Assessment of forest soil contamination by heavy metals in the Polish National Park near Warsaw by Aneta Łukaszek-Chmielewska, Joanna Rakowska, Marzena Rachwał, Olga Stawarz

“…Abstract The forest ecosystems are essential for human well-being development and reduction of the risk of natural disasters. …”
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Rachel Carson’s enduring call: a 60-year echo for harmony with nature by Olcay Ünver, Gavrielle Orman, Kiril Hristovski

“… Sixty years after Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring exposed some harmful effects of pesticides on species and ecosystems, this article examines the enduring relevance of her call for a more sustainable approach to agriculture. …”
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Abyssal deposit feeders are secondary consumers of detritus and rely on nutrition derived from microbial communities in their guts by Sonia Romero-Romero, Lee C. Miller, Jesse A. Black, Brian N. Popp, Jeffrey C. Drazen

“…Abyssal plains depend entirely on detritus and are among the most understudied ecosystems, with deposit feeders dominating megafaunal communities. …”
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Water and sediment quality assessment at São Lourenço River-SP by Angélica Megda da Silva, Denis Moledo de Souza Abessa, Paulo Augusto Zantune Pamplin, Maria Beatriz Bohrer-Morel

“…The results indicate that SLR is influenced by other anthropic activities, beyond to WTP and WWTP discharges, and that sediments are more affected in this ecosystem.…”
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Habenaria trichosantha Lindl.: A newly recorded orchid from China by ZHAO Mingxu, WANG Hengying, TAN Yunhong, SUN Xingxu, HU Xingrun, CHEN Fei

“…It is found in the Savanna ecosystem of the dry-hot valley of Nujiang in western Yunnan. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of prominent topics in global scientific production on sustainable development goals in Scopus (2013–2022) by Mario E. Diaz-Barrera, Crayla Alfaro-Aucca, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Moisés Moreno-Albarrán, Edgard Fernando Pacheco-Luza, Carlos Enrique Rengifo Chunga

“…Among the most important cross-cut concepts of the main themes to all objectives are climate change, air quality, domestic violence, ecosystem, gestation, and democracy. The results of this study highlight the thematic impact of each concept on sustainable development in general beyond a single objective. …”
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Photodegradation of Nitrogen Oxide under Solar Light Using a Facile Synthesis Catalyst by Ernso Fenelon, Sheng-Jie You, Ya-Fen Wang

“…Abstract NOx is becoming a hot issue due to its contribution to ozone, PM2.5 formation, and its negative impacts on the ecosystem. In this study, the synthesis of an MgO/Bi2S3-BiOCl composite was carried out via the co-precipitation method for the photodegradation of nitrogen oxide (NO) under solar light. …”
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An Enhanced LSTM Approach for Detecting IoT-Based DDoS Attacks Using Honeypot Data by Arjun Kumar Bose Arnob, M. F. Mridha, Mejdl Safran, Md Amiruzzaman, Md. Rajibul Islam

“…Abstract One of the widening perils in network security is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. This paper presents an enhanced Intrusion Detection System (IDS) through the proposal of an enhanced version of the long short-term memory (LSTM) model to detect DDoS attacks using honeypot-generated data. …”
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Prospects for the characterization of habitable planets by Mazevet, Stephane, Affholder, Antonin, Sauterey, Boris, Bixel, Alex, Apai, Daniel, Ferriere, Regis

“…This integrated method couples for the first time the atmosphere and the interior modeling with the biological activity based on ecosystem modeling. We review here the first applications of the method to asses the likelihood and impact of methanogenesis for Enceladus, primitive Earth, and primitive Mars. …”
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Fine‐Scale Genetic Structure of Small Fish Populations in Islands: The Case of Brook Charr Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill, 1814) in Saint‐Pierre and Miquelon (France) by Julie Viana, Guillaume Evanno, Céline Audet, Fabrice Teletchea

“…ABSTRACT Island ecosystems, particularly vulnerable to environmental challenges, host many endangered native species. …”
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Assessment of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Afi River Forest Reserve Cross River State, Nigeria by C. I. Duru, U. D. Chima, C. Fredrick

“…This study evaluated the impact of land use and land cover (LULC) changes on selected ecosystem components in the Afi River Forest Reserve, Cross River State, Nigeria. …”
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Effect of Mercury on Seed Germination and Seedling Growth of Mungbean (<i>Vigna radiata</i> (L.) Wilczek) by ZI Muhammad, KS Maria, A Mohammad, S Muhammad, F Zia-ur-Rehman, K Muhammad

“…The accumulation of such types of toxic pollutants in larger concentrations by crop can produce harmful effects to crops and ecosystem as well.…”
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Effect of eDNA metabarcoding temporal sampling strategies on detection of coastal biodiversity by Maelle Sevellec, Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel, Eric Normandeau, Louis Bernatchez, Kimberly Lynn Howland

“…However, we have limited knowledge of whether samples collected during discreet temporal periods depict holistic ecosystem changes over longer time spans.MethodsHere, we show how eDNA community structure varies across repeated sampling events at different temporal scales ranging from years to months to days at an Arctic coastal site, Churchill (Canada), using metabarcoding analyses of water eDNA samples with four universal primer pairs (two primers in COI and two in the 18S rRNA).ResultsDaily variations were highly dynamic and less structured, likely due to the stochastic nature of estuarine ecosystems, but there was a clear annual consistency in eDNA communities with a high proportion of shared taxa between years. …”
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The overlooked impacts of freshwater scarcity on oceans as evidenced by the Mediterranean Sea by Diego Macias, Berny Bisselink, Cesar Carmona-Moreno, Jean-Noël Druon, Olaf Duteil, Elisa Garcia-Gorriz, Bruna Grizzetti, Jordi Guillen, Svetla Miladinova, Alberto Pistocchi, Chiara Piroddi, Luca Polimene, Natalia Serpetti, Adolf Stips, Ioannis Trichakis, Angel Udias, Olga Vigiak

“…This study reveals the consequences of decreased freshwater flow on marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea due to climate change and escalating water demands. …”
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Tree height, canopy cover, and leaf litter production of Rhizophora apiculata in Baganga, Davao Oriental, Philippines by Lizel L. Sabino, Edison D. Macusi

“…Nevertheless, studies on leaf litter should be funded for their role in subsidizing adjacent ecosystems.…”
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An institutional framework to support ethical fair and equitable artificial intelligence augmented care by Steven Dykstra, Matthew MacDonald, Rhys Beaudry, Dina Labib, Melanie King, Yuanchao Feng, Jacqueline Flewitt, Jeff Bakal, Bing Lee, Stafford Dean, Marina Gavrilova, Paul W. M. Fedak, James A. White

“…We present the PULSE framework, aimed to establish an integrative and ethically governed ecosystem for the patient-guided, patient-contextualized use of multi-domain health data for AI-augmented care. …”
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Biodiversity characteristics of large forest plots in Qinghai area of Qilian Mountain National Park by WANG Dinghui, SUONAN Cairang, YU Hongyan, DU Yangong

“…[Methods] Taking the typical forest ecosystem as the research object in the Qinghai area of Qilian Mountain National Park, we used the adjacent grid method to conduct a survey of each tree in a 24 hm2 large sample plot. …”
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Looking back to see forward: species diversity changes since 1980 on Bahamian reefs through diver photography by Kathleen Sullivan Sealey, Katherine Black

“… Maintaining biodiversity over time is paramount to the functioning of coral reef ecosystems. Species abundance and richness change over time, but overall biodiversity supports ecosystem function and services. …”
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Improved urban runoff prediction using high-resolution land-use, imperviousness, and stormwater infrastructure data applied to a process-based ecohydrological model. by Jonathan Halama, Robert McKane, Bradley Barnhart, Paul Pettus, Allen Brookes, Kevin Djang, Vivian Phan, Sonali Chokshi, James Graham

“…To enhance hydrologic modeling capabilities of urban watersheds, we implemented a number of improvements to an existing ecohydrology model called VELMA-Visualizing Ecosystem Land Management Assessments-including the addition of spatially explicit engineered features that impact urban hydrology (e.g., impervious surfaces, curbed roadways, stormwater routing) and refinement to the computational representations of evapotranspiration by adding impervious surface evaporation. …”
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Herbivore functions in the hot-seat: Resilience of Acanthurus triostegus to marine heatwaves. by Taylor Souza, Jeroen Brijs, Leon Tran, Larry Crowder, Jacob L Johansen

“…However, as thermally sensitive ectotherms, rising thermal stress may also pose a serious threat to these fishes and the critical ecosystem functions they deliver. Here we evaluate the consequences of thermal stress on the capacity of a common herbivorous coral reef fish (Acanthurus triostegus) to control finely filamentous matrices of Caulerpa sertularioides and C. verticillata algae in Hawai'i, by characterizing in-vivo changes in metabolic demands, diurnal foraging rates, activity patterns and individual condition in a laboratory setting during winter (24.0±0.1°C), summer (27.5±0.1°C), and at the peak of a representative marine heatwave, (31.0±0.1°C). …”
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