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Dark Skies [PDF]

Dark Skies addresses a significant gap in knowledge in relation to perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In providing a new multi- and interdisciplinary field of inquiry, this book brings together engagements with dark skies from a

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Integrating dark diversity, functional traits, and diagnostic species: a framework to diagnose bottlenecks in forest recovery

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionAccurately assessing the natural recovery processes of forest ecosystems remains a key challenge in restoration ecology. The concept of dark diversity—the set of species absent from a site but belonging to its habitat-specific species pool ...
Ming-Hui Wang, Ming-Hui Wang, Ming-Hui Wang, Jian-Rong Su, Jian-Rong Su, Jian-Rong Su, Wan-De Liu, Wan-De Liu, Wan-De Liu, Shuai-Feng Li, Shuai-Feng Li, Shuai-Feng Li, Xiao-Bo Huang, Xiao-Bo Huang, Xiao-Bo Huang, Jia-Yan Shen, Jia-Yan Shen, Jia-Yan Shen, Rui-Guang Shang, Rui-Guang Shang, Rui-Guang Shang   +20 more
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Comparative foraging ecology of two broad-ranging migrants, grey plover Pluvialis Squatarola and whimbrel Numenius Phaeopus (Aves: Charadrii), in tropical and temperate latitudes of the Western Indian Ocean

, 1994
Bibliography: leaves 186-205.A seasonal study of the nonbreeding foraging ecology of Grey Plovers and Whimbrels was undertaken at the Zwartkops estuary, South Africa, and additional data were collected from a variety of sites in tropical and south ...
Turpie, Jane
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At Home with the Weird: Dark Eco-Discourse in Tanis and Welcome to Night Vale

, 2018
One of the most influential recent additions to critical environmental discourse has been Tim Morton’s concept of dark ecology, an approach to nature that rejects conventional ideas of sustainability and instead foregrounds a fundamental relationality ...
Collins, Michael, Collins, Michael; id_orcid, Barrios-O'Neill, Danielle, Collins, Michael James   +3 more
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Palaeoecology of human impact in northwest England during the early medieval period: investigating ‘cultural decline’ in the Dark Ages

, 2010
The period following the Roman withdrawal from England in AD 410 has long been considered a time of ‘cultural decline’, owing to the relative paucity of archaeological evidence relating to this time and the dismal state of affairs described by the Dark ...
Forster, Emily Elizabeth
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Multiple dimensions of biodiversity jointly drive community completeness in Baima Snow Mountain typical forest

Ecological Indicators
Traditional biodiversity measures, such as species richness (SR), are inadequate for accurately capturing the completeness of local plant communities. In contrast, community completeness, derived from the concept of dark diversity offers a more robust ...
Xiaobo Huang, Shuaifeng Li, Cong Li, Jiandong Lai, Sang Ge, Quzha Gerong, Rong Tang, Rui Zhang, Jianrong Su   +8 more
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The first emerging records of a dragonfly in the dark zone of subterranean ecosystems: Exuviae and newly emerged adults of Hyrcanian Goldenring, Cordulegaster vanbrinkae in Danial Cave, northern Iran

Ecology and Evolution
Riverine caves are special habitats that are home to many aquatic and terrestrial species. Some Odonata species and their emerging are recorded at the entrance and in the twilight zones of subterranean habitats around the world. However, the emergence of
Pouria Ghelich Khani, Mohsen Kiany, Ali Turk Qashqaei   +2 more
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Deep ecology

, 2016
The installation is entered via a dark tunnel, marked by gently glowing lines of light and a pool of soft pulsing light on the wall, set at eye height - which marks the first of two viewports.
Armstrong, Keith M., English, Lawrence, Lickfold, Luke   +2 more
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Foggy signs: Dark ecological queerings in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

, 2018
This article draws on the rich ecocritical scholarship that has burgeoned in the twenty-first century to posit that queer representations of the environment that blur Romantic human/non-human dualism can challenge and nuance our discussion of the present
Torsten Bøgh Thomsen, Thomsen, Torsten Bøgh; id_orcid   +1 more
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Loss, Grief and Planetary Literacy in Informational Picturebooks for Children

Lagoonscapes
Death is an inevitable part of life with philosophical, cultural and religious dimensions and its problematic emerges differently in the contemporary era, since it is not only perceived as a fundamental aspect of human existence, but also as a ...
Angelaki, Rosy-Triantafyllia
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