Food and nutrition security has been neglected in the planning field for reasons of a lack connection between food perception that agricultural activities have no place modernizing world. However, considering increasing climate change impacts implications on industrialized agriculture, there is clear need to establish shorter, more sustainable production practices supply chains. Urban agricultu...

AIM The global spread of woody plants into grasslands is predicted to increase over the coming century. While there is general agreement regarding the anthropogenic causes of this phenomenon, its ecological consequences are less certain. We analyzed how woody vegetation of differing cover affects plant diversity (richness and evenness) and multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality) in gl...

Many previous studies have shown that by using variants of "guilt-by-association", gene function predictions can be made with very high statistical confidence. In these studies, it is assumed that the "associations" in the data (e.g., protein interaction partners) of a gene are necessary in establishing "guilt". In this paper we show that multifunctionality, rather than association, is a primar...

Society values landscapes that reliably provide many ecosystem functions. As the study of ecosystem functioning expands to include more locations, time spans, and functions, the functional importance of individual species is becoming more apparent. However, the functional importance of individual species does not necessarily translate to the functional importance of biodiversity measured in who...

Silver compounds share a rich history in technical applications including photography, catalysis, photocatalysis, cloud seeding and as antimicrobial agents. Here we present a class of silver compounds (Ag2B10H10 and Ag2B12H12) that are semiconductors with a bandgap at 2.3 eV in the green visible light spectrum. The silver boranes have extremely high ion conductivity and dynamic-anion facilitate...

Agriculture and local food products can have a significant impact on the economic development of rural areas. However, in environments as harsh marginal mountain areas it may be difficult to find right conditions start new production. This study aims present positive negative circumstances for starting operating agricultural activities minor contexts while assuming farmer’s viewpoint. With refe...

Proceedings of the Workshop on Discourse Markers The Multifunctionality of Discourse Markers