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Sustainable development awareness and integration in higher education: a comparative analysis of universities in Central Asia, South Caucasus and the EU

open access: yesDiscover Sustainability
Education for sustainable development in universities is shaping the agenda in this area, demanding continuous improvement in quality. There is a trend towards integrating sustainability issues and the implementation of sustainable development goals into
Sergey Bespalyy   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Eurasian steppe belt: Status quo, origin and evolutionary history

open access: yesTurczaninowia, 2019
We present a comprehensive review of the characteristics and structure of the Eurasian steppe and of its evolutionary history in space and time. During the last decades, tremendous advances in research methods in earth and palaeontological sciences have ...
Herbert Hurka   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seasonal variation in wild pig (Sus scrofa) diet revealed by DNA metabarcoding

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Using DNA metabarcoding of fecal samples, we investigated the diet of wild pigs at an extensive bottomland hardwood forest ecosystem within Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge in Southern Arkansas. We found that wild pig diet was highly diverse and included at least 74 plant families and 106 genera and 23 species of vertebrates.
Kenneth C. Wilson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self-Governance and Adaptation: Rethinking Indigenous Arctic Histories

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons
How can a self-governance perspective reshape our understanding of Indigenous Arctic histories? This paper aims at advancing our understanding about aboriginal societies and their historical use of common pool resources.
Jesper Larsson   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of influ- 245 enza A/H5N1 virus (1996-2016)

open access: yesВопросы вирусологии, 2016
Twenty years ago in the South Chinese province of Guangdong the epizooty of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, which has laid the foundation of the largest epizooty in the contemporary history, has flashed.
M. Yu. Shchelkanov   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Concept of Eurasia [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Anthropology, 2016
To imagine Europe and Asia as constituting equivalent “continents” has long been recognized as the ethnocentric cornerstone of a Western, or Euro-American, world view. The amalgam Eurasia corrects this bias by highlighting the intensifying interconnectedness of the entire landmass in recent millennia.
openaire   +2 more sources

Relationships between synoptic-scale transport and interannual variability of inorganic cations in surface snow at Summit, Greenland: 1992-1996 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
To fully utilize the long-term chemical records retrieved from central Greenland ice cores, specific relationships between atmospheric circulation and the variability of chemical species in the records need to be better understood. This research examines
Dibb, Jack E.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A multi‐trait evaluation of patterns and fitness consequences of breeding phenology plasticity with nocturnal warming and food restriction in a lizard

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Faced with climate warming, ectothermic species shift their breeding phenology, which is in part attributed to an acceleration of gestation or incubation in warmer environments.
Théo Bodineau   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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