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Genetic inference of orchid colonization of a Costa Rican lava flow
Biotropica, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 1195-1202, November 2023., 2023 A 1992 lava flow provides an excellent opportunity to study patterns of colonization and growth of plant populations on a naturally disturbed site. Plants with wind‐dispersed seeds, such as orchids, are often among the earliest colonists after habitat disturbance.
Dorset W. Trapnell, J. L. Hamrick
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Crop Science, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 2241-2254, July/August 2023., 2023 Abstract Climate change is expected to change weather patterns in Chile significantly. Preserving the taxonomic and genetic diversity of crop wild relatives (CWR) is critical to ensure the availability of crops for future human food. However, many CWR are threatened in their natural habitats and underrepresented in gene banks.
Magdalena Jensen, Patricio Pliscoff
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Global warming facilitates the nesting of the loggerhead turtle on the Mediterranean coast of Spain
Animal Conservation, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 365-380, June 2023., 2023 Average summer sand temperature (July 20th–August 10th) at 40 cm deep in Spanish Mediterranean beaches, as reconstructed from air temperature at El Prat beach, has increased from 1950 to 2019 (top figure). As a result, the duration of the viable nesting window for loggerhead turtles (bottom figure) has also increased and the thermal environment has ...
L. Cardona +9 more
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Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 498-524, May 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the economics of innovation in livestock rearing during the first globalisation in Uruguay, the country with the most cattle per person in the world, both then and now. Using a new historical dataset of Uruguayan agriculture, the first one at a sub‐provincial level, I exploit regional differences in the adoption of cattle
Emiliano Travieso
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Policy Studies Journal, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 641-669, August 2022., 2022 Although the diffusion of policy innovations can promote sustainability, how this process can be accelerated remains unclear. I address this gap by conceptualizing policy transfer and policy diffusion using the multiple streams framework (MSF) and developing hypotheses to connect them.
Nihit Goyal
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A Man Just Like Other Men? Masculinity and Clergy in Spain during Late Francoism (1960–1975)
Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 603-622, December 2021., 2021 While the notion of masculinity has been incorporated by European and North American research into the field of study of religious history, in Spain its introduction is still in its infancy. This article reflects on the contribution of religious discourses and the experiences of male clergy to the construction of different identity models of ...
Mónica Moreno‐Seco
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 20, Page 13756-13772, October 2021., 2021 Abstract Bats in the family Phyllostomidae exhibit great diversity in skull size and morphology that reflects the degree of resource division and ecological overlap in the group. In particular, the subfamily Stenodermatinae has high morphological diversification associated with cranial and mandibular traits that are associated with the ability to ...
Leidy Viviana García‐Herrera +6 more
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Obesity Reviews, Volume 22, Issue S5, Octubre 2021., 2021 Resumen La obesidad infantil es un problema grave en Latinoamérica y entre la población latina de EE. UU. Para ser eficaces, las políticas de salud pública tienen que estar guiadas por evidencias contextuales pertinentes, lo cual exige una capacidad de investigación sostenida a través del tiempo.
Deborah Salvo +13 more
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The Death Penalty and Historical Change in Spain
Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 305-322, June 2021., 2021 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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