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Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies

Economics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
wiley   +1 more source

Herpetofauna, Coastal Dunes, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Check List, 2006
Coastal dunes habitats at Buenos Aires provinceare in a fragmentation and habitat loss process dueto related human activities. Knowledge on theherpetofauna of Buenos Aires province coasthabitats is plentiful for some species of lizards andscarce for most
Kacoliris, F., Horlent, N., Williams, J.
doaj  

Moving dunes on the Google Earth [PDF]

, 2013
Several methods exist for surveying the dunes and estimate their migration rate. Among methods suitable for the macroscopic scale, the use of the satellite images available on Google Earth is a convenient resource, in particular because of its time ...
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Storm events will simultaneously reduce foraging opportunities and affect movements of Red Knots (Calidris canutus) in the intertidal Wadden Sea

Ibis, EarlyView.
Intertidal systems provide important wintering areas for migratory shorebirds, where they can both forage and roost. In the light of climate change, extreme wind speeds are predicted to occur more frequently in northwestern Europe and pose a threat to shorebirds.
Timo Keuning, Evy Gobbens, Ran Nathan, Allert I. Bijleveld   +3 more
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Cryptogam communities in Mediterranean coastal dunes as indicators of microhabitat effect and human influence

Ecological Indicators
Mediterranean coastal dune morphology and dynamics are affected by a complex set of biotic and abiotic factors, from both natural and anthropogenic sources.
Pere Miquel Mir-Rosselló, Marcello Dante Cerrato, Iván Cortés-Fernández, Carles Cardona, Lluís Salom-Vicens, Arnau Ribas-Serra, Llorenç Sáez, Dessiré Sicilia, Llorenç Gil   +8 more
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The Political Economy of Attention: Media Salience, Voter Cognition, and Electoral Accountability

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We review conceptual and empirical contributions to the political economy of attention, with a focus on how attention allocation shapes political behavior and electoral accountability. The review distinguishes between endogenous (goal‐directed) and exogenous (stimulus‐driven) attention and examines how these concepts are incorporated into ...
Patrick Balles, Ulrich Matter, Alois Stutzer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary legacies structure the geography of seagrass traits across the world's oceans

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Traits modulate species' ability to track shifts in climate, yet the extent to which traits have been shaped by the contemporary environment and/or historical processes remains poorly understood. Here, we fill this gap for the world's seagrasses, habitat‐forming species that provide critical ecosystem services.
Nestor E. Bosch, Matthew McLean, Fernando Tuya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recombination suppression in plant adaptation and speciation

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Recombination suppression is increasingly recognized as an important facilitator of genomic divergence and speciation, especially under ongoing gene flow. In plants, however, the broader evolutionary consequences and the mechanisms by which recombination suppression arises and spreads are still incompletely understood, reflecting the inherent ...
Xu Zhang, Yisi Hu, Kaichi Huang, Stephen I. Wright, Loren H. Rieseberg   +4 more
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Species biology and potential for controlling four exotic plants (Ammophila arenaria, Carpobrotus edulis, Cortaderia jubata and Gasoul crystallinum) on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California [PDF]

Invasive exotic plants can displace native flora and modify community and ecosystem structure and function. Ammophila arenaria, Corpobrotus edulis, Cortaderia jubata, and Gasoul crystallinum are invasive plants present on Vandenberg Air Force Base ...
Hinkle, C. Ross, Schmalzer, Paul A.
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Wetland plant growth in recycled glass sand versus dredged river sand: evaluating a new resource for coastal restoration

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Sand made from recycled glass cullet could supplement limited dredged river sand (dredge) in coastal wetland restorations; however, its suitability for wetland plants is unknown. In two experiments, we compared the biomass of several wetland plants in recycled glass sand to growth in dredge.
Elizabeth H. MacDougal, Bek X. L. Markel, Emily C. Farrer, Shehbaz Ahmad, Julie N. L. Albert, Sunshine A. Van Bael   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source