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Toward understanding the dynamics of land change in Latin America: Potential utility of a resilience approach for building archetypes of land-systems change

Rocha, J. C., M. Baraibar, L. Deutsch, A. de Bremond, J. Oestreicher, F. Rositano, and C. Gelabert. 2019. Toward understanding the dynamics of land change in Latin America: potential utility of a resilience approach for building archetypes of land-systems change. Ecology and Society 24(1):17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10349-240117

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Climate change, financial shocks, and fluctuations in international trade are some of the reasons why resilience is increasingly invoked in discussions about land-use policy. However, resilience assessments come with the challenge of operationalization, upscaling their conclusions while considering the context-specific nature of land-use dynamics and the common lack of long-term data. We revisit the approach of system archetyp...

Trophic interactions, management trade-offs and climate change: the need for adaptive thresholds to operationalize ecosystem indicators

Kadin, M., Blenckner, T., Casini, M., Gårdmark, A., et.al. 2019. Trophic Interactions, Management Trade-Offs and Climate Change: The Need for Adaptive Thresholds to Operationalize Ecosystem Indicators. Front. Mar. Sci., 21 May 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00249

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Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is commonly applied to achieve sustainable use of marine resources. For EBM, regular ecosystem-wide assessments of changes in environmental or ecological status are essential components, as well as assessments of the effects of management measures. Assessments are typically carried out using indicators. A major challenge for the usage of indicators in EBM is trophic interactions as these may in...

Hidden treasures: Human-made aquatic ecosystems harbour unexplored opportunities

Koschorreck, M., Downing, A.S., Hejzlar, J., Marcé, R. et.al. 2019. Hidden treasures: Human-made aquatic ecosystems harbour unexplored opportunities. Ambio (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01199-6

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Artificial water bodies like ditches, fish ponds, weirs, reservoirs, fish ladders, and irrigation channels are usually constructed and managed to optimize their intended purposes. However, human-made aquatic systems also have unintended consequences on ecosystem services and biogeochemical cycles. Knowledge about their functioning and possible additional ecosystem services is poor, especially compared to natural ecosystems. A...

Combining eight research areas to foster the uptake of ecosystem‐based management in fresh waters

Langhans, S.D., Domisch, S., Balbi, S., Delacámara, G., et.al. 2019. Combining eight research areas to foster the uptake of ecosystem‐based management in fresh waters. Aquatic Conservation, Volume 29, Issue 7, Special Issue: Freshwater Conservation in the Anthropocene, July 2019, Pages 1161-1173

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Freshwater ecosystems are under a constant risk of being irreversibly damaged by human pressures that threaten their biodiversity, the sustainability of ecosystem services (ESs), and human well‐being. Despite the implementation of various environmental regulations, the challenges of safeguarding freshwater assets have so far not been tackled successfully. A promising way forward to stop the loss of freshwater biodiversity and...

Yanama budyari gumada: reframing the urban to care as Darug Country in western Sydney

Ngurra, D., Lexodious, D., Glass, P. et.al. 2019.Yanama budyari gumada: reframing the urban to care as Darug Country in western Sydney. Australian Geographer, Volume 50, 2019 - Issue 3

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In non-urban places of Australia, caring-as-Country frames natural resource management (NRM) as a practice of reciprocal, more-than-human care-giving (S. Suchet-Pearson, S. Wright, K. Lloyd, and L. Burarrwanga. 2013. ‘Caring as Country: towards and ontology of co-becoming in natural resource management.’ Asia Pacific Viewpoint 54 (2): 185–197). Caring-as-Country is an idea that encapsulates the entangled, reciprocal relati...

Exploring the social-ecological systems discourse 20 years later

Colding, J., and S. Barthel. 2019. Exploring the social-ecological systems discourse 20 years later. Ecology and Society 24(1):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10598-240102

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This paper explores the 20-year evolution of the social-ecological systems framework (SESs). Although a first definition of SES dates back to 1988, Berkes and Folke more thoroughly used the concept in 1998 to analyze resilience in local resource management systems. Since then studies of interlinked human and natural systems have emerged as a field on its own right, promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration in a wi...

Positive association between epiphytes and competitiveness of the brown algal genus Lobophora against corals

Eich, A., Ford., A.K., Nugues, M.M., et.al. 2019. Positive association between epiphytes and competitiveness of the brown algal genus Lobophora against corals. PeerJ. 2019 Feb 8;7:e6380. doi: 10.7717/peerj.6380. eCollection 2019

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Observations of coral-algal competition can provide valuable information about the state of coral reef ecosystems. Here, we report contact rates and apparent competition states for six shallow lagoonal reefs in Fiji. A total of 81.4% of examined coral perimeters were found to be in contact with algae, with turf algae (54.7%) and macroalgae of the genus Lobophora (16.8%) representing the most frequently observed contacts. Tu...

Systemic resilience to cross-border infectious disease threat events in Europe

Semenza, J.C., Sewe, M.O., Lindgren, E., Brusin, S., et.al. 2019. Systemic resilience to cross-border infectious disease threat events in Europe. Transbound Emerg Dis. 2019 Apr 25. doi: 10.1111/tbed.13211.

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Recurrent health emergencies threaten global health security. International Health Regulations (IHR) aim to prevent, detect and respond to such threats, through increase in national public health core capacities, but whether IHR core capacity implementation is necessary and sufficient has been contested. With a longitudinal study we relate changes in national IHR core capacities to changes in cross-border infectious disease t...

Contesting the coast: Ecosystems as infrastructure in the Mississippi River Delta

Lewis, J.A., Erntsson, H. 2019. Contesting the coast: Ecosystems as infrastructure in the Mississippi River Delta. Progress in Planning, Volume 129, April 2019, Pages 1-30

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We develop an analytical repertoire for understanding historical interrelationships between water infrastructure, regional environmental politics, and large-scale coastal ecosystems. In doing so, we scrutinize how notions of urban resilience, climate adaptation, and ecosystem-based infrastructure are influencing contemporary planning practice. Our account from New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta traces several large-sc...

Collective action problem characteristics and partner uncertainty as drivers of social tie formation in collaborative networks

Nohrsted, D., Bodin, Ö. 2019. Collective Action Problem Characteristics and Partner Uncertainty as Drivers of Social Tie Formation in Collaborative Networks. Policy Studies Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12309

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The effectiveness of collaboration is often explained by the alignment of social networks with collective‐action problem characteristics, yet previous research on social tie formation has focused almost exclusively on actor and relational attributes. We theorize that collective‐action problem characteristics together with actor and relational attributes explain social tie formation and that the relative effect of these factors...