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Ecosystems 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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Ecologically Rational Agency [PDF]
, 2010 The concept of dual rationality in human agents is well understood. It is significant in the work of the economist and Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek. In psychology Sigmund Freud described 'dual information processing'. More recently in cognitive science Daniel Levine has extensively studied the dual mechanisms in the human brain that handle these two ...
John K. Debenham, Carles Sierra
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Knowledge 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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Hierarchical classification system of Germany’s ecosystems as basis for an ecosystem accounting – methods and first results [PDF]
One Ecosystem, 2020 Information on changes in the area of different ecosystems is needed in order to establish an accounting system for ecosystem conditions and services. Currently, there are no comprehensive field mappings for the German federal states that obey a uniform ...
Karsten Grunewald +6 more
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Evaluation of qualitative attributes of forest ecosystems by means of numerical quantifiers
Journal of Forest Science, 2007 This paper presents a proposal of four variants of quantifiers for the numerical expression of qualitative attributes of forest ecosystems, for example site, naturalness, biodiversity, ecological stability, threat of injurious agents, status of forest ...
Š. Šmelko, M. Fabrika
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Environmental 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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Ecological Indicators, 2022 Taxonomic inconsistency in species-level identifications has constrained use of diatoms as biological indicators in aquatic assessments. We addressed this problem by developing diatom multimetric indices (MMIs) of ecological condition using genus-level ...
Luisa Riato +6 more
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Professional Agency in the Ecology of Wrongdoing
, 2018 This study offers an account of individual agency within a constructivist view of professional wrongdoing. The main contribution is a model in which the neglected role of individual professionals is foregrounded, offering the basis for testable propositions about future misconduct.
Harrington, Brooke +1 more
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Language Testing in Asia, 2023 Teacher agency is a pivotal element of professionalism and second/foreign language (L2) education. However, its role in L2 assessment has remained under-researched. Part of this negligence is due to the absence of a validated questionnaire to measure the
Farhad Ghiasvand +2 more
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International Journal of the Commons, 2022 India has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of a larger quasi-experimental impact assessment, we assess the pandemic’s effects on household coping behavior in 80 villages spread across four districts and three states (n = 772).
Karl Alan Hughes +8 more
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