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Comparative biogeography of volant and nonvolant mammals in a temperate island archipelago
Ecosphere, 2022 Island biogeography theory is a foundational ecological concept that describes how island or habitat patch size and isolation predict biodiversity, but few have studied how the effects of island biogeography vary with life history characteristics of ...
Taylor R. Pichler +11 more
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Six-proposition manifesto for small Island territories [PDF]
, 2000 Conventional wisdom suggests that small, often island, states are more likely than larger nations to be hard hit by the effects of national disasters, of fluctuations in the global economy, and the political aspirations of world powers.
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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Distribution patterns of vines within the East Asian island chain
Ecological Indicators, 2022 The northward dispersal of thermophilic plants along the East Asia island chain is influenced by cold stress, strait barrier and island effect. However, the impact of each parameter is not clear.
Liang Hu, Wenjie Chen
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The island effect: Spatial effects on mental wellbeing and residence on remote Scottish islands
Wellbeing, Space and Society, 2022 Background: Mental illness is the leading cause of disability in the UK, placing huge burden on individuals and society. This study explores how mental health outcomes relate to living in more geographically remote neighborhoods and the role of neighborhood-level social character. Methods: Administrative, health and census databases were linked for a 5%
Halliday, Kathryn +2 more
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Investigating the relationship between individual differences and island sensitivity
Glossa, 2020 It is well-attested that native speakers tend to give low acceptability ratings to sentences that involve movement from within islands, yet the source of island effects remains an active debate.
Alison Gabriele +4 more
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Assessment of Urban Water-Energy Interactions and Heat Island Signatures in Rhode Island
Energy Nexus, 2022 Rhode Island is the smallest and the second-most densely populated state in the USA. It is also one of the most severely affected states on the Eastern Seaboard due to Climate Change.
Fabian Wagner +3 more
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Spanish embedded question island effects revisited: an experimental study
Linguistics, 2022 It is often reported that embedded questions (EQs) are not syntactic islands in Spanish. However, some authors have observed that the acceptability of filler-gap dependencies (FGDs) into Spanish EQs varies with the EQ-embedding verb: FGDs into EQs under ...
Pañeda Claudia, Kush Dave
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THE TIMING OF ISLAND EFFECTS IN NONNATIVE SENTENCE PROCESSING [PDF]
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012 Using the eye-movement monitoring technique in two reading comprehension experiments, this study investigated the timing of constraints on wh-dependencies (so-called island constraints) in first- and second-language (L1 and L2) sentence processing.
Felser, Claudia +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Precipitation is a critical factor affecting regional water cycles, water ecology, and socioeconomic development. Monthly precipitation, water vapor pressure, and temperature datasets from 613 meteorological stations across China were used to analyze the
Zhuoran Luo +6 more
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