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Is quinoa‐farming sustainable in marginal environments? Social, economical and environmental aspects
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.Abstract Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is an Andean grain crop introduced as a novel crop to many parts of the world in recent years. Recognized for nutritious seeds and high abiotic stress tolerance, it has been promoted as an element of climate‐resilient agriculture, particularly in marginal environments.
Anna Tabea Mengen +5 more
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Nocturnal spawning as a way to avoid egg exposure to diurnal predators
Scientific Reports, 2018 Animals that do not provide parental care have to secure the survival of their offspring by ensuring a safe reproductive environment or smart timing tactics.
Marek Šmejkal +6 more
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A bleak outlook for the U.S. economy [PDF]
Economic activity in the United States has been growing more slowly than average for the past three years, and it is not likely to speed up soon. The slow growth has been due primarily to pessimism among consumers about their long-run personal income ...
David E. Runkle
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The Urban Crisis And The Federal Government\u27s Retreat: Catalyzing Public Policy Choices To Save Our Cities [PDF]
, 1992 Sections of our cities have been abandoned to a host of poverty-related social ills whose causes have as much to do with the state of the national and regional economies, structural changes in the job market, and political decision-making as they have to
Jones, David R.
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Spatial and temporal variation in survival of female wild turkeys
The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.We monitored 370 female wild turkeys across North Carolina's 3 ecoregions from 2020‐2022 to understand factors influencing their survival. Female survival varied by ecoregion and behavior state, with the incubation period having the lowest survival rates. None of the land cover variables affected survival.
David J. Moscicki +5 more
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Borderless Boundaries – as Means of Death and Life: Wilderness Portraits in Patristic and Rabbinic Literature [PDF]
, 2015 This study examines the role played by environmental representation of an apparent borderless boundary, the desert, as presented in Scripture – the Hebrew Bible / First Testament.
Maoz, Daniel
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Spatiotemporal Fire Patterns and Post‐fire Forest Change in Peru (2000–2021)
Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fire is increasingly more frequent and severe in many tropical regions, leading to significant forest loss, diminished biodiversity, and reduced Nature's contributions to people (NCPs). In this study, we analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of fire in Peru and its regions, focusing on: (1) burned area, (2) size, and (3) number of fires, using ...
Maricel Móstiga +3 more
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Good grief: Lord of the Flies as a post-war rewriting of salvation history
Literator, 2004 Golding’s Lord of the Flies, first published in 1954, reflects a bleak sense of post-war pessimism. But with undue attention focused on its portrayal of original sin and the problem of evil, readings have often remained reductive.
M. van Vuuren
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Structure theorems for subgroups of homeomorphisms groups
, 2009 In this partly expository paper, we study the set A of groups of orientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle S^1 which do not admit non-abelian free subgroups.
Bleak, Collin +2 more
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Coastal soil salinization from rising seawater levels has adverse impacts on soil function, seed germination, and plant growth. Root exudates play a key role in supporting microbial activity, nutrient cycling, and plant health, yet little is known about the combined effects of salinization and the addition of artificial root exudates (AREs) on
Nicolina Lentine +4 more
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