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The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction by Naeem, Shahid, Duffy, J. Emmett, Zavaleta, Erika

“…Ecosystems worldwide are rapidly losing taxonomic, phylogenetic, genetic, and functional diversity as a result of human appropriation of natural resources,…”
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Association of common BRCA1 variants with predisposition to breast tumors in Pakistan by Siddique, Ayesha, Fatima, Warda, Shahid, Naeem

“…BRCA1 variants are extensively associated with increased risk of breast cancer. Early detection and screening of variants is still rare in developing…”
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Environmental flow assessment, evaluation, and suggestions for dying riverine ecosystem of the transboundary Amudarya River, Central Asia by Mahmood, Rashid, Jia, Shaofeng, Lv, Aifeng, Naeem, Shahid

“…•First study generated naturalized streamflow and assesses environmental flow for all tributaries of the Amudarya River.•The estimated environmental flow…”
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Removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products using constructed wetlands: effective plant-bacteria synergism may enhance degradation efficiency by Nguyen, Phuong Minh, Afzal, Muhammad, Ullah, Inaam, Shahid, Naeem, Baqar, Mujtaba, Arslan, Muhammad

“…Post-industrial era has witnessed significant advancements at unprecedented rates in the field of medicine and cosmetics, which has led to affluent use of…”
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Functional and phylogenetic diversity as predictors of biodiversity-–ecosystem-function relationships by Flynn, Dan F. B, Mirotchnick, Nicholas, Jain, Meha, Palmer, Matthew I, Naeem, Shahid

“…How closely does variability in ecologically important traits reflect evolutionary divergence? The use of phylogenetic diversity (PD) to predict biodiversity…”
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Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands by BAI, YONGFEI, WU, JIANGUO, CLARK, CHRISTOPHER M, NAEEM, SHAHID, PAN, QINGMIN, HUANG, JIANHUI, ZHANG, LIXIA, HAN, XINGGUO

“…Nitrogen (N) deposition is widely considered an environmental problem that leads to biodiversity loss and reduced ecosystem resilience; but, N fertilization…”
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Quantifying the Impacts of Anthropogenic Activities and Climate Variations on Vegetation Productivity Changes in China from 1985 to 2015 by Naeem, Shahid, Zhang, Yongqiang, Tian, Jing, Qamer, Faisal Mueen, Latif, Aamir, Paul, Pranesh Kumar

“…Accurate assessment of vegetation dynamics provides important information for ecosystem management. Anthropogenic activities and climate variations are the…”
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Unexpected consequences of large-scale ecological restoration: Groundwater declines are reversed by Luan, Jinkai, Zhang, Yongqiang, Li, Xiaojie, Ma, Ning, Naeem, Shahid, Xu, Zhenwu, He, Shaoyang, Miao, Ping, Tian, Xiaoqiang, Wang, Ruidong

“…•Significant (p < 0.01) correlation between monthly variation in groundwater level and water fluxes in Mu Us Sandy Land.•Groundwater level strongly decreased…”
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Modeling Spatio-Temporal Land Transformation and Its Associated Impacts on land Surface Temperature (LST) by Mumtaz, Faisal, Tao, Yu, de Leeuw, Gerrit, Zhao, Limin, Fan, Cheng, Elnashar, Abdelrazek, Bashir, Barjeece, Wang, Gengke, Li, LingLing, Naeem, Shahid, Arshad, Arfan, Wang, Dakang

“…Land use land cover (LULC) of city regions is strongly affected by urbanization and affects the thermal environment of urban centers by influencing the surface…”
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Present and Future of Dengue Fever in Nepal: Mapping Climatic Suitability by Ecological Niche Model by Acharya, Bipin Kumar, Cao, Chunxiang, Xu, Min, Khanal, Laxman, Naeem, Shahid, Pandit, Shreejana

“…Both the number of cases of dengue fever and the areas of outbreaks within Nepal have increased significantly in recent years. Further expansion and range…”
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Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem by Naeem, Shahid, Wright, Justin P.

“…Experimental investigations of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) directly manipulate diversity then monitor ecosystem…”
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Greater stability of carbon capture in species-rich natural forests compared to species-poor plantations by Osuri, Anand M, Gopal, Abhishek, Raman, T R Shankar, DeFries, Ruth, Cook-Patton, Susan C, Naeem, Shahid

“…Tree plantations and forest restoration are leading strategies for enhancing terrestrial carbon (C) sequestration and mitigating climate change. While it is…”
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Contributions of financial, social and natural capital to food security around Kanha National Park in central India by Neelakantan, Amrita, DeFries, Ruth, Sterling, Eleanor, Naeem, Shahid

“…The well-being of people living around protected areas is critical in its own right as well as for effective conservation, particularly in human-dominated…”
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Spatiotemporal analysis of dengue fever in Nepal from 2010 to 2014 by Acharya, Bipin Kumar, Cao, ChunXiang, Lakes, Tobia, Chen, Wei, Naeem, Shahid

“…Due to recent emergence, dengue is becoming one of the major public health problems in Nepal. The numbers of reported dengue cases in general and the area with…”
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Spatio-Temporal Vegetation Dynamic and Persistence under Climatic and Anthropogenic Factors by Bashir, Barjeece, Cao, Chunxiang, Naeem, Shahid, Zamani Joharestani, Mehdi, Bo, Xie, Afzal, Huma, Jamal, Kashif, Mumtaz, Faisal

“…Land degradation reflected by vegetation is a commonly used practice to monitor desertification. To retrieve important information for ecosystem management…”
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Annually Reoccurring Bacterial Communities Are Predictable from Ocean Conditions by Fuhrman, Jed A., Hewson, Ian, Schwalbach, Michael S., Steele, Joshua A., Brown, Mark V., Naeem, Shahid

“…Factors influencing patterns in the distribution and abundance of plant and animal taxa modulate ecosystem function and ecosystem response to environmental…”
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Human health and ecology at risk: a case study of metal pollution in Lahore, Pakistan by Iqbal, Hafiza Hira, Siddique, Ayesha, Qadir, Abdul, Ahmad, Sajid Rashid, Liess, Matthias, Shahid, Naeem

“…Background With rapid industrial development, heavy metal contamination has become a major public health and ecological concern worldwide. Although knowledge…”
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Connectedness of global energy markets with global agricultural, natural resources, and socially responsible investments using extended GFI by Shahid, Muhammad Naeem

“…Purpose The study aims to investigate the risk transmission from COVID-19 to global agriculture, energy, natural resources/mining and environmentally/socially…”
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Allium cepa assay based comparative study of selected vegetables and the chromosomal aberrations due to heavy metal accumulation by Sabeen, Maria, Mahmood, Qaisar, Ahmad Bhatti, Zulfiqar, Faridullah, Irshad, Muhammad, Bilal, Muhammad, Hayat, Malik Tahir, Irshad, Usman, Ali Akbar, Tahir, Arslan, Muhammad, Shahid, Naeem

“…Irrigation of industrial effluents may end in the bioaccumulation of various toxic metals and consequent genetic changes in contaminated food crops. To test…”
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Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2 by Reich, P.B, Hobbie, S.E, Lee, T, Ellsworth, D.S, West, J.B, Tilman, D, Knops, J.M.H, Naeem, S, Trost, J

“…Enhanced plant biomass accumulation in response to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration could dampen the future rate of increase in CO2 levels and associated…”
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