Ecosystems and Ecology
The role of universities as entrepreneurship ecosystems in the era of climate change: A new theory of entrepreneurial ecology
... and ecology, and combining spatial analysis with material flows analysis, this paper aims to connect entrepreneurship, climate change and university education through the generalised notion of ...entrepreneurial ...
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A Global Forum on Ultramafic Ecosystems: From Ultramafic Ecology to Rehabilitation of Degraded Environments
... Serpentine Ecology (ICSE) has been building as a multidisciplinary group of scientists who study and aid in the conservation of serpentine biota, which are unique ecosystems glob- ...evolutionary ...
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What can ecosystems learn? Expanding evolutionary ecology with learning theory
... natural ecosystems is an empirical matter – and from this work we recognise it as a matter that is centrally important to the possibility of collective behaviours that are more than the sum of the individual ...
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The biophysics, ecology, and biogeochemistry of functionally diverse, vertically and horizontally heterogeneous ecosystems: the Ecosystem Demography model, version 2.2 – Part 1: Model description
... Previous analysis by Levine et al. (2016) has shown that the dynamic, fine-scale heterogeneity and functional diver- sity of the plant canopy in ED-2.2 is essential for captur- ing macro-scale patterns in tropical forest ...
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Soil Fauna as Webmasters, Engineers and Bioindicators in Ecosystems: Implications for Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Agriculture
... Abstract: Soil biodiversity comprised the organisms that spend all or a portion of their life cycles within the soil or on its immediate surface. Soil Fauna are those organisms that inhabit the soil (include arthropods, ...
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Biodiversity Conservation in the Anthropocene?
... Understanding novel 454 ecosystems challenges traditional approaches within conservation biology; it requires isolated 455 sub-disciplines invasive ecology, extinction biology, community[r] ...
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Sustainable Intensification of Tropical Agro Ecosystems: Need and Potentials
... agro- ecosystems renders them more labor-intensive compared to mechanized cultivation in monocultures, even after the initially high labor demand is reduced due to self-regulation, and despite the manifold higher ...
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Biology and conservation ecology of selected saproxylic beetle species in Tasmania‘s southern forests
... As Tasmania‘s forests differ from European forests, the development of useful techniques for managing dead-wood habitat in Tasmania will require a thorough understanding of the dynamics and workings of Tasmania‘s forests ...
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Predicting Ecosystem Response to Perturbation from Thermodynamic Criteria
... of ecosystems will ultimately have a thermodynamic basis ...traditional ecology is sup- planted by a more integral approach in which systems are thermodynamically embedded ...
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Eco- Industrial parks and their potential contribution to sustainable industrialization
... The vision of industrial ecology is to shift from mere industrial systems to industrial ecosystems and also towards complete cyclicity in material and energy flow.. Industrial ecology in[r] ...
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An ecosystem approach to understanding and managing within-host parasite community dynamics
... free-living ecosystems, suggesting there are ‘assembly rules’ within the ...communities. Ecology theory suggests that community assembly is determined by a balance of deterministic processes ...
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Ecology in health: Beyond medical ecology
... Medical Ecology, because it is latent that the organism human being when becomes ill only denotes the breakdown of their equilibrium with the ecosystem, be it on a psychological, environmental, economic or even ...
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Skill ecosystems
... Skill ecosystems thinking is not immediately discernible in US policy discourse - despite the fact that the term was coined by David Finegold of the United ...skill ecosystems practice on the periphery of a ...
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Human ecology: Science or paradigm?
... human ecology, since it incorporates in itself a little of each ...human ecology is a science and a paradigm that in Brazil must dissociate itself from the European and North American epistemological ...
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ABSTRACT
... Desert ecosystems are located in regions that receive an annual rainfall less than 25. They occupy about 17 percent of all the land on our planet. Due to the extremely high temperature, low water availability and ...
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Brazilian Tropical Grassland Ecosystems: Distribution and Research Advances
... grassland ecosystems in general, are formed with a single grass, especially of the genera Brachiaria and ...ferent ecosystems in Brazil as well as for any type of intensification in animal production ...
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Ecological functioning of bacterial chitinases in soil
... In terrestrial ecosystems, bacterial chitinases may be involved in the degradation of chitinous material and in antifungal activity whereas in aquatic ecosystems chitinases mainly fun[r] ...
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Public Knowledge and Attitudes towards Climate Change and Its Impacts on Ecosystems in Grenada
... marine ecosystems of residents in the westerly parishes of ...marine ecosystems; impact of climate change on the ecosystems; marine protected areas; attitude to climate change and impacts; responses ...
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Assessment of the relative risk of water quality to ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef. A report to the Department of the Environment and Heritage Protection, Queensland Government, Brisbane - Report 13/28
... Fabricius, 2005). However, exposure to dissolved inorganic nitrogen can lead to declining calcification, higher concentrations of photo-pigments (affecting the energy and nutrient transfer between zooxanthellae and host; ...
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Teologie en ekologie
... Teologie en ekologie BJ E n g elb rech t Abstract Theology and ecology Ecology is a term traditionally used in the biological sciences The word 'ecology' used in this sense means the science which stu[.] ...
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