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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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The costs of extra‐pair behaviours in birds
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Extra‐pair behaviours – reproductive behaviours, including those related to copulation and paternity of offspring, amongst animals outside of a social pair bond – have long intrigued behavioural ecologists, particularly from the female animal's perspective.
Jørgen S. Søraker, Jamie Dunning
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford +2 more
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, 2005 Bird song is a typical sexual trait that may have evolved at least partly to reflect health and vigor. However, the role of pathogens in modulating acoustic communication systems in birds is still less than clear as studies testing the relationship ...
Garamszegi, L\ue1szl\uf3 +1 more
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini +13 more
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, 2011 C. K. Catchpole & P. J. B. Slater 2008: Bird Song. Biological Themes and Variations. Second Edition.
Koskimies, P.
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Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen +5 more
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The Role of Nestling Acoustic Experience in Song Discrimination in a Sparrow
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Oscine songbirds are an ideal system for investigating how early experience affects vocal behavior. Young songbirds face a challenging task: how to recognize and selectively learn only their own species’ song, often during a time-limited window.
Emily J. Hudson +2 more
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Do Sustainability Committees Mitigate or Exacerbate ESG Decoupling?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of sustainability committees (SCs) on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decoupling in US publicly listed firms. In particular, it examines their influence on overall and dimension‐specific (E, S, G) ESG decoupling and distinguishes their effects on internal versus external ESG actions.
Weite Qiu +4 more
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