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Jolanta Kowalska, Malgorzata Antkowiak and Alicja Tymoszuk
In order to increase biodiversity in cultivated areas, the implementation of agri-environmental programs is proposed, including interventions and eco-schemes. Flower strips are one such proposal. In order to achieve satisfactory results, the appropriate ...
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Pua Bar Kutiel and Michael Dorman
Since ecological phenomena and patterns vary with scale, scalar analysis is a developing practice in ecology. Scalar analysis is most valuable in heterogeneous environments, since habitat heterogeneity is a key factor in determining biodiversity. One suc...
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Alfiansyah Yulianur BC,Maimun Rizalihadi,Reza Benara
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Abstract - Rainfall interception loss from plants or trees can reduce a net rainfall as source of water yield. The amount of rainfall interception loss depends on kinds of plants and hydro-meteorological characteristics. Therefore, it is important to stu...
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Huaimo You, Hong Fang, Xu Wang and Siran Fang
In this paper we study and compare the environmental efficiency of 118 photovoltaic (PV) plants in China. Drawing on the nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) method, our study takes the initiative to take the insolation, annual sunshine duration...
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Asad Sarwar Qureshi
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are located in the driest part of the world with an annual per capita water availability of 500 m3 compared to the world average of 6000 m3. Agricultural water demand, which is more than 80% of the total water...
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Ehsan Noorollahi, Dawud Fadai, Mohsen Akbarpour Shirazi and Seyed Hassan Ghodsipour
Considering the geographical location and climatic conditions of Iran, solar energy can provide a considerable portion of the energy demand for the country. This study develops a two-step framework. In the first step, the map of unsuitable regions is ext...
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Benoît O.L. Demars, Gerhard Wiegleb, David M. Harper, Udo Bröring, Holger Brux and Wolfgang Herr
The spatial structure and evolution of river networks offer tremendous opportunities to study the processes underlying metacommunity patterns in the wild. Here we explore several fundamental aspects of aquatic plant biogeography. How stable is plant comp...
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Teresa Torres,Marc Philippe
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Fossil wood from Quebrada del Pobre Formation (Sinemurian) was found northeast of La Ligua (71°13'W-32°24'S), V Region, Chile. The anatomical study allowed to determine two new species: Agathoxylon liguaensis sp. nov. and Baieroxylon chilense sp. nov. Ba...
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AMIR HOSSEIN SAYYAHZADEH, ABBAS RABIEE, ZAHRA BOZARI
Pág. Page:28 - 36Abstract
Industry is one of the five main sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions from human activities. Given Iran's voluntary commitments in the conference of Paris on reducing GHGs emissions, it is necessary for the Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade (...
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AMIR HOSSEIN SAYYAHZADEH, ABBAS RABIEE, ZAHRA BOZARI
Pág. Page:28 - 36Abstract
Industry is one of the five main sources of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions from human activities. Given Iran's voluntary commitments in the conference of Paris on reducing GHGs emissions, it is necessary for the Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade (...
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Ramón Fuentes, Teresa Torregrosa and Enrique Ballenilla
The growing economic and environmental importance of managing water resources at a global level also entails greater efforts and interest in improving the functioning and efficiency of the increasingly more numerous wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). I...
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Oren Shelef, Amit Gross and Shimon Rachmilevitch
The role of plants in the treatment of effluents by constructed wetland (CW) systems is under debate. Here, we review ways in which plants can affect CW processes and suggest two novel functions for plants in CWs. The first is salt phytoremediation by ha...
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Enrique J. Flores-Munguía, José Luis Rosas-Acevedo, Aurelio Ramírez-Hernández, Alejandro Aparicio-Saguilan, Rosa M. Brito-Carmona and Juan Violante-González
Contamination of aquatic ecosystems by microplastics (MPs) is mainly due to the release of high levels of MP particles from treated effluents by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). Due to the lack of policies and regulations establishing criteria for th...
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Shyi-Wen Wang
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Benefit analysis of emergency standby system combined with absorption chiller promoted to cogeneration system is introduced. Economic evaluations of such upgraded projects play a major part in the decisions made by investors. Time-of-use rate structure, ...
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Renato Lazzarin, Marco Noro, Giulia Righetti and Simone Mancin
The use of phase change materials (PCM) can be considered an effective way to improve the energy storage capabilities of hybrid water thermal energy storage (TESs) in solar heating and cooling plants. However, due to a few shortcomings, their use is stil...
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Emilia Ciupan, Cornel Ciupan, Emilia-Maria Câmpean, Lucia Stelea, Cecilia-Elena Policsek, Florin Lungu and Daniela-Corina Jucan
Wood is used as a raw material in various industries, including the production of furniture, which puts pressure on the exploitation of the forests and the continuous reduction of their surfaces, with undesirable effects on the environment. The paper pro...
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M. Ehsan Jorat, Maniruzzaman A. Aziz, Aminaton Marto, Nabilah Zaini, Siti Norafida Jusoh and David A.C. Manning
Malaysia is anticipating an increase of 68.86% in CO2 emission in 2020, compared with the 2000 baseline, reaching 285.73 million tonnes. A major contributor to Malaysia’s CO2 emissions is coal-fired electricity power plants, responsible for 43.4% o...
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Franz Mascher, Wolfgang Mascher, Franz Pichler-Semmelrock, Franz F. Reinthaler, Gernot E. Zarfel and Clemens Kittinger
Within the framework of a one-year study the treatment capacity of a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) was evaluated, with regard to fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and to their influence on the recipient. The logarithmic reduction rates for fec...
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Hélène Vogt-Schilb, Philippe Geniez, Roger Pradel, Franck Richard, Bertrand Schatz
It is important to evaluate the loss of biodiversity caused by global changes. In the case of orchids, it is still unclear how long the monitoring duration should be chosen in order to achieve a good compromise between the reliability of the orchid dynam...
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Kaiyang Qiu, Zhigang Li, Yingzhong Xie, Dongmei Xu, Chen He and Richard Pott
Desertification reversal is globally significant for the sustainable development of land resources. However, the mechanisms of desertification reversal at the level of plant community are still unclear. We hypothesized that desertification reversal has c...
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