Jewel Beetle (Forests, Heaths and Woodlands)

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Knapweed (Centaurea stoebe L. is an appropriate and important model system to evaluate the efficacy of ecological and biological control in eradication. This regionally abundant invasive plant was dubbed the “Wicked weed of the West” due to the negative effects in western North America  In the effort to control spotted knapweed, thirteen different species of biological control insects have been introduced  and several of the introduced biological control agents for spotted knapweed have been shown to have additive negative effects  and have been released in multiple locations across western North America for more than 10 years

Landscape Ecology (is the science of studying and improving relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems. This is done within a variety of landscape scales, development spatial patterns, and organizational levels of research and policy. Concisely, landscape ecology can be described as the science of landscape diversity as the synergetic result of biodiversity and geodiversity)

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is a major assessment of the human impact on the environment, called for by the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000, launched in 2001 and published in 2005 with more than $14 million of grants. It popularized the term ecosystem services, the benefits gained by humans from ecosystems.

Nature-Based Solutions (are defined as “actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits.” These can include: Protecting, managing, and restoring forests, adopting “regenerative” approaches to agriculture, building artificial wetlands within cities to reduce flooding and managing watersheds to provide clean water)

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Oil ecology: erosion from the asphalt roads and building materials, unburned fuel, residues from automobiles as they release grease and oil into the environment

Phylo 

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Qiakemake River sediment prevention headworks by Herringbone Bend Circulation is the subject of an International Symposium on River Sedimentation.

Rhizodeposition (was first defined by Whipps and Lynch (1985) as all material lost from plant roots, including water-soluble exudates, secretions of insoluble materials, lysates, dead fine roots, and gases, such as CO 2 and ethylene)

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