MiRTaW: An Algorithm for Atmospheric Temperature and Water Vapor Profile Estimation from ATMS Measurements Using a Random Forests Technique by Francesco Di Paola, Elisabetta Ricciardelli, Domenico Cimini, Angela Cersosimo, Arianna Di Paola, Donatello Gallucci, Sabrina Gentile, Edoardo Geraldi, Salvatore Larosa, Saverio T. Nilo, Ermann Ripepi, Filomena Romano, Paolo Sanò, Mariassunta Viggiano

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Critical Ecological Roles, Structural Attributes and Conservation of Old Growth Forest: Lessons From a Case Study of Australian Mountain Ash Forests by David Lindenmayer, Elle Bowd

“…The extent of old growth forest has been declining in many ecosystems around the world, with major ecological and ecosystem service consequences. Important insights about such declines, as well as the structure, function and conservation of old growth forest, can be gained from detailed cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of different age cohorts within a given forest ecosystem. …”
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Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI): facing the challenges and pathways of global change in the twenty-first century by Pavel Groisman, Herman Shugart, David Kicklighter, Geoffrey Henebry, Nadezhda Tchebakova, Shamil Maksyutov, Erwan Monier, Garik Gutman, Sergey Gulev, Jiaguo Qi, Alexander Prishchepov, Elena Kukavskaya, Boris Porfiriev, Alexander Shiklomanov, Tatiana Loboda, Nikolay Shiklomanov, Son Nghiem, Kathleen Bergen, Jana Albrechtová, Jiquan Chen, Maria Shahgedanova, Anatoly Shvidenko, Nina Speranskaya, Amber Soja, Kirsten de Beurs, Olga Bulygina, Jessica McCarty, Qianlai Zhuang, Olga Zolina

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Spatial Distribution Maps of Horticultural and Agricultural Crops Land Generating at the Country Scale for Iran by Seyyed Majid Alimagham, Afshin Soltani, Amir Dadrasi, Alireza nehbandani

“…The existence of these maps can play an important role in various fields such as agricultural planning and development, climate change assessment, yield gap, and food security analysis, livestock production systems management, ecosystem service, fertilizer use management, agricultural optimal cropping pattern determination and other studies related to agriculture, forestry, and rangeland. …”
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Combining livestock production information in a process-based vegetation model to reconstruct the history of grassland management by J. Chang, P. Ciais, M. Herrero, P. Havlik, M. Campioli, X. Zhang, Y. Bai, N. Viovy, J. Joiner, X. Wang, S. Peng, C. Yue, S. Piao, T. Wang, D. A. Hauglustaine, J.-F. Soussana, A. Peregon, N. Kosykh, N. Mironycheva-Tokareva

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Cambios en las propiedades del suelo, posteriores a un incendio en el Parque Nacional Natural de Los Nevados, Colombia Soil changes after a fire event in a páramo ecosystem: Los Ne... by Juan Carlos Camargo-García, Miguel Ángel Dossman, José Alexander Rodríguez, Ligia María Arias, Jesús Hernando Galvis-Quintero

“…Because of the worth of this area associated with the supplies of ecosystems services and the need for finding variables as indicators of soil conditions, in areas affected and non-affected by fire physical and chemical properties of soils were evaluated. …”
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Note by Maria Teresa Lucarelli

“…A way, therefore, to «[…] reinterpret the potential of ecosystemic service […] of technological design […] able to respond to the growing demand for well-being and environmental quality»1. …”
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Investigating the Factors Affecting the Ecological Footprint of Sari City by Maryam Nazari, Mohsen Kalantari

“…Three-dimensional ecological footprint based on ecosystem service value and their drivers: A case study of Urumqi. …”
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Farming and the geography of nutrient production for human use: a transdisciplinary analysis by Prof Mario Herrero, PhD, Philip K Thornton, PhD, Brendan Power, MSc, Jessica R Bogard, PhD, Roseline Remans, PhD, Steffen Fritz, PhD, James S Gerber, PhD, Prof Gerald Nelson, PhD, Linda See, PhD, Katharina Waha, PhD, Prof Reg A Watson, PhD, Paul C West, PhD, Leah H Samberg, PhD, Jeannette van de Steeg, PhD, Eloise Stephenson, MSc, Mark van Wijk, PhD, Petr Havlík, PhD

“…Background: Information about the global structure of agriculture and nutrient production and its diversity is essential to improve present understanding of national food production patterns, agricultural livelihoods, and food chains, and their linkages to land use and their associated ecosystems services. Here we provide a plausible breakdown of global agricultural and nutrient production by farm size, and also study the associations between farm size, agricultural diversity, and nutrient production. …”
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An eighty years long history by Gianfranco Fabbio

“…The <em>Annali </em>housed original research papers produced inside and in cooperation with researchers outside on the subject-matters of forest ecology, silviculture of semi-natural forests and forest plantations for environmental restoration and wood/ non-wood productions, tree farming and agro-forestry, forest mensuration and stand dynamics, dendro-ecology, conservation and valorization of genetic resources and levels and types of biodiversity, protection and provision of forest ecosystems services, maintenance of their multifunctional role, up to the more recent theme of the adaptive management framed within the environmental change in progress and related issues of forests’ mitigation &amp; carbon sequestration/ stocking ability.…”
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Site selection of the suitable areas for the physical development of Tehran megalopolis based on the climatic elements and geographic factors by F. Mojarrad, S. Hoseinifar

“…F., (2011), Impacts of land-use change on ecosystem service value in Changsha, China, J. Cent. South Univ. …”
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Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability: data and R code

“…Our study provides a quantitative methodology for assessing the relative response rate of ecosystems – be they natural or with a strong anthropogenic signature – to environmental variability, which is the first step to address why some regions appear to be more sensitive than others and what impact this has upon the resilience of ecosystem service provision and human wellbeing.…”