Coastlines have traditionally been engineered to maintain structural stability and to protect
property from storm‐related damage, but their ability to endure will be challenged over the …

Ethnopharmacological relevance While the antimicrobial activity of a number of plants used
in traditional Mayan medicine against infectious diseases has been documented, their …

El conocimiento sobre los ecosistemas clave de un país es una prioridad nacional de la
investigación científica para plantear una política de ciencia que motive la generación de …

In nature conservation, ex situ and in situ conservation strategies are discussed for
protecting endangered species of plants and animals. However, the impacts of these …

Taiwan is a subtropical mountainous island with fragile geological conditions and about
1566 km of coastline. Monsoon usually bring severe coastal erosion and dust storms …

In Brazil, the worst environmental disaster involving mining dams was the collapse of the
Fundão tailing dam, in 2015. This accident affected directly the ecosystems of the regions …

The adaptive capacity of psammophytes to sand burial is crucial for the ecological
restoration of coastal dune systems. The responses of Spinifex littoreus to different sand …

Canavalia rosea is an extremophilic legume that grows in hypersaline and nutrient-deficient
ecosystems. The extremophilic nature of C. rosea may be attributed to its ability to establish …

Extrafloral nectar production can vary depending on the structure of the plant in which it is
found, as well as environmental conditions. This can in turn influence plant-ant interactions …

The collapse of the Fundão dam in Mariana municipality, Minas Gerais state, Brazil in
November 2015, released approximately 35–60 million m 3 of iron ore tailings into the …