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Asset Redeployability and Biodiversity Risk
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine how asset redeployability influences a firm's exposure to biodiversity risk. Our empirical analysis provides robust evidence that firms possessing greater levels of redeployable assets exhibit significantly lower biodiversity risk.
Mostafa Monzur Hasan +2 more
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Urbanization alters sandy beach scavenging assemblages and dogs suppress ecosystem function
EcosphereUrbanization is rapidly transforming coastal landscapes around the world, altering the structure and function of marine, intertidal, and terrestrial ecosystems.
Francis D. Gerraty +2 more
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Insects of forensic importance associated to cadaveric decomposition in a rural area of the Andean Amazon, Caquetá, Colombia [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2018 Forensic entomology is a frequently used tool to estimate the time interval between death and the discovery of the corpse. Succession of arthropods associated with cadaveric decomposition was monitored in a rural area of the Municipality of Florencia ...
Yardany RAMOS-PASTRANA +2 more
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Carrion's Disease: the Sound of Silence [PDF]
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2018 SUMMARYCarrion's disease (CD) is a neglected biphasic vector-borne illness related toBartonella bacilliformis. It is found in the Andean valleys and is transmitted mainly by members of theLutzomyiagenus but also by blood transfusions and from mother to child. The acute phase, Oroya fever, presents severe anemia and fever.
Cláudia, Gomes, Joaquim, Ruiz
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Platform Thinking as a Catalyst for Circular Innovation in Low‐ and Medium‐Tech Industries
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Growing pressures to replace linear with circular models challenge organisations to innovate continuously and to absorb new knowledge. While platform thinking has been examined as an enabler of innovation in high‐tech industries, its relevance in low‐ and medium‐tech industries, like construction, remains underexplored.
Julia Köhler +3 more
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Does carcass decomposition affect soil-dwelling enchytraeids?
Soil Organisms, 2023 Carcass decomposition causes substantial changes in the humidity and chemistry of adjacent soil. Its potential effect on Enchytraeidae (Annelida: Clitellata) has, hitherto, not been studied.
Jiří Schlaghamerský +1 more
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Diurnal patterns of postfeeding larval dispersal in carrion blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
European Journal of Entomology, 2001 A study of the diurnal rhythms in the postfeeding dispersal of the larvae of two coexisting carrion blowfly species, Calliphora vomitoria and Lucilia caesar, from corpses was conducted in the field.
Petr KOČÁREK
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Carrion’s disease: an eradicable illness? [PDF]
Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2016 Carrion's disease is a neglected tropical disease caused by Bartonella bacilliformis, a vector-borne pathogen restricted to the Andean valleys of Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Carrion's disease is a biphasic illness; in the acute phase the case-fatality rate can be as high as 88 %, related to high parasitemia, arriving to almost all erythrocytes, and ...
Gomes, Cláudia +3 more
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Corporate Environmental Innovation and Environmental Decoupling: International Evidence
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates whether environmental innovation reduces environmental decoupling, defined as the mismatch between a company's environmental disclosures and its actual environmental performance. Drawing on legitimacy theory, we argue that environmental innovation represents a substantive organizational response that reduces companies ...
Rasmi Meqbel +3 more
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