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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante +3 more
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Map shows a bird's eye view of the city of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola. Relief shown pictorially.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
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What Jobs Do Workers Want? Worker Preferences in Global Value Chains
British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What do workers in global value chains (GVCs) consider a good job? Research on work in GVCs largely studies compliance with standards set from the top‐down rather than worker preferences. Understanding worker preferences is crucial because workers are the intended beneficiaries of governance institutions; policies better aligned to their ...
Matthew Amengual +2 more
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Three new migratory bird species reported from Hispaniola [PDF]
, 2006 : We report the occurrence of three species of migratory birds new to the island of Hispaniola, including Swainson’s Thrush (Catharus ustulatus), Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea), and Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens). All were seen and photographed
Rodríguez, Pedro G. +2 more
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past decades, climate change has emerged as a major threat to global biodiversity, negatively affecting the integrity and functioning of ecosystems and the benefits they provide to people. To mitigate these impacts, it is essential to identify climate refugia that support the persistence of the structure and function of reef ...
Sara M. Melo‐Merino +4 more
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Las abejas (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) de la Hispaniola, Antillas [PDF]
, 2007 Se estudia la fauna actual de abejas de la Hispaniola y se compara con la fauna extinta hallada en el ámbar fósil. Se presenta una lista comentada de las especies actuales.
Genaro, Julio A.
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Ecological niche models (ENMs) are used to assess the abiotic preferences of species by linking their occurrences to the environmental conditions in which they live. We developed a fossil‐informed ENM framework that integrates mid‐Holocene and modern occurrences to test niche stability and reconstruct abiotic niche characteristics for four ...
Claire. M. Williams +3 more
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Relief shown pictorially. In upper margin: For the London Magazine. From London magazine, or, Gentleman's monthly intelligencer. December 1758, v. 27. Copy 2 hand colored; annotated in ink on verso: No. 64, Hispaniola, Jamaica & Havana.
Kitchin, Thomas, d. 1784
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The link between colorfulness and extinction risk across the world's passerine birds
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Many of the functional traits that mediate extinction risk across the range of biodiversity relate indirectly to a species’ ability to persist in a changing world, yet certain traits such as coloration directly affect human interactions with wildlife.
Montague H. C. Neate‐Clegg +1 more
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Independencia y Bicentenario: una visión desde la Hispaniola
, 2011 En el siguiente texto se analiza la peculiaridad de La Hispaniola, Haiti y la Republica Dominicana, respecto a los demas paises hispanoamericanos con relacion a la Independencia y el Bicentenario.The following text is an analysis of the peculiarity of ...
Lilón Larrauri, Domingo
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