Ecology and Conservation: Recent submissions
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Retaining product value in post-consumer textiles: How to scale a closed-loop system
(Elsevier, 19 March 2024)In the face of rapidly growing sustainability challenges, pressure is mounting on businesses to decouple production from virgin resources, reduce waste and phase-out pollution. The Circular Economy (CE) is important for ... -
Resource gaps pose the greatest threat for bumblebees during the colony establishment phase (article)
(Wiley / Royal Entomological Society, 22 March 2024)1. A common management intervention to support declining wild pollinators is ‘pollinator planting’. However, despite years of inclusion in conservation initiatives, global pollinator declines continue. 2. Using the ... -
Resource gaps pose the greatest threat for bumblebees during the colony establishment phase (dataset)
(University of Exeter, 11 March 2024)Abstract of associated paper: 1. A common management intervention to support declining wild pollinators is ‘pollinator planting’. However, despite years of inclusion in conservation initiatives, global pollinator declines ... -
Transposon accumulation at xenobiotic gene family loci in aphids
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 18 October 2023)The evolution of resistance is a major challenge for the sustainable control of pests and pathogens. Thus, a deeper understanding of the evolutionary and genomic mechanisms underpinning resistance evolution is required to ... -
Symbiotic bacteria confer insecticide resistance by metabolizing buprofezin in the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Stål)
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 13 December 2023)Buprofezin, a chitin synthesis inhibitor, is widely used to control several economically important insect crop pests. However, the overuse of buprofezin has led to the evolution of resistance and exposed off-target organisms ...