Eating "rubbish"? Exploring the herbal secrets of "Laji-He," a traditional herbal rice snack from southern China by Renchuan Hu, Qianyun Wang, Zhongxin Duan, Yunan Hu, Kedao Lai, Xiaohui Cai, Ya Peng, Binsheng Luo

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β-Fructofuranosidase and β –D-Fructosyltransferase from New Aspergillus carbonarius PC-4 Strain Isolated from Canned Peach Syrup: Effect of Carbon and Nitrogen Sources on Enzyme Pr... by Gustavo Carvalho do Nascimento, Ryhára Dias Batista, Claudia Cristina Auler do Amaral Santos, Ezequiel Marcelino da Silva, Fabrício Coutinho de Paula, Danylo Bezerra Mendes, Deyla Paula de Oliveira, Alex Fernando de Almeida

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Citizen science platforms can effectively support early detection of invasive alien species according to species traits by Pablo González‐Moreno, Ana A. Anđelković, Tim Adriaens, Christophe Botella, Jakovos Demetriou, Rita Bastos, Sandro Bertolino, Celia López‐Cañizares, Franz Essl, Živa Fišer, Milka Glavendekić, Marc Herremans, Philip E. Hulme, Viola Jani, Dimitra Katsada, Periklis Kleitou, Nicola La Porta, Katharina Lapin, Marta López‐Darias, Vanessa Lozano, Angeliki F. Martinou, Damiano Oldoni, Esra Per, Stephanie Rorke, Helen E. Roy, Karl‐Manfred Schweinzer, Kristijn Swinnen, Elena Tricarico, Joana R. Vicente, Maarten de Groot, Michael J. O. Pocock

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Les sociétés jbala et la nature by Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Dominique Caubet, Younes Hmimsa, Ángeles Vicente

“…The latter is also based on natural biodiversity and on historical exchanges with the Mediterranean area. …”
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Stoichiometric Plant-Herbivore Models and Their Interpretation by Yang Kuang, Jef Huisman, James J. Elser

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Researcher in Residence: sharing the daily professional life of nature conservation by Gaëlle Ronsin

“…Creating mechanisms for getting to know each other in a transdisciplinary manner would thus improve the ways of working and responding to the pressing issues of biodiversity conservation. This article firstly traces the genesis and concretization of this experiment through the singular trajectories of its first protagonists, which inform us about the relational, institutional and professional investments made in order to “get to know each other.” …”
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Behavioral Determinants of Mating Success in Blackbuck under Semienclosed Condition: A Cross-Sectional Study in Shuklaphanta National Park, Nepal by Puja Saud, Juna Neupane, Mukesh Kumar Chalise

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FRAGSTATS: A Free Tool for Quantifying and Evaluating Spatial Patterns by Benxin Chen, Basil V. Iannone III

“…Land managers managers seeking to plan effectively for future land use that preserves biodiversity and the valuable services provided by natural ecosystems must understand land cover change and its environmental impacts. …”
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SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR FOR ASSESSING LAND DEGRADATION IN A SALT MINING AREA – OCNELE MARI CASE-STUDY by VIOLETA POENARU, ALEXANDRU BADEA, SORIN MIHAI CÎMPEANU, IULIA DANA NEGULA

“…Human activities through anthropogenic changes had negative impacts not only on land cover, but on many aspects of local, regional and global environments, including climate, biodiversity, soil condition and sediment flow. Remote sensing imagery with its useful qualitative and quantitative observations acquired repetitively and with large spatial coverage, offers opportunity for early detection and warning of land degradation risk. …”
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Main Development Directions of Agricultural Areas in the Eastern Zangezur Region by Mammadova Sheker, Abdurahmanov Faig, Humbatov Mahmud

“…The territories of the East Zangezur region, including the Kalbajar, Lachin, Gubadli, Zangilan and Jebrail districts, with their rich natural resources, biodiversity, breathtaking nature, favorable climate and agro-climatic conditions, complex geological structure and diverse landforms have attracted the attention of travelers and researchers since ancient times, which led to the study of this area. …”
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The research museum – a place of integrated knowledge production by Helmuth Trischler

“…Today they mostly position themselves as institutions of biodiversity research with their scientific programmes centre-stage and their public galleries as secondary activity. …”
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De l’enjeu de conservation au projet de territoire : Le saumon atlantique au coeur des débats by Olivier Thomas, Marie-Anne Germaine

“…The implementation of actions in favour of the conservation or of the restoration of the biodiversity often leans on the highlit of symbolic species attached to a biotope regularly presented as a heritage. …”
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Indices de structures spatiales des îlots de forêts denses dans la région des Monts Kouffé by Inoussa Toko Mouhamadou, Fatou Touré, Ismaila Toko Imorou, Brice Sinsin

“…In Benin, Monts Kouffe forest reserve undergoes anthropic pressures which are galloping population growth, a shifting cultivation, anarchy meadow and poaching, unfair forestry woods using, forested ecosystems' dysfunction and loss of biodiversity. The aim of this study is to characterize Monts Kouffe forest reserve and periphery’s dense forests islands in order to present their spatio-temporal dynamic. …”
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Le paysagiste et l'écologue : comment obtenir une meilleure collaboration opérationnelle ? by Sylvain Morin, Sébastien Bonthoux, Philippe Clergeau

“…However, the implementation of biodiversity conservation objectives at the local level is still very light. …”
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AGRICULTURE AS A UNIFER OF SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE FACE OF FREE MARKET CHALLENGES by Krzysztof PRENDECKI

“…Sustainable development should ensure sufficient food supply for the population in various living conditions, maintain compliance with food health safety, and keep the needs of biodiversity into consideration. Over the last few decades, agriculture has undergone a huge change, and attention should be paid to the quality of food products, the fulfillment of conditions, and actions that must be taken at many stages of production and food trade in order to ensure an adequate human existence. …”
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Alpine research today by Jean-Jacques Brun

“…This article aims to show: (1) how international Alpine research coordination is organised; (2) the role played by the Alpine Convention as a framework of reference for specifically Alpine research; and (3) the role that the ISCAR international commit-tee and the Interreg “Alpine Space” programmes play in uniting research around territorial challenges relating to biodiversity conservation and territorial development.…”
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Acquiring Funds from NFEP&WM by Religious Entities for Pro-environmental Activities by Artur Michalski

“…Over the last 30 years, the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFEP&WM) has been the main source of funding investments and other pro-ecological activities in Poland in the following areas: protection and sustainable management of water resources, support for projects in the scope of low-emission and resource-efficient economy, including innovation; waste management; earth surface protection, geology and mining; atmosphere protection, including improving air quality; biodiversity protection, environmental monitoring, counteracting environmental threats, ecological education, expertise and scientific and research works. …”
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Mining the Ocean Genome: Global Bioprospecting Expeditions and Genomic Extractivism on the Oceanic Frontier by Amedeo Policante, Erica Borg

“…Finally, we theorize the peculiar global mobility of bioprospecting vessels as constituting a practice of social construction of the ocean: a peculiar form of scientific navigation, which is already engendering new social uses of marine biodiversity, new strategies of capital accumulation, as well as innovative representations of ocean ecosystems.…”
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Typhonium morangense (Araceae), a new species from the tropical forest of Eastern Nepal by Rijan Ojha, Sudeep Rai, Harald Schneider

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Humanity, Nature, and the Supernatural in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Sabri Mnassar

“…It suggests that this worldview is articulated in various ways in the tale such as the emphasis on the intrinsic value of nature, the celebration of biodiversity, and the condemnation of the anthropocentric outlook on the natural world. …”
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