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Global-change drivers of ecosystem functioning modulated by natural variability and saturating responses
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2017-02)
Humans are altering global environment at an unprecedented rate through changes in biodiversity, climate, nitrogen cycle, and land use. To address their effects on ecosystem functioning, experiments most frequently explore ...
Biodiversity Loss: Drivers, Consequences and Mitigation
(World Biodiversity Forum, 2020)
The main direct drivers of biodiversity loss – land/sea-use change, direct exploitation, climate change, pollution and invasive alien species – are likely to have their greatest impacts on different kinds of species and ...
The Panama Canal expansion: A driver of change for global trade flows
(ECLAC, 2014-08)
This paper describes the role of the Panama Canal in establishing and opening new global trade routes as well as the ambitious expansion project currently underway designed to meet the needsof the XXIth century global trade.
Multiple interacting environmental drivers reduce the impact of solar UVR on primary productivity in Mediterranean lakes
(Nature Research, 2020-12)
Increases in rainfall, continental runoff, and atmospheric dust deposition are reducing water transparency in lakes worldwide (i.e. higher attenuation Kd). Also, ongoing alterations in multiple environmental drivers due ...
Terrestrial ecologists should stop ignoring plastic pollution in the Anthropocene time
(Elsevier, 2019-06)
The massive production of plastic started in mid 20th century. Today, only 60 years later and despite its obvious benefits, plastic pollution is ubiquitous, influencing all global environments and the planet's biota, ...
Need for global conservation assessments and frameworks to include airspace habitat
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2020-09)
The pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change in the airspace.
The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco
(Elsevier, 2017-07)
South America's tropical dry forests and savannas are under increasing pressure from agricultural expansion. Cattle ranching and soybean production both drive these forest losses, but their relative importance remains ...
Multiple non-climatic drivers of food insecurity reinforce climate change maladaptation trajectories among Peruvian Indigenous Shawi in the Amazon
(Public Library of Science, 2018)
Background: Climate change is affecting food systems globally, with implications for food security, nutrition, and the health of human populations. There are limited data characterizing the current and future consequences ...