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Environmental Sciences
Vasileios J. Kontsiotis, Aggeliki Rapti, Vasilios Liordos
Summary: Understanding people's attitudes towards non-venomous and venomous snakes is crucial for their conservation. A survey conducted in Greece found that participants had positive attitudes towards the conservation of both non-venomous and venomous snakes, but were more positive towards non-venomous snakes. Mutualism and knowledge of snake venomosity were positive predictors of conservation attitudes towards non-venomous snakes.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Editorial Material
Biodiversity Conservation
Pablo Ariel Martinez, Jose Maria Gutierrez, Miguel Angel Olalla-Tarraga, Talita Ferreira Amado
Summary: Projected global changes in the coming decades will impact human and livestock interactions with venomous animals. Understanding the distribution and impact of venomous animal species is crucial for preventing and treating envenomings and conserving biodiversity.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Microbiology
Po-Chun Chuang, Wen-Hao Lin, Yi-Chun Chen, Chun-Chih Chien, I-Min Chiu, Tein-Shun Tsai
Summary: The nature and antibiotic susceptibilities of snake oral bacterial flora were investigated in this study. Aerobic gram-negative bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Proteus vulgaris, were found to be the most abundant. Proteus vulgaris was more common in certain snake species. Enterococcus faecalis was the most common aerobic gram-positive species. The gram-negative species showed less susceptibility to certain antibiotics compared to gram-positive species. Third-generation cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, carbapenems, or piperacillin-tazobactam can be used for empirical antibiotic therapy.
Article
Ecology
Kilian de Ridder, Felix Carl Schultz, Ingo Pies
Summary: This article introduces a conceptual framework for climate governance that combines polycentric climate governance, procedural climate justice, and directed technical change policy. It highlights the flexibility and adaptability of the framework in addressing the complexities and uncertainties of climate governance.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Microbiology
Sierra N. Smith, Timothy J. Colston, Cameron D. Siler
Summary: This study sampled and analyzed the mouth and gut microbial communities of three species of Asian venomous snakes, finding that the diversity of snake mouth and gut microbial communities correlate with host ecological and phylogenetic differences.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Management
Artem Sedakov, Han Qiao, Shouyang Wang
Summary: This paper examines the importance of network in players' strategies in network games, analyzing a dynamic game with network externalities and identifying Nash equilibrium and cooperative behavior. Furthermore, it explores the myopic equilibrium and myopic cooperation models. The findings are then applied to address the environmental issue of river pollution by examining the impact of firms' production on water pollution and downstream counterparts.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Michalis Vousdoukas, Joanne Clarke, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Lena Reimann, Nadia Khalaf, Trang Minh Duong, Birgitt Ouweneel, Salma Sabour, Carley E. Iles, Christopher H. Trisos, Luc Feyen, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Nicholas P. Simpson
Summary: Many African heritage sites are currently at risk from rising sea levels, which could more than triple under high emissions scenarios. Mitigating emissions can reduce the number of highly exposed sites. These findings highlight the urgent need for increased climate change adaptation for heritage sites in Africa, including governance, vulnerability assessments, monitoring, and protection strategies.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Marcus Hedblom, Anne-Caroline Prevot, Axelle Gregoire
Summary: Urban greenery is important for human health, resilient and sustainable cities, and biodiversity. However, urban sprawl and densification have reduced access and quality of urban greenery. Urban planners, architects, landscape architects, and urban ecologists have different views on nature in cities. Science fiction movies often ignore nature in their depictions of future cities and do not show innovative ways of including nature in cityscapes. Collaborating with SF artists, urban designers, and urban ecologists can help integrate nature into depictions of future cities.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Veronica Lupi, Simone Marsiglio
Summary: The bidirectional relationship between population growth and climate change suggests that demographic policy can be an effective alternative to traditional mitigation policies. Introducing a population policy aiming at imposing a cap on population growth into an extended global integrated assessment model shows significant reduction in social costs of environmental policies. This indicates that population policy may serve as an effective mitigation tool to complement standard climate policies.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Muhammad Azam, Abdul Majid Awan
Summary: This study examines the impact of climate change, income, inflation, and population aging on healthcare expenditures. The findings show that temperature and air pollution have a positive relationship with healthcare costs, while rainfall has a negative relationship. Income exhibits an inverted U-shaped relationship with healthcare expenditures. Additionally, inflation and population aging significantly increase the cost of healthcare.
SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Yijun Chen, Guodong Shi
Summary: This article investigates the cooperation and competition in regional climate policies under the RICE model using game theory and optimal control. The study finds that the RICE model is a dynamic game, with both cooperative and noncooperative solutions. The results demonstrate how the combination of game theory and control theory can be used to facilitate international negotiations on regional climate change mitigation policies.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Igor Catao Martins Vaz, Enedir Ghisi, Joao Carlos Souza
Summary: This paper evaluates the potential use of rainwater for firefighting through literature analysis and a case study. The scarcity of research in this area is identified, with some focusing on forest fires and others on rainwater use in buildings and fire stations. The case study reveals that building fires account for 50% of water consumption in firefighting, and rainwater can reduce reliance on potable water while improving logistical response time.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Johan Rockstroem, Mariana Mazzucato, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Simon Felix Fahrlaender, Dieter Gerten
Summary: Anthropogenic pressures and climate change are causing significant changes in water flows globally. To prevent catastrophe, there is a need for better understanding, new economic thinking, and an international governance framework.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Summary: As monsoons in South Asia become more unpredictable, forecasting the weather is becoming increasingly challenging - with the added threat of global warming heightening the risks posed by intense rain storms.
Article
Biophysics
Stanislaw Bury, Aleksandra Kolanek, Przemyslaw Chylarecki, Bartlomiej Najbar, Katarzyna Kurek, Tomasz D. Mazgajski
Summary: Climate change poses a significant challenge to wildlife, impacting the prevalence of different phenotypes in populations. This study found that the prevalence of black individuals in a grass snake population was negatively correlated with spring temperature and winter harshness. These findings suggest that warmer springs can diminish the advantage of black individuals due to increased predation rates, while colder springs favor their performance. Additionally, smaller melanistic individuals face a higher risk of winter mortality, especially during longer winters.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Zoology
Javier M. Cordier, Julian N. Lescano, Natalia E. Rios, Gerardo C. Leynaud, Javier Nori
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Bruna E. Bolochio, Julian N. Lescano, Javier Maximiliano Cordier, Rafael Loyola, Javier Nori
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2020)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
David L. Vergara-Tabares, Javier M. Cordier, Marcos A. Landi, George Olah, Javier Nori
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2020)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Javier M. Cordier, Ramiro Aguilar, Julian N. Lescano, Gerardo C. Leynaud, Andrea Bonino, Daniela Miloch, Rafael Loyola, Javier Nori
Summary: Human land-use changes are the most important drivers of biodiversity loss, especially affecting amphibians and reptiles negatively. The impact on these groups varies in magnitude, with the richest communities being the most negatively affected. Time elapsed in disturbed conditions does not improve species richness, indicating a low recovery capacity of herp communities.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Javier Maximiliano Cordier, Octavio Rojas-Soto, Romina Semhan, Cristian Simon Abdala, Javier Nori
Summary: The study reveals that species split from complexes generate new species more vulnerable to global climate change, as their climatic niche becomes more marginal and smaller over time. The exposure and vulnerability to climate change of these species are significantly more remarkable in the updated species compared to the originally described species. The lack of taxonomic and phylogenetic knowledge may mask the real vulnerability of biodiversity to global climate change.
PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
David A. Prieto-Torres, Javier Nori, Octavio R. Rojas-Soto, Adolfo G. Navarro-Siguenza
Summary: The distribution and survival of Neotropical seasonally dry forests are negatively impacted by land-use modifications and global climate change. Protected areas in the region are inefficient and insufficient, and there is a high priority to research the long-term effectiveness of these areas. By combining species distribution modeling and conservation planning techniques, it was found that improving protection through increasing protected area coverage is crucial for the conservation of these forests, especially for threatened and Data Deficit species.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Zoology
Octavio R. Rojas-Soto, Diego Baldo, Julian Lescano, Alondra Encarnacion-Luevano, Gerardo Leynaud, Javier Nori
Summary: The study explores how two populations of the fossorial frog adjust their activity patterns in different geographical areas to retain their ecological niche characteristics, indicating that seasonal activity is a strategy to conserve their climatic niche.
JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
David A. Prieto-Torres, Sandra Diaz, Javier Maximiliano Cordier, Ricardo Torres, Mercedes Caron, Javier Nori
Summary: In the highly threatened deforestation hotspot of the South American Gran Chaco, the combination of climate change and agriculture-related activities has a significant impact on long-term conservation opportunities. Increasing protection coverage and strategically establishing protected areas are crucial for improving long-term protection and resilience to these threats.
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rhett M. Rautsaw, Gustavo Jimenez-Velazquez, Erich P. Hofmann, Laura R. V. Alencar, Christoph I. Grunwald, Marcio Martins, Paola Carrasco, Tiffany M. Doan, Christopher L. Parkinson
Summary: In addition to being important for biologists, species distributions also have practical uses for naturalists, curious citizens, and fields like conservation planning and medical intervention. Venomous snakes, with their global distribution and medical significance, particularly highlight the importance of accurate information. To address the need for updated fine-scale distributions, researchers have created VenomMaps, a database and web application that provides updated distribution maps and species distribution models for all New World pitvipers.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Javier Nori, Fabricio Villalobos, Luis Osorio-Olvera, Rafael Loyola
Summary: The small size, degree of isolation, and particular evolutionary processes of islands make them highly diverse but also extremely vulnerable to human-mediated disturbances. This study analyzed the human threats, level of protection, and conservation importance of islands and found that a large number of islands face high human modification and have a low level of protection. Furthermore, the most threatened vertebrate species are found on large islands with low protection and high human modification. The study identified potential priority islands for conservation efforts.
PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Macarena Gonzalez, Nadia Kacevas, Javier Nori, Luis N. Piacentini, Leticia Bidegaray-Batista
Summary: Species are crucial for conservation efforts, and DNA and niche modeling are valuable tools for species delimitation. This study used gene trees, multispecies coalescent analyses, and ecological niche comparisons to identify and classify wolf spider species in Uruguay, revealing the existence of multiple lineages. The climatic requirements of these lineages differ, highlighting the importance of considering them in conservation efforts.
ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Evolutionary Biology
Paola A. Carrasco, Claudia Koch, Felipe G. Grazziotin, Pablo J. Venegas, Juan C. Chaparro, Gustavo J. Scrocchi, David Salazar-Valenzuela, Gerardo C. Leynaud, Camilo Mattoni
Summary: This study presents a total-evidence phylogeny of New World pitvipers, incorporating both morphological and molecular data. The results reveal a single colonization event of the Americas by pitvipers, leading to the divergence of a Neotropical clade and a North American/Neotropical clade. Morphological character analyses highlight the significance of features related to head scalation, the jaws, and the dorsum of the skull in phylogenetic inference, and detect morphological convergences associated with arboreality.
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Paola A. Carrasco, Lilen Prystupczuk, Claudia Koch, German A. Gonzalez, Gerardo C. Leynaud, Felipe G. Grazziotin
Summary: This study aimed to explore variation in skull morphology among species of the three subfamilies of Viperidae, and found that much of the variation lies in differences of shape and relative size of specific skull bones. The results indicate that phylogeny and size influence skull shape, but there is also evidence of morphological differentiation between species in different habitats and with different diets. The findings suggest that both evolutionary factors and ecological demands have shaped the morphological evolution of the viperid skull.
JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Zoology
Javier Nori, Romina Semhan, Cristian Simon Abdala, Octavio Rojas-Soto
Summary: The unique case of Argentinian reptiles, particularly the genus Liolaemus, is experiencing a significant increase in known species due to a high species description rate of 3.25 spp./year. This recent evolutionary radiation in Liolaemus has led to spatial changes in richness and endemism patterns, particularly in the Patagonian steppe and Monte ecoregions of Argentina. The decrease in average extent of occurrence (EOO) of Liolaemus species also poses an increased extinction risk, with 80% of species today having an EOO smaller than 20,000 km(2).
ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Javier M. Cordier, Rafael Loyola, Octavio Rojas-Soto, Javier Nori
PERSPECTIVES IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
(2020)
