iScience,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
27(12), P. 111280 - 111280
Published: Oct. 30, 2024
Cyanobacteria
are
the
oldest
photoautotrophic
lineage
that
release
oxygen
during
photosynthesis,
an
ability
possibly
evolved
as
far
3.5
billion
years
ago
and
changed
Earth's
environment-both
in
water
on
land.
Linked
to
mechanism
of
carbon
accumulation
by
cyanobacteria
photosynthesis
their
calcifying
properties,
a
process
biologically
mediated
mineralization
CO
PLoS Biology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
23(3), P. e3003093 - e3003093
Published: March 27, 2025
Soil
organisms
represent
the
most
abundant
and
diverse
on
planet
support
almost
every
ecosystem
function
we
know,
thus
impact
our
daily
lives.
Some
of
these
impacts
have
been
well-documented,
such
as
role
soil
in
regulating
fertility
carbon
sequestration;
processes
that
direct
implications
for
essential
services
including
food
security
climate
change
mitigation.
Moreover,
biodiversity
also
plays
a
critical
supporting
other
aspects
from
One
Health—the
combined
health
humans,
animals,
environment—to
conservation
historic
structures
monuments.
Unfortunately,
is
highly
vulnerable
to
growing
number
stressors
associated
with
global
environmental
change.
Understanding
how
when
supports
functions,
it
will
adapt
changing
conditions,
crucial
conserving
soils
maintaining
future
generations.
In
this
Essay,
discuss
fundamental
importance
multiple
Health,
further
highlight
knowledge
gaps
need
be
addressed
conserve
next
Abstract
This
study
investigates
conservation
challenges
confronting
the
Great
Wall
sites
in
Xinjiang
(XGWS),
located
ecologically
fragile
arid
regions
vulnerable
to
weathering
and
discontinuous
spatial
distribution.
A
regional
risk
assessment
framework
integrating
K-means
clustering
entropy
weight
methods
was
constructed,
incorporating
primary
factors
identified
through
field
surveys
data
analysis.
Anthropogenic
disturbances,
particularly
agricultural
expansion,
emerged
as
dominant
threats.
Spatial
patterns
correlated
strongly
with
elevation:
high-risk
at
lower
elevations
(synergistic
anthropogenic-natural
pressures),
moderate
risks
mid-elevations
(disaster-dominated),
minimal
higher
altitudes.
Approximately
45.3%
of
exhibited
elevated
environmental
hazards
that
were
concentrated
agriculturally
intensive
areas,
urbanizing
regions,
zones
severe
soil
salinization.
Based
on
results,
a
zoned
graded
protection
strategy
is
proposed,
providing
scientific
basis
for
preservation
management
sites.