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Carbon reduction effect of comprehensive land consolidation and its configuration paths at the township level: A case study of Zhejiang Province, China.
J Environ Manage
January 2025
College of Management of Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, China; Sichuan Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Science, National Key Laboratory of Food Security and Tianfu Granary, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, China. Electronic address:
Changing land use is one of the main factors influencing global climate change and the imbalance in the carbon cycle. Consequently, the focus of international organizations and the academic community is on strategies to mitigate carbon emissions or improve carbon sequestration by optimizing land use structure and function. Since 2019, China's Zhejiang Province has implemented a township-level pilot policy, exploring a comprehensive land consolidation (CLC for short) pilot policy that includes all elements of "mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, and grasslands.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
January 2025
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
Life at all scales is surprisingly effective at exploiting new opportunities, as demonstrated by the rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance and novel pathogens. How populations acquire this level of evolvability and the various ways it aids survival are major open questions with direct implications for human health. Here, we use digital evolution to show that changing environments facilitate the simultaneous evolution of high mutation rates and a distribution of mutational effects skewed toward beneficial phenotypes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Functional Response in Resource Selection Links Multiscale Responses of a Large Carnivore to Human Mortality Risk.
Ecol Lett
January 2025
School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Theory suggests that animals make hierarchical, multiscale resource selection decisions to address the hierarchy of factors limiting their fitness. Ecologists have developed tools to link population-level resource selection across scales; yet, theoretical expectations about the relationship between coarse- and fine-scale selection decisions at the individual level remain elusive despite their importance to fitness. With GPS-telemetry data collected across California, USA, we evaluated resource selection of mountain lions (Puma concolor; n = 244) relative to spatial variation in human-caused mortality risk.
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PLoS One
December 2024
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, United States of America.
Regional and global environmental challenges have become increasingly complex and require broader solutions than a single discipline can provide. Although there is a growing need for interdisciplinary research, many graduate education programs still train students within the confines of a particular discipline or specialty. The Ridge 2 Reef research traineeship program at the University of California, Irvine, aimed to provide transferable and interdisciplinary skill training to prepare graduate students from different disciplines to address current and future environmental challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMovement response of small mammals to burn severity reveals importance of microhabitat features.
J Mammal
February 2024
School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, 1064 E. Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States.
Disturbance events are increasing at a global scale, with cascading impacts to ecosystems and residents therein that include fragmentation and altered vegetation structure and composition. Such changes may disproportionately impact small mammal movements, risk perception, and community dynamics as smaller species perceive such changes at finer spatial scales. We examined movement response to burn severity, vegetation structure, and composition in Mexican woodrats (), a common but understudied small mammal species.
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