1. Using ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast ecosystem trajectories under climate change 

   Alsos I.G.; Boussange V.; Rijal D.P.; et al. (2024)

   Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

   Ecosystem response to climate change is complex. In order to forecast ecosystem dynamics, we need high-quality data on changes in past species abundance that can inform process-based models. Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) has revolutionised our ability to document past ecosystems’ dynamics. It provides time series of increased taxonomic resolution compared to microfossils (pollen, spores), and can often give species-level information, ...

   Review Article

2. Inteins: A Swiss army knife for synthetic biology 

   Anastassov S.; Filo M.; Khammash M. (2024)

   Biotechnology Advances

   Inteins are proteins found in nature that execute protein splicing. Among them, split inteins stand out for their versatility and adaptability, presenting creative solutions for addressing intricate challenges in various biological applications. Their exquisite attributes, including compactness, reliability, orthogonality, low toxicity, and irreversibility, make them of interest to various fields including synthetic biology, biotechnology ...

   Review Article

3. Urban Borderlands: Difference, Inequality, and Spatio-Temporal In-Betweenness in Cities 

   Iossifova, Deljana; Kostenwein, David (2024)

   Urban Planning

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4. Shifting from techno-economic to socio-ecological priorities: Incorporating landscape preferences and ecosystem services into the siting of renewable energy infrastructure 

   Salak, Boris; Hunziker, Marcel; Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne; et al. (2024)

   PLoS ONE

   This study examines the siting scenarios for renewable energy installations (REI) in a mountainous region of Europe (Switzerland), incorporating the external costs of ecosystem services and, innovatively, social preferences. This approach challenges the prevalent techno-economic siting paradigm, which often overlooks these externalities. To minimize the external costs of the scenarios while maximizing energy yield, Marxan, an optimization ...

   Journal Article

5. Future Changes in Floods, Droughts, and Their Extents in the Alps: A Sensitivity Analysis With a Non-Stationary Stochastic Streamflow Generator 

   Brunner, Manuela I.; Gilleland, Eric (2024)

   Earth's Future

   Spatially compounding droughts and floods challenge water management and may become more severe in a warming climate. However, the influence of climate change on widespread hydrologic extremes remains largely unknown because they are neither well represented in observations nor in models. Here, we present a non-stationary stochastic streamflow generator that captures streamflow dependencies between different catchments and represents ...

   Journal Article

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