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Early evolutionary history of the seed

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 3, Page 1511-1553, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The seed is an essential stage in the life history of gymnospermous and angiospermous plants, facilitating both their survival and dispersal. We reappraise knowledge of the evolutionary history of the gymnospermous seed, from its origin in the late Devonian through to the well‐known end‐Permian extinctions – an interval encompassing the ...
Richard M. Bateman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Quality of Clarity: Lessons from the Sixty‐Year Struggle to Maintain the Purity of Lake Taupō

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2026.
Sixty years of effort to protect the exceptionally clear water of Lake Taupō, the largest lake in Aotearoa New Zealand, show how environmental memory can help manage a cultural and natural resource. I describe how water clarity and quality in this lake have been protected, through managing soil erosion and phosphorus flows during the 1960s–1980s, and ...
Jonathan West
wiley   +1 more source

Geomorphic Responses to Post‐Grazing Recovery and Stream Restoration in Semiarid Grassland Streams

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 1083-1098, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Semiarid grassland streams are sensitive to land use, climate, extreme discharges, and internal geomorphic thresholds that drive episodic erosion. Rooted in a process‐based philosophy and commonly applied to historically wood‐rich, beaver‐modified systems, low‐tech process‐based restoration using structures is increasingly being extended to ...
Owen Richardson, Ellen Wohl
wiley   +1 more source

Afterword: Reading Eighteenth‐Century Rape Culture in the Trump Era

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 225-232, June 2026.
Abstract This afterword frames eighteenth‐century rape culture and scholarship through our current political moment and reflects on the concerns raised by the essays in this special issue. Twenty‐first‐century interest in the cultural histories of sexual violence has been galvanized by motivational presentism, an increasingly explicit sense that ‘what ...
Rebecca Anne Barr
wiley   +1 more source

My (post‐)post‐socialism: A personal photo essay

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract The paper is a multi‐modal, autoethnographic exploration of the visual remnants of lived post‐communism in a typical block of flats neighborhood of a Romanian city. By using film and digital photography, alongside narrative reflection, the author summons memories and blends observed and lived reality with creative non‐fiction to build an ...
Oana Borlea‐Stăncioi
wiley   +1 more source

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