• Identifying On-Site and Off-Site Drivers of Land Degradation in Advanced Economies: A Spatial Approach for Italy

  Published on January 1, 2024
  Land degradation is a global issue with severe implications for local sustainability, regional development, and resilience of socio-environmental systems. Curbing land degradation has become a priority in international strategies and sustainable deve...

• Sustainability assessment approaches based on water-energy Nexus: Fictions and nonfictions about non-conventional water resources

  Published on March 1, 2021
  In arid and semi-arid regions of the world, non-conventional water resources are considered as alternative water resources and a long-term rescue plan against severe water scarcity. To avoid negative impacts, some criteria and indices are required to...

• Weaving scientific and local knowledge on climate change impacts in coastal Kenya, Western Indian Ocean

  Published on October 1, 2024
  Climate change poses severe threats to coastal social-ecological systems (SES) worldwide. Recent calls recognize the importance of including Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in research on climate change impacts. Yet studies that have attempted t...

• Forest Understory Fire in the Brazilian Amazon in ENSO and Non-ENSO Years: Area Burned and Committed Carbon Emissions

  Published on February 3, 2006
  Understory fires, which burn the floor of standing forests, are one of the most important types of forest impoverishment in the Amazon, especially during the severe droughts of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) episodes. However, the authors are...

• Drought Effects on Fine-Root and Ectomycorrhizal-Root Biomass in Managed Pinus Oaxacana Mirov Stands in Oaxaca, Mexico

  Published on January 17, 2006
  The effects of a severe drought on fine-root and ectomycorrhizal biomass were investigated in a forest ecosystem dominated by Pinus oaxacana located in Oaxaca, Mexico. Root cores were collected during both the wet and dry seasons of 1998 and 1999 fro...

• An Assessment Framework for Mapping the Air Purification Service of Vegetation at the Regional Scale

  Published on February 1, 2024
  Efficiently mitigating the severe air pollution resulting from rapid progress is crucial for the sustainable development of the socio-ecological system. Recently, concerns about nature-based solutions have emerged in the research on the treatment of ...

• A Multicriteria Analysis to Integrate Stakeholder Perceptions of Ecosystem-Based Flood Adaptations in Coastal Urban Areas

  Published on January 1, 2025
  Inland and coastal floods are becoming more frequent and severe, affecting natural and socioeconomic systems. Local adaptation to climate change involves complex decisions which benefit from the integration of opinions from different stakeholders in ...

• How resilient is the labour market against natural disaster? Evaluating the effects from the 2010 earthquake in Chile

  Published on November 1, 2020
  Natural disasters are one of the main channels through which ecological and socio-economic systems interact. In particular, the severe impacts of earthquakes could disrupt activities in the labour market. However, the literature barely researched the...

• Confronting challenges of managing degraded lake ecosystems in the Anthropocene, exemplified from the Yangtze River Basin in China

  Published on December 1, 2018
  Freshwater lake ecosystems have supported livelihoods for millennia. Yet, most lakes worldwide today are suffering severe degradation in response to anthropogenic pressures. Scientists and managers are facing pressing challenges to define safe operat...

• Winter weather conditions may be the ideal time for timber harvest activities

  Published on March 11, 2013
  Logging when ground is snow-covered, frozen may reduce or eliminate the negative impacts which can occur from soil compaction and rutting. Could also reduce damage to trees and present less of an opportunity for spreading disease.

• Wild Toledo Biodiversity Survey Technician

  Hiring Organization: Toledo Zoo
  Employment type: Seasonal
  Application Due Date: May 30, 2024
  Job Location: Toledo, Ohio
  

• West central Michigan tree fruit update – June 25, 2019

  Published on June 25, 2019
  Warmer weather brings increase in insect activity and more disease is showing up in tree fruits.

• Honeycrisp leaf yellowing showing up on Michigan apples

  Published on September 4, 2012
  Leaf yellowing on Honeycrisp apples looks severe, but seems to have no detrimental effect on the trees.

• Fire Ecology Field Techs/Crew Lead (Fairbanks)

  Hiring Organization: Forest Futures Lab at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
  Employment type: Seasonal
  Application Due Date: January 15, 2025
  Job Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
  

• Apr 21

  Marshside Meteor Magic - CANCELLED

  April 21, 2025 9:00PM – 11:00PM 9422 Herbison Rd, Laingsburg, MI 48848

  This event has been cancelled due to weather.

• Michigan chestnut update – May 17, 2013

  Published on May 17, 2013
  Chestnut development continues around Michigan with variable levels of damage reported from the cold snap.

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  Check your southern Michigan corn fields for tar spot, lodged corn and stalk strength now

  Published on October 11, 2019
  While many later planted corn fields may not suffer extreme yield losses, you should be monitoring all tar spot-infected fields for stalk strength.

• West Michigan tree fruit regional report – April 15, 2014

  Published on April 15, 2014
  Despite summer-like storms, tree fruit development continues to be delayed in the West Michigan region.

• Thinking about food systems when disaster strikes

  Published on September 18, 2017
  The recent storms, flooding, and wildfires force us to think about the health of our food system.

• CNH/EID: The Vector Mosquito Aedes aegypti at the Margins: Sensitivity of a Coupled Natural and Human System to Climate Change

  Published on March 10, 2011
  This project will explore the ecology of Aedes (Ae.) aegypti, the mosquito that transmits dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya. We hypothesize that the combined effects of climate variability and changes made by humans to their local environment c...