An Assessment of Local People’s Support to Private Wildlife Conservation: A Case of Save Valley Conservancy and Fringe Communities, Zimbabwe by Given Matseketsa, Billy B. Mukamuri, Never Muboko, Edson Gandiwa

“…In addition, photographs showing the nature of vandalism and sabotage imposed on the SVC ecosystem by fringe communities were also collected, as part of evidential data. …”
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Game Theory-Based UAV-Cloud for Service Selection Architecture in Flying Ad Hoc Networks by Mohamed Ben Bezziane, Siham Hasan, Bouziane Brik, Fathi Eltayeeb Abukhres, Ali Algaddafi, Amina Ben Bezziane, Ahmed Korichi, Mohamed Redouane Kafi

“…The rapid progression of Cloud Computing (CC) technology has ushered in innovative ecosystem concepts such as Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). …”
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Biodiversité et viabilité de l'agriculture paysanne dans la Réserve de Biosphère Sierra de Manantlán, Mexique by Enrique J. Jardel Peláez, Sergio H. Graf Montero, Eduardo Santana C., Ricardo Ávila Palafox

“…Biodiversity is a fundamental property of life and an essential component of ecosystem processes that regulate environmental conditions, provide the natural resources that sustain human societies and, particularly, agricultural food production. …”
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Improving hierarchical ammonium control operation in wastewater treatment with non-ideal sensors and actuators using filters, adaptive control and measurement error prediction by I. Santín, M. Meneses, C. Pedret, M. Barbu, R. Vilanova

“…Noise in ammonium measurement can lead to incorrect control actions by controllers, which can have negative consequences on the aquatic ecosystem, and greater wear on the actuators. Filters are applied with the main goal of reducing variations in ammonium measurement and, consequently, in the actuator, while improving dissolved oxygen set-point tracking. …”
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Unraveling Community Potential Interactions by Environmental DNA in the Hong Kong Coastal Waters by Sangwook Scott Lee, Zhimeng Xu, Yingdong Li, Xiaodong Zhang, Jinping Cheng, Hongbin Liu

“…ABSTRACT Traditional approaches for studying potential interactions in marine ecosystems often struggle to fully capture all taxa in a community, especially rare species. …”
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Quantifying 3D coral reef structural complexity from 2D drone imagery using artificial intelligence by Aviv Suan, Simone Franceschini, Joushua Madin, Elizabeth Madin

“…Coral reef ecosystems hold important biological, ecological and economic value, but are in decline due to a combination of global and local stressors resulting in loss of reef structural complexity and biodiversity. …”
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Aquatic Invertebrate Antimicrobial Peptides in the Fight Against Aquaculture Pathogens by Tomás Rodrigues, Francisco Antonio Guardiola, Daniela Almeida, Agostinho Antunes

“…Harnessing the potential of AMPs represents a significant step forward on the path to aquaculture sustainability, reducing antibiotic dependency, and combating AMR, ultimately safeguarding public health and ecosystem resilience.…”
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Opinion: Understanding the impacts of agriculture and food systems on atmospheric chemistry is instrumental to achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals by A. P. K. Tai, A. P. K. Tai, A. P. K. Tai, L. Luo, B. Luo

“…In this opinion article, we first succinctly review our current understanding of agricultural and food-system emissions of Nr and other atmospherically relevant compounds; their fates and impacts on air quality, human health, and terrestrial ecosystems; and how such emissions can be potentially mitigated through better cropland management, livestock management, and whole-food-system transformation. …”
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Correlation Between Flying Insect Diversity and Environmental Factors in Various Land Use Types in Paseh District, Sumedang Regency, West Java by Susanti Withaningsih, Bilhaq Fahmi Ilmi, Parikesit Parikesit

“…This research is important for understanding how land use types and environmental factors influence flying insect diversity, which is crucial for conserving biodiversity and maintaining essential ecosystem services such as pollination and pest control. …”
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Dropping out of school: A psychosocial approach by Hilal Meryem, Hicham Khabbache, Driss Ait Ali

“…Discussion and Conclusion: A proactive approach within the school ecosystem is crucial. Combating school dropout effectively involves improving the quality of life in schools, eliminating violence, and providing specialized support through school psychologists and assistants. …”
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Effect of intercropping Lolium perenne in Ziziphus jujuba orchards on soil quality in the canopy by Yao Ma, Bin Cao, Xiaojia Wang, Weijun Chen

“…A pertinent question is whether varying densities of ryegrass intercropping can improve the uptake of nutrients and water by the jujube tree, the primary species in this ecosystem. In this context, a 2-year field experiment was conducted with three densities of perennial ryegrass intercropped with Lingwu jujube. …”
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Deep learning technology: enabling safe communication via the internet of things by Ramiz Salama, Hitesh Mohapatra, Tuğşad Tülbentçi, Fadi Al-Turjman

“…Preventing such attacks on the IoT ecosystem is essential to ensuring its security.MethodsThis paper introduces a software-defined network (SDN)-enabled solution for vulnerability discovery in IoT systems, leveraging deep learning. …”
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Minimal sourced and lightweight federated transfer learning models for skin cancer detection by Vikas Khullar, Prabhjot Kaur, Shubham Gargrish, Anand Muni Mishra, Prabhishek Singh, Manoj Diwakar, Anchit Bijalwan, Indrajeet Gupta

“…The identified minimal and lightweight resource based EfficientNetV2S with images of shape $$\:32\times\:32\times\:3$$ have been applied for federated learning ecosystem. Both, identically and non-identically distributed datasets of shape $$\:32\times\:32\times\:3$$ have been applied and analyzed through federated learning implementations. …”
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Nanocomposite treatment of hospital wastewater; Prophylaxis toxicity in the freshwater crayfish muscles and hepatopancreas by Hend A. Sabry, Sally M. Salaah, Marwa M. El-Naggar, Elham H.A. Ali, Magdy T. Khalil, Amal A.E. Ibrahim, Amr B. Mostafa

“…The vulnerability of hospital wastewater (HWW) to natural ecosystems makes it a serious threat to health and well-being. …”
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Variation in Benthic Macroinvertebrates Along aLongitudinal Gradient of a Disturbed Nyakambu Stream Kabale District Southwestern Uganda. by Byaruhanga, Benson

“…In the tropics the demands for domestic water are common (Mathooko et al. 2009), which become detrimental to the associated water resources when they exceed the tolerance range of the macroinvertebrate community and also affect individual taxa composition, thus impacting stream ecosystem functioning (Meyer 1997; Wagenhoff et al. 2011). …”
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Canopy structure modulates the sensitivity of subalpine forest stands to interannual snowpack and precipitation variability by M. Berkelhammer, G. F. M. Page, G. F. M. Page, F. Zurek, C. Still, C. Still, M. S. Carbone, M. S. Carbone, W. Talavera, L. Hildebrand, J. Byron, K. Inthabandith, A. Kucinski, M. Carlson, K. Foss, W. Brown, R. W. H. Carroll, A. Simonpietri, M. Worsham, I. Breckheimer, I. Breckheimer, A. Ryken, R. Maxwell, R. Maxwell, D. Gochis, M. S. Raleigh, E. Small, K. H. Williams, K. H. Williams

“…</p></li></ol><p> Combining data generated from natural gradients in stand density, like this experiment, with results from controlled forest-thinning experiments can be used to develop a better understanding of the responses of forested ecosystems to futures with reduced spring snowpack.</p>…”
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Characterising the short- and long-term impacts of tropical cyclones on mangroves using the Landsat archive by Emma Asbridge, Claire Krause, Richard Lucas, Christopher J. Owers, Kerrylee Rogers, Leo Lymburner, Norman Mueller, Emma Ai, Sebastian Wong

“…Understanding these patterns is critical as the changing frequency and intensity of cyclones and compounding effects of climate change, particularly sea-level rise, threaten mangroves and their ecosystem services. Improvements in Earth observation data, particularly satellite-based sensors and datacube environments, have enhanced capacity to classify time-series data and advanced landscape monitoring. …”
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The potential of fungi-bacterial biofilm, compost, and LOF compared with chemical fertilization in supporting the growth of pakcoi (Brassica rapa var chinensis) by Rosariastuti Retno, Rosada Hanifati, Sutami, Irawan Evi, Nugraha Setyo, Simamarta Rumella, Haryuni

“…These findings support climate change mitigation strategies by reducing chemical fertilizers that contribute to carbon emissions while adopting sustainable agricultural practices that utilize biofilms and organic materials to increase productivity while maintaining ecosystem health.…”
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Extinction studies in focus: Reflections on photography at a time of ecological decline by Kate Simpson, Sarah Oakes, Aureja Stirbyte, Katie Prosser, Timothy M. Brown, Jonathan David Roberts, Amy J. Bartlett

“…Through compositional inclusion or exclusion, the photograph can assert and communicate what belongs in a picture, in a landscape, in an ecosystem. It can illuminate what we deem conservation-worthy, or, on a larger scale, which extinctions are attention-worthy. …”
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The heterogeneity of Pinus yunnanensis plantation growth was driven by soil microbial characteristics in different slope aspects by Zhongmu Li, Yong Chai, Chengjie Gao, Jin Li, Kai Cui

“…However, the mechanism of how this aspect changes the underground ecosystem and thus affects the growth of aboveground trees is not clear. …”
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