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Brinda Jegatheesan, Marie-Jose Enders-Slegers, Elizabeth Ormerod, Paula Boyden
'Paula Boyden'] Violence towards animals and violence towards people are often interconnected problems, and as such, this phenomenon has been termed the Link. Violence towards animals is a strong predictor that the abuser may inflict violence on people. However, it must not be assumed this is always the case.…
Michel Loreau
Community ecology and ecosystem ecology provide two perspectives on complex ecological systems that have largely complementary strengths and weaknesses. Merging the two perspectives is necessary both to ensure continued scientific progress and to provide society with the scientific means to face growing environmental…
Karin J. Jensen, Joseph F. Mirabelli, Andrea J. Kunze, Thomas E. Romanchek + 1 more
Background Mental health for engineering undergraduates is an urgent topic for engineering educators. Narratives of engineering education requiring suffering may create or exacerbate problematic perceptions around stress and mental health in engineering. This study explored the roles of stress and mental health in…
Matthew R. Evans, Mike Bithell, Stephen J. Cornell, Sasha R. X. Dall + 16 more
'Sandra Díaz' 'Stephen Emmott' 'Bruno Ernande' 'Volker Grimm' 'David J. Hodgson' 'Simon L. Lewis' 'Georgina M. Mace' 'Michael Morecroft' 'Aristides Moustakas' 'Eugene Murphy' 'Tim Newbold' 'K. J. Norris' 'Owen Petchey' 'Matthew Smith' 'Justin M. J. Travis' 'Tim G. Benton'] Human societies, and their well-being, depend…
Dan Liu, Yuwei Xu, Tongtong Zhao, Siqi Che
This study uses the bioecological model of human development to understand the academic career development of Chinese returnees with overseas Ph.D. degrees (CROPs). Focuses are placed on how CROPs engaged in this process through interactions with contexts, which lead to their differentiated and similar career…
Serguei Saavedra, Yuguang Yang, Christopher P. Kempes, Chengyi Long + 3 more
Understanding the selecting and generating forces operating across the self-organization of ecological systems is synonymous with understanding principles of life itself. Three prominent hypotheses in ecological research—Lotka’s Maximum Power Principle, Odum and Pinkerton’s Intermediate Efficiency Principle, and…
Tanya Halsall, Ian Manion, Joanna Henderson
Integrated youth service (IYS) is a collaborative approach that brings practitioners together from across disciplines to provide comprehensive services including mental health care for youth and their families. IYS models serve as an advancement in practice as they go beyond the capacity of individual programs and…
Joseph J. Vallino, Julie A. Huber
The maximum entropy production (MEP) conjecture posits that systems with many degrees of freedom will likely organize to maximize the rate of free energy dissipation. Previous work indicates that biological systems can outcompete abiotic systems by maximizing free energy dissipation over time by utilizing temporal…
Yu. G Bespalov, K.V. Nosov, P.S. Kabalyants
The paper aims at building the model of relations of biodiversity and stability at different levels of organization of living matter with the use of discrete dynamical models. The relations revealed in the study are illustrated by case studies of zooplankton community of the eutrophicated lake and the colorimetric…
Yu.G. Bespalov
The paper aims at mathematical modeling of dynamic systems that determine the role of biodiversity in different modes of resource usage at different levels of the organization of living matter. As a measure of biodiversity, the number of different strategies of the performance of a biological system is used, which…
Jean-Guy Caputo, Valérie Girardin, Arnaud Knippel, Hieu Pham Trung Nguyen + 2 more
'Hieu Pham Trung Nguyen' 'Nathalie Niquil' 'Quentin Noguès'] We introduce a methodology to study the possible matter flows of an ecosystem defined by observational biomass data and realistic biological constraints. The flows belong to a polyhedron in a multi dimensional space making statistical exploration difficult in…
Huseyin Coskun
The system decomposition theory has recently been developed for the dynamic analysis of nonlinear compartmental systems. The application of this theory to the ecosystem analysis has also been introduced in a separate article. Based on this methodology, multiple new dynamic ecological system measures and indices of…
Eric Forgoston, Sarah J. Day, Peter C. de Ruiter, Arjen Doelman + 23 more
'Nienke Hartemink' 'Alan Hastings' 'Lia Hemerik' 'Alexandru Hening' 'Josef Hofbauer' 'Sonia Kéfi' 'David A. Kessler' 'Toni Klauschies' 'Christian Kuehn' 'Xiaoxiao Li' 'John C. Moore' 'Elly Morriën' 'Anje‐Margriet Neutel' 'Jelena H. Pantel' 'Sebastian J. Schreiber' 'Leah B. Shaw' 'Nadav M. Shnerb' 'Eric Siero' 'Laura S.…
Léo Buchenel, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Alberto Pascual-García
Investigating mechanisms favouring stable coexistence of complex microbial communities is central to understand their formation and maintenance in the natural environment and, eventually, controlling and designing synthetic communities. In this work, we studied microbial model ecosystems in which consumption and…
Matthew Spencer
In abstract terms, ecosystem ecology is about determining when two ecosystems, superficially different, are alike in some deeper way. An external observer can choose any ecosystem property as being important. In contrast, two ecosystems are equivalent from the point of view of the organisms they contain if and only if…
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Heterotrophic protists can be considered the dark matter of microbial communities in engineered water systems. They are ubiquitous and ecologically significant, yet remain largely overlooked. Although a growing body of research demonstrates their pivotal roles (e.g., predation, symbiosis, and nutrient cycling) in…
Anna Matuszyńska, Oliver Ebenhöh, Matias D. Zurbriggen, Daniel C. Ducat + 1 more
Synthetic biology designs and constructs new biological parts, devices and systems with predetermined functionalities. With the unlimited ability to synthesise any DNA and RNA and transfer it to almost any organism, we are at the dawn of a new era in which biology is being recreated in ways never before possible. It…
Tomás Veloz
We present a novel approach to represent ecological systems using reaction networks, and show how a particular framework called Chemical Organization Theory (COT) sheds new light on the longstanding complexity-stability debate. Namely, COT provides a novel conceptual landscape plenty of analytic tools to explore the…
Jesús Martínez-Linares
A phase space theory for population dynamics in Ecology is presented. This theory applies for a certain class of dynamical systems, that will be called M-systems, for which a conserved quantity, the M-function, can be defined in phase space. This M-function is the generator of time displacements and contains all the…
Pablo Ramón, Angelo Troina
The Calculus of Wrapped Compartments is a framework based on stochastic multiset rewriting in a compartmentalised setting originally developed for the modelling and analysis of biological interactions. In this paper, we propose to use this calculus for the description of ecological systems and we provide the modelling…
Paula Costa Lis, Luis Francisco Angeli Alves, João Antônio Cyrino Zequi, Priscilla de Freitas Cardoso + 5 more
Due to the hematophagous habits of females, some species of black fly (Diptera, Simuliidae) are known to be responsible for economic losses and can cause significant damage to the health of human and livestock populations. To control populations of these insects, several bioinsecticides based on the bacterium Bacillus…
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Conservation chemistry is an emerging discipline focused on preventing the loss of biodiversity through molecular-level insight and intervention. As the planet enters a mass extinction event – driven by pollution, habitat loss, invasive species, climate change, overharvesting, and disease – chemical sciences offer…
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Biological light-harvesting systems comprise complex protein-pigment assemblies that exhibit vast structural and functional diversity, underscoring the design principles of functional bio-inspired materials applicable to sustainable energy-harvesting technologies. Thus, this investigation aimed to decode the structural…
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Biochar, produced via biomass pyrolysis, is an emerging method for carbon removal in agriculture. However, its uncertain environmental outcomes hinder large-scale adoption. We address this using physics-informed machine learning (ML) to integrate kinetics-based pyrolysis modeling and global datasets of field…