| Titre : | AMBIO 43(7) - NOV 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Ronald C. Estoque, Auteur ;
Yuji Murayama, Auteur
A hill station is a town or city situated in mountain regions in the tropics founded during the western colonization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hill stations have moderate temperatures, and are known for their relatively go[...]
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Assefa Engdawork, Auteur ;
Hans-Rudolf Bork, Auteur
The purpose of this study is to examine the origin, development, and characteristics of terraces (kella), plus their potentials and determinants for sustainable use in the Chencha-Dorze Belle area of southern Ethiopia. Field surveys were conduct[...]
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Elzbieta Kalisinska, Auteur ;
Jerzy Gorecki, Auteur ;
Natalia Lanocha, Auteur ;
Anna Okonska, Auteur ;
Javier B. Melgarejo, Auteur ;
Halina Budis, Auteur ;
Izabella Rzad, Auteur ;
Jerzy Golas, Auteur
Mercury (Hg) contamination in piscivorous birds, especially methylmercury (MeHg), has been drawing much attention worldwide in regard to its bioaccumulation and biomagnification in food chains. In this study on Hg in the soft tissues of white-ta[...]
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Luca Coscieme, Auteur ;
Federico M. Pulselli, Auteur ;
Simone Bastianoni, Auteur ;
Christopher D. Elvidge, Auteur ;
Sharolyn Anderson, Auteur ;
Paul C. Sutton, Auteur
Night-time satellite imagery enables the measurement, visualization, and mapping of energy consumption in an area. In this paper, an index of the "sum of lights" as observed by night-time satellite imagery within national boundaries is compared [...]
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Ricky N. Lawton, Auteur ;
Murray A. Rudd, Auteur
Due to the urgency and seriousness of the loss of biological diversity, scientists from across a range of disciplines are urged to increase the salience and use of their research by policy-makers. Increased policy nuance is needed to address the[...]
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Peter J. Marcotullio, Auteur ;
Andrea Sarzynski, Auteur ;
Jochen Albrecht, Auteur ;
Niels Schulz, Auteur
This paper provides an account of urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 40 countries in Europe and examines covariates of emissions levels. We use a "top-down" analysis of emissions as spatially reported in the Emission Dataset for Global At[...]
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Fredrik Dalerum, Auteur
Humans are altering their living environment to an extent that could cause environmental collapse. Promoting change into environmental sustainability is therefore urgent. Despite a rapid expansion in conservation biology, appreciation of underly[...]
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Ingela Andersson, Auteur ;
Jerker Jarsjo, Auteur ;
Mona Petersson, Auteur
Nutrient loads from inland sources to the Baltic Sea and adjacent inland waters need to be reduced in order to prevent eutrophication and meet requirements of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP). We[...]
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Yafeng Wang, Auteur ;
Liding Chen, Auteur ;
Yang Gao, Auteur ;
Shuai Wang, Auteur ;
Yihe Lu, Auteur ;
Bojie Fu, Auteur
Check-dams are the most common structures for controlling soil erosion in the Loess Plateau. However, the effect of check-dams on carbon sequestration, along with sediment transport and deposition, has not been assessed over large areas. In this[...]
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Jesper H. Andersen, Auteur ;
Henrik Fossing, Auteur ;
Jens W. Hansen, Auteur ;
Ole H. Manscher, Auteur ;
Ciaran Murray, Auteur ;
Ditte L. J. Petersen, Auteur
Nutrient enrichment of coastal marine waters caused by losses of nitrate (NO3 (-)) from agriculture is an increasing global problem. In the European Union, the Nitrates Directive (ND) of 1991 was meant to be a cornerstone in reducing eutrophicat[...]
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Charles Perrings, Auteur ;
Ann Kinzig, Auteur ;
George Halkos, Auteur
Sustainable development requires that per capita inclusive wealth-produced, human, and natural capital-does not decline over time. We investigate the impact of changes in nitrogen on inclusive wealth. There are two sides to the nitrogen problem.[...]
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Olof Regnell, Auteur ;
Mark Elert, Auteur ;
Olof Hoglund, Auteur ;
Anna Helena Falk, Auteur ;
Anders Svensson, Auteur
Methylation of mercury (Hg) to highly toxic methyl Hg (MeHg), a process known to occur when organic matter (OM) decomposition leads to anoxia, is considered a worldwide threat to aquatic ecosystems and human health. We measured temporal and spat[...]
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Dominika Saniewska, Auteur ;
Magdalena Beldowska, Auteur ;
Jacek Beldowski, Auteur ;
Lucyna Falkowska, Auteur
Wet deposition is an important source of metals to the sea. The temporal variability of Hg concentrations in precipitation, and the impact of air masses of different origins over the Polish coastal zone were assessed. Samples of precipitation we[...]
