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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann +4 more
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Caldasia, 1986 A preliminary taxonomic revision of the brorne-grass species is found in Bolivia and Perú, with keys, drawings (mostly of type specimens), synonymies, descriptions and extensive specimen citations, 5 species are recognized: Bromus catharticus, B. lanatus,
Pinto Escobar Polidoro
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Revista Peruana de Biología, 2013 Los bosques relictos de las vertientes occidentales de los Andes del norte del Perú y el sur del Ecuador forman parte de dos regiones, una la denominada región de endemismo tumbesina (caracterizada principalmente por bosques secos) y otra, en altitudes ...
Jeremy N. M. Flanagan +2 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.It remains unclear how many plant species are not yet recorded by science. We illustrated the process by which species of the pineapple family in tropical America have been newly described to science to date, and we estimated how many species may still await scientific discovery in this group.
Georg Zizka +4 more
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Ecología Austral, 2016 La región de los Andes Tropicales es considerada como una región muy vulnerable al cambio climático porque presenta una alta diversidad y endemismo y porque posee una gran variabilidad altitudinal.
Ana C. Godoy-Burki
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Food plant diversity in a rapidly changing world
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Diversity in food plants is essential to human and planetary health. On farms, in diets, and in many other areas of food systems, this diversity has undergone enormous change globally, including significant decline. We describe major trends in how food plant diversity has been changing, note the responses from conservation communities, highlight gaps ...
Colin K. Khoury +8 more
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.This CLIMEX model of Drosophila suzukii fits the global distribution very well and includes irrigation effects. It indicates that D. suzukii could threaten all Australian berry and cherry production areas if introduced. Abstract BACKGROUND Spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura), is a major fruit fly pest of cherries and berries across ...
Jessica Mae Kriticos +2 more
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Bio-grafía, 2013 El presente artículo es producto de los desarrollos investigativos y reflexivos de la experiencia educativa “Construcción de subjetividades políticas de niñas, niños y jóvenes quechuahablantes, en el contexto de la experiencia ‘Comunidades Andinas ...
MARCO TULIO PEÑA
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A new scale‐selective measure of curvature for meteorological fields
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.We introduce a novel diagnostic called curvature using radial variation (CURV) that quantifies the local cyclonic or anticyclonic curvature of mean‐sea‐level pressure or geopotential height gridded fields over selected scales. A depiction of how CURV values relate to differing cyclonic curvature is shown in the figure.
Nigel Roberts +3 more
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El pueblo andino y la dialéctica de Dios
Revista Espiga, 2012 Este artículo versa sobre la sociedad andina, vertida en dos realidades teológicas: el dios de los Andes centrales y el dios de la cristiandad occidental junto al dios bíblico. Su fin es analizar las razones de su contexto.
Calixto Huanca Cárdenas
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