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Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart, Olivia Crowe, Tom Scott, Andrew J. Plumptre, Megan Eldred, Ellen McKee, Zoltan Waliczky, Ibrahim Al Hasani, Adrián B. Azpiroz, Daniele Baisero, Fred Barasa, Alison E. Beresford, Bezeng S. Bezeng, Charlotte Boyd, Thomas M. Brooks, Graeme Buchanan, Gill Bunting, Sofia Capellan, Neil Cox, Tim R. B. Davenport, Tammy E. Davies, Gina Della Togna, Wendy Elliott, Matt Foster, Jo Gilbert, Jonathan M. Handley, Diego Juffe‐Bignoli, Victoria R. Jones, Naomi Kingston, Jeannot Kivono, John Lamoreux, Penny F. Langhammer, James Lewis, Bruce Liggitt, Daniel Marnewick, Paul Matiku, Erin McCreless, Rachel A. Neugarten, Catherine Numa, Mark O'Brien, Madhu Rao, Ciara Raudsepp‐Hearne, Justina C. Ray, Samridhi Rijal, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Jurgis Sapijanskas, Wes Sechrest, Martin Sneary, Andrew Snyder, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Thomas Starnes, Cecilia Tobar, Gautam Surya, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Andrew W. Tordoff, Maria G. Toscano, Yongyut Trisurat, Amy Upgren   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

Warming summers limit reindeer grazing, weakening herbivory pressure in the mountain tundra

Ecography, EarlyView.
Climate change is predicted to alter species interactions by exposing ecosystems to increasingly frequent and intense warm spells. In the mountain tundra, grazing by large herbivores, particularly reindeer, can limit shrub expansion and preserve Arctic plant diversity.
Marianne Stoessel, Akiko Kato, Regina Lindborg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mesozoic–Cenozoic Thermochronology of the Tarim–Southern Tianshan System, NW China

Geological Journal, EarlyView.
Tectonothermal history of the Tarim–Southern Tianshan system compared with the major tectonic events at far‐field plate margins. ABSTRACT The Tarim Basin, an oil‐bearing basin in northwest China, is tectonically and sedimentologically linked to the Southern Tianshan Orogenic Belt.
Shuangfeng Zhao, Wen Chen, Jingbo Sun, Ze Shen, Jie Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caste as a Social Kind

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
wiley   +1 more source

POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE (1991-2012) [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Historical Studies, 2021
The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union (no shadow of regret) left behind it an area of conflicts and contradictions which are still concerning the world.
Paraschiva Bădescu
doaj  

Seasonal Predictions and Their Applications in the Mediterranean Region: Part I—Sources of Predictability and Prediction Skill

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
The ability to predict climate fluctuations at seasonal timescales offers significant socio‐economic benefits. However, limited understanding of predictability mechanisms and model errors hinders forecast quality. Recent research has improved forecasting systems and data quality.
Gualdi Silvio, Javier García‐Serrano, Constantin Ardilouze, Silvia Terzago, Veronica Torralba, Wafae Badi, Lauriane Batté, Fatima Driouech, Kristina Fröhlich, Ernesto Rodriguez Camino, Esteban Rodriguez Guisado, Massimiliano Pasqui, Andrea Toreti   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bartonella infections in fleas (Siphonaptera : Pulicidae) and lack of Bartonellae in ticks (Acari : Ixodidae) from Hungary [PDF]

, 2006
Fleas (95 Pulex irritans, 50 Ctenocephalides felis, 45 Ctenocephalides canis) and ixodid ticks (223 Ixodes ricinus, 231 Dermacentor reticulatus, 204 Haemaphysalis concinna) were collected in Hungary and tested, in assays based on PCR, for Bartonella ...
Márialigeti, Károly, Sréter, Tamás, Sréter-Lancz, Z., Széll, Z., Tornyai, K.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Growing Degree‐Day Trends Associated With ‘False Springs’ in the Continental United States

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Earlier spring warming has increased growing degree‐day (GDD) accumulation prior to the last freeze at some US locations (red circles = stat. sig. increases). However, after accounting for spatial autocorrelation using a false discovery rate approach, few trends remain significant, indicating no coherent continental‐scale increase in false spring risk.
Robert E. Davis, Julia Finkbeiner, Marion Donald, Manuel Lerdau   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Up in flames: the human factor behind a megafire in Mediterranean Türkiye

npj Natural Hazards
On the evening of July 28, 2021, the largest wildfire for the last century broke out in four different locations in a Mediterranean catchment in southern Türkiye; arson cases which came on the heels of anomalous temperatures and precipitation patterns ...
Bikem Ekberzade, Tolga Görüm, Furkan Karabacak, Semih Sami Akay, Ömer Lütfi Şen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Andronovo Problem: Studies of Cultural Genesis in the Eurasian Bronze Age

Open Archaeology, 2021
Andronovo culture is the largest Eurasian formation in the Bronze Age, and it had a significant impact on neighboring regions. It is the important culture for understanding many historical processes, in particular, the origins and migration of Indo ...
Grigoriev Stanislav
doaj   +1 more source