Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Audreanne Loiselle, Raphael Proulx, Marie Larocque, Stephanie Pellerin
Summary: Wetlands are crucial for ecosystem functions and services, but they are under threat. It is important to develop conservation strategies to optimize wetland ecosystem functions and services. Evaluating the relationships between different indicators is a useful framework to understand the challenges faced by conservationists. However, these relationships can vary depending on region, scale, and ecosystem type.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Eini Nieminen, Santtu Kareksela, Panu Halme, Janne Sakari Kotiaho
Summary: Private land often contains biodiversity features of high conservation value, and the perspectives of landowners can influence conservation actions. However, the consequences on biodiversity and economic considerations from considering landowners' opinions are rarely quantitatively measured in decision-making. A study in Finland on boreal mire protection found that acknowledging landowners' resistance to protection changes the conservation sites chosen, and trade-offs occur between landowners' resistance, biodiversity protection, and financial costs in different conservation scenarios. The results suggest that while trade-offs cannot be fully avoided, a systematic examination of them can help alleviate their impacts, leading to better-informed conservation decisions and more effective allocation of resources.
Article
Ecology
Nicole Wengerd, Michael P. Gilmore
Summary: This research explores how a biocultural approach can help understand and address trade-offs in protected area planning and management. By using participatory mapping and community visioning facilitation, this approach identifies geographic boundaries, resource-use patterns, and cultural relevance, enabling more meaningful community participation in the processes.
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Felix Witing, Marie Anne Eurie Forio, Francis J. Burdon, Brendan Mckie, Peter Goethals, Michael Strauch, Martin Volk
Summary: This study applied a landscape optimization algorithm to allocate riparian forest management measures in the Zwalm River catchment and identified the trade-offs between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and agricultural production. By optimizing the placement of management measures, the study showed how these trade-offs could be best balanced, while identifying priority regions for reforestation actions. The study highlights the potential of landscape optimization algorithms in supporting the design of multifunctional stream-riparian networks.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Martin Drechsler
Summary: Conservation offsets offer cost-effective conservation of biodiversity, but the level of flexibility should be carefully chosen to balance ecological benefits and economic costs.
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Adam C. Castonguay, Stephen Polasky, Matthew H. Holden, Mario Herrero, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Cecile Godde, Jinfeng Chang, James Gerber, G. Bradd Witt, Edward T. Game, Brett A. Bryan, Brendan Wintle, Katie Lee, Payal Bal, Eve McDonald-Madden
Summary: Beef production is a complex global sustainability challenge that involves reducing poverty and hunger, as well as addressing climate change issues. Understanding the trade-offs between these goals on a global scale and at fine spatial resolution is crucial in achieving a globally sustainable beef industry.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Roosa A. E. Laitinen, Zoran Nikoloski
Summary: Trade-offs between traits in plants are important for their survival and are influenced by the environment and physicochemical laws. However, there are still gaps and differences in defining and measuring trade-offs, as well as understanding their genetic architecture. This review classifies existing definitions of trade-offs and compares quantification methods based on different correlations. It also highlights the genetic mechanisms underlying trade-offs and suggests the use of natural variability in studying them. The review offers a perspective for future research on plant trade-offs and their application in crop breeding.
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Environmental Studies
Daniel Martin Auliz-Ortiz, Victor Arroyo-Rodriguez, Eduardo Mendoza, Miguel Martinez-Ramos
Summary: Restricted policies in protected areas may worsen poverty, but less restrictive areas may be better at alleviating poverty. However, this permissibility may reduce the effectiveness of preventing forest loss.
Review
Genetics & Heredity
Bonnie Berger, Yun William Yu
Summary: Genome sequencing and analysis decode functional information in DNA sequences and study cell variations. The increasing throughput of sequencing platforms has led to computational challenges in analyzing the large amount of raw data produced. Recent methodological advances offer solutions but also introduce trade-offs, such as accuracy and memory, expense and time, and the need for expertise in non-standard programming interfaces and complex infrastructure.
NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Eric Rega Christophe Bayala, Kwabena Owusu Asubonteng, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Houria Djoudi, Freddie Sayi Siangulube, James Reed, Terry Sunderland
Summary: In multifunctional landscapes, expanding economic activities threaten the integrity of biodiverse ecosystems, creating conservation-development trade-offs. This paper analyzes a participatory mapping process in Ghana's Western Wildlife Corridor, demonstrating how scenario building and participatory mapping can help negotiate conflicting objectives and reach a consensus. The study highlights the drivers of landscape degradation, including increasing demand for food and natural resources and climate change impacts, and emphasizes the importance of well-functioning multi-stakeholder platforms, navigating power imbalances, and recognizing different kinds and degrees of knowledge.
Article
Environmental Sciences
James P. W. Robinson, Angus Garrett, Juan Carlos Paredes Esclapez, Eva Maire, Robert W. R. Parker, Nicholas A. J. Graham
Summary: Seafood is expected to be a key source of low-emissions nutritious food, but there are variations in nutrients and carbon footprints among species and production methods. Atlantic mackerel is the most available and has the lowest carbon footprint among wild-caught seafood in the UK market, but there are trade-offs between price, sustainability, and nutritional value. The current seafood system in the UK is not optimized to produce large amounts of nutritious, low-emissions seafood. Promoting the consumption of affordable species like mackerel could improve nutrient intake in the UK population at a low environmental cost.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nan Lu, Lue Liu, Dandan Yu, Bojie Fu
Summary: Trade-offs are abundant in social-ecological systems, involving various components and processes such as plant life-history strategies, ecosystem functions, ecosystem services, human well-being, stakeholder conflicts, and management objectives. However, the understanding of the term "trade-offs" can be confusing, and efforts to connect different trade-offs and analyze their relationships are insufficient.
CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Seirana Hashemi, Roosa Laitinen, Zoran Nikoloski
Summary: Accumulating evidence has shown the importance of trade-offs involving metabolic traits in organism evolution. Different levels of complexity in metabolic models have been used to investigate and explain various metabolic trade-offs. This review discusses the modelling approaches used to study trade-offs in enzyme properties, reaction rates, pathway and network rates and yields, metabolic objectives, and metabolic concentrations. Insights into these trade-offs are provided by constraint-based metabolic modelling, highlighting their relationship to the classical black box Y-model and identifying concerns and future research perspectives.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Thomas D. Stokely, Urs G. Kormann, Jake Verschuyl, Andrew J. Kroll, David W. Frey, Scott H. Harris, Doug Mainwaring, Doug Maguire, Jeff A. Hatten, James W. Rivers, Stephen Fitzgerald, Matthew G. Betts
Summary: The research shows that increasing management intensity through herbicide use in forests may decrease biodiversity conservation and certain non-timber services, pointing to trade-offs between some services and timber production. However, some services appear to be compatible with timber production, suggesting that a balance may need to be struck for optimal ecosystem service provision across managed forest landscapes.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Fatemeh Boloori, Rashed Khanjani-Shiraz, Hirofumi Fukuyama
Summary: This paper presents a network DEA framework that incorporates value judgments into production analysis, using a proportional trade-off model and introducing the concept of network proportional trade-offs. The author demonstrates the practical application of the framework through a case study of an oil holding company.
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2021)