Synthetic musk compounds (SMCs) are emerging contaminants frequently detected in aquatic environments due to their widespread use in personal care and household products. This study investigated the occurrence, environmental drivers, and ecological r...
What is the potential for synthetic biology as a way of engineering, on a large scale, complex ecosystems? Can it be used to change endangered ecological communities and rescue them to prevent their collapse? What are the best strategies for such eco...
Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus plantarum are responsible for alcoholic and malolactic fermentation, respectively. Successful completion of both fermentations is essential for many styles of wine, and an understanding of how these species...
Microbial cooperation pervades ecological scales, from single-species populations to host-associated microbiomes. Understanding the mechanisms promoting the stability of cooperation against potential threats by cheaters is a major question that only...
The chemical ecology and host plant preferences of the different Conistra species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Xylenini) are mostly unknown, even though they are essential components of the herbivorous assemblages of temperate zone forests. During field...
The straits of ecological development in the forestry industry and the problems existing in the industrial forestry system are currently the main focus of policy-making research in China, to alleviate the contradiction between forestry economic devel...
The Federal State of Saxony (Germany) transposed the EU Water Framework Directive into state law, identifying 617 surface water bodies (rivers and streams) for implementation of the water framework directive (WFD). Their ecological status was classif...
1 September 2022
The Transfer Payment Policy of National Key Ecological Functional Areas (TPEFAP), a well-known ecological compensation (eco-compensation) scheme in China, has been proposed by the government to alleviate ecological poverty and protect the environment...
Horizontal ecological compensation is an important institutional innovation to promote ecological civilization and is the main functional area strategy in China under the current management mechanism. In this paper, we use contract theory to analyze...
21 July 2017
Land use of sewage sludge is the primary disposal method in Shanxi, accounting for 42.66% of all. To determine the ecological risk of heavy metals in sewage sludge, contents of seven heavy metals in sewage sludge from 9 municipal waste water treatmen...
Bacterial co-culture studies using synthetic gut microbiomes have reported novel research designs to understand the underlying role of bacterial interaction in the metabolism of dietary resources and community assembly of complex microflora. Since la...
The scientific study of emotion remains fraught with conceptual ambiguity, methodological limitations, and epistemological blind spots. This theoretical paper argues that existing paradigms frequently capture synthetic rather than natural emotional s...
This study examines how individuals experience AI-generated natural landscapes and whether visually simulated, non-immersive environments activate perceptual, emotional, and restorative mechanisms typically associated with real or immersive nature. G...
Previous studies have not assessed the causal effect of the Olympic Games on the spread of pandemics. Using the synthetic control method and the national public city data in Japan recorded from February to September 2021, we estimated the causal effe...
Watershed Ecological Compensation (WEC) is a vital tool for water environmental governance, yet existing research often focuses on either upstream or downstream regions in isolation, lacking a systematic assessment of basin-wide aggregate effects. Ta...
Climate change and anthropogenic nitrogen addition alter the soil physicochemical properties and microbial activity in oligotrophic forest soil. Unbalanced and non-selective nitrogen fertilizer application is lost as gas emissions (N2O, NO) and also...
Globally, grasslands, savannas, and wetlands are degrading rapidly and increasingly being replaced by woody vegetation. Woody Plant Encroachment (WPE) disrupts natural landscapes and has significant consequences for biodiversity, ecosystem functionin...
Microorganisms encode proteins that function in the transformations of useful and harmful nitrogenous compounds in the global nitrogen cycle. The major transformations in the nitrogen cycle are nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification, anaer...
Reliable biological datasets, especially those integrating biotic indices such as the Saprobic Index, are scarce, limiting machine and deep learning applications in aquatic ecosystem assessments. This study evaluates Conditional Tabular Generative Ad...
Gram-negative bacterial cell surface component lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and its active principle, lipid A, exhibit immunostimulatory effects and have the potential to act as adjuvants. However, canonical LPS acts as an endotoxin by hyperstimulating t...
Machine learning and statistical classification methods are widely applied to microbiome data for diagnostic, prognostic, and phenotypic insights. However, the complex, multivariate nature of microbiome communities makes it difficult to assess the re...
22 May 2020
Recently, with the rapid increase of urban population and industrial agglomeration, the price of construction land has increased, and construction land has become increasingly scarce. Therefore, how to improve the construction land use quality (CLUQ)...
Synthetic multi-species consortia provide valuable insights into the ecological and structural dynamics of complex microbial biofilms. However, the specialized functional contributions of individual components under severe nutrient limitations remain...
The search for approaches to a holistic sustainable agriculture requires the development of new cropping systems that provide additional ecosystem services beyond biomass supply for food, feed, material, and energy use. The reduction of chemical synt...
Synthetic measurement of regional sustainable development has been one of the key issues in the research field of sustainability. In this paper, Qingyang City located in the Loess Plateau ecologically fragile area of Northwest China is used for a cas...
Rumex confertus is a rhizomatous, invasive, and difficult to control plant. Nevertheless, for sustainable agriculture, studies to biologically control R. confertus continue. Towards this, considerable attention has been devoted to investigating the e...
The relationship between microorganisms and human health is inseparable. In today’s increasingly urbanized world, the relationship between indoor microbial communities and human health is particularly close. Studies have shown that the composit...
Bacterial cellulose (BC), a nanostructured biopolymer produced by Komagateibacter spp., exhibits remarkable mechanical strength, purity, and biocompatibility, making it highly attractive for applications in biomedicine, food, and sustainable material...
Chlorogenic acid (CGA), a phenolic compound with diverse bioactivities, plays a crucial role in plant defense mechanisms and has significant therapeutic potential in human inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases. The biosynthesis and accumulation of...
To seek a restoration plan for the safe use of agricultural land around mining areas, this study focuses on the regions around a mining plant in Huidong County, western Sichuan Province, affected by lead–zinc mining, and the precise remediation...
Recent trends in mobility and transportation underscore the growing importance of promoting alternative, flexible, and environmentally friendly modes of transport—such as cycling—that not only contribute significantly to users’ heal...
The pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum is a model organism able to synthesize industrially-relevant molecules. Commercial-scale cultivation currently requires large monocultures, prone to bio-contamination. However, little is known about the id...
The recalcitrance of complex organic polymers such as lignocellulose is one of the major obstacles to sustainable energy production from plant biomass, and the generation of toxic intermediates can negatively impact the efficiency of microbial lignoc...
The global proliferation of synthetic microfiber waste has emerged as a pressing environmental concern due to its widespread distribution in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Primary sources of synthetic microfibers include laundering of synth...
Synthetical eco-environmental problems’ treatment is a new stage for certain pollutant control or ecological restoration. Traditional urban planners have focused more on social–economic development but less on eco-environmental considerat...
Synthetic progestins (PGs) are a large family of hormones used in continuously growing amounts in human and animal contraception and medicinal therapies. Because wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are unable to eradicate PGs after excretion, they ar...
Accurate ecological prediction is critical for sustainable environmental management and carbon cycle assessment, yet model development is often constrained by limited datasets and inconsistent preprocessing practices. Reliable litterfall prediction p...
In this paper, the photosensitive Zr-MOF material Thiadiazole-modified UiO-68 (UiO-68N2S) was used to prepare CdS@UiO-68N2S composites by MOF post-reaction. The chemical composition is characterized using PXRD, FT-IR, XPS, SEM, and TGA. Rhodamine B w...
The genus Pseudoalteromonas is a marine group of bacteria belonging to theclass Gammaproteobacteria that has come to attention in the natural product andmicrobial ecology science fields in the last decade. Pigmented species of the genus havebeen show...
Research accumulated over the past decades has shown that mycoprotein could serve as a healthy and safe alternative protein source, offering a viable substitute for animal- and plant-derived proteins. This study evaluated the impact of substituting w...
The development of effective remediation strategies for aniline-contaminated sites has become a significant research focus in environmental science. This study aimed to construct a highly efficient aniline-degrading synthetic microbial consortium gui...
To improve the ecological environment quality of industrial cities and protect the health of residents, we determined the priority control factors of heavy metal(loid)s (HMs) pollution and risk in the resuspended street dust (RSD) of Shijiazhuang, an...
Biomass-derived carbon materials (BDCs) are highly regarded for their renewability, environmental friendliness, and broad potential for application. A significant advantage of these materials lies in the high degree of customization of their physical...
Marine microbial natural products (MMNPs) have attracted increasing attention from microbiologists, taxonomists, ecologists, agronomists, chemists and evolutionary biologists during the last few decades. Numerous studies have indicated that diverse m...
Plastic pollution has emerged as a pervasive and systemic driver of ecological and biogeochemical disruption in freshwater and marine environments. Unlike natural materials that circulate within closed biogeochemical loops, synthetic polymers predomi...
The broad range of applications offered by synthetic biology and bioengineering has revolutionized the ability to design and redesign microorganisms to express specific functions, overcoming the limitations of natural biological systems. This advance...
This paper deals with the pyrolysis conversion of synthetic waste materials into noble fuels, i.e., heating oils, gasoline, diesel, and carbon. The following article presents the principle and use of pyrolysis conversion of waste tires and plastics....
We examine the prospect for employing a bio-inspired architecture for a lunar industrial ecology based on genetic regulatory networks. The lunar industrial ecology resembles a metabolic system in that it comprises multiple chemical processes interlin...
There is a mutual causal relationship between population shrinkage and the level of regional social–economic–ecological development and their coordinated development. It is of great significance to reveal the correlation effect between po...
In numerous studies, researchers have explored the interactions between fungi and their hosting biota in terrestrial systems, while much less attention has been paid to the counterpart interactions in aquatic, and particularly marine, ecosystems. Des...
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