Participatory Mapping of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Madrid: Insights for Landscape Planning by Víctor García-Díez, Marina García-Llorente, José A. González

“…Among CORINE land-use types, forested areas, mountain shrubs and rocky landscapes were more relevant than arable lands for the supply of cultural ecosystem services. …”
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X-ray Fluorescence Techniques in Determining the Habitat Preferences of Species—<i>Ulva pilifera</i> (Ulvales, Chlorophyta) from Montenegro Case Study by Joanna Czerwik-Marcinkowska, Renata Piwowarczyk, Bohuslav Uher, Ewa Tomal, Anna Wojciechowska

“…The paper presents four new sites where bright green <i>Ulva</i> thalli were found inhabiting freshwater (a river, a ditch, the Milet Canal) and marine (on the rocky shore of the Adriatic Sea) habitats in Montenegro. …”
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Successful eradication of invasive American bullfrogs leads to coextirpation of emerging pathogens by Blake R. Hossack, David Hall, Catherine L. Crawford, Caren S. Goldberg, Erin Muths, Brent H. Sigafus, Thierry Chambert

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Temperature anomalies and mortality events in marine communities: insights on factors behind differential mortality impacts in the NW Mediterranean. by Carolina Crisci, Nathaniel Bensoussan, Jean-Claude Romano, Joaquim Garrabou

“…Two large-scale mass mortality events (MMEs) of unprecedented extent and severity affecting rocky benthic communities occurred during the summers of 1999 and 2003 along the coasts of the NW Mediterranean Sea. …”
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Assessing the germinability of coastal Limonium minutum (Plumbaginaceae) under different temperature and salinity conditions: implications for its conservation by Carles Cardona, Iván Cortés, Pere Mir, Lorenzo Gil

“…Background and aims – Limonium minutum is an endemic plant of the eastern Balearic Islands (Majorca and Minorca), where it grows in coastal rocky habitats. The effects of temperature and salinity on seed germination of Limonium minutum were evaluated in order to set a protocol for recovery of this species in this habitat.Material and methods – Experiments to determine the effect of temperature have been carried out at temperature conditions between 10 and 23°C. …”
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A Review of Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs/Synergies: Enlightenment for the Optimization of Forest Ecosystem Functions in Karst Desertification Control by Xuehua Deng, Kangning Xiong, Yanghua Yu, Shihao Zhang, Lingwei Kong, Yu Zhang

“…This mainly includes three stages: initial (1970–2005), slow development (2005–2014), and rapid development (2014–2022). (2) In terms of research areas, focus was placed mainly on Asia, North America, and Europe, accounting for 40.47%, 25.55%, and 15.07% of all regions, respectively. (3) In the future, it is necessary to focus on scientific issues such as the improvement of forest ecosystem functions, the trade-off/synergy relationships between services, the scale of spatiotemporal research, and the driving factors and evaluation methods for the management of rocky karst desertification. The aim is to provide a theoretical basis to optimize the forest ecosystem service functions.…”
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Pilot monitoring scheme of water pollutants in Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas by Maria Dulsat-Masvidal, Carlos Ciudad, Octavio Infante, Rafael Mateo, Silvia Lacorte

“…The monitoring scheme included the georeferenced sampling of rocky mountain, Atlantic forest, riparian forest, Mediterranean forest, agricultural, inland aquatic and coastal aquatic IBAs, with the aim to evaluate the impact of widely used chemicals in those aquatic resources. …”
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Assisted colonization of a regionally native predator impacts benthic invertebrates in fishless mountain lakes by Allison L. K. Banting, Mark K. Taylor, Rolf D. Vinebrooke, Chris M. Carli, Mark S. Poesch

“…This study compared littoral benthic invertebrate richness, diversity, community structure and abundance between three groups of lakes (fishless, native trout, nonnative trout) in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. While richness and diversity were preserved across all lake groups, other lines of evidence suggested that the introduction of native westslope cutthroat trout into fishless lakes can alter littoral benthic invertebrate communities in similar ways as nonnative brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis). …”
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The Role of Vegetation Monitoring in the Conservation of Coastal Habitats N2000: A Case Study of a Wetland Area in Southeast Sicily (Italy) by Saverio Sciandrello, Veronica Ranno, Valeria Tomaselli

“…Furthermore, three new plant associations were described, including two in wetland and one in rocky coast environments. For the classification of plant communities and habitats, a hierarchical clustering was performed by using Euclidean coefficient and beta-flexible algorithm. …”
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Heatwaves Similar to the Unprecedented One in Summer 2021 Over Western North America Are Projected to Become More Frequent in a Warmer World by Zizhen Dong, Lin Wang, Peiqiang Xu, Jie Cao, Ruowen Yang

“…Nevertheless, some heatwave records west of the Rocky Mountains are still difficult to break, highlighting the specific extremity of the 2021 WNA heatwave.…”
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Catalyzed Synthesis of Zinc Clays by Prebiotic Central Metabolites by Zhou, Ruixin, Basu, Kaustuv, Hartman, Hyman, Matocha, Christopher J., Sears, S. Kelly, Vali, Hojatollah, Guzman, Marcelo I.

“…We report the temperature, pH, and concentration dependence on succinate for the synthesis of sauconite identifying new mechanisms of clay formation in surface environments of rocky planets. The work demonstrates that seeding induces nucleation at low temperatures accelerating the crystallization process. …”
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EMERGING POSSIBILITIES AND INSUPERABLE LIMITATIONS OF EXOGEOPHYSICS: THE EXAMPLE OF PLATE TECTONICS by Stamenkovic, Vlada, Seager, Sara

“…To understand the evolution and the habitability of any rocky exoplanet demands detailed knowledge about its geophysical state and history - such as predicting the tectonic mode of a planet. …”
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An ultrahot Neptune in the Neptune desert

“…All of the previously known ultrashort-period planets are either hot Jupiters, with sizes above 10 Earth radii (R⊕), or apparently rocky planets smaller than 2 R⊕. Such lack of planets of intermediate size (the ‘hot Neptune desert’) has been interpreted as the inability of low-mass planets to retain any hydrogen/helium (H/He) envelope in the face of strong stellar irradiation. …”
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The First Habitable-zone Earth-sized Planet from TESS. I. Validation of the TOI-700 System

“…In contrast to some other low-mass stars that host Earth-sized planets in their habitable zones, TOI-700 exhibits low levels of stellar activity, presenting a valuable opportunity to study potentially rocky planets over a wide range of conditions affecting atmospheric escape. …”
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Spitzer Reveals Evidence of Molecular Absorption in the Atmosphere of the Hot Neptune LTT 9779b

“…Non-rocky sub-Jovian exoplanets in high-irradiation environments are rare. …”
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Refining the Transit-timing and Photometric Analysis of TRAPPIST-1: Masses, Radii, Densities, Dynamics, and Ephemerides by Burdanov, Artem, de Wit, Julien

“…We find that all seven planets' densities may be described with a single rocky mass-radius relation which is depleted in iron relative to Earth, with Fe 21 wt% versus 32 wt% for Earth, and otherwise Earth-like in composition. …”
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TOI-132 b: A short-period planet in the Neptune desert transiting a V = 11.3 G-type star★

“…Planet structure models suggest that the bulk of the planet mass is in the form of a rocky core, with an atmospheric mass fraction of 4.3+1.2-2.3 per cent. …”
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Isotopic evidence for sources of dissolved carbon and the role of organic matter respiration in the Fraser River basin, Canada by Voss, Britta M., Eglinton, Timothy I., Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Bernhard, Galy, Valier, Lang, Susan Q., McIntyre, Cameron, Spencer, Robert G. M., Bulygina, Ekaterina, Wang, Zhaohui A., Guay, Katherine A.

“…Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) concentrations are highest in the Rocky Mountain headwater region where carbonate weathering is evident, but also in tributaries with high DOC concentrations, suggesting that DOC respiration may be responsible for a significant portion of DIC in this basin. …”
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Two Earth-sized planets orbiting Kepler-20 by Seager, Sara, Rogers, Leslie Anne

“…Theoretical considerations imply that these planets are rocky, with a composition of iron and silicate. The outer planet could have developed a thick water vapour atmosphere.…”
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Accretion of a Terrestrial-Like Minor Planet by a White Dwarf by Melis, Carl, Farihi, J., Dufour, P., Zuckerman, B., Burgasser, Adam J., Bergeron, P., Bochanski, John J., Simcoe, Robert A.

“…At least two processes could be important in shaping the final bulk elemental composition of rocky bodies during the late phases of stellar evolution: irradiation and interaction with the dense stellar wind.…”
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