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Earth
Open source footprint tools: businesses and investors can now get smarter about nature
Elana Kimbrel Global impact hotspots vary by ecosystem service and biodiversity indicators. Credit: Communications Earth & Environmental (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01797-7 Global economic development has brought many benefits to people around the world, but many of them have come at the expense of nature. However, governments, financial institutions, and businesses are increasingly recognizing that this paradigm undermines the long-term viability of…
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Biology
Outdoor businesses and venues could benefit from increased biodiversity through bird calls
Significant relationships between bird species richness and standardized acoustic indices in 21 UK vineyards (a) ACI: Acoustic Complexity Index; (b) BIO: Bioacoustic Index. (c) NDSI: Normalized Differential Soundscape Index. (d) H: Acoustic entropy index. Lines represent model predicted values ​​with 95% confidence intervals (shading) from the generalized linear mixed model, and points indicate raw standardized acoustic index values ​​(jittered for…
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