Environmental Impact is an internet resource created in response to a demand from the scientific community, policy makers and information specialists for a single comprehensive bibliographic information resource on climate change and other influences of humans on the biosphere. It also covers other aspects of human damage to the environment such as pollution, deforestation, desertification and habitat loss.
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  Symbiotic nitrogen fixation and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services: a global change perspec
A key challenge facing humanity in the coming decades will be ensuring food supply to a growing human population without compromising the sustainabili...
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  Lignin synthesis, transcriptional regulation and potential for useful modification in plants.
Lignin, the second most abundant plant polymer on earth, has always been of great interest for research with regard to its biological roles and pote...
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  Life-cycle assessment of farrow-to-finish pig production systems: a review.
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is a holistic approach to quantifying and comparing resource use and associated environmental impacts of a product, good...
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  Improving bioethanol production by increasing sugar beet crop yield.
This review presents a summary of published papers on the improvement of sugar beet yield and its transformation into bioethanol. After describing the...
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  Is there a role for the public in monitoring invasive species?
Invasive species continue to have environmental, economic and public health impacts worldwide. Many efforts to control or eradicate these species are ...
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  Effects of industrial agriculture on climate change and the mitigation potential of small-scale agro
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), agriculture is responsible for 10-12% of total global anthropogenic emissions and a...
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  Natural and human environments in areas undergoing wastewater irrigation.
This paper is a review of the international literature concerning both the positive and negative effects on the environment and public health of the u...
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  Food security: the role of effective agrobiodiversity management.
Over the next 30 years, global agriculture will be faced with the daunting problem of feeding an additional 2-3 billion people with less water, less e...
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  Quantitative polymerase chain reaction for the detection of organisms in soil.
Detection and quantification of soil organisms using traditional methods (culture, plating and microscopy) are difficult and do not always allow ident...
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  Livestock and climate change, challenges and options.
This review outlines livestock's major emission pathways and production trends, and explores the challenges and options for livestock in addressing ...
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