We track the impacts of toxic pollution on ecosystem health and then — human health. Three periods are identified: (a) natural, pre-industrial state; (b) disturbed, under rapid economic development; and (c) partial recovery, during recent economic meltdown. The ecosystem is shown to ...
Human activity selectively impacts the ecosystem roles of parrotfishes on coral reefs Around the globe, coral reefs and other marine ecosystems are increasingly overfished. Conventionally, studies of fishing impacts have focused on the popul... DR Bellwood,AS Hoey,TP Hughes - 《Proceedings of the...
Together natural growth, afforestation and forest disturbance, such as felling, contribute to the dynamic nature of forests. Thus to enhance forest management, water resource management and carbon sequestration, the net effect of forest changes on water yield must be better understood. Here, we condu...
In the context of mental health, conceptual and semi-quantitative models have been established to evaluate cause (disaster direct and secondary effects) and effect (resilience and recovery within a community as measured by economic stability, housing stability, physical well-being, mental well-being,...
effect traits. The functional effect of a species on an ecosystem is thought to be proportional to its contribution to total biomass across the ecological community (that is, the effect traits of dominant species drive ecosystem function, the so-called mass ratio hypothesis27). Species may also ...
Recovery of partial 16S rDNA sequences suggests the presence of Crenarchaeota in the human digestive ecosystem. Current Microbiology . 2005; 51 (5):317–321.Rieu-Lesme F, Delbes C & Sollelis L (2005) Recovery of partial 16S rDNA sequences suggests the presence of Crenarchaeota in the human...
Assessing ecosystem recovery after anthropogenic disturbances and identifying plant species that may facilitate vegetation regeneration are critical for the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban areas. At the periphery of Mexico City, illegal human settlements produced different levels of...
A PCoA based on species-level abundance showed that disease effect surpassed the batch effect (Fig. 2a–c). The Guangzhou patients had similar distributions in PCoA1 and PCoA2 with patients in the Fudan cohort, and lower median values than the controls. Furthermore, the CRC status explained ...
Drastic changes in vegetation structure caused by exceeding ecological thresholds have fueled the interest in tropical forest responses to climate and land-use changes. Here, we examine the potential successional trajectories experienced by the largest d
CO2is trivial given the massive human overpopulation, the destruction of nature, the pollution of environment that supports life on earth. While global warming may be true, it may also not be true - certainly most of the effect will be due to the sun, it is hard to say what the human ...