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Coverage of ecological engineering since September 2, 2020.

Extreme events: Ecosystems offer cost effective protection

"...As reported in the article published by the journal Nature Sustainability, researchers assessed the state of knowledge on the role ecosystems play in reducing the disaster risk: from the management of wildfires to the mitigation of flooding in urban areas through the implementation of green design, from the use of vegetation on steep slopes to cost-effectively reduce mountain hazards - such as mudslides and avalanches - to the management of stormwater..."

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Mangrove Root Model May Hold the Key to Preventing Coastal Erosion

"...Mangrove vegetation, which grows naturally in subtropical shorelines, provides a wide range of ecosystem functions such as reducing coastal erosion, promoting biodiversity, and removing nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon dioxide. These vital ecological functions are influenced by the water flow around the intricate mangrove roots, which create a complex energetic process that mixes up sediments and generates a depositional region behind the roots. How these mangrove roots interact with water flow is believed to be a key element in mitigating coastal erosion..."

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Invasive in the U.S., lifesaver Down Under

"...Ten years of research led by the University of South Florida has revealed that a monitor lizard should be regarded as an "ecosystem engineer," a rarity for reptiles. Tortoises and sea turtles are the only reptiles considered to be ecosystem engineers, a term used to describe organisms that have a great impact on their environment based on their ability to create, modify, maintain or destroy a habitat. Sean Doody, assistant professor and graduate director of integrative biology at the USF St..."

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Tear gas used against Portland protesters poses local health risk, lawsuit alleges

"...Night after night in Portland, tear gas and other crowd control devices have enveloped protesters and bystanders in airborne chemicals that settle on the ground, later to be washed into storm drains. Amid allegations that human health and the environment are suffering the consequences, five environmental groups represented by the ACLU of Oregon and others sued the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday. The federal lawsuit alleges the U..."

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Comprehensive look at US fuel economy standards show big savings on fuel and emissions

"...In one of the first comprehensive assessments of the fuel economy standards in the United States, Princeton University researchers found that, over their 40-year history, the standards helped reduce reliance on foreign oil producers, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and saved consumers money..."

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From the vault: The beaver relationship...it's complicated

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"...In this episode I speak with Glynnis Hood, a professor of environmental science at the University of Alberta, Augustana Campus. ..."

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Academic Research

Recent peer-reviewed papers about ecological engineering relevant to the latest news.

Eco-engineering for Climate Change?Floating to the Future

"...Ecological engineering is an evolving discipline with the aim of building more resilient and safer coastal and marine structures for people and nature, while maximizing ecosystems, social, and economical benefits..."

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Ecological changes and the tradeoff and synergy of ecosystem services in western China

"...It was found that the area of settlements and wetland ecosystems in the western region increased significantly from 2000 to 2015, whereas grassland showed a downward trend year by year..."

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Ecological engineering or nature-based solutions: does the term matter?

"...A bibliometric analysis was performed using the bibliometrix package in RStudio on environmental engineering, ecological engineering, nature-based solutions, engineering with nature, constructed wetlands, green engineering, and ecological systems..."

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Perspectives on the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the ?carbon neutrality? strategy

"...We further elaborate on the long-term effects of atmospheric CO2 changes and afforestation on China?s terrestrial carbon sink: the enhancement of the terrestrial carbon sink by the CO2 fertilization effect will diminish as the growth of the atmospheric CO2 slows down, or completely stops, depending on international efforts to combat climate change, and carbon sinks induced by ecological engineering, such as afforestation, will also decline as forest ecosystems become mature and reach their late-successional stage..."

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Diversification for sustainable and resilient agricultural landscape systems

"...Contributions from all continents highlighted regional specificities related to diversification and include research from natural and social sciences, with inter- and transdisciplinary approaches including synthesis of knowledge (reviews), empirical studies with experiments as well as assessments with interviews in case studies: Model-based design of crop diversification, the role of digitalization for achieving sustainability in the European context, ecological engineering for rice pest suppression in China, the role of cereal species mixtures in Ethiopian smallholder farmers, diversified planting in arid irrigation areas in northwestern China, integration of legumes in European and Canadian cropping systems, screening of native forage legumes for northern Swedish grassland systems, cropping system diversification of smallholder farmers in south-central Bangladesh, identification of how farmers imagine diversified landscapes in southern Idaho in the US, farm diversification affecting impacts from COVID-19 across Europe, the role of diversified farming in Mato Grosso Brazil, diversification and soil management measures in Germany, value chain formation for the scaling of crop diversification, and the design process with farmers and scientists for the transition toward legume-supported farming in Europe..."

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Adsorption of Organic Compounds on Minerals

"...Organic compounds have attracted extensive concerns in water treatment, agriculture and ecological engineering due to most of which are poorly-biodegradable and highly-toxic to aquatic ecosystem as well as the human beings..."

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Occurrence, Toxicity, and Removal Methods of Triclosan: a Timely Review

"...TCS enters the environment mainly in effluent and biosolids from wastewater treatment plants, and persists in the aquatic environment and edatope..."

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Good eutrophication status is a challenging goal for coastal waters

"...Our objective is to understand the effectiveness of local and international nutrient pollution mitigation efforts when targeting better water quality in the region?s coastal waters..."

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Changes in Intraspecific Diversity of the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Community Involved in Plant?Plant Interactions Between Sporobo

"...The intensification of biological processes coping with salt stress became a major issue to mitigate land degradation..."

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Attributing the impacts of ecological engineering and climate change on carbon uptake in Northeastern China

"...Results We identified four main forestry eco-engineering programs: croplands to forest (CtoF), grasslands to forest (GtoF), savannas to forest (StoF), and natural forest conservation (NFC) programs, whose areas accounted for 2..."

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Integrating farmers? and experts? perspectives for soil health-informed decision-making in conservation agriculture systems

"...Conversely, agricultural experts assigned the highest weight to soil organic carbon, soil water content, soil respiration, and soil microbial biomass when choosing the proper tillage systems to improve soil health..."

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