Biodiversity: Concepts, patterns, trends, and perspectives

S Díaz, Y Malhi - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Biodiversity, a term now widely employed in science, policy, and wider society, has a
burgeoning associated literature. We synthesize aspects of this literature, focusing on …

An ecological future for weed science to sustain crop production and the environment. A review

C MacLaren, J Storkey, A Menegat, H Metcalfe… - Agronomy for …, 2020 - Springer
Sustainable strategies for managing weeds are critical to meeting agriculture's potential to
feed the world's population while conserving the ecosystems and biodiversity on which we …

Antibacterial and antiviral functional materials: chemistry and biological activity toward tackling COVID-19-like pandemics

B Balasubramaniam, Prateek, S Ranjan… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ongoing worldwide pandemic due to COVID-19 has created awareness toward
ensuring best practices to avoid the spread of microorganisms. In this regard, the research …

[HTML][HTML] La resistencia de bacterias a antibióticos, antisépticos y desinfectantes una manifestación de los mecanismos de supervivencia y adaptación

CE Cabrera, RF Gómez, AE Zúñiga - Colombia médica, 2007 - scielo.org.co
La resistencia a múltiples sustancias es un problema de salud pública que se viene
observando a nivel mundial después de la aparición de los antibióticos. El uso …

Climate warming promotes pesticide resistance through expanding overwintering range of a global pest

CS Ma, W Zhang, Y Peng, F Zhao, XQ Chang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change has the potential to change the distribution of pests globally and their
resistance to pesticides, thereby threatening global food security in the 21st century …

The evolutionary origins of pesticide resistance

NJ Hawkins, C Bass, A Dixon, P Neve - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Durable crop protection is an essential component of current and future food security.
However, the effectiveness of pesticides is threatened by the evolution of resistant …

Evolution of life in urban environments

MTJ Johnson, J Munshi-South - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND The extent of urban areas is increasing around the world, and most humans
now live in cities. Urbanization results in dramatic environmental change, including …

[LLIBRE][B] The human planet: How we created the Anthropocene

SL Lewis, MA Maslin - 2018 - books.google.com
A remarkable exploration of the science, history, and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the
most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts Meteorites …

Wicked evolution: Can we address the sociobiological dilemma of pesticide resistance?

F Gould, ZS Brown, J Kuzma - Science, 2018 - science.org
Resistance to insecticides and herbicides has cost billions of US dollars in the agricultural
sector and could result in millions of lives lost to insect-vectored diseases. We mostly …

Defining the anthropocene

SL Lewis, MA Maslin - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Time is divided by geologists according to marked shifts in Earth's state. Recent global
environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated …