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Taxonomic and functional diversity of urban bees of the world

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Bees play a pivotal role in terrestrial environments. Urbanization can affect these organisms and the ecosystem services they provide. However, knowledge of the global diversity of urban bees is limited. Thus, we summarized data on urban bee species identities and occurrences; compared distributions of all bees with those found in urban ...
João C. F. Cardoso, Pietro K. Maruyama, Ingrid N. Gomes, Lorena B. Valadão‐Mendes, Victor H. D. Silva, Larissa Lorraine, Jordana O. Borges, Rogério V. Gonçalves, Léo C. Rocha‐Filho, Renata Trevizan, Yasmine Antonini   +10 more
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«Å holde hverdagslivet sammen». Hjem, familie og tilhørighet blant etterkommere av innvandrere fra India og Pakistan

Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift, 2020
Sammendrag Med utgangspunkt i Gullestads analyser av hjem, hverdagsliv og de store samfunnstransformasjoner fra 1970-tallet og fremover, diskuterer denne artikkelen forståelser og praksiser knyttet til hjem, familie og hverdagsliv i ...
Monica Five Aarset
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Assessing responses of reef island seabirds to environmental and anthropogenic drivers

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Tropical insular ecosystems face escalating, cumulative impacts of land‐ and sea‐based ecological threats that jeopardize the long‐term sustainability of their native communities. This joint vulnerability is epitomized by reef island seabirds, which are exposed to reef decline and coastal erosion driven by climate change, reduction in prey ...
Tristan Berr, Alexandre Millon, Pascal Dumas, Poetea Guehenneuc, Fany Perez, Hélène De Méringo, Julien Baudat‐Franceschi, Éric Vidal   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The American Family and Family Economics [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
Gary Becker's path-breaking Treatise on the Family (1981) subjected individuals' decisions about sex, marriage, childbearing, and childrearing to rational choice analysis. The American family has changed radically in recent decades; we survey these changes as well as the ongoing effort to understand partnering, parenting, and care of the elderly as ...
Shelly Lundberg, Robert A. Pollak
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The bounds of the private in the life of Antiochus Cantemir: Myths, speculations and realness regarding his secret family in Paris

Tyragetia, 2020
Activitatea politică şi cea literară a lui Antioh Cantemir, scriitor şi diplomat remarcabil din secolul al XVIII-lea, a prezentat dintotdeauna un deosebit interes ştiinţific.
Lilia Zabolotnaia
doaj  

Extreme site fidelity in long‐distance migratory shorebirds in Australia and potential implications for conservation

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Site fidelity is the tendency for animals to repeatedly return to the same locations, either within or between years. Site fidelity enables animals to utilize knowledge of previously visited locations, including assessments of seasonal variations in health and mortality risks (e.g., predation), resource availability, and social benefits such ...
Tobias A. Ross, Australasian Wader Studies Group, Victorian Wader Study Group, Queensland Wader Study Group, Robyn Atkinson, Maureen Christie, Danny I. Rogers, Chris Hassell, Roz Jessop, Jonathan T. Coleman, Theunis Piersma, Sara Ryding, Aaron Spence, Marcel Klaassen   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family Capital in Family Businesses

, 2020
Family capital is all social, human, and financial capital a family has at their disposal in the family to advance the business. Family capital is the pool of resources unique to family business and it has the potential for family businesses to gain competitive advantage over nonfamily businesses in today's competitive landscape.
Kramer, Astrid, Kroon, Brigitte
openaire   +1 more source

The Importance of the Larval Parasitoid Actia interrupta (Diptera: Tachinidae) in Low Density Eastern Spruce Budworm Populations

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Actia interrupta is an important larval tachinid parasitoid during low‐density populations of the eastern spruce budworm. In the late 1980s during the outbreak collapse, Meteorus trachynotus was initially the most important species, but was replaced by A. interrupta. Host patch size and density had no impact on the parasitism rates by A.
Véronique Martel, Jacques Régnière, Jean‐Claude Thireau   +2 more
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Individual Differences in the Effects of Life Events on Personality Trait Change

Journal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To date, effects of life events on personality trait change have been unsystematic, tenuous, and difficult to replicate. We focus on individual differences in change processes following life events, which have been neglected in previous studies.
Lara Oeltjen, Christian Kandler
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The Shadow Presence of U.S. Models of Parental Involvement in Postcolonial Multilingual Language and Literacy Reforms in Western Highland Mayan Rural School Districts in Guatemala

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a critique of imperialist relations implicit in U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pedagogical texts and capacity‐building resources designed to support decolonial Indigenous Mayan language and literacy instruction.
Jennifer F. Reynolds
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