Virginia Kowal

TL;DR: Comparing increased demand for bioplastics derived from two alternative feedstock-location scenarios for maize and sugarcane, it is found that the LUCI-LCA approach yields results opposite to those of standard LCA for greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption, and of different magnitudes for soil erosion and biodiversity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a savanna ecosystem in central Kenya where wildlife and livestock exhibit a suite of potential positive interactions, such as treating livestock with acaricide offers the unintended benefit of removing ticks from the landscape, a result that has been shown to occur at both large and small scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the integration of livestock and wildlife in a large region of central Kenya can have ecological benefits, reducing the abundance of ticks and improving forage, and that these ecological benefits can be complemented by economic ones when property owners derive income both from wildlife through tourism and from livestock through meat and dairy production.

TL;DR: Challenges and opportunities to using EO in ecosystem service modeling and assessment are identified, and new ways in which EO can be leveraged for ecosystem service assessments are highlighted, identifying promising new areas of research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected ground-active spiders along transects across the edge of logging clearcuts, gravel roads and gas pipelines in the boreal forest of Alberta, sampling on the disturbance (10m from forest edge), and 10, 45, and 200 meters into the forest.