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Prevalence of traded bird species in key biodiversity areas
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract The use and trade of biodiversity involve tens of thousands of species that are exploited at a range of scales, intensities, and degrees of sustainability. As a result, some are highly threatened. Key biodiversity areas (KBAs) are sites of significance for the persistence of biodiversity identified nationally based on standardized criteria ...
Oscar Morton +4 more
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Estudios de Lingüística, 2004 The study of contact languages is an area that has not only acquired a lot of relevance in Europe in the last decades, but especially in Hispanic America.
Gladys Merma Molina
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Conservation effectiveness of seven biosphere reserves in the Western Amazon
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.As deforestation continues to threaten the Amazon, assessing the effectiveness of area‐based conservation strategies is critical for achieving global biodiversity targets. Using matching methods, we evaluated deforestation avoidance in seven biosphere reserves in the Western Amazon and found that most have reduced forest loss, particularly in buffer ...
Amaia Gonzaga Roa +6 more
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Cultural Influences on the Use of Biomedical Reproductive Healthcare in the Andean Highlands
, 2017 This thesis demonstrates some of the many ways that indigenous women in the Andean highlands are influenced to utilize indigenous medical and biomedical reproductive healthcare services and contraceptive methods.
Hrbacek, Tiffany
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Grassland Science, EarlyView.Abstract High Andean grasslands are vulnerable to changes in their nutritional quality and carbon sequestration capacity, especially in grazing systems. This study evaluated soil quality and native grasses by measuring carbon, physicochemical parameters, and the nutritional quality of predominant species in the wet Puna of Junín, Peru.
Alberto Arias‐Arredondo +5 more
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Indigenous Andean Women in Colonial Textual Discourses
, 2009 This dissertation combines historical and literary analysis to challenge a history of literary studies that reads colonial texts as reflecting a real historical domination of indigenous Andean women in a patriarchal society.
Guengerich, Sara
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PlantsQuinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) landraces have been cultivated ancestrally in the Andean highlands of Ecuador, where they have had great social and nutritional importance for the native population. Currently, there is scarce information on its genetic
Hipatia Delgado, Juan Pedro Martín
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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.This review explores how to make staple foods and horticultural crops more nutritious, including how artificial intelligence‐based screening of gene banks helps deploy nutritionally rich germplasm into breeding. Genome editing can help develop crops richer in minerals, vitamins, and health‐promoting compounds, supporting healthier diets and more ...
Rhowell Jr. N. Tiozon +2 more
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Deusto Journal of Human Rights, 2017 This article carries out an approach to the constitutional evolution of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Peru. Also, examines how much it has advanced in the establishment of the guarantees of the cultural plurality of the indigenous peoples ...
Mercedes Manríquez Roque
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