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Ground flora of field boundary dry stone walls in the Burren, Ireland
(2020)
Despite the fact that field boundary (dry) stone walls are globally common in rural landscapes, very little research has been carried out regarding them. Dry stone walls may act as refuges for a range of plants and animals, ...
Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance: Emerging co-production capacities in three European cities
(2024)
This paper seeks to understand how co-production can become embedded as a collaborative governance practice by which city governments plan, deliver and steward nature-based solutions. To these ends, the paper analyses how ...
Developing peatland ecosystem accounts to guide targets for restoration
(2021)
The United Nations System of Environmental and Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) is a geospatial approach, whereby existing data on ecosystem stocks and flows are collated to show changes over time. The ...
Innovating with nature: from nature-based solutions to nature-based enterprises
(2021)
Nature-based solutions (NBS) to address societal challenges have been widely recognised and adopted by governments in climate change and biodiversity strategies. Nevertheless, significant barriers exist for the necessary ...
Spatial variability of urban forest topsoil properties: towards representative and robust sampling design
(2023)
Background: Soil spatial variability is a major concern when deciding how to collect a representative topsoil sample for laboratory analysis. Sampling design to capture site-specific variability is documented in the ...
Archaeosporites rhyniensis gen. et sp. nov. (Glomeromycota, Archaeosporaceae), from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert a fungal lineage morphologically unchanged from more than 400 million years
(2020)
Background and Aims: Structurally preserved arbuscular mycorrhizas from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert represent core fossil evidence of the evolutionary history of mycorrhizal systems. Moreover, Rhynie chert fossils of ...
Habitat Fragmentation Increases Overall Richness, but Not of Habitat-Dependent Species
(2020)
Debate rages as to whether habitat fragmentation leads to the decline of biodiversity once habitat loss is accounted for. Previous studies have defined fragmentation variously, but research needs to address “fragmentation ...
Fungi as parasites: A conspectus of the fossil record
(Springer, 2021)
Fungal parasites are important drivers in ecosystem dynamics today that can have far-reaching effects on the performance and community structure of other organisms. Knowledge of the fossil record and evolution of ...
Carboniferous plant physiology breaks the mold
(Wiley, 2020)
How plants have shaped Earth surface feedbacks over geologic time is a key question in botanical and geological inquiry. Recent work has suggested that biomes during the Carboniferous Period contained plants with extraordinary ...
Are field boundary hedgerows the earliest example of a nature-based solution?
(2021)
The arrival of the phrase nature-based solutions into the lexicon of academics, planners, managers and policy makers in recent years has sparked a heated debate as to the effectiveness of using nature as a viable solution ...