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Development and validation of a potential assessment inventory for assessing EFL teachers’ ecological agency [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage Testing in Asia, 2022
Teacher agency as an influential factor in teacher professionalism has recently gained global inquiry in the EFL context. However, no valid instrument has ever been designed to evaluate EFL teachers’ ecological agency.
Masoumeh Ghamoushi   +2 more
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Agency From a Radical Embodied Standpoint: An Ecological-Enactive Proposal

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Explaining agency is a significant challenge for those who are interested in the sciences of the mind, and non-representationalists are no exception to this.
Miguel Segundo-Ortin
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Setting priorities for greening cities with monetary accounting values for amenity services of urban green [PDF]

open access: yesOne Ecosystem, 2022
Life Satisfaction Analyses in Germany reveal a significant positive correlation between the amount of green space within 1 km of residence and well-being.
Beyhan Ekinci   +5 more
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Supporting site planning through monetary values for biomass and nature conservation services from ecosystem accounts [PDF]

open access: yesOne Ecosystem, 2022
Ecosystem services can be measured physically, but also valued in monetary terms. In public planning and decision-making in Germany, multi-criteria analysis is usually used to inform decision-makers about different impacts of projects, for example, for ...
Beyhan Ekinci   +5 more
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Tough places and safe spaces: Can refuges save salmon from a warming climate?

open access: yesEcosphere, 2022
The importance of thermal refuges in a rapidly warming world is particularly evident for migratory species, where individuals encounter a wide range of conditions throughout their lives.
Marcía N. Snyder   +11 more
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National framework for ranking lakes by potential for anthropogenic hydro-alteration

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
Lakes face multiple anthropogenic pressures that can substantially alter their hydrology. Dams and land use in the watershed (e.g., irrigated agriculture) can modify lake water regimes beyond natural ranges, and changing climate may exacerbate ...
C. Emi Fergus   +6 more
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A multiscale landscape approach for prioritizing river and stream protection and restoration actions

open access: yesEcosphere, 2023
River and stream conservation programs have historically focused on a single spatial scale, for example, a watershed or stream site. Recently, the use of landscape information (e.g., land use and land cover) at multiple spatial scales and over large ...
Luisa Riato   +3 more
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Recreational beneficiaries and their landscape dependencies across national estuary program sites: Tillamook Bay (OR) and Tampa Bay (FL), USA

open access: yesEcosystems and People, 2023
This study aims to characterize the value associated with nature-based recreational opportunities and identify estuarine attributes most valued by users.
Chanda Jones Littles   +3 more
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Patterns in and predictors of stream and river macroinvertebrate genera and fish species richness across the conterminous USA

open access: yesKnowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2023
Both native and non-native taxa richness patterns are useful for evaluating areas of greatest conservation concern. To determine those patterns, we analyzed fish and macroinvertebrate taxa richness data obtained at 3475 sites collected by the USEPA's ...
Hughes Robert M.   +5 more
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Coupling the dual isotopes of water (δ 2H and δ 18O) and nitrate (δ 15N and δ 18O): a new framework for classifying current and legacy groundwater pollution

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
Nitrate contamination of groundwater is a concern globally, particularly in agricultural regions where decades of fertilizer nitrogen (N) use has led to a legacy of N accumulation in soils and groundwater.
Julie N Weitzman   +4 more
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