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300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Virtual Fencing for Precision Grazing

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The UK grazing livestock sector is challenged by declining farm profitability and stringent environmental policy. Innovative technologies such as virtual fencing could enable a balanced economic and environmental performance of beef production. Virtual fencing is a livestock management tool relying on invisible boundaries perceived as auditory,
Elias Maritan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The complexity of neighborhood effects: A developmental and ecological framework for violent victimization

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Extensive research has established a link between low self‐control and child victimization. However, the specific neighborhood conditions under which low self‐control most strongly influences victimization have been little examined, and, more importantly, no previous studies have investigated the complex ways in which neighborhood context ...
Myunghee You, Brian J. Stults
wiley   +1 more source

Extinction Debt Paid Off: The Demise of the European Polecat (Mustela putorius) in NE Iberia

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We studied a vanishing polecat population for a decade, until its ultimate demise, using camera trap and roadkill data, landscape descriptors and dietary and toxicological analyses.Polecat favoured farmland and avoided forests and water bodies occupied by the invasive American mink.
Salvador Salvador   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Toleration: Wesley, Whitefield and Evangelical Collaboration in the Eighteenth Century

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a growing body of scholarship on the history of religious toleration; nevertheless, historians have largely treated toleration as a matter of governmental policy and legal principle. This article broadens that account by examining John Wesley and George Whitefield's vision of evangelical unity across denominational lines.
Sarah Irving‐Stonebraker
wiley   +1 more source

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