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Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

Crossing the boundaries in global sustainability The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safe...

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data

Prediction of species’ distributions is central to diverse applications in ecology, evolution and conservation science. There is increasing electronic access to vast sets of occ...

De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

"Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where abrupt global environmental change can no longer be excluded. We propose a new approach to global sustain...

Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife-- Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of free-living wild animals can be classified into three major groups on the basis of key epizootiological criteria: (i) EIDs associated with...

Biological Consequences of Ecosystem Fragmentation: A Review

Abstract. Abstract Research on fragmented ecosystems has focused mostly on the biogeograpbic consequences of the creation of habitat “islands” of different sizes and has provide...

Carbon properties and their role in supercapacitors

Systematic conservation planning.

The realization of conservation goals requires strategies for managing whole landscapes including areas allocated to both production and protection. Reserves alone are not adequ...