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Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions
(2025)The design and implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) in cities are often limited by an anthropocentric approach that prioritizes utilitarian goals instead of the diverse needs and abilities of multiple species ... -
Urban novel ecosystems as affective landscapes
(2024)Intertwined within a patchwork of different types of land use and land cover, novel ecosystems are urban ecosystems that have no historical analogues and contain novel species assemblages. Some researchers and practitioners ... -
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review
(2025)Collaborative processes such as co-design are increasingly crucial in generating social-ecological research and practice. Fostering change within complex adaptive systems requires collaboratively working with real-world actors ... -
Exploring the restorative capacity of urban green spaces and their biodiversity through an adapted One Health approach: a scoping review
(2024)The One Health framework was proposed by the World Health Organisation to explore human, animal, and environmental health interfaces using a holistic and interdisciplinary approach. Yet, the application of this framework ... -
Growing Older Urbanism: exploring the nexus between ageing, the built environment, and urban ecosystems
(2023)Background: Some of the main urban issues we currently face include ageing popu- lations, the impact of the built environment, and the treatment of urban ecosystems. Yet the dynamic relationships and synergies between ... -
Premises, practices and politics of co-creation for urban sustainability transitions
(2025)Co-creation is becoming a widely used mode of urban governance and research for city- making and city-transitioning being conceptually entangled with experimentation, innovation and collaboration. In this paper, we address ... -
Using ecosystem services to measure the degree to which a solution is nature-based
(2021)There has been a recent surge of interest in Nature-based Solutions, a concept encompassing a broad suite of ideas that have arisen from the intersection of ecology, engineering, sociology and economics. Solutions founded ... -
Plant community ecology of petrifying springs (Cratoneurion) - a priority habitat
(2017)Aims: To investigate the floristic and abiotic characteristics of the Habitats Directive priority habitat ‘Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion)’. Location: The island of Ireland, north-western Europe. ... -
Can air humidity and temperature regimes within cloud forest canopies be predicted from bryophyte and lichen cover?
(2015)The use of bryophyte and lichen cover as a proxy for air relative humidity (RH) and temperature in tropical forests has been widely proposed. Many studies that have assessed the usefulness of such indicators have mostly ... -
Leverage points for improving urban biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene: A novel ecosystem lens for social-ecological transformation
(2024)Environmental governance faces persistent challenges worldwide, with traditional conservation and restoration policies often proving ineffective against ongoing environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. This is ... -
Distribution of Nature-based Solutions in cities across Europe
(2024)Nature-based Solutions (NBS) is a conceptual framework that seeks to use properties of nature to co-produce ecosystem services to build climate change resilience and improve quality of life by mitigating the relation- ship ... -
Ponding of random plastic filter medium due to the fungus Subbaromyces splendens Hesseltine in the treatment of sewage
(1983)Fungi are a common component of the film in the upper regions of percolating filters and are associated with strong sewages and industrial wastewaters. Subbaromyces splendens Hesseltine is reported as growing extensively ... -
Embedding co-production of nature-based solutions in urban governance: Emerging co-production capacities in three European cities
(2024)This paper seeks to understand how co-production can become embedded as a collaborative governance practice by which city governments plan, deliver and steward nature-based solutions. To these ends, the paper analyses how ... -
Strategies for mainstreaming nature-based solutions in urban governance capacities in ten European cities
(2023)This paper explores the institutional mainstreaming of nature-based solutions (NBS) to advance a process-based understanding about how to strategically develop the governance capacities needed for systemic, localised and ... -
Regional variability in peatland burning at mid-to high-latitudes during the Holocene
(2023)Northern peatlands store globally-important amounts of carbon in the form of partly decomposed plant detritus. Drying associated with climate and land-use change may lead to increased fire frequency and severity in ... -
Reconstructing Devonian palaeoatmosphere & paleoecology using fossil plant traits
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Reconstructing Devonian palaeoatmosphere & paleoecology using fossil plant traits
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Spatial variability of urban forest topsoil properties: towards representative and robust sampling design
(2023)Background: Soil spatial variability is a major concern when deciding how to collect a representative topsoil sample for laboratory analysis. Sampling design to capture site-specific variability is documented in the ... -
Finding justice in wild, novel ecosystems: a review through a multispecies lens
(2023)Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities has grown in scale and magnitude in recent times but is still considered to be the main challenge for transitioning our cities and their communities to be more climate resilient ...
