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The Effect of Tree Decline Over Soil Microclimate Largely Controls Soil Respiration Dynamics in a Mediterranean Woodland
(Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022)
As drought-induced tree defoliation and mortality (i.e. tree decline) in the Mediterranean is expected to worsen with ongoing climate change, it is of paramount importance to understand how, why, and when tree decline ...
Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation
(Nature Sustainability, 2022)
Several safe boundaries of critical Earth system processes have already been crossed due to human perturbations; not accounting for their interactions may further narrow the safe operating space for humanity. Using expert ...
The Human Factor in Transmission Network Expansion Planning: The Grid That a Sustainable Energy System Needs
(Sustainability (Switzerland), 2022)
The decarbonization of the energy sector puts additional pressure on the transmission network. The main cause for this is that renewable sources are often more abundant in geographical areas far away from the main demand ...
Climate and sustainability co-governance in Kenya: A multi-criteria analysis of stakeholders' perceptions and consensus
(Energy for Sustainable Development, 2022)
The Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development embody highly intertwined targets to act for climate in conjunction with sustainable development. This, however, entails different meanings and challenges ...
What is the Price of Conservation? A Review of the Status Quo and Recommendations for Improving Cost Reporting
(BioScience, 2022)
Wildlife conservation is severely limited by funding. Therefore, to maximize biodiversity outcomes, assessing financial costs of interventions is as important as assessing effectiveness. We reviewed the reporting of costs ...
Scale dependency of ectomycorrhizal fungal community assembly processes in Mediterranean mixed forests
(Mycorrhiza, 2022)
The assembly of biological communities depends on deterministic and stochastic processes whose influence varies across spatial and temporal scales. Although ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi play a key role in forest ecosystems, ...
Isotopic offsets between bulk plant water and its sources are larger in cool and wet environments
(Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2022)
Isotope-based approaches to study plant water sources rely on the assumption that root water uptake and within-plant water transport are non-fractionating processes. However, a growing number of studies have reported offsets ...
Mountain sheep grazing systems provide multiple ecological, socio-economic, and food quality benefits
(Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2022)
Pastoral systems face increasing pressure from competing global markets, food sector industrialization, and new policies such as Europe’s post-2020 Common Agriculture Policy. This pressure threatens the use of extensive ...
Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of European beef production systems based on a farm-level optimization model
(Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022)
The European Union (EU) is among the largest beef producers in the world. Besides the economic turnover, beef production causes adverse environmental impacts such as climate change. The sector is known for high heterogeneity ...
Exploring the roles of storage technologies in the Spanish electricity system with high share of renewable energy
(Energy Reports, 2022)
At operational level, fossil fuel phase-out and high shares of non-dispatchable renewable energy resources (RES) will challenge the system operator's (SO) ability to balance generation, and the demand at any time. The ...