Agriculture is vital for supporting human populations, but its intensification often leads to landscape homogenization and a decline in non-provisioning ecosystem services. Ecological intensification and multifunctional landscapes are suggested as nature- based alternatives to intensive agriculture, using ecological processes like natural pest regulation to maximize food production. Birds are recognized for the...
Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T16:42:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-11-15; The massive data volumes acquired, simulated, processed and analyzed by globally distributed scientific collaborations continue to grow exponentially. One leading example is the LHC program, now at the start of its second three year data taking cycle, searching for new particles and interactions in a pr...