In general, “ecosystem service benefit (ES benefit)” is the benefit that humans receive from ecosystems (Haase et al., 2014). Of course, human activities have led to the loss of global ES (MA, 2005), and the term “ecosystem service loss” has been coined to describe the costs that...
We highlight the need to integrate belowground organisms into biodiversity research, despite differences in the scale of sampling, if we are to fully understand large-scale patterns of biodiversity and their underlying drivers, especially if processes underlying macroecological patterns differ between above...
— Kam Ghaffarian, CEO and founder of Axiom Space, posts an op-ed“on why commercial space stations are essential for driving a thriving space economy and ensuring the U.S. remains a leader in space exploration” –The Trump administration should leverage private space stations to counter China...
The funding aims to accelerate technological innovation and ecosystem development for Zhipu's GLM (General Language Model) foundation model.Zhipu has established Zhejiang Zhipu Xinpian Technology Co., Ltd. in Hangzhou, leveraging cutting-edge AI and large model technologies to better serve the thriving...
Participants were asked to choose from the variables 'Not an obstacle', Likelihood challenges, 'General constraints' and 'Serious obstacles' to a set of listed barriers to the execution of policies. Table 4 reflects the responses of the respondents. Table 4 Resources and capacity challenges to ...
In general, people around the world have a high level of acceptance about the content of the SDGs (Ipsos, 2015). The education system has an important role in raising awareness of the SDGs and in teaching skills and values that lead to more sustainable behaviour. Therefore, the United ...
On an earnings call last Thursday, Wu described AI as a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity, with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) as the company’s primary long-term objective. Wu told analysts will scale up investments in three areas as part of its broader AI strategy over the next ...
However, previous approaches have often not considered the complex trade-offs between ecosystem services during the construction of ESPs. Taking the Daning river basin in karst areas of southwest China as our study area, we improve the current methodological framework to construct an ESP by ...
Thanks to its excellent technological solution and business model design, UCOWS has met with strong market demand. In August 2017, China Telecom's Ningxia subsidiary signed a contract with Ningxia Shangling Animal Husbandry for 50,000 sets. Then in September, China Telecom's deputy general manager...
An ecosystem model is embedded in an ocean general circulation model (OGCM) and the ecosystem–physical combined model is applied to the North Pacific. The OGCM yields realistic physical environments concerning the mixed layer depth (MLD) and vertical flow except for MLD off Sanriku coast, Japan...