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Wageningen University and Research Centre

EducationWageningen, Netherlands
About: Wageningen University and Research Centre is a education organization based out in Wageningen, Netherlands. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Sustainability. The organization has 23474 authors who have published 54833 publications receiving 2608897 citations.


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TL;DR: This paper found that viewing natural environments elicited greater improvement in mood and marginally better concentration than viewing built environments and that affective restoration accounted for a substantial proportion of the preference for the natural over the built environments.

727 citations

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16 Mar 2012-Science
TL;DR: Knowledge of the structure of carlactone will be crucial for understanding the biology of strigolactones and may have applications in combating parasitic weeds.
Abstract: Germination of parasitic witchweeds depends on strigolactones, which also regulate plant branching and signal in the context of mycorrhizal symbioses. The biosynthetic pathways that lead to strigolactones are founded in carotenoid biosynthesis, but further steps have been obscure. Alder et al. (p. [1348][1]) have now identified a biochemical pathway that generates a strigolactone-like compound, carlactone, which shows biological actions similar to those of strigolactone. [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1218094

725 citations

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Lourens Poorter1, Frans Bongers1, T. Mitchell Aide2, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano3, Patricia Balvanera4, Justin M. Becknell5, Vanessa K. Boukili6, Pedro H. S. Brancalion7, Eben N. Broadbent3, Robin L. Chazdon6, Dylan Craven8, Dylan Craven9, Jarcilene S. Almeida-Cortez10, George A. L. Cabral10, Ben H. J. de Jong, Julie S. Denslow11, Daisy H. Dent12, Daisy H. Dent8, Saara J. DeWalt13, Juan Manuel Dupuy, Sandra M. Durán14, Mário M. Espírito-Santo, María C. Fandiño, Ricardo Gomes César7, Jefferson S. Hall8, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni, Catarina C. Jakovac15, Catarina C. Jakovac1, André Braga Junqueira15, André Braga Junqueira1, Deborah K. Kennard16, Susan G. Letcher17, Juan Carlos Licona, Madelon Lohbeck18, Madelon Lohbeck1, Erika Marin-Spiotta19, Miguel Martínez-Ramos4, Paulo Eduardo dos Santos Massoca15, Jorge A. Meave4, Rita C. G. Mesquita15, Francisco Mora4, Rodrigo Muñoz4, Robert Muscarella20, Robert Muscarella21, Yule Roberta Ferreira Nunes, Susana Ochoa-Gaona, Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira7, Edith Orihuela-Belmonte, Marielos Peña-Claros1, Eduardo A. Pérez-García4, Daniel Piotto, Jennifer S. Powers22, Jorge Rodríguez-Velázquez4, I. Eunice Romero-Pérez4, Jorge Ruiz23, Jorge Ruiz24, Juan Saldarriaga, Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa14, Naomi B. Schwartz20, Marc K. Steininger, Nathan G. Swenson25, Marisol Toledo, María Uriarte20, Michiel van Breugel26, Michiel van Breugel8, Michiel van Breugel27, Hans van der Wal28, Maria das Dores Magalhães Veloso, Hans F. M. Vester29, Alberto Vicentini15, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira30, Tony Vizcarra Bentos15, G. Bruce Williamson15, G. Bruce Williamson31, Danaë M. A. Rozendaal6, Danaë M. A. Rozendaal1, Danaë M. A. Rozendaal32 
11 Feb 2016-Nature
TL;DR: A biomass recovery map of Latin America is presented, which illustrates geographical and climatic variation in carbon sequestration potential during forest regrowth and will support policies to minimize forest loss in areas where biomass resilience is naturally low and promote forest regeneration and restoration in humid tropical lowland areas with high biomass resilience.
Abstract: Land-use change occurs nowhere more rapidly than in the tropics, where the imbalance between deforestation and forest regrowth has large consequences for the global carbon cycle. However, considerable uncertainty remains about the rate of biomass recovery in secondary forests, and how these rates are influenced by climate, landscape, and prior land use. Here we analyse aboveground biomass recovery during secondary succession in 45 forest sites and about 1,500 forest plots covering the major environmental gradients in the Neotropics. The studied secondary forests are highly productive and resilient. Aboveground biomass recovery after 20 years was on average 122 megagrams per hectare (Mg ha(-1)), corresponding to a net carbon uptake of 3.05 Mg C ha(-1) yr(-1), 11 times the uptake rate of old-growth forests. Aboveground biomass stocks took a median time of 66 years to recover to 90% of old-growth values. Aboveground biomass recovery after 20 years varied 11.3-fold (from 20 to 225 Mg ha(-1)) across sites, and this recovery increased with water availability (higher local rainfall and lower climatic water deficit). We present a biomass recovery map of Latin America, which illustrates geographical and climatic variation in carbon sequestration potential during forest regrowth. The map will support policies to minimize forest loss in areas where biomass resilience is naturally low (such as seasonally dry forest regions) and promote forest regeneration and restoration in humid tropical lowland areas with high biomass resilience.

724 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a measure of Social Value Orientation (SVO), which measures the magnitude of the concern people have for others, sometimes referred to as social value orientation, and provide evidence of its solid psychometric properties.
Abstract: Narrow self-interest is often used as a simplifying assumption when studying people making decisions in social contexts. Nonetheless, people exhibit a wide range of different motivations when choosing unilaterally among interdependent outcomes. Measuring the magnitude of the concern people have for others, sometimes called Social Value Orientation (SVO), has been an interest of many social scientists for decades and several different measurement methods have been developed so far. Here we introduce a new measure of SVO that has several advantages over existent methods. A detailed description of the new measurement method is presented, along with norming data that provide evidence of its solid psychometric properties. We conclude with a brief discussion of the research streams that would benefit from a more sensitive and higher resolution measure of SVO, and extend an invitation to others to use this new measure which is freely available

724 citations

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TL;DR: The food changes performed in subjects from the same populations resulted in remarkable reciprocal changes in mucosal biomarkers of cancer risk and in aspects of the microbiota and metabolome known to affect cancer risk, best illustrated by increased saccharolytic fermentation and butyrogenesis and suppressed secondary bile acid synthesis in the African Americans.
Abstract: Rates of colon cancer are much higher in African Americans (65:100,000) than in rural South Africans (<5:100,000). The higher rates are associated with higher animal protein and fat, and lower fibre consumption, higher colonic secondary bile acids, lower colonic short-chain fatty acid quantities and higher mucosal proliferative biomarkers of cancer risk in otherwise healthy middle-aged volunteers. Here we investigate further the role of fat and fibre in this association. We performed 2-week food exchanges in subjects from the same populations, where African Americans were fed a high-fibre, low-fat African-style diet and rural Africans a high-fat, low-fibre western-style diet, under close supervision. In comparison with their usual diets, the food changes resulted in remarkable reciprocal changes in mucosal biomarkers of cancer risk and in aspects of the microbiota and metabolome known to affect cancer risk, best illustrated by increased saccharolytic fermentation and butyrogenesis, and suppressed secondary bile acid synthesis in the African Americans.

724 citations


Authors

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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Walter C. Willett3342399413322
Albert Hofman2672530321405
Frank B. Hu2501675253464
Willem M. de Vos14867088146
Willy Verstraete13992076659
Jonathan D. G. Jones12941780908
Bert Brunekreef12480681938
Pedro W. Crous11580951925
Marten Scheffer11135073789
Wim E. Hennink11060049940
Daan Kromhout10845355551
Peter H. Verburg10746434254
Marcel Dicke10761342959
Vincent W. V. Jaddoe106100844269
Hao Wu10566942607
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023278
2022861
20214,144
20203,722
20193,443
20183,226