Zeng, Haihang Jia, Mingming Zhang, Rong Wang, Zongming Mao, Dehua Ren, Chunying Zhao, Chuanpeng
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Mangrove forests are one of the most biologically diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. They are important breeding and nursing grounds for amphibians, invertebrates, birds, fish, etc. Light pollution may cause serious degradation of biodiversity in the ecosystem. A report of the long-term holistic views of light pollution changes is essentia...
Zou, Shuzhen Lu, Tan Huang, Cailiang Wang, Jie Li, Dayong
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
There are frequent exchanges of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) between the external environment or livestock and wild animals. Grazing disturbance (GD) is a major factor that causes dramatic changes in China’s nature reserves. Studying the risk of ARGs in China’s nature reserves under GD has great signifi...
Kipute, D.D. Mate, J.P. Kankeu, R.S. Ngouhouo-Poufoun, J. Kahindo, J.M. Mampeta, S. Lelo, U. Sonwa, D. Joiris, D.V. Demaze, M.T.
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Published online: 14 Jan 2023 / Establishing protected areas creates an opportunity to reduce deforestation. This study aims to inform the Congolese government’s efforts to promote forest and biodiversity conservation by assessing the effectiveness of the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (YBR) in reducing deforestation. Group and individual interviews de...
Tian, Jing Feng, Chunting Fu, Gang Fan, Luqiong Wang, Wei
Published in
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Exploring the contribution of protected areas to carbon sequestration services is meaningful to enhance the role of protected areas in climate change mitigation globally. However, less attention has been paid to the contribution of different types of protected areas to carbon sequestration services as well as their changes, which is not conducive t...
Thakholi, Lerato Koot, Stasja
Evictions have been shown to be a mechanism of primitive accumulation in nature conservation. This paper adds an historical analysis to the discussion on primitive accumulation in conservation by exploring the seemingly innocuous mechanism of White belonging to land in South Africa's private nature reserves. Contemporary articulations of White belo...
Nordquist, Olga
Leisure activities and outdoor recreation are valuable aspects of people's everyday life. With more people living in cities than ever, access to natural areas is becoming a more relevant issue, and many protected nature areas serve both to preserve biodiversity and make nature accessible to a wider public. Living at a distance to nature increases t...
runze, ke chen;
The energy consumption of farmers residing around nature reserves is an important factor that affects the coordinated development of nature reserves and the surrounding communities. The optimization of the energy consumption structure of farmers around nature reserves is important for maintaining the resources and environment of nature reserves and...
zhang;, ke tingting
Numerous countries actively consider the human settlement environment and have implemented rural governance strategies to ameliorate the living conditions of rural dwellers. The construction of a rural human settlement environment is an important goal of China’s rural revitalization strategy and improving farmers’ well-being is a key element of Chi...
Abera, Wuletawu Tamene, Lulseged D. Kassawmar, Tibebu Mulatu, Kalkidan Ayele Kassa, Habtemariam Verchot, Louis V. Quintero, Marcela
Land management to increase food production while conserving the environment and associated ecosystem services (ESs) is one of the major development and research challenges of the 21st Century. Any land-use practice or change to obtain a particular ecosystem service affects the other ES positively or negatively. The dynamics of these changes is mor...
Prokashev, A. M. Matushkin, A. S.
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Eurasian Soil Science
AbstractThe importance of the Red Data Book of Soils compilation is substantiated. The idea is based on some fundamental principles interpreted for the regional level: phenomenological, of the equivalence of components, the priority of virgin soil objects, representativeness, rarity of soil cover components, regional, zonal, azonal, catenary, and n...
