The phrase "to be on a nation's soil" is used as a poetic means to express our connection to country, to home. Soils give us a sense of place in our environment, a sense of geography. Our language abounds with phrases such as being "grounded" and "down to earth". Although we ...
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OM percentage within the soil expands as the cycle continues; more nutrients are securely stored as humus develops.Measuring OM increasesis a long-term process, but not the life-long endeavor everyone once believed. In other words, you can improve your soil a lot faster than you think. With ...
Tree species represent 20% of the vascular plant species worldwide and they play a crucial role in the global functioning of the biosphere. The Mediterranean Basin is one of the 36 world biodiversity hotspots, and it is estimated that forests covered 82%
In principle, economic research can contribute to make better decisions in two ways: (1) The economic valuation of ecosystem services, i.e., their assessment in monetary terms, can help to give those ecosystem services equal consideration in policy processes, whose value is usually not ...
In summary: the geological record shows us that carbon cycling and deep ocean communities were different in warmer oceans, which we can mechanistically explain as a consequence of the temperature-dependence of the BCP8,28,29. An important question, then, is whether comparable changes might arise ...
The ecological commons includes provisioning (e.g., food, raw materials, medicine, water supplies), regulating (e.g., climate, water, soil retention, flood retention), cultural (e.g., science and education, artistic, spiritual), and supporting (e.g., soil formation, nutrient cycling, water...
In particular, nature-based tourism such as cycling and boating is expected to have some potential for the further economic development of Lusatia, but other economic development options like “energy landscapes” with a large-scale installation of photovoltaic parks may have a negative impact on ...
is exceedingly complex for four main reasons. First, changes in conservation land management may affect various ecosystem services differently, and management requires making judgments about trade-offs depending on the service, temporal horizon, spatial scale or geography [18]. Second, there is an ...
In 2001, the OECD (2001) highlighted the growing importance of territorial units in explaining development gaps, shifting the focus from the national to the regional level. OECD noted that each area has its own "territorial capital" based on local geography, climate, traditions, business networks...