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«Exemplares novelas» e «novelas exemplares»: Os paratextos da ficção em prosa no século XVII [PDF]

open access: yesVia Spiritus, 2012
Selecting as corpus a group of fictional prose narratives of considerable length, published in the 17th century, this paper, entitled ‘«Exemplary novels» and exemplary novels: the paratexts of fiction during the 17th century’ aims to study the group of ...
Maria Inês Nemésio
doaj  

From settler gardens to digital naturalists: human aesthetic preferences and land use changes facilitate the biogeographical expansion of a wild plant–virus interaction

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Anthropogenic facilitation of wild plants based on aesthetic preferences for particular traits can change the biogeography and ecology of natural communities. We use a mixed‐methods socioecological approach to characterize the ways in which humans interact with a common, widely distributed plant and a generalist viral symbiont that induces an ...
Elizabeth M. Lombardi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forensic Hydraulic Analysis of Floodplain Connectivity Driven by Historical Beaver Dams in Colorado Headwater Streams

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As ecosystem engineers, beavers (Castor canadensis) modify river corridor form through dam building. When beavers are removed from a river corridor, their unmaintained dams wash out, altering the stream's hydrologic regime. The assumption that beaver dams increase floodplain connectivity is frequently presumed but has not been directly ...
Kayla Schultz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

STOLʹNYI GOROD ‘Capital City’ in Old Russian and Folklore Sources

open access: yesSlovene, 2014
This article attempts to determine when one of the most popular epic formulas, stolʹnyi Kiev-grad ‘Kiev the capital city’ and its variants with the attribute stolʹnyi, emerged in the epic lyrics.
Anton M. Vvedenskiy
doaj  

A Generic Approach to Creating a National Soil Security Strategy

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil is a living and non‐renewable resource that underpins our very existence. It produces our food, filters our water, stores vast amounts of carbon, cycles essential nutrients, and sustains the rich tapestry of biodiversity on which our planet depends.
Alex McBratney   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

La frontera: nociones y problemas en francia, siglos XVI-XVIII.

open access: yesHistoria Crítica, 2006
This article addresses the concept of the frontier in France between the 16th and 18th centuries. It is divided into fve lines of thought from which the historicity of frontiers and the active role that social actors play in their construction are ...
Daniel Nordman
doaj  

Extreme rainfall in southern China in April 2024 and its potential link to weather events across south Asia

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
This study documents the unseasonal and prolonged heavy rain events which occurred in southern China during April 2024. In this series of extreme rainfall events, Guangdong province recorded extreme rainfall exceeding 6‐sigma of climatology, with eleven cities reporting record‐breaking rainfall.
Wai‐Po Tse   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long‐term changes in functional diversity and its implications for mammalian conservation and ecological restoration in a grassland ecosystem

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Paleontological data provide information on natural environments prior to human influence, which are useful for tracking changes in ecosystem functioning through time. During the Late Pleistocene, about 10% of terrestrial mammalian species were extinct in South America.
Thayara S. Carrasco   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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