• 4 Changing the mode of agricultural labor from tractors and chemicals to soil biota, she argues, is "likely to reproduce and may reinforce the existing dynamics of domination and exploitation of environments" in which "the natural world is not just commodified, but reorganized in the service of capital accumulation. (dukeupress.edu)
  • Yet she reminds that "soil biota [are] powerful and unknown agents of planetary change. (dukeupress.edu)
  • Emerging contaminants are consistently and indirectly manufactured for global use and have now been found in all corners of the earth - in the water, soil, air, and biota. (envirotech-online.com)
  • To quantify the impacts of climate change on hydrological regime and subsequently the stream biota, we linked SWAT-MODFLOW (A model coupling the Soil and Water Assessment Tool and the Modular Finite-difference Flow Model) with flow-biota empirical models that included indices for three key biological taxonomic identities (fish, macroinvertebra. (metu.edu.tr)
  • Superior strains of rhizobia can be selected from the diversity of native soil bacteria with no need for genetic modifications. (fao.org)
  • We highlight the need to the conservation of sand tidal flats, mostly because of their high diversity, location in a transitional zone between marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems (connected with mangrove forests), in addition to the economic importance, and anthropogenic pressure. (biotaneotropica.org.br)
  • The scope of the roadmap includes marine, freshwater, the terrestrial environment, our distinct biota, and climate and atmosphere issues, and will extend geographically from the Antarctic to our tropical territories and cover our exclusive economic zone. (informedfutures.org)
  • 2023. Developing methods for assessing trophic magnification of perfluoroalkyl substances within an urban terrestrial avian food-web. (sfu.ca)
  • 2021. Fugacity-Based Trophic Magnification Factors Characterize Bioaccumulation of Cyclic Methyl Siloxanes within an Urban Terrestrial Avian Food Web: Importance of Organism Body Temperature and Composition . (sfu.ca)
  • 2019. Trophic Magnification of Legacy Persistent Organic Pollutants in an Urban Terrestrial Food-Web . (sfu.ca)
  • The terrestrial biota plays an important role in the regulation of atmospheric composition and climate. (lu.se)
  • But likewise, an increasing number of studies demonstrate that, beyond CO 2 , atmospherically fast reactive substances that are emitted or consumed by the terrestrial biota, including by vegetation fires, also play a significant role for our understanding of the climate system. (lu.se)
  • Broad consensus exists on the need for a quantification of their regional sources and sinks, their link to the terrestrial carbon cycle and how they respond to climate and landcover/land use change. (lu.se)
  • Chemical toxicity represents an ecological threat to almost half of all European bodies of water, and in approximately 15% of cases, the biota in freshwater systems may even be subject to acute mortality. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This may occur through processes of depletion (withdrawal of most of the available ground water), degradation (chemicals used in the urban area keep into the ground and contaminate the ground water), and preemption (cost or restrictions on pumping ground water from under extensively urbanized areas may he prohibitive). (usgs.gov)
  • 2006), evaluate residency time of toxic chemicals and effects on biota (e.g. (eopugetsound.org)
  • We start with Professor Edward Kolodziej, whose research group at the University of Washington is working to characterize emerging contaminant fate and transport, and focuses in particular on understanding chemicals with adverse effects on fish that are present in urban storm waters and roadway runoff. (envirotech-online.com)
  • We carried out a decadal pollution survey between 2008 and 2018 to determine the levels of various pollutants (nutrients, trace metals, persistent organic pollutants, and 210Po) in water, sediment, and biota collected from selected locations in Kenya. (intechopen.com)
  • Massive accumulation of plastic particles has been reported for marine ecosystems around the world, posing a risk to the biota. (plastic-network.org)
  • Lastly, the project is planning to model dispersal of MPs in terms of their geographical sources - urban, water catchment and marine - accompanied by "hot spot" forecasting, and to assess their impact on the biota and the functioning of ecosystems. (pole-mer-bretagne-atlantique.com)
  • The primary factors contributing to chemical contamination of aquatic ecosystems are the discharge from agricultural activities, urban areas and municipal sewage treatment plants. (sciencedaily.com)
  • thus, there is a need for continuous monitoring to protect both ecosystem and human health. (intechopen.com)
  • The new trope of developing and merchandizing 'ecosystem services' is a daring candidate for defining the new mode in which urban pedogeneses will exist in the future. (dukeupress.edu)
  • We know that the urban environment is an intricate ecosystem of human-created and natural factors that coexist within urban areas. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • Because of immediate information needs, we focus our efforts on the models that identify and compare threats to the Salish Sea ecosystem and identify indicators of threats or ecosystem condition in this Science Update. (eopugetsound.org)
  • https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=fall-socially-distant-bioblitz-dfw-urban-ecosystem-2022&verifiable=any&place_id=any This is filterable, so if you want to know what beetles were documented this week, you can filter by that (158 unique beetles were documented in the Dallas/Fort Worth area! (inaturalist.org)
  • https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=fall-socially-distant-bioblitz-dfw-urban-ecosystem-2022&verifiable=any&view=species How many of these have you seen? (inaturalist.org)
  • Vegetable production in peri-urban areas. (fao.org)
  • Our progressively hotter global climate will continue to increase urban heat, raise sea levels, increase urban flooding and speed up the loss of native biodiversity. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • To manage urban heat and increase our safety and wellbeing, we will be looking to re-establish more natural environments within our urban environment, empower Indigenous peoples and their knowledge, create new programs of tree planting, reintroduce biodiversity, renaturalise our waterways and use biomaterials to construct our built environment. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • This must occur concurrent with our reduction in energy consumption and as we reconnect our green and blue urban infrastructure into a quality network for people and urban biodiversity. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • Quite a few folks used the tool of iNaturalist to document urban biodiversity. (inaturalist.org)
  • The focus on 'state' indicators reflects the need to know how much biodiversity there is. (parliament.uk)
  • Urban areas commonly rely on ground water for at least part of the municipal water supply, and as population increases, urban areas expand and require larger volumes of water. (usgs.gov)
  • However, the expansion of an urban area can reduce ground-water availability. (usgs.gov)
  • The diminished availability of natural resources caused by expansion of urban areas is not unique to water resources. (usgs.gov)
  • In 1996, the U.S. Geological Survey began work on a national initiative designed to provide information on the availability of those natural resources (water, minerals, energy, and biota) that are critical to maintaining the Nation's infrastructure or that may become less available because of urban expansion. (usgs.gov)
  • Finally, we present water circulation models because they are focused on identifying the cause of an event (low oxygen levels in Hood Canal) of concern to many because of the negative effects on biota. (eopugetsound.org)
  • Use this tool to find the optimal design for harvesting the water you need while providing the maximum protection for your local creek. (mwrpp.org)
  • To address this need, we at Raincoast are launching the Healthy Waters Program , a new community-oriented water pollution monitoring initiative," announces Peter Ross. (waterbucket.ca)
  • Water resources globally are affected by a complex mixture of stressors resulting from a range of drivers, including urban and agricultural land use, hydropower generation and climate change. (metu.edu.tr)
  • This paper details the nature of these problems for Europe's water resources and the need to find solutions at a rang. (metu.edu.tr)
  • LAIA commits to revolutionizing the urban landscape through rethinking the city at land and water mediums and by working along with leading companies within the construction industry. (laia.org)
  • It is suggested that teeth stain needs further studies because they can be an important indicator of the presence of iron and/or other metals in the water. (bvsalud.org)
  • Rachel Richter & Sam Kieschnick, Urban Biologists for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, & Bruce Benz, Chair of the Biology Department at Texas Wesleyan University will lead the iNaturalist training in preparation for Tandy Hills BioBlitz (April 22-23). (texasprairie.org)
  • The in-the-field training will be a hands-on experience - where Sam and Rachel will take participants through specific steps of the iNaturalist program by actually taking photos, identifying the biota & uploading the information to the iNaturalist system. (texasprairie.org)
  • We sampled bird assemblages in nine protected areas (14.8-1058 ha) of the metropolitan region of João Pessoa, Northeast Brazil, to test the hypothesis that larger urban reserves are more effective than smaller ones in protecting the regional species richness, as more habitat and environmental heterogeneity are available for birds. (perspectecolconserv.com)
  • Kairis 2010, Casola 2009), assess the implications of alternative urban growth patterns (e.g. (eopugetsound.org)
  • Mindful of the special hydrographic and ecological characteristics of the marine environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and the particular vulnerability of its coral reefs where most biota exist. (informea.org)
  • Conscious of the need to ensure that the processes of urban and rural development and resultant land use should be carried out in such a manner as to preserve, as far as possible, marine resources and coastal amenities, and that such developments should not lead to deterioration of the marine environment. (informea.org)
  • have described the spatio-temporal variation of mollusc assemblage in a coastal urban bay near a Marine Extractive Reserve (RESEX), where several human activities are performed. (biotaneotropica.org.br)
  • Results from this modeling effort suggest that the major contributors of risk to the Cherry Point near shore marine environment are vessel traffic, upland urban and agricultural land use, and shoreline recreational activities (Hayes and Landis 2004). (eopugetsound.org)
  • This is having an effect on ocean chemistry, making the waters more acidic and reducing the levels of calcium carbonate minerals needed by many marine organisms to build shells and skeletons. (soci.org)
  • As our urban environments move into post-pandemic norms, it is expected that population growth rates will return to pre-pandemic levels, as will the associated pressures on our urban environment: consumption, pollution, congestion and waste. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • We know that shocks and stresses to our urban environments are forecast to continue and indeed increase in frequency and severity. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • We know that urban environments have not meaningfully reflected the custodianship and belonging of Indigenous peoples. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • To counter the adverse implications of these trends, urban citizens, planners and governments are responding and recognising that our urban environments must change and adapt. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • There is growing recognition that we must build greater resilience into our urban environments at the same time as reducing the factors that are driving these shocks and stresses - the generation of greenhouse gases and the unsustainable use of our natural resources. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • Opportunities include increasing our access to green spaces, urban ecology, jobs and services through more sustainable methods and concepts such as the 5-minute neighbourhood and the 30-minute global city. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • Better collaboration among stakeholders across the entire PET bottles lifecycle is needed to ensure sustainable resource management and food contact safety of rPET. (plasticpollutioncoalition.org)
  • This study shows the potential for P. vivax to reestablish transmission and counsels public health authorities about the need for vigilance to achieve or maintain sustainable malaria elimination. (cdc.gov)
  • Maintaining their identity while integrating into the human and geographical environment, port cities are genuine laboratories of sustainable development within densely populated urban regions. (pole-mer-bretagne-atlantique.com)
  • It must take into account the knowledge needed to better preserve our environmental and biological heritage while considering issues of sustainable resource use, Matauranga Māori and biosecurity. (informedfutures.org)
  • Elucidating historical events seems to be a key for understanding the current and future composition of the world's biota. (sun.ac.za)
  • Not much is excluded from consideration, except that it is not the place of a research roadmap to resolve policy matters (such as, for example, specific strategies to mitigate climate change), but rather to ensure that the research that will be needed to inform policy decisions is undertaken. (informedfutures.org)
  • Seeing soils in terms of the ecological benefits they bring to humans continue modernist dreams of improving nature to serve human needs. (dukeupress.edu)
  • The European policy agenda is aimed at achieving and maintaining "good environmental" or "good ecological" status because there is recognition that the environment and its ecological structure and function need to be maintained if they are to remain economically productive and capable of supporting the health and wellbeing of people. (gov.scot)
  • While industrial and urban development has led to many benefits in society, the potential impact to our environment, and subsequently our human health, is slowly emerging. (envirotech-online.com)
  • How these plastic materials are accumulating and being assimilated in the environment and biota is unclear. (adfpi.org)
  • But to get to the next stage we need to know what is happening in wild populations in the environment. (soci.org)
  • Chl-a and PO43−-P data revealed enhance primary productivity in Mombasa peri-urban creeks and estuarine areas. (intechopen.com)
  • How will greater rates of working from home, walking and cycling, e-commerce and digital interactions more permanently change our travel patterns within and between urban areas? (dcceew.gov.au)
  • This is also recognition that we must move from siloed, service- and sector-based thinking to more collaborative, whole-of-government and place-based outcomes that do not just sustain but regenerate our urban areas and support their communities. (dcceew.gov.au)
  • Increasing numbers of structures with multiple cellular network antennas are being installed worldwide in urban, rural and wilderness areas. (wirelessenviroimpacts.science)
  • The role of urban protected areas in safeguarding bird diversity is little known. (perspectecolconserv.com)
  • Said Dr. Lindenmayer: "The first step is to prevent logging of moist forests, particularly those close to urban areas. (wcs.org)
  • Every year more than 70 % mainly in adult women from urban areas in of newly diagnosed patients are older than the fourth decade of life5. (bvsalud.org)
  • This report states that microplastic particles were found in more than 90 percent of atmospheric wet deposition samples collected from five sites in the Denver and Boulder urban corridors in Colorado. (adfpi.org)
  • As PhD students, we found it difficult to access the research we needed, so we decided to create a new Open Access publisher that levels the playing field for scientists across the world. (intechopen.com)
  • We need to better understand these exposures and their implications to improve our management of environmental quality. (envirotech-online.com)
  • This app allows you to upload your own macroinvertebrate data (from the Melbourne region) to calculate LUMaR score, a new indicator of stream condition, developed by Walsh and Webb (2013), that provides improved, consistent assessment of urban and forest-loss impacts across the Melbourne region. (mwrpp.org)
  • The roadmap is focused on the longer term and will not consider urban issues beyond those that impact on the conservation and environmental estates. (informedfutures.org)
  • The intent is to get a high level perspective on the science that the Government needs to ensure is undertaken over the next twenty years in the environmental and conservation domains. (informedfutures.org)
  • Given the importance of environmental and conservation research to New Zealand's future, and the long time frame needed for much of the research in these domains, there is value in having a clear perspective on the priorities for and the direction of research, and clarity over the roles of the different agencies involved. (informedfutures.org)
  • Thus, a vital natural resource needed to support the growth of an urban area and its infrastructure can become less available because of growth itself. (usgs.gov)
  • Forests not degraded by logging, together with the biota they support, are more resilient than degraded forests to pre-fire conditions such as higher temperatures and short-term climatic anomalies. (wcs.org)
  • Moreover, the potential effects of these materials on biota is not understood. (adfpi.org)
  • LAIA is a research lab, consultancy and company builder focused on urban planning, infrastructures, construction technologies and smart city, to sustain our society beyond the 21st century. (laia.org)
  • The results of modelling contamination sources will represent key data for assisting local policy-making decisions, particularly as regards prioritising the action needed to achieve a good environmental status by 2020. (pole-mer-bretagne-atlantique.com)
  • Focusing on the creation of new fields of scholarship on urban soils, Germaine Meulemans reflects that "in the current period, soils are becoming the very object of engineering, rather than something which just underpins it. (dukeupress.edu)
  • For example, large volumes of aggregate (sand and gravel) are used in concrete and asphalt to build and maintain the infrastructure (buildings, roads, airports, and so forth) of an urban area. (usgs.gov)
  • The Front Range urban corridor of Colorado was chosen as the demonstration area (fig. 1), and the project was titled the Front Range Infrastructure Resources Project (FRIRP). (usgs.gov)
  • What does this mean for urban planning and infrastructure strategies that have relied on infill development to optimise capacity? (dcceew.gov.au)
  • Energy resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas likewise are critical to the growth and existence of an urban area but may become less available as an urban area expands and preempts mining and drilling. (usgs.gov)
  • Abstract: With current plastic production and the growing problem of global plastic pollution, an increase and improvement in plastic recycling is needed. (plasticpollutioncoalition.org)
  • Techniques and training materials need further development. (fao.org)
  • To understand each project's specificity, LAIA Lab carries multi-scalar research related to each case study's geography, society, climate, biota, and historical conditions. (laia.org)
  • Unfortunately, the resulting drop in levels of carbonate ions is not good news for the corals and other calcifying organisms that need them to build hard structures. (soci.org)
  • Industrial production of organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs): big knowledge gaps need to be filled? (crossref.org)
  • Here, you'll gain the values, knowledge, and skills you'll need for success in every aspect of life. (liberty.edu)
  • By making research easy to access, and puts the academic needs of the researchers before the business interests of publishers. (intechopen.com)
  • Tarun: Can you tell us about the research you and your team uncovered relating to the deaths of the coho salmon population in Puget Sound's urban streams? (envirotech-online.com)
  • The roadmap will instead look out over a longer time frame of 5, 10 and 20 years and focus on the research needed to inform government policy over the next two decades. (informedfutures.org)
  • Whether you are looking for a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree, find out everything you need to know about getting into the program you want and how much it will cost for tuition and other fees. (liberty.edu)
  • There certainly have been some naturalists that have deployed methods usually reserved for more exotic places to investigate some major urban centers. (humansandnature.org)
  • This was a time when air quality became a crisis point for major urban centres. (waterbucket.ca)
  • In this context, method harmonisation is needed in order to obtain comparable data from different environmental compartments and sites. (plastic-network.org)
  • How will our greater appreciation of access to green spaces and desire for larger homes translate into demand for more suburban, urban fringe and regional development in the longer term? (dcceew.gov.au)