Cryptic Reproductive Costs of Heatwaves for Animal Populations
Global Change Biology, Volume 31, Issue 11, November 2025.Heatwaves are among the most serious threats posed by climate change to biodiversity. They are known to cause mass mortality events in animals and to strongly affect animal reproduction. The impact of heatwaves on reproduction is crucial because it occurs across all stages, from gamete formation to offspring number and development and beyond.
Chiara Morosinotto +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 10, October 2025.How to measure female ejaculate ejection, is it related to pre‐mating sexual selection, or influenced by post‐mating sexual environment? We explore these questions in fruit flies. ABSTRACT Sexual selection operates across pre‐ and post‐mating episodes, driven by intra‐sexual competition and inter‐sexual choice for mates or gametes. While these episodes
Krish Sanghvi +2 more
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The Human Development Impact of Economic Crises [PDF]
human development, aid, trade ...
Calum Miller
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Dragomans, tattooists, artisans: Palestinian Christians and their encounters with Catholic Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries [PDF]
, 2019 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the presence of European Catholic actors in the Ottoman empire dramatically increased, particularly in the Palestinian provinces.
Norris, Jacob
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Ownership structure and inventory policy [PDF]
, 2007 This paper makes use of a database of Spanish manufacturing firms to explore the effect of a firm's ownership structure on its inventory policy. We have argued that the presence of institutional investors reduces a firm's liquidity needs and prevents ...
Tribo Gine, José Antonio
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Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Collective Violence: Assessing Spatial Variations in Anti- Chinese Rioting within Jakarta during the May 1998 Riots [PDF]
The concept of scapegoating is frequently used to explain how opportunistic elites attempt to deflect blame onto vulnerable ethnic minorities, particularly during times of social turmoil.
Suranjan Weeraratne
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Rentabilidad de la firma y convenio colectivo de empresa: análisis empírico para Castilla y León [PDF]
, 2009 El presente trabajo analiza si la negociación colectiva (y más concretamente, la firma de un convenio colectivo de empresa) tiene algún efecto positivo durante el período subsiguiente, en forma de un incremento de rentabilidad para la compañía en ...
Jimeno de la Maza, Francisco Javier +1 more
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Testing Speculative Behavior in Farmland Demand [PDF]
Substantial increases in farmland demand in sub-urbanization have had profound effects on agriculture and produced a surge in farmland values. With escalating land values, farmland can take on the characteristics of a speculative asset and farmland ...
Adelaja, Adesoji O. +2 more
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Parental effects on offspring sex ratio in the Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus): does captivity influence paternal sex allocation? [PDF]
J Mammal, 2023 Firman RC, Ellis CM, Thorn S, Mawson PR.
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Rural sector: agriculture to agribusiness [PDF]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The agricultural sector is relatively small but contains certain well-performing areas (pp.1-12,23-24). In recent years, there have been substantial changes in the organisation of the sector (pp.14-16,17,20).
John Wilkinson
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