The diel niche of brown bears: constraints on adaptive capacity in human‐modified landscapes
Diel activity rhythms, representing the behavioral pattern of the sleep–wake cycle, may be adjusted by wildlife in response to changes in environmental conditions. An increase in nocturnality is typically recognized as an adaptive strategy to segregate from humans and mitigate heat stress. Numerous studies have investigated spatial patterns and habitat
Aurora Donatelli +12 more
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Man and His Name in Oikonymy and Microtoponymy of South Karelia
The paper deals with the personal names attested as parts of oikonyms (settlement names) and microtoponyms of South (Olonets) Karelia where most of the population in the last few centuries speaks the Livvik dialect of the Karelian language.
Denis V. Kuzmin
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The 11th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies: Finno-Ugric Peoples and Languages in the 21st Century [PDF]
The 11th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies was one of the biggest conferences in the last years among the Finno-Ugric events. Finno-Ugric People and Languages in the 21st Century dealt mainly with the language and political situation of ...
F. Gulyás, Nikolett +3 more
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Local consequences of applying international norms: differences in the application of forest certification in northern Sweden, northern Finland, and northwest Russia [PDF]
Forest certification, developed in the early 1990s, is a process in which independent assessors grant use of the certification label to producers who meet certain environmental and social criteria set for their forest products.
Johansson, J. +3 more
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ABSTRACT On the basis of ethnographic research among South Asian students in Runolahti (anonymized), this article explores their experiences during a time of compounded crises. It examines how COVID‐19 policies, the Russian war on Ukraine, the cost‐of‐living crisis and the termination of fee waivers and stipends at the local university created a ...
Zain Ul Abdin, Sanam Roohi
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This article examines the impact of language ideology on the functional capacity of a minority language. We present a study investigating the dynamics of Karelian language use in the periodical press against the backdrop of evolving language ideologies ...
M. A. Goryacheva
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Geographical Terms of Russian Origin in the Toponymy and Dialectal Vocabulary of the Karelian Area of Tver Region [PDF]
The paper deals with Russian geographical terms in the Karelian dialects of Tver Region and is mainly based on field materials collected by the author in the 2000s.
Denis V. Kuzmin
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Historical and Cultural Value of Place Names of the Karelian Village Kolvitsa on the Kola Peninsula
The article deals with the toponymy of the Karelian village of Kolvitsa on the Kola Peninsula which territorially belonged to Karelia until May 1938 and then became a part of the Murmansk region. The study is based on historical documents and present-day
Denis V. Kuzmin
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Becoming ‘more like a Finn’: In‐visibility and the struggle for belonging in Finland
Abstract Nationalist practices and visionaries have a profound influence on those who are categorized as ‘foreign’ or ‘non‐belonging’ to the nation. Based on ethnographic explorations among Russian‐speakers and people with diverse Middle Eastern backgrounds in Finland, this article revisits the concept of in‐visibility as one possible avenue to expose ...
Bruno Lefort, Vadim Romashov
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The Formant -päi (-piäi) in Postpositional Cases (on the Example of Livvi and Ludian Dialects)
Introduction. In contemporary grammars of the newly standardized Karelian language, it is customary to distinguish two postpositional variants of the elative and ablative markers: -späi/-spiäi and -lpäi/-lpiäi.
Aleksandra P. Rodionova +1 more
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