As our admiration for the extent and complexity of microbial ecosystems grow, we can extrapolate how our new comprehension could shape our future. No doubt, microbes can alter their environments and can be harnessed to engineer our planet as well as our
2. Ecosystems, ecosystem goals and ecosystem types 3. Methodology 4. Findings 5. Discussion: Setting an agenda for ecosystem research 6. Managerial recommendations 7. Concluding remarks CRediT authorship contribution statement Declaration of Competing Interest Acknowledgment Appendix A. Search strings and ...
and NEE was significantly inhibited under high VPD.The day-time net CO2 exchange was inhibited by heavy rainfall(cumulative rainfall40mm/day),while sustained low-intensity rainfall(rainfall length15h)stimulated soil respiration at night.The night-time respiration rate of the ecosystem(Reco)increased ...
Rainfed cropland comprises more than 80% of cultivated land worldwide9. The Loess Plateau in China is an important rainfed agricultural region that covers an area of ~9° latitude and ~11° longitude, and includes a range of climate types, including arid, semi-arid, and sub-humid25. Spring...
We present its relation to self-preservation and what follows is an additional support of the viewpoint that for an animat its environment has to be taken into account. 1 Introduction Following the "artificial life route to artificial intelligence " [19] the notion of intelligence can be based...
Second, he asserts that, “We must first use the cloud. CNBMT’s information system architectures are transitioning towards cloud computing in everything from design to use, and so it can use its own practical experience as a template to show to users and partners.” ...
The analysis of the environmental situation in urban areas is of higher importance than ever because of the altered urban ecosystem itself and its impacts ... Tobia Lakes a,Hyun-Ok Kim b - 《Ecological Indicators》 被引量: 58发表: 2012年 Monitoring and estimating drought-induced impacts on fo...
(iii) Could targeting EMDR alter the course of the disease or its responsiveness to applied therapy thereby yielding significantly greater depths of treatment response? In the context of the bone marrow microenvironment and the direct/indirect communications occurring in a temporal and spatial fashion ...
Combining yield gaps for croplands and pasturelands, the map indicates the fraction of a planning unit that could be spared if 75% of its yield gap were to be closed. Extended Data Fig. 8 Global and national priority areas for restoration. For the multiple benefits scenario and 15% restorati...
Worldwide, ecosystem services and their assessments have triggered myriads of relevant research especially inecosystem services valuation(Costanza et al., 2017;Häyhä and Franzese, 2014). While a scientific discourse has been formulated around the concept of economic valuation and its ethics, ecosyst...