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The Collective Power of Bacteria as a Blueprint for Emergent Intelligence
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Small cells, powerful collectives. Bacteria demonstrate how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from many simple individuals working together. We explore the remarkable world of bacterial communities and the mechanisms that underpin their complex emergent behaviors, enabling impressive adaptability, robustness, and responsiveness to changing ...
Johanna A. Blee +2 more
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Discussion on the Landscape Ecological Security
, 2011 The continuous development of modern industrial destruction of the natural environment, air pollution, soil erosion each year due to losses caused by numerous natural disasters, protect the natural has become an urgent need for sustainable development is
Yi Jing Zhou, Shao Hui Ren
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American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Given the threats of climate change, we investigated the impact of high temperatures separately and in combination with reduced soil water on leaf heat tolerance for five oaks (Fagaceae) with overlapping ranges in southern California, USA: Quercus agrifolia and Q. chrysolepis (evergreen species), Q. douglasii and Q.
Casey D. Wisely +7 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese +2 more
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Landscape Environmental Monitoring [PDF]
, 2011 Landscape pattern is of primary interest to landscape ecologists and landscape metrics are used to quantify landscape pattern. Calculation of landscape metrics is commonly conducted on completely mapped areas based on remotely sensed data.
Svensson, Johan +2 more
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Research on Landscape Ecological Security Evaluation and Zoning Management in Wenshan City
Shuitu Baochi Xuebao[Objective] To establish an ecological security evaluation index system tailored to the distinctive landscapes of typical karst mountainous regions in Southwest China, to conduct a comprehensive study on the landscape ecological security evaluation and ...
YU Zhongyuan, HUANG Yizhong
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Constructing ecological security pattern of typical mountain-oasis-desert region in Xinjiang: A case study of Hami City [PDF]
Ziyuan Kexue[Objective] Land development directly affects regional ecological security pattern. This study systematically investigates land use/cover change and landscape evolution to identify ecological sources, resistance surfaces, corridors, and nodes, providing ...
MENG Haiyan, DONG Zuoji
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The landscape ecology of butterflies in traditionally managed Norwegian farmland [PDF]
, 1998 The modernisation of agriculture has lead to changes in Norwegian farming landscapes that have consequences for butterfly distribution and abundance.
Fjellstad, W.J., Fjellstad, Wendy Jane
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the psychological effects of migration detention in the European Union's Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC) on Samos through an ecological lens. It explores a double normalization of suffering: the brutalization of necropolitical migration governance and the simultaneous understanding of resulting distress as an ...
Julia Manek
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito +6 more
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