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Fluctuating asymmetry and environmental stress : understanding the role of trait history [PDF]

, 2013
While fluctuating asymmetry (FA; small, random deviations from perfect symmetry in bilaterally symmetrical traits) is widely regarded as a proxy for environmental and genetic stress effects, empirical associations between FA and stress are often weak or ...
Alcantara-Exposito, Angelica, De Coster, Greet, Lens, Luc, Malaki, Phillista, Matheve, Hans, Muchane, Muchai, Van Dongen, Stefan   +6 more
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The History of Expansion of the Genus Bursaphelenchus (Nematoda: Aphelenchida: Parasitaphelenchidae) [PDF]

, 2008
Because of globalization and removal of geographical barriers, frequent biological invasions of introduced species become an urgent environmental problem.
Mota, Manuel, RYSS, Alexandre, VIEIRA, Paulo   +2 more
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La historia oral y el fortalecimiento de la cultura ambiental en la cuenca del río Morote, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Un estudio de caso: La mansión de Maceo

Revista de Historia, 2015
The article exposes the methodology and results of the investigation and extension that have been realized in the subprogram for the integral management of Morote hydrographic basin, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Carlos Cruz Chaves
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Toxicidade e produção de maçãs no sul do Brasil Toxicity and apple production in southern Brazil

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2010
Explora as conexões entre uma polêmica apreensão de maçãs contaminadas no sul do Brasil, em 1989, e as reações da indústria da maçã às notícias da imprensa sobre o uso do agrotóxico nas plantações brasileiras. A problemática está inserida em análise mais
Jó Klanovicz
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Tracing the metabolic rift in Colombia's greengrocer: an environmental history of the Anaime Valley [PDF]

, 2020
This paper stems from research to reconstruct an environmental history of agriculture in the Anaime Canyon Valley and better understand the environmental consequences of having transformed the area into “Colombia's greengrocer”.
Doughman, Richard
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As Long as There Were Any Roads to Amnesia and Anaesthesia Still to be Explored: Contemporary Artistic Reflections on the Intertwined Memories of British Imperial History, Trees and Place

Angles
This article critically examines contemporary art installations by two British artists responding to two major memory sites of British imperial and national history: 1) Trafalgar Square, one of the biggest squares in central London, a former imperial ...
Laura Ouillon
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Rios nossos que estão no sertão! São Francisco e Parnaíba

Confins, 2015
The northeast region of Brazil has a modest hydrography. The majority of the rivers in this region are classified as temporary except the Maranhão rivers, which are mostly perennial.
Gercinair Silvério Gandara
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“Herbarium Polonorum” (“Heimatphotographie”)

Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2020
The main theme of the text is the wartime and postwar history of the area of the German Nazi extermination camp Treblinka II, seen from the perspective of the production of landscape – with a special focus on the identity aspect, i.e.
Elżbieta Janicka
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Women and Gender: Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History [PDF]

, 2014
In 1990, Carolyn Merchant proposed, in a roundtable discussion published in The Journal of American History, that gender perspective be added to the conceptual frameworks in environmental history.
Unger, Nancy
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Dispersal and life-history traits in a spider with rapid range expansion [PDF]

, 2020
Background Dispersal and reproduction are key life-history traits that jointly determine species' potential to expand their distribution, for instance in light of ongoing climate change.
Bonte, Dries, Klockmann, Michael, Pekár, Stano, Schmitz, Torben, Uhl, Gabriele, Wolz, Marina   +5 more
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