Bioeconomy strategies are currently promoted as progressive sustainability avenues in the Nordic countries and globally, also engaging key economic sector and industries. Different bioeconomy activities imply changes in ...

After the second world war Germany was divided in two different countries. Thereby one interrelated population was split up and lived under circumstances mainly dominated by their respective protective powers. Since knowledge ...

A causa del loro elevato livello di specializzazione ecologica, le Orchidaceae sono specie altamente vulnerabili e minacciate a scala globale ma anche bioindicatori dello stato degli habitat in cui vivono. Al fine di ...

Wild Food Plants (WFPs) are non-cultivated plants, being used as food in food insecure countries including underdeveloped and developing countries. They occupy key position among economically and medicinally important ...

Under the global change scenario, it is increasingly important to monitor habitat and ecosystem attributes to prevent their loss and degradation. While different approaches have been proposed to achieve this goal, little ...

Biocultural diversity is fundamental in understanding the interactive pathways between people and the forest. The foundation for these various pathways is forest functions and values such as productive, cultural, social, ...

This research has a twofold objective. It first aims at understanding how indigenous inhabitants of a specific region in the Levant (Middle Eastern Peninsula - Lebanon) deal with, and harvest the benefits of their natural ...

L’invasione di specie aliene è considerata una delle cause più importanti di perdita della biodiversità. Le specie aliene vengono trasportate accidentalmente dall'uomo verso nuovi habitat, dove si insediano e si riproducono ...

Temperate semi-natural dry grasslands are known for the high biodiversity they host. Several studies attempted to pinpoint principles to explain the assembly of local communities and disentangle the coexistence mechanisms ...