Contributions of abiotic nature to riverine populations in the Amazon, Brazil: an analysis based on geoenvironmental units by Raimundo Humberto Cavalcante Lima, Maria Da Gloria Motta Garcia

“…Nature is an essential public resource that provides food, clean water, energy resources, minerals and shelter for human life. To face environmental changes and the exploitation of natural resources, it is crucial to understand and manage the ecosystem services (ES) that benefit humanity and preserve the natural processes that create them. …”
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Agility Factors’ Analyses Framework in Project-Oriented Organizations through a Sustainability Approach in Large Projects Case Study: Isfahan Municipality by Ahmadreza Tahanian, Hasan Haleh, Farhad Etebari, Behnam Vahdani

“…In terms of profitability and adapting to environmental changes, generating value for the customer and responding to market needs is a challenging issue. …”
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Response and assembly of abundant and rare taxa in Zaopei under different combination patterns of Daqu and pit mud: from microbial ecology to Baijiu brewing microecosystem by Yu Mu, Jun Huang, Rongqing Zhou, Suyi Zhang, Hui Qin, Hanlan Tang, Qianglin Pan, Huifang Tang

“…The assembly processes of abundant/rare taxa and bacterial/fungal communities were distinct, and environmental changes mediated the balance between stochastic and deterministic processes in rare bacteria assembly. …”
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Familiarity of an environment prevents song suppression in isolated zebra finches. by Anja T Zai, Diana I Rodrigues, Anna E Stepien, Corinna Lorenz, Nicolas Giret, Iris Adam, Richard H R Hahnloser

“…These findings suggest that stress from social isolation is negligible compared to stress caused by environmental changes and that frequent short visits of an unfamiliar environment are detrimental rather than beneficial. …”
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Inflammatory cytokines in newborn infants by A. Sarandakou, G. Giannaki, A. Malamitsi-Puchner, D. Rizos, E. Hourdaki, E. Protonotariou, I. Phocas

“…In conclusion, the increased concentrations of IL-1 β, IL-6 and TNF-α during the perinatal period might suggest their involvement in an inflammation like process during normal parturition, and reflect also a newborn immune response to the stress of delivery and environmental changes.…”
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Identification of a comprehensive set of transcriptional regulators involved in the long-term survivability of Escherichia coli in soil by Soma Nakamoto, Ikki Kobayashi, Koichi Watanabe, Takeru Kikuta, Sousuke Imamura, Tomohiro Shimada

“…While much research has been conducted on the external environmental factors affecting the long-term survival of bacteria in soil, their inherent factors are poorly understood. To adapt to environmental changes, bacteria alter their gene expression patterns using transcriptional regulators such as sigma factors. …”
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God’s Forgotten Garden: The Role of Missionary Botany in Sino-European Exchanges by Jooyoung Hong

“…Findings show that missionaries’ botanical studies, driven by both religious and scientific interests, contributed to cross-cultural intellectual collaboration, leading to ideological–environmental changes. The research reveals that botanical exchange was not limited to science but also intertwined with political, economic, and religious interests. …”
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Habitat Assessment for the Spiny Red Gurnard <i>Chelidonichthys spinosus</i> Using Habitat Suitability Index in the East China Sea and Southern Yellow Sea by Hanye Zhang, Zunlei Liu, Xiaojing Song, Jiahua Cheng, Jianzhong Ling

“…To ensure sustainable utilization, it is crucial to understand the potential impacts of environmental changes on habitat suitability. A habitat suitability index (HSI) model was developed for <i>C. spinosus</i> based on seasonal bottom trawling survey data and remote-sensing oceanographic data collected in the East China Sea and southern Yellow Sea from 2015 to 2017. …”
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Understanding Metrics for Communicating the Economic Importance of Florida’s Fisheries Part II: Quantifying Market Activity by Robert Botta, Christa D. Court, Andrew Ropicki, Edward V. Camp

“…Understanding these differences is important for discussing the economic importance of fisheries and how they might be affected by management actions or environmental changes. This publication is the second part in a three-part series that summarizes different types of economic metrics and how they are often used in a fisheries context. …”
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Pitfalls of space-time trading when parametrizing a land use dependent hydrological model by Oudin, Ludovic, Lalonde, Morgane

“…In the context of large-scale environmental changes, understanding the relative impacts of each driver of past and future evaporation changes is necessary for land and water planning. …”
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The Contribution of Participatory Art Projects to a Good Quality of Life in Mountain Regions by Julia Grosinger, Gentiane Desveaux

“…We discuss three identified aspects that contribute to a good quality of life: (1) Awareness of environmental changes and attachment to a territory; (2) Satisfaction of and a desire for a shared life; (3) Strengthening of (self-)identity.…”
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L’apport de la psychologie cognitive à l’étude de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques : la notion de vulnérabilité cognitive by Lammel Annamaria, Dugas Emilie, Guillen Gutierrez Elisa

“…We start from the assumption that human cognition, mediated by culture, plays a central role in the adaptation to climatic and environmental changes. However, the current acceleration of global climate change perturbs the cognitive treatment of climate information. …”
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Company management systems models evaluation by Shi Lin, A. V. Bodyako

“…In recent years, several new management models have been developed that are able to adapt to environmental changes and are aimed at high performance. …”
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Building the foundation for polar bear science: fifty years of research on polar bears in Western Hudson Bay by B.A. Biddlecombe, A.E. Derocher, E. Krebs, N.J. Lunn, D. McGeachy, E.S. Richardson

“…Future research should continue to ask key questions on how long-term environmental changes impact the ecology of polar bears. …”
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Enhancing resilience to climate change: a comprehensive PRISMA review of agricultural and non-agricultural adaptation strategies for Ghana by Silas Uwumborge Takal, Abdul-Wahab Tahiru, IM Rizwanul Fattah, Samuel Jerry Cobbina, Wilhemina Asare, Samuel Kojo Abanyie

“…This study examines how Ghanaian farmers have adapted their practices to cope with environmental changes and the resulting implications for agricultural resilience. …”
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Climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems by Ryan Guild, Xiuquan Wang, Pedro A Quijón

“…As the planet undergoes unprecedented climate changes, coastal ecosystems stand at the frontline of ocean-land interactions and environmental changes. This overview explores the various climate-related challenges transforming coastal ecosystems and their responses to these pressures. …”
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Bnaslawa environmental parameters planning modelling by Shuokr Qarani Aziz

“…Naturally, the environment of Bnaslawa district (Dashti Hawler) in Erbil City-Iraqi Kurdistan region is affected by the global environmental changes. This research focused on the assessment of environmental parameters, planning, and environmental modelling in Bnaslawa district. …”
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Human Occupancy Monitoring and Positioning with Speed-Responsive Adaptive Sliding Window Using an Infrared Thermal Array Sensor by Yukai Lin, Qiangfu Zhao

“…To enhance stability in human position estimation, a dynamic sliding window adjusts its size based on movement speed, effectively handling environmental changes and uncertainties.…”
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Shoreline Stability Analysis At Merah Putih Beach, Bangkalan Regency by Dyah Ambarwati Rieke, Dwi Siswanto Aries

“…Shorelines serve as a key indicator in monitoring environmental changes in coastal areas. Shorelines can change over various time periods, triggering coastal abrasion or accretion which can be detrimental. …”
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Leading the way – presence of brown bear Ursus arctos, lynx Lynx lynx and grey wolf Canis lupus underlines the integrity and corridor function of the upper Neretva Valley in Bosnia... by Manuela Habe

“…Consequently, further systematic monitoring is recommended to assess the possible impact of human driven environmental changes. …”
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