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Combining local- and large-scale models to predict the distributions of invasive plant species [PDF]
, 2010 Habitat-distribution models are increasingly used to predict the potential distributions of invasive species and to inform monitoring. However, these models assume that species are in equilibrium with the environment, which is clearly not true for most ...
Acker, Steven A. +2 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola +7 more
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Forest ecosystems play a critical role in the global carbon cycle. As a significant terrestrial carbon sink, plantations exhibit carbon stock patterns that are shaped by tree species composition, stand structure, and environmental conditions. Here, we investigated typical plantation types in the Mufu Mountain, Hubei Province.
Mingyang Ding +5 more
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The complete chloroplast genome of horned holly, Ilex cornuta Lindl. & Paxton (Aquifoliaceae)
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019 Ilex cornuta Lindl. & Paxton is a species distributed in eastern China and Korea, utilized as traditional medical plants as well as horticultural species. Here, we completed chloroplast genome of I. cornuta.
Jongsun Park +4 more
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The Environmental Context and Function of Burnt-Mounds : New Studies of Irish Fulachtaí Fiadh [PDF]
, 2017 The authors acknowledge funding from The Leverhulme Trust (F/00144/AI) and assistance from a large number of individuals including; Margaret Gowen (access to sites and assistance throughout),A. Ames, H, Essex (pollen processing), S. Rouillard & R. Smith (
Bermingham, Nora +13 more
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Forest ecosystem services (ESs) are garnering increasing public attention as awareness grows regarding society's fundamental dependence on them for well‐being. Forest fires, one of the major disturbances of ESs, are becoming more frequent and destructive, exacerbated in part by climate change.
Emanuele Spada +6 more
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Plastid capture history of subsect. Campylolepides and section Ilex(Fagaceae: Quercus)
Guangxi ZhiwuQuercus subsect. Campylolepides contains three species: Q. acutissima, Q. variabilis and Q. chenii, which is the East Asian clade of Quercus section Cerris.
YU Shuliang1, LI Zhimin1, MA Xiangguang2*, SUN Wenguang1*
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Energy properties of bamboo biomass and mate co-products
SN Applied Sciences, 2021 Fossil fuels are being replaced by clean energy sources. Lignocellulosic biomass is considered an eco-friendly alternative, as it is a renewable raw material with high energy potential.
Fernando Rusch +3 more
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Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea) associated with native trees in Malta (Central Mediterranean) [PDF]
, 2009 In the present study 25 aphid species which are known to be associated with trees in the Maltese Islands are recorded. Of these, 18 species represent new records; these include Aphis craccivora, Brachyunguis tamaricis, Cavariella aegopodii ...
Barbagallo, Sebastiano +2 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Pastoral practices remain a widespread economic activity across European mountain regions. However, the viability of this activity may be threatened by the recovery of large wild vertebrates associated with passive rewilding, leading to the so‐called human–wildlife conflicts.
P. Acebes +4 more
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