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Camera trap survey of medium and large mammals in a montane rainforest of northern Peru

Revista Peruana de Biología, 2011
Camera traps are a powerful tool for inventorying elusive and rare species and very useful to obtain ecologi- cal data for plans that involve wildlife conservation.
Carlos F. Jiménez, Heidi Quintana, Víctor Pacheco, Derek Melton, Javier Torrealva, Guillermo Tello   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clarifying regional hydrologic controls of the Marañón River, Peru through rapid assessment to inform system-wide basin planning approaches

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2018
We use remote sensing to enhance the interpretation of the first baseline dataset of hydrologic, isotopic and hydrochemical variables spanning 620 km of the upper Marañón River, in Andean Peru, from the steep alpine canyons to the lower lying jungle ...
Alice F. Hill, Robert F. Stallard, Karl Rittger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Small datasets support conservation: Improving detectability for the elusive rusty‐spotted cat

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
In western circles, the value of small, locally specific data is increasingly under‐appreciated and undervalued by research metrics indexing research impact. We report novel data for the elusive, threatened, rusty‐spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) whose fundamental ecology remains virtually unknown.
Chandima Fernando, Michael A. Weston, Ravi Corea, Ranawaka A. D. D. Dilip Samaranayake, Anthony R. Rendall   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

GEOLOGICAL POSITION AND AGE OF TUXEN-RASMUSSEN LAYERED GABBROID INTRUSION (WEST ANTARCTICA)

Український антарктичний журнал, 2018
The latest geological research carried out during seasonal work in 2017 revealed that metamorphosed layered gabbroids, which partially outcrop along the Antarctic Peninsula Coast on Cape Tuxen and Rasmussen Island, compose sheet-like intrusive body of ...
O. V. Mytrokhyn, V. G. Bakhmutov, A. G. Aleksieienko, L. I. Gavryliv, T. V. Mytrokhina   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
wiley   +1 more source

Data gaps and heterogeneity limit our understanding of human–wildlife interactions: A continental study of Andean bears

People and Nature
The expansion and intensification of human activities have increased interactions between people and wildlife. Interactions involving bears and other large carnivores are complex and can lead to conflicts. Promoting positive coexistence requires managing
Roxana Rojas‐VeraPinto, Rubén Bernardo‐Madrid, Manuela González‐Suarez   +2 more
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Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
wiley   +1 more source

Inverted Eurocentrism: The Consumption of Decolonization in the Global North and a Radical Decolonization Agenda

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Global North and elite spaces in the Global South, the concepts of Eurocentrism and decolonization have come to be associated primarily with identity and location rather than with capitalism and political economy. This article argues that the reason for this can be traced to what Samir Amin calls ‘inverted Eurocentrism’, which entails a
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
wiley   +1 more source

A Ch'ixi Philosophy of History: Rivera Cusicanqui After Benjamin

Constellations, EarlyView.
Daniel Luna Jacobs
wiley   +1 more source

Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
wiley   +1 more source