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Biodiversity as a Dominant Force in Shaping Ethnic Music Styles 生物多样性:塑造民族音乐风格的主导力量

open access: yesIntegrative Conservation, EarlyView.
Our findings show that plant, bird, and mammal diversity considerably shape musical features such as vocal range and ornamental sounds, more so than geography or lifestyle. Our study provides the first empirical evidence linking biodiversity to ethnic music styles. Protecting biodiversity, the musical and cultural will be protected.
Wenchen Song, Yifan Xue, Rui Li
wiley   +1 more source

Turning the Tables: Leveraging Purpose as a Strategic Advantage for SMEs

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When executed well, purpose can become a transformative force, turning a business into a breakout success. Despite the wave of purpose‐driven businesses in recent years, the concept of purpose remains underdeveloped. Purpose is a core component of business models but is difficult to retrofit into large corporations, which makes it especially ...
Klaus Heine, Glyn Atwal, Sonja Sperber
wiley   +1 more source

Untangling Community Assembly Through Functional Traits and Phylogenetic Alpha Diversity in Subtropical Karst Forests

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
Taxonomic diversity is insufficient to fully characterize species co‐existence in forest ecosystems. Incorporating trait‐based and phylogenetic data into studies of communities provides insight into the mechanisms by which coexistence emerges and is ...
Shichu Liang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Military lands provide an opportunity to recover red wolves

open access: yesThe Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
Red wolf (Canis rufus) recovery remains challenging, with only one population persisting and no reintroductions since 1998. Despite extensive, biodiverse properties in the Southeast with conservation mandates, military lands have been overlooked. In our paper, we evaluate them as a potential path forward for red wolf reintroduction sites.
Meghan P. Keating   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Endangered Species Act: An Overview and Conservation-Relant Species

open access: yes, 2013
Presentation given on endangered species.
Goble, Dale D.
core  

Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security: Land Management–Based Strategies Within a Nature‐Based Solutions Framework

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses serious threats to food security by affecting agricultural production processes in multiple ways. This study aims to analyze land management–based solution strategies that can be developed in response to this threat and presents a systematic and holistic framework through the relationship these strategies establish with ...
Nihal Genc, H. Ebru Colak
wiley   +1 more source

PREEMPTIVE HABITAT DESTRUCTION AND THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: THE CASE OF THE RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER

open access: yes
An economic model illustrating a southern forest landowner's incentive to increase timber harvest in response to the risk of red-cockaded woodpecker colonization and subsequent regulation under the Endangered Species Act is developed.
Michael, Jeffrey A.
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Economic Valuation of Conserving Endangered Species and Their Habitats in the North West Panay Peninsula, Central Philippines [PDF]

open access: yes
A Self-Administered-Contingent Valuation Method (SA-CVM) survey was used to determine the non-use values or willingness to pay (WTP) of San Jose, Antique and Kalibo, Aklan respondents on conserving endangered species and habitats of Northwest Panay ...
Evelyn Jugado, Rodelio Subade
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Vegetation Structure and Diversity Under Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration: A Comparison of Silvo‐Arable and Silvo‐Pastoral Systems in Kenya

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a low‐cost, adaptable agroforestry practice that enhances land restoration by promoting systematic integration of naturally regenerating trees within farming systems through tree selection and management.
Irene Awino Ojuok   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

New insights into predator–prey dynamics: First evidence of a leopard cat hunting coypus

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
We present the first documented evidence of interactions between the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus) and the invasive coypu (Myocastor coypus) in South Korea, captured through camera traps in Hwapocheon wetland park from May 2015 to ...
Hee‐Bok Park, Anya Lim
doaj   +1 more source

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