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Digitisation of herbarium specimens to the benefit of research: An African perspective focusing on South Africa and Western Indian Ocean Island states

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper, Hester M. Steyn, Cláudia Baider, Benny Bytebier, Anisha Dayaram, F. B. Vincent Florens, Nivohenintsoa Rakotonirina, Domitilla Raimondo, Marc Sosef, M. Marianne le Roux   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A tribute to Peter Hupfer's 90th birthday

Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 2023
The development of science in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) experienced some disruptions with the reunification of Germany. Nevertheless, it was possible to maintain a certain continuity in climate research, which can be seen as a personal ...
Thomas Foken, Klaus Dethloff, Dietrich Spänkuch, Birger Tinz, Michael Börngen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Potential distribution and susceptibility of Coffea arabica L. to climate change impacts

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Ecological niche models (ENMs) are vital for understanding the impact of historical factors on ecosystems and predicting future climate change scenarios. These models help assess how environmental shifts affect agricultural species like coffee, which supports millions of people globally.
Yuliana Grisel García‐Martínez, Andrés Lira‐Noriega   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Members Only—The Emergence of the Business Family as a Professionalized and Differentiated Organizational System

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The importance of business families is increasingly gaining attention. However, to truly understand business families and their dynamics, they must be viewed as distinct systems. Since this area has received limited scholarly focus, we argue that forming a new system is more than just an extension.
Heiko Kleve, Theresa Arnold, Simon Caspary   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inequality of Educational Opportunity in East and West Germany: Convergence or Continued Differences?

Sociological Science, 2019
Diversity in education systems, and broader political and economic conditions, are commonly credited with international variation in inequality of educational opportunity (IEO).
Markus Klein, Katherin Barg, Michael Kühhirt   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Good-Bye Lenin (Or Not?): The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences [PDF]

, 2010
Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosity of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. This paper tests whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences.
Alesina, Alberto, Fuchs-Schundeln, Nicola   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Phylogeny, species delimitation and machine learning bridge the gap between DNA sequences and morphology in the lichen genus Arctomia (Arctomiaceae, Ascomycota)

TAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates species boundaries in the lichen genus Arctomia (Arctomiaceae, Ascomycota) using an integrative approach combining molecular phylogenetics, full Bayesian population delimitation, heuristic and model‐based species delimitation, and supervised machine learning applied to morphological data.
Stefan Ekman, Måns Svensson, Martin Westberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thinking with Gaps between Coal and Post-Coal in an Eastern German Mining District

Lagoonscapes
By the mid-2030s, the Central German Mining District in eastern Germany is expected to see the end of brown coal mining. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how the anticipated coal phase-out is entangled with the legacy of the ...
Schiedlowski, Felix
doaj   +1 more source

“They looked German, albeit with even tighter pants and uglier shoes, but there was something different about them”: The Function of East and West Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Paul Beatty’s Slumberland

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012
The essay examines Paul Beatty’s novel Slumberland“ (2008) as representative for a still neglected field of American literary expression: American literary representations of Germany after 1989 which address issues of Germany’s former division ...
Elisa Schweinfurth
doaj   +1 more source

Peculiarities of transformation processes in East Germany [PDF]

Экономика региона, 2011
The process of socio-economic transformation of East German lands after the German reunification in 1990 is analyzed, the term "transformation" in frames of planned and market economies is defined.
Marion Dathe
doaj   +1 more source