Insular giant leporid matured later than predicted by scaling [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Summary: The island syndrome describes morphological, behavioral, and life history traits that evolve in parallel in endemic insular organisms. A basic axiom of the island syndrome is that insular endemics slow down their pace of life.
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Early–middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsTherapsids were a dominant component of middle–late Permian terrestrial ecosystems worldwide, eventually giving rise to mammals during the early Mesozoic. However, little is currently known about the time and place of origin of Therapsida.
Rafel Matamales-Andreu +6 more
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Exposure to nature and mental health outcomes during COVID-19 lockdown. A comparison between Portugal and Spain [PDF]
Environment International, 2021 Background: To control the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, countries around the world implemented lockdowns with varying intensities. Lockdowns, however, have been associated with a deterioration of mental health, including post-traumatic stress symptoms,
Ana Isabel Ribeiro +7 more
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Publisher Correction to: Palaeoecological differences underlie rare co-occurrence of Miocene European primates [PDF]
BMC Biology, 2021 Daniel DeMiguel +5 more
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Exposure of Wild Ruminants to Toxoplasma gondii in Alpine Ecosystems, NE Spain [PDF]
Veterinary SciencesToxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite with a complex life cycle that involves warm-blooded animals as intermediate hosts and felids as definitive hosts. Its epidemiology in alpine ecosystems remains poorly understood.
Alejandra Escudero +11 more
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Public perception vs ecological quality status: Examining the ecological restoration of the Congost River's Environment [PDF]
HeliyonThis study examines the public's perceptions of the ecological restoration of the Congost River over the past thirty years, focusing on the period between 2010 and 2022.
Quim Zaldo-Aubanell +7 more
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Advancing in the digitalization of data for a better analysis of electrical and electronic equipment [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 The availability of digital tools is key for reproducible, robust, and transparent analysis. Life cycle assessment has become a well-established tool to perform environmental assessment of products and systems.
Talens Peiró Laura +1 more
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Open-air paleontological sites: A Dissemination Opportunity and a Risk to Spoliation. A Case Study in the Orígens Geopark, Spain. [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2021 Visits to paleontological sites are one of the most popular geotourism activities, but their appeal may have drawbacks. Deciding which sites are suitable for dissemination and appropriate measures for their optimal conservation can be complex.
Isabel Blasi +3 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Coastal zone management is a pressing matter, especially in developing countries, which are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Human systems are underrepresented in the vast array of indicators aimed at assisting coastal zone management ...
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Spatial As Deep: Spatial CNN for Traffic Scene Understanding [PDF]
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017 Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are usually built by stacking convolutional operations layer-by-layer. Although CNN has shown strong capability to extract semantics from raw pixels, its capacity to capture spatial relationships of pixels across ...
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