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Four challenges to an effective national nature assessment
Abstract Comprehensive biodiversity assessments play an essential role in strengthening global and national conservation strategies. The recently announced first U.S. National Nature Assessment (NNA) provides an unparalleled opportunity to comprehensively review status and trends of biodiversity at all levels.
Carlos Carroll+4 more
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Region‐wide retreats from lower elevations of range‐restricted birds across the Northern Andes
Abstract Local studies show upslope shifts in the distribution of tropical birds in response to warming temperatures. Unanswered is whether these upward shifts occur regionally across many species. We considered a nearly 2000‐km length of the Northern Andes, where deforestation, temperature, and extreme weather events have increased during the past ...
Wilderson Medina+2 more
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‘Nobody taught her how to be a mother’: The lived experience of mothering without a mother
Abstract Maternal grandmothers play a vital role in the transition to motherhood for their own daughters. The current study adds to this literature by investigating the lived experience of motherhood for women who lacked a meaningful relationship with their mothers.
Amy Walsh+4 more
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Critical pedagogy of place to enhance ecological engagement activities
Abstract Scientists in higher education institutions around the globe recognize the importance of engaging with public stakeholders to share their enthusiasm, explain their science, and encourage primary and secondary students to enter the sciences. However, without direct consideration of students’ and teachers’ perspectives and interests, scientists ...
Amanda S. Cicchino+3 more
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Abstract Insights into declines in ecosystem resilience and their causes and effects can inform preemptive action to avoid ecosystem collapse and loss of biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well‐being. Empirical studies of ecosystem collapse are rare and hampered by ecosystem complexity, nonlinear and lagged responses, and interactions across ...
David A. Keith+8 more
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Abstract Advancements in the field of reintroduction biology are needed, but understanding of how to effectively conduct translocations, particularly with snakes, is lacking. We conducted a systematic review of snake translocation studies to identify potential tactics for reducing postrelease effects. We included studies on intentional, human‐mediated,
Jonathan D. Choquette+3 more
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Abstract Understanding the activities and preferences of visitors is crucial for managing protected areas and planning conservation strategies. Conservation culturomics promotes the use of user‐generated online content in conservation science. Geotagged social media content is a unique source of in situ information on human presence and activities in ...
Tuomas Väisänen+3 more
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Key n‐Gram Extractions and Analyses of Different Registers Based on Attention Network
Key n -gram extraction can be seen as extracting n‐grams which can distinguish different registers. Keyword (as n = 1, 1‐gram is the keyword) extraction models are generally carried out from two aspects, the feature extraction and the model design.
Haiyan Wu+5 more
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收集上海动物园2019年4—11月所有丰容项目的图片和视频共计1081项,比较了该园不同丰容类型的应用情况。结果表明:五大类丰容使用频次由高到低分别为食物丰容(39.91%)、认知丰容(22.30%)、环境丰容(21.33%)、社群丰容(13.55%)和感知丰容(2.91%)。R×C列联表卡方检验和单因素方差分析显示,动物园在两栖爬行类、鸟类、食肉类、食草类和灵长类动物丰容类型的选择上具有显著性差异(χ2=180.40 ...
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为了明晰食物丰容对猕猴(Macaca mulatta)行为的影响,采用瞬时扫描法对南京红山森林动物园86只猕猴进行食物丰容前、后日行为时间节律的研究。结果表明:(1)丰容前猕猴在白天通常以休息(日均43.80%)、摄食(日均34.60%)和攀爬移动行为(日均16.40%)为主;(2)丰容后,摄食行为09:00和15:00极显著低于丰容前 ...
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