Ciencias de la vida

Towards a Sustainable Environment: How Do Natural Resources, Human Capital, and Economic Growth Interact With Environmental Degradation in the Maghreb Countries?

19/08/2025 - ABSTRACTThe objective of this article is to study the heterogeneous effect of the natural resources, the human capital, economic growth and the CO2 emissions on the ecological footprint and the...

What Does a Climate‐Resilient Rural Water Supply System Look Like? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Resilience Mapping in Nepal

18/08/2025 - The climate resilience mapping framework (Lower left) was applied in the hill district of Nepal (upper left) to map Rural Water Supply Systems (right) ABSTRACTClimate change significantly affects the...

Burning Forest Biomass Is Not an Effective Climate Mitigation Response and Conflicts With Biodiversity Adaptation

30/07/2025 - ABSTRACTPathways are proposed for progressing the goal of decarbonizing economies that rely on burning forest biomass for heat and electricity (bioenergy) based on the proposition that this creates...

Eradicating Common Populations of Invasive Species Involves Balancing Efficiency and Fairness

15/07/2025 - ABSTRACTThe effective eradication and control of harmful species are crucial for agriculture and for the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. Since harmful invasive species often spread over...

Microbial diversity and function in the rhizosphere microbiome: Driving forces and monitoring approaches

14/07/2025 - As an ecological unit, the rhizosphere microbiome preserves an enormous and largely unexplored diversity of microbes that play essential roles in plant health and soil functions. Omics technologies...

Genetic diversity and population structure analysis of Pisum sativum var. abyssinicum genotypes from Northern Ethiopia using ISSR markers

07/07/2025 - Pisum sativum var. abyssinicum is a globally important legume crop, and its genetic diversity is vital for crop improvement, sustainable agriculture, and biodiversity conservation. This study...

Evaluating selected soil hydraulic properties under varied land use types at the Arjo‐Dhidhessa Estate Sugar Factory, Western Ethiopia

20/06/2025 - This study investigates the effects of land use type and soil depth on soil hydraulic properties at the Arjo‐Dhidhessa Estate Sugar Factory, Western Ethiopia. Soil samples (15 composites) were...

Advancing wheat breeding in Ethiopia: Challenges and opportunities in breeding for nutrient use efficiency: A review

16/06/2025 - Wheat plays a critical role in Ethiopia's food security, nutrition, and economic development. Despite increased production and expansion into diverse agro‐ecological zones, productivity remains...

Multilevel Decision‐Making and Protected Area Prioritization

15/06/2025 - ABSTRACTConservation initiatives depend on interactions among organizations and communities that have different goals. Multilevel hierarchies provide a common decision‐making structure with...

Influence of agro‐ecological zones on soil phosphorus fractions in central Nepal

30/05/2025 - Soil plays a pivotal role as the primary repository of phosphorus (P) in terrestrial ecosystems. Sequential fractionation, a widely employed technique, is applied to provide comprehensive insights...

Insights on Climate Risks to the Central African Forest Ecosystems: An Interdisciplinary Review

12/04/2025 - ABSTRACTThe Congo Basin in Central Africa is home to the second largest rainforest in the world after the Amazon. These forests sequester more carbon than any other tropical forest both in the...

Rural Farmer‐Managed Wetland Agroecosystems Promote Climate Resilience in Semi‐Arid Savannah: Case of Nyororo Wetland, Mberengwa District, Zimbabwe

12/04/2025 - Changes in wetland size and increased drought frequency influenced wetland cultivation, groundwater depletion and the proliferation of invasive alien floral species. Building anticipatory actions...

Examining the nexus between productivity growth, circular bioeconomy, and climate change: A bibliometric analysis

27/03/2025 - The impact of productivity growth on climate change is multifaceted, with consequences for resource consumption, emissions, and overall ecological balance. Simultaneously, the emergence of the...

Cover crop and tillage effects on soil microbial communities in a corn cropping system

18/02/2025 - Soil microbial communities have numerous soil ecological and physiological functions. However, knowledge is lacking on the interaction effects of no‐till and cover crops (CC) practices on these...

Challenges of sustainability of rice agrosystem: Insights from energy use, ecological footprint, and greenhouse gas emissions (case study: Golestan province, Iran)

24/02/2025 - This study assesses the energy use, ecological footprint, and greenhouse gas emissions from rice (Oryza sativa) production in Iran's Golestan province. The energy indices, greenhouse gas emissions,...

Selection of local soybean rhizobia as biofertilizer from acidic soil of East Wollega, Ethiopia

27/02/2025 - Soybean [Glycine max (L.)] is a leguminous crop that harbors root nodule bacteria that fix atmospheric nitrogen. However, the dinitrogen‐fixing potential of the isolates varies due to different...

Fertilizer selection influences soil microbial communities in alluvial and peat soils of the tropics

16/01/2025 - Fertilizer choices can alter soil microbial communities. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of urea, chicken manure, and Azolla fertilizers on soil microbial communities in...

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25/11/2024 - This paper derives closed‐form solutions for a strategic, simultaneous harvesting in a predator–prey system. Using a parametric constraint, it establishes the existence and uniqueness of a linear...

Ecological‐economic modeling of nutrient enrichment in multispecies fisheries

15/10/2024 - In fisheries economics, multispecies or ecosystem models typically focus on interactions among fish species, often overlooking the flow of nutrients. However, biologists widely acknowledge that...

Exploration of barley (Hordeum vulgareL.) accessions for yield and yield components from diverse agro‐ecological zones of Ethiopia

20/11/2024 - Knowing the accession's qualitative and quantitative genetic variability is the prerequisite for the trait's improvement for any barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) improvement programs. This study aimed to...

An explicit solution to harvesting behaviors in a predator–prey system

15/10/2024 - This paper derives closed‐form solutions for a strategic, simultaneous harvesting in a predator–prey system. Using a parametric constraint, it establishes the existence and uniqueness of a linear...