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Functional diversity loss and change in nocturnal behavior of mammals under anthropogenic disturbance [PDF]
Abstract In the Anthropocene, understanding the impacts of anthropogenic influence on biodiversity and behavior of vulnerable wildlife communities is increasingly relevant to effective conservation. However, comparative studies aimed at disentangling the concurrent effect of different types of human disturbance on multifaceted biodiversity and on ...
Xueyou Li +9 more
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Effect of uneven tolerance to human disturbance on dominance interactions of top predators [PDF]
Abstract Anthropogenic activities may alter felid assemblage structure, facilitating the persistence of tolerant species (commonly mesopredators), excluding ecologically demanding ones (top predators) and, consequently, changing coexistence rules. We aimed to determine how human activities influence intraguild relationships among top predators and ...
Pablo Villalva +2 more
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The Cinco Gremios Mayores and the victualling of the Spanish Army in the eighteenth century
The Cinco Gremios Mayores’ Spanish-army victualling business in the eighteenth century is well known but little studied. Our remit here has been to study how the company participated in this business, the phases and the contents of the asientos (supply ...
Rafael TORRES SÁNCHEZ
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Nota editorial: en defensa del gremio médico
A un proyecto de ley, reglamentario de la profesión médica y aprobado por la cámara de representantes, le ha introducido el senado de la república algunas modificaciones, cuya trascendencia y significado no pueden pasar inadvertidos y requieren por consecuencia algunos comentarios.
Calixto Torres Umaña
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A finales del siglo XVIII fueron emitidas algunas regulaciones para los oficios en el Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada, que en su mayoría no estaban organizados en gremios.
Laura Liliana Vargas Murcia
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El presente artículo analiza la participación de los oficios artesanales y del Consulado de mercaderes de Sevilla en las fiestas por la victoria de Lepanto y el nacimiento del príncipe don Fernando de 1572.
José Jaime García Bernal
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Indirect effects of African megaherbivore conservation on bat diversity in the world's oldest desert
Abstract In extreme environments, temperature and precipitation are often the main forces responsible for structuring ecological communities and species distributions. The role of biotic interactions is typically thought to be minimal. By clustering around rare and isolated features, like surface water, however, effects of herbivory by desert‐dwelling ...
Theresa M. Laverty, Joel Berger
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The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain
Abstract This article studies the long duration of the death penalty in Spain until its abolition in the Constitution of 1978. After analysing the plurality of theoretical approaches and possibilities offered by archival sources and specialised historiography (particularly those produced by specialists in the history of law and social history), I ...
Pedro Oliver Olmo
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