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Dark Deviations and Timely Digressions

open access: yes, 2021
If Dark Eden is a spectral landscape and the material for a new culture, it is not so because of any sense of descent from the grand narrative of enlightened homo.
JULIE VULCAN (11684153)   +1 more
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Seeing Through the End Time: From Lord Byron’s “Darkness” to The Dark Mountain Project

open access: yesCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2015
This essay contends with the dark side of environmental literature by examining Lord Byron’s apocalyptic poem “Darkness“ (1816) ecocritically, drawing on Timothy Morton’s concepts of dark ecology “and ecological thought“ to ask how darkness functions in ...
Jessica MacQueen
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Wyjść poza wyobrażony koncept natury. Rzecz o Piachu Urszuli Zajączkowskiej

open access: yesZagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2021
The starting point of this article is an attempt to prove the authenticity of the essential catchword of Julia Fiedorczuk’s ecocriticis, that “with the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination” (citation from Lawrence Buell).
Katarzyna Koza
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The Landscapes of Eco-Noir

open access: yesNordicom Review, 2020
This article examines the Norwegian climate fiction television series Okkupert [Occupied] (2015–), focusing on the ways in which it reveals the complicity of Nordic subjects in an ecological dystopia.
Mrozewicz Anna Estera
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Rarity facets of biodiversity: Integrating Zeta diversity and Dark diversity to understand the nature of commonness and rarity

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
Measuring commonness and rarity is pivotal to ecology and conservation. Zeta diversity, the average number of species shared by multiple sets of assemblages, and Dark diversity, the number of species that could occur in an assemblage but are missing ...
Federico Riva, Stefano Mammola
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Visual Ecology: Hiding in the Dark [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2007
The ability of many animals to camouflage themselves against a background is a well-known daytime phenomenon. Now it has even been found to occur at night, highlighting the reality of nocturnal visual predation.
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Study rat ecology using dark fiber sensing

open access: yes, 2023
# Publicly available data to study rat ecology using dark fiber sensing This dataset aims to support the research presented in: **"Uncovering cryptic rat ecology via dark fiber traps"** Dark fiber distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) was deployed along ...
Zhang, Cheng-Cheng
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Into the darkness: the ecologies of novel ‘microbial dark matter’ phyla in an Antarctic lake

open access: yesEnvironmental Microbiology, 2022
Summary Uncultivated microbial clades (‘microbial dark matter’) are inferred to play important but uncharacterized roles in nutrient cycling. Using Antarctic lake (Ace Lake, Vestfold Hills) metagenomes, 12 metagenome‐assembled genomes (MAGs; 88%–100% complete) were generated for four ‘dark matter’ phyla: six MAGs ...
Timothy J. Williams   +3 more
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“Like harvest moon, except I ate a guy:” Graveyard Keeper’s Dark Ecology

open access: yesCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2021
This article argues that Lazy Bear Games’ Graveyard Keeper“ (2018) engages in a critical dialogue with the farm game genre by reformulating the nostalgic ideal as one mired in exploitation and the grotesque, thereby opening new and uncanny avenues ...
Katie Deane
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Convergent Adaptations: Bitter Manioc Cultivation Systems in Fertile Anthropogenic Dark Earths and Floodplain Soils in Central Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Shifting cultivation in the humid tropics is incredibly diverse, yet research tends to focus on one type: long-fallow shifting cultivation. While it is a typical adaptation to the highly-weathered nutrient-poor soils of the Amazonian terra firme, fertile
Alessandro Alves-Pereira   +28 more
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