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Cordoba in the Spanish Geographic Institute “Cartographic Notes” (1871-1900) and its rural habitat as a cartographic tool [PDF]
, 2016 El señalado valor paisajístico y patrimonial del poblamiento rural está fuera de toda duda. La amplia bibliografía ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia de los pueblos, cortijos, caseríos y haciendas en el contexto de la España rural. Pero esa infinidad
Torres-Márquez, Martín
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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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EL SIGNIFICADO DE LA VIVIENDA RURAL ANDALUZA COMO ESTRATEGIA DIDÁCTICA
Didáctica Geográfica, 2012 Resumen: La vivienda rural forma parte consustancial de la geografía andaluza y de los bienes que integran su patrimonio cultural y arquitectónico.
Ricardo M. Luque Revuelto
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Ecosphere, 2019 Urban development is detrimental to many wildlife species; however, endangered little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) may be attracted to human settlements, making them a synurbic species.
Julie P. Thomas, Thomas S. Jung
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2017 Ecological impacts of urbanization include the loss of biodiversity and changes in species composition and population densities. However, how the urban environment affects fundamental physiological parameters is largely unknown.
Caroline Isaksson +4 more
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Long-term species richness-abundance dynamics in relation to species departures and arrivals in wintering urban bird assemblages [PDF]
, 2019 Temporal dynamics of local assemblages depend on the species richness and the total abundance of individuals as well as local departure and arrival rates of species. We used urban bird survey data collected from the same 31 study plots and methods during
Jokimaki, Jukka, Suhonen, Jukka
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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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The value of a mouthful: Flight initiation distance as an opportunity cost [PDF]
, 2015 Flight initiation distance of animals when approached by a potential predator reflects the risk that an individual is willing to take when the individual has to gauge the value of staying put relative to the cost of flight.
Møller, Anders Pape
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The blue economy has emerged as a key sector for linking sustainability and innovation, yet existing research has largely overlooked how firms operationalize these processes in practice. This study addresses that gap by asking: How do Portuguese blue economy firms embed sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI) into their strategies, and what ...
Jennifer Nicole Elston +2 more
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Seed rain and soil seed banks limit native regeneration within urban forest restoration plantings in Hamilton City, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2012 Restoration of native forest vegetation in urban environments may be limited due to isolation from native seed sources and to the prevalence of exotic plant species.
Clarkson, Bruce D., Overdyck, Elizabeth
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