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Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use
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
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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
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Key Resource Areas of an Arid Grazing System of the Mongolian Gobi [PDF]
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
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Vincent Van Gogh\u27s Personal Possession [PDF]
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
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Hunting and fishing harvest data collection: a horizon scanning exercise from the French context
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
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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
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Van Gogh Redux: “Loving Vincent” : From Quest to Pilgrimage, Games to Gravitas [PDF]
A review of Loving Vincent, the 2017 film about the artist Vincent van ...
Edwards, Cliff
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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
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The church's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India
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
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
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
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