A blockchain is essentially a distributed database of records, or public ledger of all transactions
or digital events that have been executed and shared among participating parties. Each …

While conservationists, resource managers, scientists and coastal planners have recognized
the broad applicability of marine protected areas (MPAs), they are often implemented …

Unattached, cellulolytic bacteria isolated from a salt marsh were cultured on [ 15 N]ammonium
sulfate and [ 14 C]glucose and fed to the American oyster Crassostrea virginica. Oysters …

Using data for 25,780 species categorized on the International Union for Conservation of
Nature Red List, we present an assessment of the status of the world’s vertebrates. One-fifth of …

A type of force generator which can respond to general feedback signals from a vibrating
system in order to control the vibration but which does not require the power supply of a …

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) are sites identified as being globally important
for the conservation of bird populations on the basis of an internationally agreed set of criteria…

The household was the basic unit of the early church; it also constituted the basic unit of
political economy until the Industrial Revolution. This richly detailed work uses the notion of …

The development of the coral reef monitoring approach described in this manual will
provide the basis for a future, more comprehensive effort to provide scientific evidence of the …

Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Staphylococcus aureus are two of the major pathogens
frequently involved in foodborne outbreaks. Control of these pathogens in foods is essential to …

At the forest landscape/region level, based on annual Forest Inventory and Analysis plot data
from 1999 to 2010, oak decline and mortality trends for major oak species (groups) were …