Setting endpoints and targets in forest restoration is a complicated task that is best accomplished in cooperative partnerships that account for the ecology of the system, production of desired ecosystem goods and services, economics and well-being of society, and future environments. Clearly described and quantitative endpoints and intermediary targets are needed to manage restoration of ecosy...

Fires will become an increasingly frequent perturbation even under the conditions of mild climate zone and interfere with agricultural landscape. Fire is a natural phenomenon, depending on ecosystems, vegetation may develop contribute to occurrence spread fire. Vegetation sour cherry orchard located in climatically dry South Moravian Region, Czech Republic (CR), was evaluated. assessment perfor...

Social entrepreneurs face challenging situations in trying to expand and grow businesses with little investment limited resources. Interactions networks between social entrepreneurs, investors, other stakeholders are indispensable promoting entrepreneurship. Together, they come form a cyclical “social business ecosystem” (SBE), which can finance their projects by paying “share transfer fees.” B...

Climate change is causing measurable changes in rainfall patterns, and will likely cause increases in extreme rainfall events, with uncertain implications for key processes in ecosystem function and carbon cycling. We examined how variation in rainfall total quantity (Q), the interval between rainfall events (I), and individual event size (SE) affected soil water content (SWC) and three aspects...