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Subhro Mitra, Achintya N. Bezbaruah
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Deepor Beel is one of the most important wetlands in the Brahmaputra Valley of lower Assam in India and is representative of the wetlands found within the Burma Monsoon Forest biogeography region. Deepor Beel is a Wetland of International Importance unde...
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Huilan Shi, Mengping Liu, Shihai Zhu, Zhonghua Duan, Rongrong Wu, Xiaolong Quan, Mengci Chen, Jiexue Zhang and Youming Qiao
To maintain alpine grassland in a healthy and sustainable state, a sound warning system was developed to diagnose its potential degradation risk. Data related to grassland quality (six indicators), habitat (six indicators), and eco-carrying capacity (thr...
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John A. Theodorou, Vasilis Akrivos, George Katselis and Dimitrios K. Moutopoulos
The current study provides valuable insight into the ecological risks and decline of the bivalve fishery and biodiversity in the Amvrakikos Gulf over the last 50 years through a triangulation of information from in situ surveys and expert judgment, suppl...
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Luis Fernando Gudiño-Sosa, Rodrigo Moncayo-Estrada, Martha Alicia Velázquez-Machuca, Gustavo Cruz-Cárdenas, Luis Arturo Ávila-Meléndez and José Luis Pimentel-Equihua
The integrity of rivers is affected by anthropogenic activities at different spatial scales, from basin and landscape levels to the direct effects on the river and aquatic life. Our objective was to study these effects on the subtropical La Pasión River,...
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Maria Rita Palombo
Extinction of species has been a recurrent phenomenon in the history of our planet, but it was generally outweighed in the course of quite a long geological time by the appearance of new species, except, especially, for the five geologically short times ...
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Haiji Liang, Chong Chen, Kexin Wang and Guanqiong Ye
Coastal wetlands provide essential ecosystem services, while usually experiencing land transformation or degradation mainly due to intense anthropogenic activities and climate changes. Understanding the changes in wetlands ecosystem services is essential...
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Loraine van den Berg, Klaus Kellner
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The type of restoration application in degraded natural rangelands will depend on the degree of degradation. Degraded areas that are beyond the threshold of natural recovery normally need active restoration interventions. This includes the disturb...
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Zubairu Darma Umar, Nor Azwady Abd, Syaizwan Zahmir Zulkifli, Muskhazli Mustafa
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) comprised of many dangerous organic pollutants which affect human cell. The choice of phenanthrene and pyrene as model substrates was based on their classification among the most hazardous PAHs group by the US EPA ...
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Zilia Y. Muñoz-Ramírez, Román González-Escobedo, Graciela D. Avila-Quezada, Obed Ramírez-Sánchez, Victor M. Higareda-Alvear, Emiliano Zapata-Chávez, Alejandra Borrego-Loya and Laila N. Muñoz-Castellanos
The rhizosphere is a dynamic and highly interactive habitat where diverse microbial communities are established, and it plays crucial roles in plant health and disease dynamics. In this study, microbial communities and functional profiles in the rhizosph...
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Kaitano Dube
Oceans play a vital role in socioeconomic and environmental development by supporting activities such as tourism, recreation, and food provision while providing important ecosystem services. However, concerns have been raised about the threat that climat...
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Yan Li, Xinying Bai and Chunlei Xia
Machine vision-based automatic detection of marine organisms is a fundamental task for the effective analysis of production and habitat changes in marine ranches. However, challenges of underwater imaging, such as blurring, image degradation, scale varia...
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Lorie W. Staver, Jeffrey C. Cornwell, Nicholas J. Nidzieko, Kenneth W. Staver, J. Court Stevenson, Michael Owens, Walter Boynton and Leysa Lopez-Gonzalez
Tidal marsh restoration using dredged material is being undertaken in many coastal areas to replace lost habitat and ecosystem services due to tidal marsh loss. The fate of high levels of nitrogen (N) in fine-grained dredged material used as a substrate ...
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Mohamed AAMA Mohamed, Faisal Mohamed Ahmed El Hag, Ibrahim Ali Elnour
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This study was conducted at Um Kaddada, North Darfur State, Sudan, at two sites (closed and open) for two consecutive seasons 2008 and 2009 during flowering and seed setting stages to evaluate range attributes at the locality. A split plot design was use...
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Mohamed AAMA Mohamed, Faisal Mohamed Ahmed El Hag, Ibrahim Ali Elnour
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This study was conducted at Um Kaddada, North Darfur State, Sudan, at two sites (closed and open) for two consecutive seasons 2008 and 2009 during flowering and seed setting stages to evaluate range attributes at the locality. A split plot design was use...
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Anna Latsiou, Theodora Kouvarda, Konstantinos Stefanidis, George Papaioannou, Konstantinos Gritzalis and Elias Dimitriou
Riparian zones play an important role in the ecological stability of rivers. In particular, the quality of the riparian vegetation is a significant component of the hydromorphological status. In Europe, the QBR index (Qualitat del Bosc de Ribera) and the...
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Eric W. Peterson, Phil Nicodemus, Emmett Spooner and Abigail Heath
Ever expanding urbanized landscapes are increasingly impacting streams that run through them. Among other stressors, urban streams often are host to elevated concentrations of nutrients, salts, and heavy metals. The pollutants, coupled with high temperat...
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Teresa Campbell, Kakada Pin, Peng Bun Ngor and Zeb Hogan
Megafishes are important to people and ecosystems worldwide. These fishes attain a maximum body weight of =30 kg. Global population declines highlight the need for more information about megafishes? conservation status to inform management and conservati...
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Maja Vurnek, Andrijana Brozincevic, ?eljko Rendulic, Kazimir Miculinic, Vesna Vukadin, Ognjen ?kunca
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Plitvice Lakes National Park (PLNP) is the oldest protected area in Croatia (since 1949) and was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in1979. It is an area of outstanding universal value consisting of a freshwater ecosystem of 16 lakes divided by tuf...
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Sujay S. Kaushal, Arthur J. Gold and Paul M. Mayer
Land use and climate change can accelerate the depletion of freshwater resources that support humans and ecosystem services on a global scale. Here, we briefly review studies from around the world, and highlight those in this special issue. We identify s...
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Jennifer Drake, Dean Young, Nicholas McIntosh
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The transportation of pollutants from impervious surfaces during runoff events to receiving water bodies is a serious environmental problem. Summer runoff is also heated by impervious surfaces, causing thermal enrichment in receiving water body systems a...
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