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University of Alcalá
Education•Alcalá de Henares, Spain•
About: University of Alcalá is a education organization based out in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 10795 authors who have published 20718 publications receiving 410089 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Alcala & University of Alcala de Henares.
Topics: Population, Context (language use), Medicine, Receptor, Computer science
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TL;DR: In this paper, an intermediate approach between land abandonment and farmland afforestation is proposed for ecological restoration in extensive agricultural landscapes, which allows reconciliation of farmland production, conservation of values linked to cultural landscapes, enhancement of biodiversity, and provision of a range of ecosystem services.
Abstract: Cultivation and cropping are major causes of destruction and degradation of natural ecosystems throughout the world. We face the challenge of maintaining provisioning services while conserving or enhancing other ecosystem services and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. There is a range of possibilities within two types of intervention, namely “land sharing” and “land separation”; the former advocates the enhancement of the farmed environment, but the latter a separation between land designated for farming versus conservation. Land sharing may involve biodiversity-based agricultural practices, learning from traditional farming, changing from conventional to organic agriculture and from “simple” crops and pastures to agro-forestry systems, and restoring or creating specific elements to benefit wildlife and particular services without decreasing agricultural production. Land separation in the farmland context involves restoring or creating non-farmland habitat at the expense of field-level agricultural production—for example, woodland on arable land. Restoration by land sharing has the potential to enhance agricultural production, other ecosystem services and biodiversity at both the field and landscape scale; however, restoration by land separation would provide these benefits only at the landscape scale. Although recent debate has contrasted these approaches, we suggest they should be used in combination to maximize benefits. Furthermore, we suggest “woodland islets”, an intermediate approach between land abandonment and farmland afforestation, for ecological restoration in extensive agricultural landscapes. This approach allows reconciliation of farmland production, conservation of values linked to cultural landscapes, enhancement of biodiversity, and provision of a range of ecosystem services. Beyond academic research, restoration projects within agricultural landscapes are essential if we want to halt environmental degradation and biodiversity loss.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the use of remotely sensed data for estimating fuel moisture content (FMC) with particular concern towards the operational use of LFMC products for fire risk assessment.
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TL;DR: The lipases from Thermomyces lanuginosus and Candida antarctica B were comparatively assayed for the synthesis of sugar esters by transesterification of sugars with fatty acid vinyl esters in 2-methyl-2-butanol:dimethylsulfoxide mixtures and it was found that lipase from C. antarctic B is particularly useful for the preparation of 6,6′-di-acylsucrose.
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TL;DR: A review is presented dealing with electrocatalytic NADH oxidation at mediator-modified electrodes, summarising the history of the topic, as well as the present state of the art.
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TL;DR: The behavior of the apparent thermodynamic magnitudes for the solubility of paracetamol, acetanilide, and nalidixic acid is studied and suggests that the nonlinear enthalpy-entropy compensation effect may be characteristic of the solubsility of semipolar drugs in dioxane-water mixtures.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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José Luis Zamorano | 105 | 695 | 133396 |
Jesús F. San Miguel | 97 | 527 | 44918 |
Sebastián F. Sánchez | 96 | 629 | 32496 |
Javier P. Gisbert | 95 | 990 | 33726 |
Luis M. Ruilope | 94 | 841 | 97778 |
Luis M. Garcia-Segura | 88 | 484 | 27077 |
Alberto Orfao | 85 | 597 | 37670 |
Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba | 83 | 318 | 21458 |
Rafael Luque | 80 | 693 | 28395 |
Francisco Rodríguez | 79 | 748 | 24992 |
Andrea Negri | 79 | 242 | 35311 |
Rafael Cantón | 78 | 575 | 29702 |
David J. Grignon | 78 | 301 | 23119 |
Christophe Baudouin | 74 | 553 | 22068 |
Josep M. Argilés | 73 | 310 | 19675 |