Sites naturels sacrés et conservation des ressources marines et côtières en milieu traditionnel diola (Sénégal) by Claudette Soumbane Diatta, Malick Diouf, Charlotte Karibuhoye, Amadou Abdoul Sow

“…Moreover, they have a vital role for the preservation of natural resources and the biodiversity in general and then, undoubtedly present an ecological interest. …”
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Stewardship Ecosystem Services Study: Carbon Stores on Florida Forest Stewardship Program Lands by Nilesh Timilsina, Francisco J. Escobedo, Alison E. Adams, Sonia Delphin

“…Ecosystem services are benefits from nature that are directly enjoyed, consumed, or used by humans, such as water quality improvement or protection, recreation, biodiversity, and even timber. Another benefit from forests that is gaining interest is their ability to store carbon through the photosynthetic capture of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in tree, plant, and soil biomass. …”
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Salicornia as a salt-tolerant crop: potential for addressing climate change challenges and sustainable agriculture development by Shambhu, Katel, Yadav, Shubh Pravat Singh, Turuyasingura, Benson, Mehta, Aman

“…Salicornia L. presents a promising opportunity for sustainable agriculture and economic development as it may improve the lives and livelihoods of underprivileged groups while also benefiting the environment through carbon sequestration, soil preservation, and biodiversity preservation.…”
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Examining Factors Responsible For the Continued Illegal Use of Wildlife Resources at Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. by Muhumuza, Ambrose

“…The illegal use of wildlife is a threat to biodiversity globally, causing negative biological. ecological, economic, and social impacts and acting as a primary threat to maintaining national parks. …”
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Influence of Government Policy on Climatic Changes: A Case Study of Kigezi Region South Western Uganda. by Maniraguha, Alex

“…The government came up with policies to ensure that all stakeholders addressed climate change impacts and their causes through appropriate measures promoting sustainable development and a green economy for example, the Disaster Preparedness and Management Policy (DPM) 2010 the policy calls for proactive efforts to reduce the causes and the negative impacts of climate change, environmental policy(l995) that were the umbrella framework that recognized the importance of the conservation and restoration of ecosystems, biodiversity and ecological processes, Energy policy, 2002 the goal of the energy policy (2002) met the energy needs of the Ugandan population for social and economic development in an environmentally sustainable manner. …”
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Indirect and direct interactions between grain aphid and parasitoid in the presence of symbiont Regiella insecticola by Yue Man, Delu Li, Minghui Wang, Zuqing Hu, Jean-Luc Gatti, Nicolas Desneux, Peng Han, Chen Luo

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Circular economy and inclusion as effective tools to prevent ecological threats in rural areas during military operations by V.G. Shcherbak, Y.I. Danko, S. Tereshchenko, O. Nifatova, N. Dehtiar, O. Stepanova, V. Yatsenko

“…Research highlights innovations and inclusive practices enhance biodiversity by 25 percent and boost agricultural productivity by 20 percent. …”
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Fecal microbiome change in patients with ulcerative colitis after fecal microbiota transplantation by A. Y. Tikunov, V. V. Morozov, A. N. Shvalov, A. V. Bardasheva, E. V. Shrayner, O. A. Maksimova, I. O. Voloshina, V. V. Morozova, V. V. Vlasov, N. V. Tikunova

“…The obtained results showed that FT led to an increase in average biodiversity in samples after FT compared to samples before FT; however, the difference was not significant. …”
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Metagenome-assembled-genomes recovered from the Arctic drift expedition MOSAiC by William Boulton, Asaf Salamov, Igor V. Grigoriev, Sara Calhoun, Kurt LaButti, Robert Riley, Kerrie Barry, Allison A. Fong, Clara J. M. Hoppe, Katja Metfies, Kersten Oetjen, Sarah Lena Eggers, Oliver Müller, Jessie Gardner, Mats A. Granskog, Anders Torstensson, Marc Oggier, Aud Larsen, Gunnar Bratbak, Andrew Toseland, Richard M. Leggett, Vincent Moulton, Thomas Mock

“…This set of MAGs can be used to benchmark microbial biodiversity in the Central Arctic Ocean, compare individual strains across space and time, and to study changes in Arctic microbial communities from the winter to summer, at a genomic level.…”
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Deep-Learning-Based Land Cover Mapping in Franciacorta Wine Growing Area by Girma Tariku, Isabella Ghiglieno, Andres Sanchez Morchio, Luca Facciano, Celine Birolleau, Anna Simonetto, Ivan Serina, Gianni Gilioli

“…Land cover mapping is essential to understanding global land-use patterns and studying biodiversity composition and the functioning of eco-systems. …”
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Understanding Multiple Ecosystem Services of Urban Agriculture Across Scales by Jiangxiao Qiu, Hui Zhao

“…We found a general agreement that urban agriculture could deliver: (1) food production; (2) microclimate and air quality regulation; (3) stormwater retention; (4) waste management and nutrient recycling; (5) biodiversity conservation; (6) climate regulation and mitigation; (7) energy conservation; and (8) social-cultural values. …”
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Des SfN avant l’heure : ce que nous en disent les opérations de mitigation urbaine en zone inondable. Le cas des villes ligériennes by Marie Fournier, Mathilde Gralepois

“…In France, the urban development of floodplains is increasingly attempting to combine flood risk management, recreation, education, biodiversity and environmental preservation. This article proposes a critical reading of several risk mitigation projects through the lens of the Nature-based Solutions (NBS) concept. …”
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Gouverner un territoire de l’eau à partir de considérations sur les savoirs liés à la production du paysage by Jacques-Aristide Perrin

“…Given how landscape issues are addressed in the implementation of this policy, its current framework does not make it possible to depart from a sector-based management approach focused on biodiversity. To this end, using field observations, we put forward a proposal focused on landscape-related knowledge as a method for implementing this public policy governing waterscapes.…”
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Amblypygi (Arachnida) occurrence in a protected area from the Brazilian Cerrado by Gabriel de Castro Jacques

“…., a result that expands the geographical distribution of H. cheiracanthus, hitherto unpublished for southeastern Brazil, and reaffirms the importance of the Grande Sertão Veredas National Park in protecting natural resources and biodiversity.…”
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Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural Field by Jorje Ignacio Zalles

“…From a natural sciences perspective, efforts directed at the conservation of biodiversity are based upon what is known as conservation biology. …”
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New records of the rare dragonfly, Black Pennant – Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825) (Insecta: Odonata) in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Toni Koren, Domen Trkov, Kaja Vukotić, Mitja Črne

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Dealing with complexity – Integrating LCA, ERA and ESA to assess human impacts and benefits on the biosphere by Cesare Sposito, Giuseppe De Giovanni

“… How we live, regardless of where this happens, impacts the biosphere and leads to chain reactions in different spheres that affect both nature and humans on a global scale: climate change, health risks, and loss of biodiversity all concur in a polycrisis condition that amplifies the state of uncertainty surrounding our future and the vulnerability of the entire ecosystem, especially since the design actions put in place do not address the cogent environmental issue systemically and holistically. …”
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Green actions for innovative cities. The new agri-food landscape by Emanuele Sommariva, Nicola Valentino Canessa, Giorgia Tucci

“…., flooding, heat islands), or to promote the conservation, resilience and biodiversity of natural habitats. Specifically, urban agriculture and community gardens play an important role, helping to secure various socio-ecological benefits on a local basis and to promote access to healthy, Zero Km sources. …”
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Prośrodowiskowe kształtowanie terenów zieleni - propozycje dla dzielnicy Ursynów m.st. Warszawy by Justyna Staroszczyk, Antoni Skowroński

“…It presents selected methods of shaping green areas and nursing plants, which are in common use in Western Europe and USA, but are under-used in Poland, the main aim of the article is to propose solutions which allow to shape green areas in the Ursynów district of Warsaw in favor of environmental protection e.g. in a way that makes it possible to preserve biodiversity or reduce drink water use.…”
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Impact of Hypoxia on the Community Structure of Benthic Macroinvertebrates of Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria by Nkwoji Joseph Ahamefula

“…There was generally low biodiversity indicating the stressed nature of the study area. © JASEM Keywords: Hypoxia, diversity, benthic, macroinvertebrates, lagoon…”
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