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Extreme site fidelity in long‐distance migratory shorebirds in Australia and potential implications for conservation

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Site fidelity is the tendency for animals to repeatedly return to the same locations, either within or between years. Site fidelity enables animals to utilize knowledge of previously visited locations, including assessments of seasonal variations in health and mortality risks (e.g., predation), resource availability, and social benefits such ...
Tobias A. Ross, Australasian Wader Studies Group, Victorian Wader Study Group, Queensland Wader Study Group, Robyn Atkinson, Maureen Christie, Danny I. Rogers, Chris Hassell, Roz Jessop, Jonathan T. Coleman, Theunis Piersma, Sara Ryding, Aaron Spence, Marcel Klaassen   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

La actividad comercial de los puertos vascos y cántabros medievales en el Atlántico

Historia. Instituciones. Documentos, 2008
The small seaports of the Cantabrian Coast – particularly, the Basque and Cantabrian ports – direct their economic activity towards the sea, given that the land where they are located is scarce in food products.
Beatriz Arizaga Bolumburu
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An XGBoost Approach to Identifying Hinterland Drivers of Inland Port Development

Systems
Inland ports play a strategic role in enhancing multimodal connectivity and promoting sustainable freight transport within European corridors. However, the drivers of inland port development remain insufficiently understood, particularly with respect to ...
Eugen Rosca, Cristina Oprea, Mircea Rosca, Stefan Burciu, Alina Roman, Florin Rusca   +5 more
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Research Trends of Inland Terminals: A Literature Review

Promet (Zagreb), 2016
Inland terminals are becoming an increasingly important factor for disburdening port storage capacities and the expansion of the port gravitational areas.
Tomislav Rožić, Kristijan Rogić, Ivona Bajor   +2 more
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
wiley   +1 more source

PERIODIZING GEOLOGICALLY OUTWITH (AND WITHOUT?) THE ANTHROPOCENE: PASTS, AGENCIES, AND THE TERRESTRIAL

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
wiley   +1 more source

The Interactive Impact of Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Cultural Values on Technology Adoption: Renewable Energy in the EU

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract How can diverse sources legitimize new technology when it lacks economic parity? Government policies that endorse nascent technologies play a central role through regulatory legitimation. Yet, we know less about whether inducement policies that incentivize adoption or imposition policies that mandate it are more effective, and how that ...
Raquel Antolín‐López, Jeffrey G. York, Theodore L. Waldron, Javier Martínez‐del‐Rio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shape of Water: Power Dynamics for Supply Chain Resilience

Journal of Supply Chain Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world is facing climate change‐driven disruptions such as extreme weather events, which affect nature as well as firms and their supply chains. Nonetheless, little is known about how supply chain players shape their socioecological resilience, including from a power perspective.
Aristides R. Oliveira Junior, Minelle E. Silva, Fabiana L. Oliveira, Daiane M. Neutzling   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT IN OPERATING DRY PORTS [PDF]

Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2010
In this paper, an approach for recognizing and defining correct and operable performance will be presented with the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of processes in dry ports (inland intermodal hubs). The challenge in evaluating the
Ciortescu Cezar-Gabriel
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Integrative revision of the Australian carrion‐breeding Calliphorinae (Diptera: Calliphoridae): Revision of the Calliphora stygia‐ and ochracea‐groups

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
The Australian carrion‐breeding Calliphorinae are revised using an integrative approach combining morphology and mitogenomics. A new taxonomic key, morphological images and verified mitogenomic data, including COX1 barcodes, are provided to support the identification of species.
Liam B. D. C. Foley, James F. Wallman, Krzysztof Szpila, Kelly A. Meiklejohn, Nikolas P. Johnston   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source