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Ansari D, Schönenberg R, Abud M, Becerra L, Brahim W, Castiblanco J, de la Vega-Leinert AC, Dudley N, Dunlop M, Figueroa C, Guevara O, Hauser P, Hobbie H, Hossain MA, Hugé J, Janssens de Bisthoven L, Keunen H, Munera-Roldan C, Petzold J, Rochette AJ, Schmidt M, Schumann C, Sengupta S, Stoll-Kleemann S, van Kerkhoff L, Vanhove MP, Wyborn C. Communicating climate change and biodiversity loss with local populations: exploring communicative utopias in eight transdisciplinary case studies. UCL OPEN. ENVIRONMENT 2023; 5:e064. [PMID: 37840556 PMCID: PMC10571513 DOI: 10.14324/111.444/ucloe.000064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023]
Abstract
Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies targeting and impacting local communities worldwide. However, research and policy implementation often fail to sufficiently consider community responses and to involve them. We present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for eight case studies of communications with regard to climate change or biodiversity loss between project teams and local communities. We develop eight indicators of good stakeholder communication, reflecting the scope of Verran's (2002) concept of postcolonial moments as a communicative utopia. We demonstrate that applying our indicators can enhance communication and enable community responses. However, we discover a divergence between timing, complexity and (introspective) effort. Three cases qualify for postcolonial moments, but scrutinising power relations and genuine knowledge co-production remain rare. While we verify the potency of various instruments for deconstructing science, their sophistication cannot substitute trust building and epistemic/transdisciplinary awareness. Lastly, we consider that reforming inadequate funding policies helps improving the work in and with local communities.
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- Dawud Ansari
- Energy Access and Development Program (EADP), Wilmersdorfer Str. 122-123, 10627, Berlin, Germany
- German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Ludwigkirchpl. 3-4, 10719 Berlin, Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- WWF Colombia, Carrera 35 No. 4A-25 Cali, Colombia
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- The Luc Hoffmann Institute, Rue Mauverney 28 1196 Gland, Switzerland
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- Energy Access and Development Program (EADP), Wilmersdorfer Str. 122-123, 10627, Berlin, Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Equilibrium Research, 47 The Quays, Cumberland Road, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Building 101, Clunies Ross St, Black Mountain ACT 2601, Australia
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- The Luc Hoffmann Institute, Rue Mauverney 28 1196 Gland, Switzerland
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- Technische Universität Dresden, Chair of Energy Economicy, Münchnerplatz 3, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Technische Universität Dresden, Chair of Energy Economicy, Münchnerplatz 3, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Fish Biology and Genetics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
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- Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, Netherlands
- Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
- Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Agoralaan gebouw D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- CEBioS, ‘Capacities for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
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- CEBioS, ‘Capacities for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Luisenstr. 37, 80333 München, Germany
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- CEBioS, ‘Capacities for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
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- Technische Universität Dresden, Chair of Energy Economicy, Münchnerplatz 3, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, Anna van Saksenlaan 50, 2593 HT Den Haag, Netherlands
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- Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 16, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia
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- Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Agoralaan gebouw D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- The Luc Hoffmann Institute, Rue Mauverney 28 1196 Gland, Switzerland
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Ma Y, Devi MJ, R. Reddy V, Song L, Gao H, Cao B. Cloning and Characterization of Three Sugar Metabolism Genes ( LBGAE, LBGALA, and LBMS) Regulated in Response to Elevated CO 2 in Goji Berry ( Lycium barbarum L.). PLANTS 2021; 10:plants10020321. [PMID: 33562387 PMCID: PMC7914792 DOI: 10.3390/plants10020321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Revised: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The composition and content of sugar play a pivotal role in goji berry (Lycium barbarum L.) fruits, determining fruit quality. Long-term exposure of goji berry to elevated CO2 (eCO2) was frequently demonstrated to reduce sugar content and secondary metabolites. In order to understand the regulatory mechanisms and improve the quality of fruit in the changing climate, it is essential to characterize sugar metabolism genes that respond to eCO2. The objectives of this study were to clone full-length cDNA of three sugar metabolism genes—LBGAE (Lycium barbarum UDP-glucuronate 4-epimerase), LBGALA (Lycium barbarum alpha-galactosidase), and LBMS (Lycium barbarum malate synthase)—that were previously identified responding to eCO2, and to analyze sequence characteristics and expression regulation patterns. Sugar metabolism enzymes regulated by these genes were also estimated along with various carbohydrates from goji berry fruits grown under ambient (400 μmol mol−1) and elevated (700 μmol mol−1) CO2 for 90 and 120 days. Homology-based sequence analysis revealed that the protein-contained functional domains are similar to sugar transport regulation and had a high sequence homology with other Solanaceae species. The sucrose metabolism-related enzyme’s activity varied significantly from ambient to eCO2 in 90-day and 120-day samples along with sugars. This study provides fundamental information on sugar metabolism genes to eCO2 in goji berry to enhance fruit quality to climate change.
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- Yaping Ma
- College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China; (Y.M.); (H.G.)
- School of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China;
- USDA-ARS, Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Ave, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA;
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- USDA-ARS, Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Ave, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA;
- USDA-ARS, Vegetable Crops Research Unit, Madison, WI 53706, USA
- Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA
- Correspondence: (M.J.D.); (B.C.)
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- USDA-ARS, Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Ave, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA;
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- School of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China;
- USDA-ARS, Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Ave, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA;
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- College of Forestry, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China; (Y.M.); (H.G.)
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- School of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China;
- Correspondence: (M.J.D.); (B.C.)
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Brown C, Rounsevell M. How can social–ecological system models simulate the emergence of social–ecological crises? PEOPLE AND NATURE 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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- Calum Brown
- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK‐IFU) Department of Geo‐Ecology (IFGG) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Garmisch‐Partenkirchen Germany
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK‐IFU) Department of Geo‐Ecology (IFGG) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Garmisch‐Partenkirchen Germany
- School of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK
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Requier F, Fournier A, Rome Q, Darrouzet E. Science communication is needed to inform risk perception and action of stakeholders. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2020; 257:109983. [PMID: 31989960 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Revised: 11/29/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Stakeholders are critical environmental managers in human-dominated landscapes. In some contexts, stakeholders can be forced to personally act following their own observations and risk perception instead of science recommendation. In particular, biological invasions need rapid control actions to reduce potential socio-ecological impacts, while science-based risk assessments are rather complex and time-delayed. Although they can lead to important detrimental effects on biodiversity, potential time-delayed disconnections between stakeholders' action and science recommendations are rarely studied. Using the case study of western European beekeepers controlling the invasive Asian hornet Vespa velutina nigrithorax for its suspected impact on honey bee colonies, we analysed mechanisms underlying personal actions of stakeholders and how they evolved in science disconnection. Personal actions of stakeholders were causal-effect linked with their risk observation but disconnected to time-delayed science predictions and recommendations. Unfortunately, these science-disconnected actions also led to dramatic impacts on numerous species of the local entomofauna. These results highlight the need to improve mutual risk communication between science and action in the early-stages of management plans to improve the sustainably of stakeholders' practices.
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- Fabrice Requier
- Evolution Génome Comportement et Ecologie, CNRS, IRD, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, Paris, France.
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- Biochimie et Toxicologie des Substances Bioactives (BTSB), EA7417 Université de Toulouse, INU Champollion, 81000, Albi, France
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- UMS 2006 Patrimoine Naturel - AFB, CNRS, MNHN - Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, CP50, 57 Rue Cuvier, 75235, Paris, Cedex 05, France
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- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte, UMR 7261, CNRS - Université de Tours, Parc de Grandmont, 37200, Tours, France
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Garineaud C. Evolving adaptive capacity of seaweed harvesters in Brittany. AMBIO 2019; 48:1543-1552. [PMID: 30488376 PMCID: PMC6882967 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-018-1119-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2018] [Revised: 10/22/2018] [Accepted: 10/27/2018] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The coast of Brittany hosts one of the largest seaweed forests in Europe, collected for several centuries, but today subject to climatic change. By an ethnoecological survey, this paper investigates the seaweed collectors' perception of the changes and hazards that affect their resources. We explored how hazards change their practices and adaptive capacity through strategy and ecological knowledge. Their knowledge evolved rapidly due to their interaction with the natural environment and exchange with scientists, generating new types of knowledge and management practices better adapted to expected future biodiversity change.
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- Clément Garineaud
- UMR 7206 Éco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, CNRS - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Musée de l'homme 17, Place du Trocadéro, 75016, Paris, France.
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Rocha ÉGD, Rocha PLBD. Scientists, environmental managers and science journalists: A hierarchical model to comprehend and enhance the environmental decision-making process. Perspect Ecol Conserv 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2018.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Özkan Ş, Vitali A, Lacetera N, Amon B, Bannink A, Bartley DJ, Blanco-Penedo I, de Haas Y, Dufrasne I, Elliott J, Eory V, Fox NJ, Garnsworthy PC, Gengler N, Hammami H, Kyriazakis I, Leclère D, Lessire F, Macleod M, Robinson TP, Ruete A, Sandars DL, Shrestha S, Stott AW, Twardy S, Vanrobays ML, Ahmadi BV, Weindl I, Wheelhouse N, Williams AG, Williams HW, Wilson AJ, Østergaard S, Kipling RP. Challenges and priorities for modelling livestock health and pathogens in the context of climate change. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2016; 151:130-144. [PMID: 27475053 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.07.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2016] [Revised: 07/21/2016] [Accepted: 07/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Climate change has the potential to impair livestock health, with consequences for animal welfare, productivity, greenhouse gas emissions, and human livelihoods and health. Modelling has an important role in assessing the impacts of climate change on livestock systems and the efficacy of potential adaptation strategies, to support decision making for more efficient, resilient and sustainable production. However, a coherent set of challenges and research priorities for modelling livestock health and pathogens under climate change has not previously been available. To identify such challenges and priorities, researchers from across Europe were engaged in a horizon-scanning study, involving workshop and questionnaire based exercises and focussed literature reviews. Eighteen key challenges were identified and grouped into six categories based on subject-specific and capacity building requirements. Across a number of challenges, the need for inventories relating model types to different applications (e.g. the pathogen species, region, scale of focus and purpose to which they can be applied) was identified, in order to identify gaps in capability in relation to the impacts of climate change on animal health. The need for collaboration and learning across disciplines was highlighted in several challenges, e.g. to better understand and model complex ecological interactions between pathogens, vectors, wildlife hosts and livestock in the context of climate change. Collaboration between socio-economic and biophysical disciplines was seen as important for better engagement with stakeholders and for improved modelling of the costs and benefits of poor livestock health. The need for more comprehensive validation of empirical relationships, for harmonising terminology and measurements, and for building capacity for under-researched nations, systems and health problems indicated the importance of joined up approaches across nations. The challenges and priorities identified can help focus the development of modelling capacity and future research structures in this vital field. Well-funded networks capable of managing the long-term development of shared resources are required in order to create a cohesive modelling community equipped to tackle the complex challenges of climate change.
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- Şeyda Özkan
- Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Post Box 5003, Ås 1430, Norway
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- University of Tuscia, Department of Agriculture and Forestry Science (DAFNE), Via San Camillo De Lellis, snc, Viterbo 01100, Italy
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- University of Tuscia, Department of Agriculture and Forestry Science (DAFNE), Via San Camillo De Lellis, snc, Viterbo 01100, Italy
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- Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim (ATB), Max-Eyth-Allee 100, Potsdam 14469, Germany
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- Wageningen UR Livestock Research, P.O. Box 338, Wageningen 6700 AH, The Netherlands
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- Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Bush Loan, Penicuik EH26 0PZ, UK
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- Animal Welfare Subprogram, IRTA, Veinat de Sies s/n, Monells, Girona 17121, Spain
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- Wageningen UR Livestock Research, P.O. Box 338, Wageningen 6700 AH, The Netherlands
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- Nutrition Unit, Animal Production Department, Veterinary Faculty, University of Liège, Boulevard de Colonster 20, Bât. B43, Liège 4000, Belgium
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- ADAS UK Ltd, 4205 Park Approach, Thorpe Park, Leeds LS15 8GB, UK
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Peter Wilson Building, Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Roslin Institute Building, Easter Bush, Midlothian EH25 9RG, UK
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- University of Nottingham, School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough LE12 5RD, UK
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- Agriculture, Bio-engineering and Chemistry Department, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Passage des Déportés, 2, Gembloux B-5030, Belgium
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- Agriculture, Bio-engineering and Chemistry Department, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Passage des Déportés, 2, Gembloux B-5030, Belgium
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- School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Newcastle University, King's Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
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- Ecosystems Services and Management program (ESM), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, Laxenburg A-2361, Austria
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- Nutrition Unit, Animal Production Department, Veterinary Faculty, University of Liège, Boulevard de Colonster 20, Bât. B43, Liège 4000, Belgium
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Peter Wilson Building, Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK
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- Livestock Systems and Environment, International Livestock Research Institute, P.O. Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ullsvägen 16, Uppsala 75007, Sweden
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- School of Energy, Environment and Agrifood, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Peter Wilson Building, Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Peter Wilson Building, Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK
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- Institute of Technology and Life Sciences at Falenty (P122) Malopolska Research Centre in Krakow, ul. Ulanow 21B, 31-450 Krakow, Poland
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- Agriculture, Bio-engineering and Chemistry Department, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Passage des Déportés, 2, Gembloux B-5030, Belgium
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- Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Peter Wilson Building, Kings Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JG, UK
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- Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim (ATB), Max-Eyth-Allee 100, Potsdam 14469, Germany; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), PO Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
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- Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Bush Loan, Penicuik EH26 0PZ, UK
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- School of Energy, Environment and Agrifood, Cranfield University, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, 1st Floor, Stapledon Building, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3EE, UK
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- Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Tjele 8830, Denmark
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- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, 1st Floor, Stapledon Building, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3EE, UK.
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Birkhofer K, Diehl E, Andersson J, Ekroos J, Früh-Müller A, Machnikowski F, Mader VL, Nilsson L, Sasaki K, Rundlöf M, Wolters V, Smith HG. Ecosystem services—current challenges and opportunities for ecological research. Front Ecol Evol 2015. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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