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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Petros Zervoudakis, Nikolaos Karamolegkos, Eleftheria Plevridi, Pavlos Charalampidis, Alexandros Fragkiadakis
The technology landscape has been dynamically reshaped by the rapid growth of the Internet of Things, introducing an era where everyday objects, equipped with smart sensors and connectivity, seamlessly interact to create intelligent ecosystems. IoT devices are highly heterogeneous in terms of software and hardware, and many of them are severely constrained. This heterogeneity and potentially constrained nature creates new challenges in terms of security, privacy, and data management. This work proposes a Monitoring-as-a-Service platform for both monitoring and management purposes, offering a comprehensive solution for collecting, storing, and processing monitoring data from heterogeneous IoT networks for the support of diverse IoT-based applications...
March 29, 2024: Sensors
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Petra Mäkelä, Annette Boaz, Kathryn Oliver
BACKGROUND: There has been a proliferation of frameworks with a common goal of bridging the gap between evidence, policy, and practice, but few aim to specifically guide evaluations of academic-policy engagement. We present the modification of an action framework for the purpose of selecting, developing and evaluating interventions for academic-policy engagement. METHODS: We build on the conceptual work of an existing framework known as SPIRIT (Supporting Policy In Health with Research: an Intervention Trial), developed for the evaluation of strategies intended to increase the use of research in health policy...
April 12, 2024: Implementation Science: IS
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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
Jia He, Lingjing Wang, Chuanhao Wen
The value of the ecosystem's ultimate goods and services for human welfare and long-term economic and social development is known as the gross ecosystem product (GEP). For the study of GEP accounting, the suggested water-energy-food (WEF) nexus offers a fresh viewpoint. This work aims to build a GEP accounting index system based on WEF, investigate its spatio-temporal evolution characteristics, and assess trade-offs and synergies between and within the water, energy, and food subsystems. Using the Three Gorges Reservoir area (TGRA) as an illustration, the findings revealed that, firstly, the comprehensive benefit of GEP based on WEF showed an upward trend in TGRA...
April 12, 2024: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rahim Maleknia, Jyran ChamCham
INTRODUCTION: Peri-urban forests play crucial role in quality of life and environment for citizens. To effectively utilize the services provided by these forests, it is essential to establish an integrated forest management system that aims to achieve a balance of all ecosystem services. This can be accomplished through a participatory approach that involves key citizen stakeholders. Mountaineers shape a specific group which have showed high pro-environmental behaviors to protect natural resources...
2024: Frontiers in Psychology
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Xiaoming Wang, Qianqian Dong
Urban ecosystem health is the foundation of sustainable urban development. It is important to know the health status of urban ecosystem and its influencing factors for formulating scientific urban development planning. Taking Zibo city as the study area, the indicators were selected from five aspects: ecosystem vigor, structure, resilience, service function and population health to establish an assessment index system of urban ecosystem health. The health level of urban ecosystem was assessed, and its changing trend was analyzed from 2006 to 2018 in Zibo...
April 11, 2024: Scientific Reports
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Andrew J Guerin, Andréa M Weise, Jackson W F Chu, Mark A Wilcox, Erin Sowerby Greene, Thomas W Therriault
Freshwater ecosystems are biologically important habitats that provide many ecosystem services. Calcium concentration and pH are two key variables that are linked to multiple chemical processes in these environments, influence the biology of organisms from diverse taxa, and can be important factors affecting the distribution of native and non-native species. However, it can be challenging to obtain high-resolution data for these variables at regional and national scales. To address this data gap, water quality data for lakes and rivers in Canada and the continental USA were compiled and used to generate high-resolution (10 × 10 km) interpolated raster layers, after comparing multiple spatial interpolation approaches...
April 11, 2024: Scientific Data
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Robert van Woesik, Chelsey Kratochwill
Coral reefs support the world's most diverse marine ecosystem and provide invaluable goods and services for millions of people worldwide. They are however experiencing frequent and intensive marine heatwaves that are causing coral bleaching and mortality. Coarse-grained climate models predict that few coral reefs will survive the 3 °C sea-surface temperature rise in the coming century. Yet, field studies show localized pockets of coral survival and recovery even under high-temperature conditions...
April 11, 2024: Scientific Data
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Inga A Wolframm, Lara Heric, Andrew M Allen
At a time of mounting ecological crises and biodiversity loss, there is an urgent need for nature-based solutions. Equestrian properties cover a considerable proportion of the European rural and peri-urban landscape and provide much potential for integrating ecosystem services, such as the inclusion of small landscape features. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence and quality of landscape features (LF) to help determine how the equine sector can contribute to the agro-ecological transition...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kayla Warner, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Elizabeth M Cook, Richard A Hallett, Lucy R Hutyra, Andrew B Reinmann
Tree growth is a key mechanism driving carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems. Environmental conditions are important regulators of tree growth that can vary considerably between nearby urban and rural forests. For example, trees growing in cities often experience hotter and drier conditions than their rural counterparts while also being exposed to higher levels of light, pollution, and nutrient inputs. However, the extent to which these intrinsic differences in the growing conditions of trees in urban versus rural forests influence tree growth response to climate is not well known...
April 11, 2024: Ecological Applications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vasja Leban, Lidija Zadnik Stirn, Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh
One of the paramount challenges in natural resource management revolves around the delicate equilibrium between the demand for and the supply of diverse Ecosystem Services (ESs) within a cultural landscape. Recognizing the centrality of cultural landscapes to human well-being, the sustainability of these landscapes hinges upon the health and stability of ecosystems that can effectively provide the required ESs. Over the long term, the sustainable supply of ESs is constrained by the potential supply of ESs. Understanding the potential supply of ESs is crucial for averting compromises to the ecosystems within a landscape...
April 11, 2024: Environmental Management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Assessing the impact of Land use changes on ecosystem services in the Alledighe rangeland, Ethiopia.
Simeneh Admasu
Understanding the ecological, social, and economic values of protected areas, as well as assessing the services they provide to both humans and the environment is crucial for informing conservation policies and sustainable land management practices. Using the benefits transfer method, changes in ecosystem service values (ESVs) resulting from spatiotemporal land use dynamics were evaluated in the Alledighe Wildlife Reserve (AWR) spanning from 1998 to 2016. Five distinct habitat types, namely grassland, bushland, woodland, riverine forest, and highland forest, were identified across the landscape...
April 15, 2024: Heliyon
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Marcelle Miranda da Silva, Cristina Rosa Soares Lavareda Baixinho, Maria Fátima Mendes Marques, Claudia Sousa Oliveira, Renata de Moura Bubadué, Samhira Vieira Franco de Souza, Ivone Evangelista Cabral
The dissemination and implementation of evidence in health contexts have been a concern of several international organizations responsible for recommending actions to health policymakers. World Health Organization has been advocating for an ecosystem of evidence to improve clinical practice and health professional education. Thus, in this article, we address the challenges to developing the evidence ecosystem from the point of view of health professional education, considering the contexts of practice and teaching, focused on knowledge translation...
April 15, 2024: Heliyon
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Chunjia Li, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal
Under changing climatic scenarios, grassland conservation and development have become imperative to impart functional sustainability to their ecosystem services. These goals could be effectively and efficiently achieved with targeted genetic improvement of native grass species. To the best of our literature search, very scant research findings are available pertaining to gene editing of non-cultivated grass species (switch grass, wild sugarcane, Prairie cordgrass, Bermuda grass, Chinese silver grass, etc.) prevalent in natural and semi-natural grasslands...
2024: Frontiers in Plant Science
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Linda Berrio-Giraldo, Clara Villegas-Palacio, Santiago Arango-Aramburo, Lina Berrouet
Scenario and policy assessments in socioeconomic and environmental studies face significant challenges in socio-ecological systems (SES). There are a limited number of studies that have looked at the impact of different scenarios within integrated approaches, and many have used a static approach with a single driver of change. The present work analyzes the SES dynamics for a strategic basin in the Colombian Andes when implementing and analyzing scenarios and policies related to land cover and land use change using a system dynamics simulation model...
April 10, 2024: Ambio
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Belinda Gallardo, Sven Bacher, Ana Marcia Barbosa, Laure Gallien, Pablo González-Moreno, Víctor Martínez-Bolea, Cascade Sorte, Giovanni Vimercati, Montserrat Vilà
Invasive species significantly impact biodiversity and ecosystem services, yet understanding these effects at large spatial scales remains a challenge. Our study addresses this gap by assessing the current and potential future risks posed by 94 invasive species to seven key ecosystem services in Europe. We demonstrate widespread potential impacts, particularly on outdoor recreation, habitat maintenance, crop provisioning, and soil and nitrogen retention. Exposure to invasive species was higher in areas with lower provision of ecosystem services, particularly for regulating and cultural services...
April 10, 2024: Nature Communications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bart De Knegt, Bas C Breman, Solen Le Clec'h, Arjen Van Hinsberg, Marjolein E Lof, Rogier Pouwels, Hans D Roelofsen, Rob Alkemade
Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer a promising and sustainable approach to addressing multiple environmental challenges, including climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. Despite the potential of NbS, their actual effectiveness in solving these challenges remains uncertain. Therefore, this study evaluates the contribution of NbS implemented in a nature-inclusive scenario for six environmental challenges and associated policy targets in the Netherlands. Fifteen different NbS were applied in the scenario in urban, agricultural, aquatic, and protected nature areas, with measures like flower field margins, green roofs, groundwater level management, and river restoration...
April 8, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cheryl Su Ling Sim, P V Asharani, Mythily Subramaniam, Huso Yi
Globally, COVID-19 had an immense impact on mental health systems, but research on how community mental health (CMH) systems and services contributed to the pandemic mental health response is limited. We conducted a systematic review and meta-ethnography to understand the roles of CMH services, determinants of the quality of CMH care, and dynamics within CMH systems during COVID-19. We searched and screened across five databases and appraised study quality using the CASP tool, which yielded 27 qualitative studies...
December 31, 2024: Health Systems and Reform
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Boris Salak, Marcel Hunziker, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Reto Spielhofer, Ulrike Wissen Hayek, Felix Kienast
This study examines the siting scenarios for renewable energy installations (REI) in a mountainous region of Europe (Switzerland), incorporating the external costs of ecosystem services and, innovatively, social preferences. This approach challenges the prevalent techno-economic siting paradigm, which often overlooks these externalities. To minimize the external costs of the scenarios while maximizing energy yield, Marxan, an optimization software, was employed. The energy target for all scenarios is set at 25 TWh/a, stemming from the energy gap anticipated due to the phase-out of Swiss nuclear reactors by 2050...
2024: PloS One
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Ankit Abhilash Swain, Pallavi Sharma, Chetan Keswani, Tatiana Minkina, Purushotham Tukkaraja, Venkataramana Gadhamshetty, Sanjeev Kumar, Kuldeep Bauddh, Narendra Kumar, Sushil Kumar Shukla, Manoj Kumar, Rama Shanker Dubey, Ming Hung Wong
Mine tailings are the discarded materials resulting from mining processes after minerals have been extracted. They consist of leftover mineral fragments, excavated land masses, and disrupted ecosystems. The uncontrolled handling or discharge of tailings from abandoned mine lands (AMLs) poses a threat to the surrounding environment. Numerous untreated mine tailings have been abandoned globally, necessitating immediate reclamation and restoration efforts. The limited feasibility of conventional reclamation methods, such as cost and acceptability, presents challenges in reclaiming tailings around AMLs...
April 10, 2024: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
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