. It seeks a design that can maintain the virtuous cycle of the ecosystem and at the same time maintain the spatial equilibrium of the dynamic development of urban landscapes, so as to make them have good ecological functions and corridor functions...
March 22, 2024: Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maria-Evangelia Filippousi, Ioanna Chalvantzi, Athanasios Mallouchos, Ioannis Marmaras, Georgios Banilas, Aspasia Nisiotou
In view of climate change and the increasingly antagonistic wine market, the exploitation of native genetic resources is revisited in relation to sustainable wine production. 'Sideritis' is a late-ripening Greek grape variety, which is quite promising for counteracting wine quality issues associated with the annual temperature rise. The aim of this study was to improve the quality and to enhance the aroma of 'Sideritis' wine through the use of native yeasts. To improve vinification, Hanseniaspora opuntiae L1 was used along with Saccharomyces cerevisiae W7 in mixed fermentations (SQ)...
March 29, 2024: Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vanessa Marchetti, Angelo Panno, Massimiliano Scopelliti, Luciano Romano, Giacomo Angelini, Elena Rinallo, Daniela Barni, Caterina Fiorilli
BACKGROUND: Global climate change is recognized as a major and irreversible challenge for humanity, requiring people's responsible and sustainable behaviors toward the environment. So far, the literature has widely investigated the role of cognitive determinants of ecological outcomes (e.g., pro-environmental behaviors and climate change perception), while less attention has been devoted to emotional processes, such as trait emotional intelligence (TEI). The current double study investigates whether TEI is directly and indirectly associated with climate change perception (CCP, Study 1) and pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs, Study 2) among young adults...
April 12, 2024: BMC Psychology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Martha Carnalla, Nancy López-Olmedo, Yenisei Ramírez-Toscano, Luz Mery Cárdenas-Cárdenas, Francisco Canto-Osorio, Herney Rengifo-Reina, David Barrera-Núñez, Josúe Alai Quiroz-Reyes, M Arantxa Colchero, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez
BACKGROUND: The association between environmental temperature and alcohol consumption has not been widely explored despite the potential that increasing temperatures could promote the consumption of alcoholic beverages and the alcohol-related burden of disease. We aimed to explore the association between temperature and binge drinking in Mexican adults from urban cities, overall, and by alcoholic beverage type. METHODS: Data on 10,552 adults ≥ 18 years was obtained from the 2016 National Survey on Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Consumption...
April 12, 2024: Globalization and Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
David J Eldridge, Jingyi Ding, Josh Dorrough, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Osvaldo Sala, Nicolas Gross, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Max Mallen-Cooper, Hugo Saiz, Sergio Asensio, Victoria Ochoa, Beatriz Gozalo, Emilio Guirado, Miguel García-Gómez, Enrique Valencia, Jaime Martínez-Valderrama, César Plaza, Mehdi Abedi, Negar Ahmadian, Rodrigo J Ahumada, Julio M Alcántara, Fateh Amghar, Luísa Azevedo, Farah Ben Salem, Miguel Berdugo, Niels Blaum, Bazartseren Boldgiv, Matthew Bowker, Donaldo Bran, Chongfeng Bu, Rafaella Canessa, Andrea P Castillo-Monroy, Ignacio Castro, Patricio Castro-Quezada, Simone Cesarz, Roukaya Chibani, Abel Augusto Conceição, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Yvonne C Davila, Balázs Deák, Paloma Díaz-Martínez, David A Donoso, Andrew David Dougill, Jorge Durán, Nico Eisenhauer, Hamid Ejtehadi, Carlos Ivan Espinosa, Alex Fajardo, Mohammad Farzam, Ana Foronda, Jorgelina Franzese, Lauchlan H Fraser, Juan Gaitán, Katja Geissler, Sofía Laura Gonzalez, Elizabeth Gusman-Montalvan, Rosa Mary Hernández, Norbert Hölzel, Frederic Mendes Hughes, Oswaldo Jadan, Anke Jentsch, Mengchen Ju, Kudzai F Kaseke, Melanie Köbel, Anika Lehmann, Pierre Liancourt, Anja Linstädter, Michelle A Louw, Quanhui Ma, Mancha Mabaso, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Thulani P Makhalanyane, Oumarou Malam Issa, Eugene Marais, Mitchel McClaran, Betty Mendoza, Vincent Mokoka, Juan P Mora, Gerardo Moreno, Seth Munson, Alice Nunes, Gabriel Oliva, Gastón R Oñatibia, Brooke Osborne, Guadalupe Peter, Margerie Pierre, Yolanda Pueyo, R Emiliano Quiroga, Sasha Reed, Ana Rey, Pedro Rey, Víctor Manuel Reyes Gómez, Víctor Rolo, Matthias C Rillig, Peter C le Roux, Jan Christian Ruppert, Ayman Salah, Phokgedi Julius Sebei, Anarmaa Sharkhuu, Ilan Stavi, Colton Stephens, Alberto L Teixido, Andrew David Thomas, Katja Tielbörger, Silvia Torres Robles, Samantha Travers, Orsolya Valkó, Liesbeth van den Brink, Frederike Velbert, Andreas von Heßberg, Wanyoike Wamiti, Deli Wang, Lixin Wang, Glenda M Wardle, Laura Yahdjian, Eli Zaady, Yuanming Zhang, Xiaobing Zhou, Fernando T Maestre
Perennial plants create productive and biodiverse hotspots, known as fertile islands, beneath their canopies. These hotspots largely determine the structure and functioning of drylands worldwide. Despite their ubiquity, the factors controlling fertile islands under conditions of contrasting grazing by livestock, the most prevalent land use in drylands, remain virtually unknown. Here we evaluated the relative importance of grazing pressure and herbivore type, climate and plant functional traits on 24 soil physical and chemical attributes that represent proxies of key ecosystem services related to decomposition, soil fertility, and soil and water conservation...
April 12, 2024: Nature Plants
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Peter Suresh, John Crotty, Sonja Tesanovic, Othman Alaweed, Sadhbh Doyle, Mikra Kiandee, Emily Hayes, Vanessa Umeh, Bita Khalilinejad, Brett Duane
Background Health care is a significant contributor to climate change. Global pressure for a change towards a more sustainable way of providing dental health care has resulted in the creation of the Green Impact Toolkit, which is comprised of a list of suggested changes that dental practices can make to become more sustainable in a number of categories, such as procurement, waste and water.Aims To compare the effectiveness of changes suggested by the Green Impact Toolkit.Materials and methods A comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted using the Ecoinvent database v3...
April 2024: British Dental Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bryson M F Sjodin, Danielle A Schmidt, Kurt E Galbreath, Michael A Russello
Improved understanding of the genetic basis of adaptation to climate change is necessary for maintaining global biodiversity moving forward. Studies to date have largely focused on sequence variation, yet there is growing evidence that suggests that changes in genome structure may be an even more significant source of adaptive potential. The American pika (Ochotona princeps) is an alpine specialist that shows some evidence of adaptation to climate along elevational gradients, but previous work has been limited to single nucleotide polymorphism based analyses within a fraction of the species range...
April 13, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Darren P O'Connell, Bronte M Baker, David Atauri, Julia C Jones
Honey bees are globally important pollinators, key to many aspects of ecosystem function and agricultural production. However they are facing an increasing array of stress factors. These stressors include exposure to pathogens and pesticides, agricultural intensification, and changes in climate, and likely contribute to colony dysfunction and colony losses. Here we use temperature-controlled glasshouse experiments to investigate the impact of a field-realistic temperature-range on honey bee colonies, including temperatures based on projections for near-future local conditions...
April 10, 2024: Journal of Insect Physiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kaylee A Riesgraf, Matthew S Akins, Jimena Laporta, Kent A Weigel
Dairy producers are experiencing production and animal welfare pressures from the increasing frequency and severity of heat stress events due to global climate change. Offspring performance during the pre-weaning and lactating periods is compromised when exposed to heat stress during late gestation (in utero). However, knowledge of the lingering impacts of in utero heat stress on yearling dairy heifers is limited. Herein, we investigated the long-term effects of in utero heat stress on heifer growth, feed efficiency, and enteric methane emissions in post-pubertal heifers...
April 10, 2024: Journal of Dairy Science
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Taufiq Ihsan, Erni Johan, Satoru Fukugaichi, Masafumi Maruyama, Satoshi Mitsunobu, Naoto Matsue
Waterborne pathogens threaten 2.2 billion people lacking access to safely managed drinking water services, causing over a million annual diarrheal deaths. Individuals without access to chlorine reagents or filtration devices often resort to do-it-yourself (DIY) methods, such as boiling or solar disinfection (SODIS). However, these methods are not simple to implement. In this study, we introduced an innovative and easily implemented disinfection approach. We discovered that immersing aluminum foil in various alkaline solutions produces alkali-treated aluminum foil (ATA foil) that effectively adsorbs Escherichia coli (E...
April 10, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rhea Sanjiv Chhaya, John O'Brien, Rajat Nag, Enda Cummins
Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by fungi and identified as contaminants in animal feed. They have potentially harmful effects, including carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, and repro-toxicity in animals and humans. As a result of climate change, there is the potential for a change in the prevalence and concentration of mycotoxins in animal feed components. This necessitates an assessment of the present and emerging threats to the food supply chain from mycotoxins. This systematic review and meta-analysis study synthesised studies on mycotoxin contamination and prevalence in cattle feed components...
April 10, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jing Cao, Yue Wu, Ze-Kun Li, Ze-Ying Hou, Tian-Hao Wu, Zhao-Sheng Chu, Bing-Hui Zheng, Ping-Ping Yang, Yi-Yan Yang, Cun-Sheng Li, Qian-Hua Li, Xia Guo
Algal blooms in lakes have been a challenging environmental issue globally under the dual influence of human activity and climate change. Considerable progress has been made in the study of phytoplankton dynamics in lakes; The long-term in situ evolution of dominant bloom-forming cyanobacteria in meso-eutrophic plateau lakes, however, lacks systematic research. Here, the monthly parameters from 12 sampling sites during the period of 1997-2022 were utilized to investigate the underlying mechanisms driving the superiority of bloom-forming cyanobacteria in Erhai, a representative meso-eutrophic plateau lake...
April 10, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Darin J McNeil, Sarah C Goslee, Melanie Kammerer, Sarah E Lower, John F Tooker, Christina M Grozinger
As insect populations decline in many regions, conservation biologists are increasingly tasked with identifying factors that threaten insect species and developing effective strategies for their conservation. One insect group of global conservation concern are fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Although quantitative data on firefly populations are lacking for most species, anecdotal reports suggest that some firefly populations have declined in recent decades. Researchers have hypothesized that North American firefly populations are most threatened by habitat loss, pesticide use, and light pollution, but the importance of these factors in shaping firefly populations has not been rigorously examined at broad spatial scales...
April 10, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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REVIEW
Jiaji Chen, Hongcheng Wang, Wanxin Yin, Yuqi Wang, Jiaqiang Lv, AiJie Wang
As urbanization accelerates, understanding and managing carbon emissions from urban sewer networks have become crucial for sustainable urban water cycles. This review examines the factors influencing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within urban sewage systems, analyzing the complex effects between water quality, hydrodynamics, and sewer infrastructure on GHG production and emission processes. It reveals significant spatiotemporal heterogeneity in GHG emissions, particularly under long-term scenarios where flow rates and temperatures exhibit strong impacts and correlations...
April 6, 2024: Water Research
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