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Flight of the dragons: a global review of migration in Odonata

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Insects are the most abundant and ecologically important animal migrants. Yet, we know relatively little about the patterns and processes underlying insect migration. Dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera) comprise the ancient insect order Odonata, whose ancestors were the first organisms to fly on Earth.
Johanna S.U. Hedlund, Myles Menz, Jason W. Chapman, Alexander Hayward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Echoes of home: Turkish Cypriot IDPs and home perception in the context of ruins

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This paper examines the home perceptions of Turkish Cypriot internally displaced persons (IDPs), whose villages and homes have remained abandoned and uninhabited since 1975.
Gizem Canalp, Aysu Arsoy
doaj   +1 more source

Emerging and Reemerging Diseases in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region—Progress, Challenges, and WHO Initiatives

Frontiers in Public Health, 2017
The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) of the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to be a hotspot for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases and the need to prevent, detect, and respond to any infectious diseases that pose a threat to global ...
Evans Buliva, Mohamed Elhakim, Nhu Nguyen Tran Minh, Amgad Elkholy, Peter Mala, Abdinasir Abubakar, Sk Md Mamunur Rahman Malik   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean [PDF]

Radiocarbon, 2014
Dendroclimatology in the Eastern Mediterranean (EM) region has made important contributions to the understanding of climate variability on timescales of decades to centuries. These contributions, beginning in the mid-20th century, have value for resource management, archaeology, and climatology.
Touchan, Ramzi, Meko, David M., Anchukaitis, Kevin J.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has become a critical threat to wildlife, shifting from a seasonal epizootic to a persistent, year‐round panzootic with global consequences. Here, we summarise the origin, evolutionary mechanisms, and expanding host range of the current H5N1 virus (clade 2.3.4.4b) and assess its impact on wildlife. Over
Ulrich Knief, Sandra Bouwhuis, Anja Globig, Anne Günther, Wouter Courtens   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Alessandro Tarullo, Marco Abbiati, Eugenio Fossi, Federica Costantini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voices From the Coast: Stakeholder Participation and Perception on Creating a Marine Protected Area

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores participatory processes in the context of marine conservation, with a specific focus on recent initiatives undertaken by the Apulia region in Italy to establish a new Marine Protected Area (MPA). Employing a qualitative cross‐sectional methodology, the study investigates how local communities perceive and engage with the ...
Giampiero Palazzo, Giuseppe Valenza, Massimo Zuccaro, Simone Pizzi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
wiley   +1 more source

Culture Matters: Board Gender Diversity and ESG Disclosure in Family Firms

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses how board gender diversity (BGD) affects ESG disclosure in family businesses, focusing on the moderating role of national cultural dimensions. It analyzes a sample of listed non‐financial firms operating in European Union countries.
Anna Maria Moisello, Pietro Gottardo, Giovanna Gavana   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phylogenetic structure of conifers in regional floras in relation to climate and environmental heterogeneity worldwide

Ecography, EarlyView.
Despite having only about 670 species worldwide, conifers are one of the ecologically and economically most important plant groups. They have a rich fossil record and previous studies have shown that their current diversity is the result of past radiations, extinction, and dispersal events, restricting many genera to either the Northern or Southern ...
Hong Qian, Michael Kessler, Shenhua Qian
wiley   +1 more source