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Living coal : Robert Boyle, John Holland, and the bodily passages of chimney sweep literature, 1684-1824 [PDF]
, 2018 This project attends to a body of literature that registers the extraordinary and tragic effects of chimneys infused with living coal upon young chimney sweeps.
Goheen, Jeremy Cameron
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short‐duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high‐diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a ...
Patrick Faulkner +17 more
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Using composite system index to identify China’s ecological and socio-economic transition zone
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Regions with synthetic geographical gradients tend to exhibit distinct ecological transitions. As a compound ecosystem, transition zone can provide a basis for decision-making in the sustainable ecological management by investigating its boundary and ...
Hao Zhang, Fei Liu, Jinying Zhang
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Cosmotic, Aquatic. Exploring the potential of computational design in the preservation of aquatic ecotones [PDF]
, 2018 This paper looks at the possible role of computational design ecologically in the fight against the loss of the aquatic Ecotone. As climate change keeps altering all the natural aspects of our planet, and as our kind continues to sabotage its ecologies ...
Mohanna, Aya
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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola +30 more
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Cambios estacionales en los ensambles de aves en un ecotono bosque-estepa del norte de Patagonia [PDF]
, 2018 Estudiamos las variaciones estacionales en una comunidad de aves que habitan el ecotono bosque-estepa del norte de Patagonia. Analizamos los cambios en la riqueza de especies, la composición de especies y la abundancia total, y a nivel de las especies ...
Cueto, Víctor +1 more
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Strategies of Sufficiency Under Institutional Complexity: A Study in the German Food Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organizations face increasing institutional complexity as they navigate competing demands from their institutional environment regarding financial performance and environmental responsibility. In our study, we examine how 39 award‐winning organizations in the German food industry frame sufficiency, a sustainability strategy focusing on ...
Lena Leifeld, Simon Oertel
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Spatial ecology of long‐tailed ducks and white‐winged scoters wintering on Nantucket Shoals
Ecosphere, 2020 We examine the long‐term co‐occurrence of long‐tailed ducks (Clangula hyemalis) and white‐winged scoters (Melanitta fusca) wintering at the Nantucket Shoals off Massachusetts, USA, and ask: (1) What oceanographic features attract these aggregations?
Timothy P. White, Richard R. Veit
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The Behavior of Atlanticus Testaceus (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) on the E.S. George Reserve, Michigan [PDF]
, 2017 Several reports deal in part with the systematics, distribution, or habits of one or another of the shield-backed katydids of the orthopteran genus Atlanticus.
Gangwere, S. K.
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International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.This study applies stochastic rainfall models combining Markov Chains with gamma and mixed exponential distributions to a semi‐arid climate in Northeast Brazil. Model structures were evaluated using Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), with maximum likelihood (MLM) for parameter estimation and cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) for validation ...
Gabriel Magno Cavalcante Calado +5 more
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