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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Municipal collaborations such as shared service centers and joint ventures are widely promoted as ways to strengthen local service capacity. Yet they often develop in uneven and sometimes unstable ways. This paper examines why arrangements built on similar institutional promises take such different trajectories in practice.
Isabell Meltzer +1 more
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Pesticide‐free management of invasive ants impacting ground‐nesting wildlife populations
Wildlife Society BulletinNonnative, invasive ants, and especially the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, are a widespread threat to ground‐nesting wildlife. In this paper I describe a method of controlling fire ants using hot water.
Joshua R. King
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Invertebrate community response to fire and rodent activity in the Mojave and Great Basin Deserts
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Recent increases in the frequency and size of desert wildfires bring into question the impacts of fire on desert invertebrate communities. Furthermore, consumer communities can strongly impact invertebrates through predation and top‐down effects on plant
Joshua D. Day +5 more
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Sociobiology, 2015 The rupestrian complex is a montane transitional vegetation type between the Brazilian Savanna (‘Cerrado’) and the Atlantic Forest, frequently threatened by human activities. In this study, we evaluated the recovery to fire disturbance of ant fauna in an
Diego Vinícius Anjos +2 more
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Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Despite severe habitat loss, insect species richness, seasonal fluctuations in richness and temporal β‐diversity did not differ significantly among forests adjacent to the mudflow and reference sites. We found higher wet‐season species richness for ants, bees, butterflies and dung beetles, while termites showed no seasonal change; β‐diversity was ...
Frederico Neves +11 more
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Things at Work: How Things Contribute to Performing Work
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract A crucial question for organizations is what constitutes work performance. While the importance of human competence and motivation to work performance has been established, less well understood is how ‘things’ – such as algorithms, tools, instruments, and raw materials – contribute to work performance.
Jörgen Sandberg +2 more
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The History of Little Fire Ant Wasmannia auropunctata Roger in the Hawaiian Islands: Spread, Control, and Local Eradication [PDF]
, 2016 The islands of Hawaii have been the battleground for successive “inva- sion waves” by exotic ants for over a century. The arrival of Pheidole megacephala (Fabricius) (the big headed ant) in the late nineteenth century, was followed in 1939 by Linepithema
Adachi, Michael K. +4 more
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Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.In our recent study, we examined whether ants in the Brazilian Cerrado follow the “grain‐size hypothesis,” which proposes that larger ants should have proportionally longer legs to move efficiently across different environments. We used Ectatomma permagnum, a common predatory ant in the Cerrado, measuring hundreds of individuals collected from various ...
A. Sandim, R. Aranda
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CONTROL OF A MOBILE PEST: THE IMPORTED FIRE ANT [PDF]
Crop Production/Industries,
Carlson, Gerald A.
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Migration Network and Identity Reconfiguration: A Case of Gwangju Koryoin Village in Korea
Pacific Focus, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study employs network theory to examine how advancements in information and communication technology (ICT) reshape migration flows, identity formation, and interactions between migrant and host communities, focusing on Gwangju Koryoin Village.
Seongjin Kim
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