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Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use

open access: yesEcography, Volume 2026, Issue 5, May 2026.
Despite habitat loss and degradation are the primary drivers of biodiversity loss, different conclusions have been drawn about the importance of land‐use or land‐cover (LULC) change for biodiversity. Differences may be due to the difficulty of framing a coherent model design to assess LULC effects.
Elie Gaget   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Persistent lead poisoning of waterfowl in the Camargue (southern France) 10 years after the ban on the use of lead ammunition in wetlands

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice
Lead pollution is a worldwide environmental and health issue causing persistent detrimental effects on humans and wildlife. Despite having been identified as detrimental to waterfowl a century ago, in France lead shotgun pellets for hunting were banned ...
Arnaud Béchet   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Key Resource Areas of an Arid Grazing System of the Mongolian Gobi [PDF]

open access: yesMongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2012
Arid grazing systems can behave according to both equilibrium and non- equilibrium models, depending on spatial and temporal scales. Regarding spatial aspect, key resource areas with access to water bodies can indeed be
Frédéric Joly   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vincent Van Gogh\u27s Personal Possession [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
I am an amatuer artist, so when I was in Arles in southern France, it was nat­ural. for me to want to see all the places thereabouts that the famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh had been concerned with when he lived there in ...
DeWitt, Bill
core   +1 more source

Hunting and fishing harvest data collection: a horizon scanning exercise from the French context

open access: yesWildlife Biology, Volume 2026, Issue 3, May 2026.
Legal and societal moves increasingly lead leisure hunting and fishing practitioners to record their harvest. The total number of individuals harvested per population per year is the minimum required information to feed into demographic models and allow science‐based management. Some few schemes record more detailed data, hence allowing better‐informed
Matthieu Guillemain   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Des trésors personnels

open access: yesIn Situ
In Arles, the costume of the Arlésienne, the traditional dress of the women of Arles, is an emblem of the city and its region. The women who wear this costume restore, preserve and wear items that are often very old.
Élise Marcia
doaj   +1 more source

Van Gogh Redux: “Loving Vincent” : From Quest to Pilgrimage, Games to Gravitas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A review of Loving Vincent, the 2017 film about the artist Vincent van ...
Edwards, Cliff
core   +1 more source

Vulnerability and Adaptations to Climate Change in EU Protected Areas: A Natura 2000 Managers’ perspective

open access: yesConservation Letters, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT The Natura 2000 (N2K)—Europe's network of protected areas—is a key conservation instrument, but its effectiveness is challenged by climate change. We surveyed 382 N2K managers to investigate their perceptions of climate change and related site adaptation strategies.
Giorgio Zavattoni   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The church's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2012
I gratefully remember working with Reverend Charles in a rehabilitation centre in the US and later with my HIV-positive friends in India. Their laughter, courage and resilience reminded me that it is not they who are HIV-positive but it is we who are ...
Nalini Arles
doaj   +1 more source

The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
wiley   +1 more source

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