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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey +5 more
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The role of urban forest patches in maintaining isopod diversity (Oniscidea) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2018 Compositional changes in natural communities associated with anthropogenic influence often lead to localised extinctions and biodiversity loss. Soil invertebrates are also threatened by urbanisation due to habitat fragmentation, vegetation changes and ...
Elisabeth Hornung +2 more
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Landscape EcologyThe impact of construction land expansion on regional landscape sustainability received significant attention, but the habitat isolation caused by such expansion across the urban-rural continuum calls for a closer examination.
Guanqiao Ding +3 more
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Habitat use of urban-nesting lesser black-backed gulls during the breeding season
Scientific Reports, 2019 Increasing urbanisation is detrimental for some animal species and potentially advantageous for others. Urban-nesting populations of gulls have undergone rapid population increases worldwide, which has resulted in an increase in human-gull conflicts.
A. Spelt +5 more
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A neuro‐behavioural model of neophobia
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fear can be defined as the internal neurological state that releases a repertoire of behaviours an animal performs to reduce the effect of an aversive factor. Neophobia, the fear of novelty, is a fundamental behavioural trait observed across a wide range of species from arthropods to humans.
Arik Dorfman, Aziz Subach, Inon Scharf
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Evaluación de un modelo urbano nuevo. Santiago el Pinar, México, 1999-2013
Bitácora Urbano Territorial, 2019 El programa Ciudad Rural Sustentable (CRS) que implementó el Gobierno del estado de Chiapas en localidades como Santiago el Pinar hasta el año 2013 surgió como resultado de dos problemáticas: una de naturaleza social y otra territorial.
Luis Arturo Vázquez-Honorato +2 more
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Social research into the phenomenon of the captivity of the Greek or Spur-thighed Tortoise in the Southeast of the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
, 2007 [Resumo] No presente manuscrito investígase a dimensión social da conservación de especies a través do estudo do fenómeno da catividade da tartaruga moura (Testudo graeca) no sueste ibérico.
Giménez Casalduero, Andrés +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Background Larval source management is a promising component of integrated malaria control and elimination. This requires development of a framework to target productive locations through process-based understanding of habitat hydrology and geomorphology.
A. Hardy +8 more
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El Programa Federal del Hábitat de Pueblos Originarios implementado en Mendoza [PDF]
, 2017 En el marco de la investigación doctoral en Ordenamiento Territorial y Desarrollo Sostenible se presentan algunos resultados en torno a la relación al análisis de políticas públicas habitacionales destinadas a los pueblos Originarios de la Provincia de ...
Miranda Gassull, Virginia Paulina
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