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      Legacies of past forest management determine current responses to severe drought events of conifer species in the Romanian Carpathians 

      Hereş, A. M.; Petritan, I. C.; Bigler, C.; Curtu, A. L.; Petrea, Ş.; Petritan, A. M.; Polanco-Martínez, J. M.; Rigling, A.; Curiel Yuste, J. (Science of the Total Environment, 2021-01-10)
      Worldwide increases in droughts- and heat-waves-associated tree mortality events are destabilizing the future of many forests and the ecosystem services they provide. Along with climate, understanding the impact of the ...
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      LEVELIZED COST OF ELECTRICITY: KEY DRIVERS AND VALUATION METHODS 

      Abadie, L. M.; Chamorro, J. M. (Dyna, 2019-11-15)
      The aim of this paper is to propose an improvement over traditional approaches to the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). Basically there are two methods available. The first one considers a yearly timeframe, so it yields ...
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      Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability 

      Chan, K.M.A; Boyd, D. R.; Gould, R. K.; Jetzkowitz, J.; Liu, J.; Muraca, B.; Naidoo, R.; Olmsted, P.; Satterfield, T.; Selomane, O.; Singh, G. G.; Sumaila, R.; Ngo, H. T.; Boedhihartono, A. K.; Agard, J.; De Aguiar, A. P. D; Armenteras, D.; Balint, L.; Barrington-Leigh, C.; Cheung, W. W. L.; Driscol, J.; Díaz, S.; Esler, K.; Eyster, H.; Gregr, E. J.; Hashimoto, S.; Hernández Pedraza, G. C.; Hickler, T.; Kok, M.; Lazarova, T.; Mohamed, A. A. A.; Murray-Hudson, M.; O'Farrell, P.; Palomo, I.; Saysel, A. K.; Seppelt, R.; Settele, J.; Strassburg, B.; Xue, D.; Brondízio, E. S. (People and Nature, 2020-07-23)
      Humanity is on a deeply unsustainable trajectory. We are exceeding planetary boundaries and unlikely to meet many international sustainable development goals and global environmental targets. Until recently, there was no ...
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      Life after Harvest: Circadian Regulation in Photosynthetic Pigments of Rocket Leaves during Supermarket Storage Affects the Nutritional Quality 

      Ruiz de Larrinaga, Lorena; Resco de Dios, Víctor; Fabrikov, Dmitri; Guil Guerrero, José Luis; Becerril Soto, José María ORCID; García Plazaola, José Ignacio ORCID; Esteban Terradillos, Raquel ORCID (MDPI, 2019-08)
      Vegetables, once harvested and stored on supermarket shelves, continue to perform biochemical adjustments due to their modular nature and their ability to retain physiological autonomy. They can live after being harvested. ...
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      Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of European beef production systems based on a farm-level optimization model 

      Kokemohr, L.; Escobar, N.; Mertens, A.; Mosnier, C.; Pirlo, G.; Veysset, P.; Kuhn, T. (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022)
      The European Union (EU) is among the largest beef producers in the world. Besides the economic turnover, beef production causes adverse environmental impacts such as climate change. The sector is known for high heterogeneity ...
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      Linking Land and Sea Through an Ecological-Economic Model of Coral Reef Recreation 

      Oleson, K. L. L.; Bagstad, K. J.; Fezzi, C.; Barnes, M. D.; Donovan, M. K.; Falinski, K. A.; Gorospe, K. D.; Htun, H.; Lecky, J.; Villa, F.; Wong, T. M. (Ecological Economics, 2020-11-01)
      Coastal zones are popular recreational areas that substantially contribute to social welfare. Managers can use information about specific environmental features that people value, and how these might change under different ...
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      Linking multisectoral economic models and consumption surveys for the European Union 

      Cazcarro, I.; Amores, A.F.; Arto, I.; Kratena, K. (Economic Systems Research, 2020)
      Multisectoral models usually have a single representative household. However, more diversity of household types is needed to analyse the effects of multiple phenomena (i.e. ageing, gender inequality, distributional income ...
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      Living through multispecies societies: Approaching the microbiome with Imanishi Kinji 

      Droz, L.; Jannel, R.; Rupprecht, C.D.D. (Endeavour, 2022)
      Recent research about the microbiome points to a picture in which we, humans, are ‘living through’ nature, and nature itself is living in us. Our bodies are hosting—and depend on—the multiple species that constitute human ...
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      Local adaptation strategies to increase or maintain soil organic carbon content under arable farming in Europe: Inspirational ideas for setting operational groups within the European innovation partnership 

      Costantini, E. A. C.; Antichi, D.; Almagro, M.; Hedlund, K.; Sarno, G.; Virto, I. (Journal of Rural Studies, 2020-10-01)
      In the European Union, the setting of Operational Groups (OG) is supported by the European Innovation Partnership to tackle specific problems and favor innovation in agriculture. They constitute an important aspect of the ...
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      Local mortality impacts due to future air pollution under climate change scenarios 

      Ingole, V.; Dimitrova, A.; Sampedro, J.; Sacoor, C.; Acacio, S.; Juvekar, S.; Roy, S.; Basagaña, X.; Moraga, P.; Ballester, J.; Antó, J. M.; Tonne, C. (Science of the Total Environment, 2022-06-01)
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      Local Observations of Climate Change and Adaptation Responses: A Case Study in the Mountain Region of Burundi-Rwanda 

      Nkurunziza, A.; Intwarinkase Mutaganzwa, D.; Ndayitwayeko, W.M.; Nkengurutse, J.; Kaplin, B.A.; Teixidor Toneu, I.; Zafra-Calvo, N.; Cuni-Sanchez, A. (Land, 2023)
      Mountain regions and their communities are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. However, little is known on the impacts observed and adaptation responses used in Burundi’s mountain region and if these are ...
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      Local perceptions of ecosystem services across multiple ecosystem types in Spain 

      García-Llorente, M.; Castro, A.J.; Quintas-Soriano, C.; Oteros-Rozas, E.; Iniesta-Arandia, I.; González, J.A.; del Amo, D.G.; Hernández-Arroyo, M.; Casado-Arzuaga, I.; Palomo, I.; Gómez-Baggethun, E.; Onaindia, M.; Montes, C.; Martín-López, B. (Land, 2020)
      Combining socio-cultural valuations of ecosystem services with ecological and monetary assessments is critical to informing decision making with an integrative and multi-pronged approach. This study examined differences ...
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      Long-term effectiveness of sustainable land management practices to control runoff, soil erosion, and nutrient loss and the role of rainfall intensity in Mediterranean rainfed agroecosystems 

      Martínez-Mena, M.; Carrillo-López, E.; Boix-Fayos, C.; Almagro, M.; García, Franco, N.; Díaz-Pereira, E.; Montoya, I.; de Vente, J. (Elsevier, 2020)
      Mediterranean environments are especially susceptible to soil erosion and to inappropriate soil management, leading to accelerated soil loss. Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices (such as reduced tillage, no-tillage, ...
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      Looking for orbital signals in stable isotopes of carbon and oxygen of belemnites from the Early Jurassic in the Basque Cantabrian basin through the smoothed Lomb-Scargle periodogram 

      Polanco-Martínez, J. M. (Estudios Geologicos, 2021-06-30)
      The use of time series of stable isotopes obtained from fossilized samples of macrofossils, such as belemnites from the early Jurassic, until now, have not been used to explore whether these paleoindicators may have recorded ...
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      Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees 

      DeSoto, L.; Cailleret, M.; Sterck, F.; Jansen, S.; Kramer, K.; Robert, E.M.R.; Aakala, T.; Amoroso, M.M.; Bigler, C.; Camarero, J.J.; Cufar, K.; Gea-Izquierdo, G.; Gillner, S.; Haavik, L.J.; Heres, A.-M.; Kane, J.M.; Kharuk, V.I.; Kitzberger, T.; Klein, T.; Levanic, T.; Linares, J.C.; Mäkinen, H.; Oberhuber, W.; Papadopoulos, A.; Rohner, B.; Sangüesa-Barreda, G.; Stojanovic, D.B.; Suárez, M.L.; Villalba, R.; Martínez-Vilalta, J. (Springer Nature, 2020)
      Severe droughts have the potential to reduce forest productivity and trigger tree mortality. Most trees face several drought events during their life and therefore resilience to dry conditions may be crucial to long-term ...
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      Low sensitivity of gross primary production to elevated CO2 in a mature eucalypt woodland 

      Yang, J.; Medlyn, B.E.; De, Kauwe, M.G.; Duursma, R.A.; Jiang, M.; Kumarathunge, D.; Crous, K.Y.; Gimeno, T.E.; Wujeska-Klause, A.; Ellsworth, D.S. (EGU Publications, 2020)
      The response of mature forest ecosystems to a rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (span classCombining double low line"inline-formula"iC/ia/span) is a major uncertainty in projecting the future trajectory of ...
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      Luxury and legacy effects on urban biodiversity, vegetation cover and ecosystem services 

      Aznarez, C.; Svenning, J.C.; Pacheco, J.P.; Have Kallesøe, F.; Baró, F.; Pascual, U. (npj Urban Sustainability, 2023-12-01)
      Socio-economic and historical drivers shape urban nature distribution and characteristics, as luxury (wealth-related) and legacy (historical management) effects. Using remote sensing and census data on biodiversity and ...
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      Lyapunov exponents for temporal networks 

      Caligiuri, A.; Eguíluz, V.M.; Di Gaetano, L.; Galla, T.; Lacasa, L. (Physical Review E, 2023)
      By interpreting a temporal network as a trajectory of a latent graph dynamical system, we introduce the concept of dynamical instability of a temporal network and construct a measure to estimate the network maximum Lyapunov ...
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      Machine learning for ecosystem services 

      Willcock, S.; Martínez-López, J.; Hooftman, D.A.P.; Bagstad, K.J.; Balbi, S.; Marzo, A.; Prato, C.; Sciandrello, S.; Signorello, G.; Voigt, B.; Villa, F.; Bullock, J.M.; Athanasiadis, I.N. (Elsevier, 2018)
      Recent developments in machine learning have expanded data-driven modelling (DDM) capabilities, allowing artificial intelligence to infer the behaviour of a system by computing and exploiting correlations between observed ...
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      Mapping land-use fluxes for 2001–2020 from global models to national inventories 

      Giacomo, G.; Schwingshackl, C.; Gasser, T.; Houghton, R. A.; Sitch, S.; Canadell, J. G.; Cescatti, A.; Ciais, P.; Federici, S.; Friedlingstein, P.; Sanz Sanchez, M. J.; Kurz, W. A.; Abad Viñas, R.; Alkama, R.; Ceccherini, G.; Kato, E.; Kennedy, D.; Knauer, J.; Korosuo, A.; McGrath, M. J.; Nabel, J.; Poulter, B.; Rossi, S.; Walker, A. P.; Yuan, W.; Yue, X.; Pongratz, J. (Earth Syst. Sci., 2022-08-22)
      With the focus of climate policy shifting from pledges to implementation, there is an increasing need to track progress on climate change mitigation at country level, especially for the land-use sector. Despite new tools ...