Abstract: Mitigation of urban air pollution has been constrained by the availability of urban spaces for greening. Green walls offer the prospect of greening spaces and surfaces without requiring large areas. Green walls can largely be divided into green facades where the aboveground parts of plants rooted in soil and pots grow directly on, and living walls holding bags, planter tiles, trays and vessels containing substrates in which plants are grown.... More

Abstract: Two major human-caused threats to ecosystems are habitat modification and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. To study the combined effect of these threats, the authors used acoustic monitoring of bats along a habitat modification gradient on the island of Okinawa, Japan. During the observation period, the island experienced numerous typhoons and one supertyphoon. Native bat species remained active even at high wind... More

Abstract: Major fires and floods have enormous impacts on natural ecosystems and are predicted to increase in frequency with global warming. Land managers need to make decisions on the prioritisation of weeds for control in post-disturbance landscapes, but little is available in the way of guidance to support timely decision making. Semi-quantitative models (e.g., scoring systems) have been employed routinely in weed risk assessment, which considers the... More

Abstract: Bush fire is one of the drivers of biodiversity loss worldwide. However, the impact of bush fires on biodiversity in the West Africa Sahel is not well documented. Therefore, this study reviewed the effects of bush fires on biodiversity, the typology of the bush fire drivers and bush fires solutions in the West Africa Sahel via a systematic review. The authors used many research engines such as Google Scholar and Mendeley from 2010 to 2022 with... More