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The role of privately owned sports related green spaces in urban ecological frameworks [PDF]

, 2009
An ecological framework seeks to maintain ecological processes in the wider landscape and to conserve ecosystems, habitats, species, genetic diversity, and landscapes of importance.
Clark, Peter, Niemelä, Jari, Niemi, Marjaana   +2 more
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Macrosystems ecology: Understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales [PDF]

, 2014
Macrosystems ecology is the study of diverse ecological phenomena at the scale of regions to continents and their interactions with phenomena at other scales.
Adrian V Rocha, Allen TFH, Andrew D Richardson, Craig A Stow, Daniel S Gruner, Gunderson LH, Heather Powell, James B Heffernan, James R Kellner, Jingfeng Xiao, John S Kominoski, Kathleen C Weathers, Lauren B Buckley, Lauren E Koenig, Liu J, Michael J Angilletta, O'Neill RV, Patricia A Soranno, Peters DPC, Pickett STA, Redman CL, Rodrigo Vargas, Simon J Goring, Tamara K Harms, Tim H Keitt, Weathers KC, William H McDowell   +26 more
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Autism and Social Disconnection in Interpersonal Rocking

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2013
Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have significant visuomotor processing deficits, atypical motoric behavior, and often substantial problems connecting socially. We suggest that the perceptual, attentional, and adaptive timing deficiencies
Kerry L Marsh, Kerry L Marsh, Robert W. Isenhower, Robert W. Isenhower, Michael J. Richardson, Molly eHelt, Alyssa D. Verbalis, R. C. Schmidt, Deborah eFein   +8 more
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Robust study design is as important on the social as it is on the ecological side of applied ecological research [PDF]

, 2014
1. The effective management of natural systems often requires resource users to change their behaviour. This has led to many applied ecologists using research tools developed by social scientists.
Jones, Julia P.G., Keane, Aidan M., Milner-Gulland, E. J., St. John, Freya A.V.   +3 more
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Environmental factors influence both abundance and genetic diversity in a widespread bird species. [PDF]

, 2013
Genetic diversity is one of the key evolutionary variables that correlate with population size, being of critical importance for population viability and the persistence of species. Genetic diversity can also have important ecological consequences within
Boettcher R., Crawley M. J., del Hoyo J., Falush D., Griffith S. C., Hayes F. E., Newton I., Pritchard J. K., Rousset F.   +8 more
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Effects of the Climatic Region on Richness Correlations between Vascular Plants and Vertebrates in Nature Reserves of China

Diversity, 2022
Identifying indicator taxa is a solution to the problem of a lack of diverse data. However, the variation between studies on richness correlations (RCs) among taxa from different climate regions makes the application value of indicator taxa questionable.
Sha Jiang, Fanhua Kong, Rui Hu, Jiaxin Zhang, Minhua Zhang   +4 more
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Spatial distribution of soil quality under different vegetation types in the Yellow River Delta wetland

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The soils from four typical natural wetlands, namely, Phragmites australis, Tamarix chinensis, Suaeda salsa, and tidal flat, as well as reclaimed wetland, were selected to evaluate the soil quality in the Yellow River Delta. Fourteen soil physicochemical
Debin Sun, Debin Sun, Debin Sun, Debin Sun, Yunzhao Li, Yunzhao Li, Junbao Yu, Junbao Yu, Baoquan Li, Bo Guan, Bo Guan, Di Zhou, Di Zhou, Xuehong Wang, Xuehong Wang, Jisong Yang, Jisong Yang, Yuanqing Ma, Xin Zhang, Xin Zhang, Xue Li, Xue Li, Yue Ling, Yue Ling, Yuhan Zou, Yuhan Zou, Shaoning Jia, Shaoning Jia, Fa Shen, Fa Shen   +29 more
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Ecological brain: reframing the study of human behaviour and cognition

Royal Society Open Science
The last decade has seen substantial advances in the capacity to record behaviour and neural activity in humans in real-world settings, to simulate real-world situations in laboratory settings and to apply sophisticated analyses to large-scale data ...
Gabriella Vigliocco, Laura Convertino, Sara De Felice, Lara Gregorians, Viktor Kewenig, Marie A. E. Mueller, Sebastijan Veselic, Mirco Musolesi, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Nicholas Tyler, Eirini Flouri, Hugo J. Spiers   +11 more
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Initial COVID-19 Transmissibility and Three Gaseous Air Pollutants (NO2, SO2, and CO): A Nationwide Ecological Study in China

Frontiers in Medicine, 2020
In this study, we conducted an ecological study to examine their effects in the early phase of the pandemic (from December 2019 to February 2020) in China.
Jinjun Ran, Jinjun Ran, Shi Zhao, Shi Zhao, Lefei Han, Zhihang Peng, Maggie H. Wang, Maggie H. Wang, Yulan Qiu, Daihai He   +9 more
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Environmental factors: Possible reasons for higher incidence and prevalence of multiple sclerosis in high-income countries

International Archives of Health Sciences, 2021
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) has had a remarkable increase in prevalence during recent years. This study was conducted to evaluate the correlation between prevalence and incidence of MS with the income level and lifestyle condition of countries ...
Ali Tamaddon, Mohsen Ramezani Nezhad, Malihe Abbasi, Seyedeh Nahid Seyedhasani, Mohammad Sarmadi, Vahid Kazemi Moghaddam   +5 more
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