The major goal of ecological evolutionary developmental biology, also known as "eco-evo-devo," is to uncover the rules that underlie the interactions between an organism's environment, genes, and development and to incorporate these rules into evolutionary theory. In this chapter, we discuss some key and emerging concepts within eco-evo-devo. These concepts show that the environment is a source...

INTRODUCTION On 8 June 2017, the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom rejected a legal appeal in the high-profile case of Charlie Gard, a British infant with a severe genetic disorder whose parents had disagreed with medical professionals and were requesting treatment that the doctors believed was futile. The case was the latest in a series of UK legal cases where courts have authorized withdraw...

Eco-entrepreneurship has become an increasingly researched area, not least because it increasingly caught the attention of policy makers as one promising response to sustainable development challenges. Given the emerging character of the field, to date however most contributions remained conceptual or reported results of case study research. The discussion of eco-entrepreneurship should therefo...

Several scrawny cottonwood trees do not usually generate much excitement in the w orld o f eco logy . B ut on a wind-whipped August afternoon in Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley, William J. Ripple, a professor of botany at Oregon State University, stands next to a 12-foot-high cottonwood tree and is quietly ecstatic. "You can see the terminal bud scars," the bespectacled Ripple says, be...

El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo identificar especies y ejemplares relevantes para la mejora de calidad del aire en colonia Las Palmas, ciudad Colima, México. Para obtener los resultados cantidad contaminación eliminada emitida por especie fue necesario inventariar a árboles otras plantas leñosas localizados espacios públicos fraccionamiento que cumplieran con un diámetro altura pecho igu...

Recently, there has been a growing effort to reduce the environmental impact of products throughout their life cycle, particularly during end-of-life (EoL) stage. To incentivise consumers’ recycling/reusing behaviours and enhance awareness, novel ICT-based system for recycling eco-shopping developed in this paper. The EoL is conducted based on information-communication technologies remotely mon...

Environmental sustainability is an important issue for many individuals, businesses, and governments nowadays. One of the road blocks to sustainable practice is cost, which is an important consideration, particularly for business. The eco-efficiency movement was initiated to address this concern. This chapter reviews the eco-efficiency concept and explains why it is becoming a current issue for...

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A process model of the soil-tree-atmosphere continuum, which treats the plant physiology, eco-physiology and vegetation structures in detail, needs to describe the dynamics of the water flow within this continuum. The concept of a soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC) (Philip, 1966) was first described by Huber (1924). In such a continuum, the removal of water lowers the water potential in the...