Hydrilla leaf mining flies (unofficial common name) Hydrellia spp. (Insecta: Diptera: Ephydridae) by Emma Weeks, James Cuda

“…Hydrilla has invaded aquatic ecosystems in Florida and across the U.S. Larvae of Hydrellia spp. mine the leaves of hydrilla. …”
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Distribution and Fate of Military Explosives and Propellants in Soil: A Review by John Pichtel

“…When released to the biosphere, energetics are xenobiotic contaminants which pose toxic hazards to ecosystems, humans, and other biota. Soils worldwide are contaminated by energetic materials from manufacturing operations; military conflict; military training activities at firing and impact ranges; and open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of obsolete munitions. …”
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A Psyllid, Boreioglycaspis melaleucae Moore (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psyllidae) by Susan A. Wineriter, Susan E. Halbert, James P. Cuda

“…Blake (Myrtaceae), known as paperbark, punktree or melaleuca, is an aggressive invader of many South Florida ecosystems, including the Everglades. Melaleuca is considered a pest because it displaces native vegetation and degrades wildlife habitat; it also creates fire hazards and can cause human health problems (Rayamajhi et al. 2002). …”
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Wellsina Mite Hemicheyletia wellsina (De Leon) (Arachnida: Acari: Cheyletidae) by Haleigh A. Ray, Marjorie A. Hoy

“…Hemicheyletia wellsina does not appear likely to be an effective natural enemy in agricultural crops as an introduced predator, but could be beneficial in natural biological control in natural ecosystems, where pest densities are lower. This 5-page fact sheet was written by Haleigh A. …”
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A Psyllid, Boreioglycaspis melaleucae Moore (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psyllidae) by Susan A. Wineriter, Susan E. Halbert, James P. Cuda

“…Blake (Myrtaceae), known as paperbark, punktree or melaleuca, is an aggressive invader of many South Florida ecosystems, including the Everglades. Melaleuca is considered a pest because it displaces native vegetation and degrades wildlife habitat; it also creates fire hazards and can cause human health problems (Rayamajhi et al. 2002). …”
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Global and Russian M&A markets analysis: trends, drivers, deal success by M. Yu. Katalkina

“…Key M&A trends were analyzed: shift from scale deals to scope deals, complex corporate ecosystems occurring, time to close an M&A deal has risen in the last decade etc. …”
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Breaking the Blockchain Trilemma: A Comprehensive Consensus Mechanism for Ensuring Security, Scalability, and Decentralization by Khandakar Md Shafin, Saha Reno

“…Employing established techniques such as elliptic curve cryptography, Schnorr verifiable random function, and zero-knowledge proof (zk-SNARK), alongside groundbreaking methodologies for stake distribution, anomaly detection, and incentive alignment, our framework sets a new benchmark for secure, scalable, and decentralized blockchain ecosystems. The proposed system surpasses top-tier consensuses by attaining a throughput of 1700+ transactions per second, ensuring robust security against all well-known blockchain attacks without compromising scalability and demonstrating solid decentralization in benchmark analysis alongside 25 other blockchain systems, all achieved with an affordable hardware cost for validators and an average CPU usage of only 16.1%.…”
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Florida Wetlands: Extension Web Site by Mark Clark

“…The Florida Wetlands Extension web site is designed to provide you with a better understanding of wetlands and wetland-related issues in Florida where these ecosystems are such a prominent feature. This document outlines some of the subjects covered in the site. his document is Fact Sheet SL217, one of a series of the Soil and Water Science Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Hydrilla leaf mining flies (unofficial common name) Hydrellia spp. (Insecta: Diptera: Ephydridae) by Emma Weeks, James Cuda

“…Hydrilla has invaded aquatic ecosystems in Florida and across the U.S. Larvae of Hydrellia spp. mine the leaves of hydrilla. …”
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Resilient Design. A synoptic framework by Claudio Germak

“…Design, the planning discipline targeted at products, services, and processes, has developed, in recent years, behaviours that are more aware of increasingly rapid changes, which concern both the models of production and consumption and those that regulate ecosystems – composed of individuals and communities. …”
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Mobile Off-grid Achitecture. A potential tool for the resilience of rural communities in the event of natural disasters by Shota Tajima, Satoko Nasu

“…In order to cope with the effects of climate change that have severely affected human lives and natural ecosystems, to counter population ageing, migration to larger urban centres and the inefficiency of outdated infrastructure, Japan’s rural areas need to increase their resilience to ensure human continuity in their territories. …”
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Multivalorisation et patrimonialisation de paysages d’arbres hors forêt en Ariège by Sylvie Guillerme, Jean-Paul Métailié, Éric Maire

“…Yet they are of environmental and political importance not only due to the problems and challenges they present but also because of their potential, namely in terms of ecosystemic services. This type of tree cultivation historically contributed to plant and landscape diversity. …”
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Time-series forest age estimation in Xinjiang based on forest disturbance and recovery detection by Lili Zhai, Mei Zan, Mao Ye, Jia Zhou, Cong Xue, Shunfa Yang, Yuntong Liu

“…The age of a forest serves as a critical indicator of both its carbon stock and its capacity for carbon volume within forest ecosystems. The high spatial and temporal resolution of forest age improves the accuracy of estimates for forest biomass, storage, and carbon stocks. …”
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Modeling the tropical fish community related to land uses and environmental determinants by N. Takarina, O. Chuan, M. Afifudin, L. Tristan, I. Arif, A. Adiwibowo

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Coastal ecosystems worldwide have been threatened by changing land use and environmental determinants. …”
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Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation of Lagos Coastal Communities to Flooding by Prince Emeka Ndimele, Akinloye Emmanuel Ojewole, Gabriel Olarinde Mekuleyi, Lateef Akorede Badmos, Christopher Monday Agosu, Emmanuel Sunday Olatunbosun, Oluseyi Olaide Lawal, Jamiu Adebayo Shittu, Olufemi Olabode Joseph, Kehinde Moyosola Ositimehin, Felix Chinsom Ndimele, Catherine Oluwalopeye Ojewole, Iman Olawunmi Abdulganiy, Odunayo Temitope Ayodele

“…All these factors have contributed to the instability of Lagos ecosystems, but the impact of flooding is particularly significant because Lagos is surrounded by aquatic ecosystems and its low elevation and topography increase its susceptibility to flooding. …”
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State of the Art of Fuzzy Methods for Gene Regulatory Networks Inference by Tuqyah Abdullah Al Qazlan, Aboubekeur Hamdi-Cherif, Chafia Kara-Mohamed

“…Increasing computational power and high throughput technologies have provided powerful means to manage these challenging digital ecosystems at different levels from cell to society globally. …”
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Disentangling effects of droughts and heatwaves on alpine periphyton communities: A mesocosm experiment by Tamika Nagao, Rolf Vinebrooke

“…These findings highlight the potential for drought events to dominate over heatwaves in altering shallow littoral ecosystems at high elevations under a rapidly warming climate.…”
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Bifurcation Behavior Analysis in a Predator-Prey Model by Nan Wang, Min Zhao, Hengguo Yu, Chuanjun Dai, Beibei Wang, Pengfei Wang

“…In a word, all these results are expected to be of use in the study of the dynamic complexity of ecosystems.…”
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Film as communicational mediation of the ecological crisis by Bert Olivier

“…The question of how this ecological stance is cinematically articulated in Avatar, in science-fictional terms, is all important, because a communicational failure in this regard would fall short of imparting to audiences the potential outcome of the continuing destruction of ecosystems, comparatively speaking, on Earth. In The Road the ecological dimension is encountered very differently, because the cinematic-communicational means employed function in a register at odds with that utilised in Avatar. …”
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Organisational resilience: a proposal of an integrated model and research agenda by Cristina Chaves Goldschmidt, Kely César Martins de Paiva, Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray

“…The first is the procedural, dynamic and ecosystemic capacity activated by people (i.e. individual resilience) and processes (i.e. systemic resilience) in the face of adversity. …”
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