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Native lagomorphs suppress grass establishment in a shrub-encroached, semiarid grassland. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2019
Shrub encroachment, driven by the overgrazing of livestock, continues to be an ecological and economic issue in the southwestern United States. After livestock removal, native mammalian herbivores create a biological feedback that contributes to continued shrub persistence.
Abercrombie ST, Koprowski JL, Nichols MH, Fehmi JS.   +3 more
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Beyond adaptive preferences: Rethinking women's complicity in their own subordination

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1317-1334, December 2022., 2022
Abstract An important question confronting feminist philosophers is why women are sometimes complicit in their own subordination. The dominant view holds that complicity is best understood in terms of adaptive preferences. This view assumes that agents will naturally gravitate away from subordination and towards flourishing as long as they do not have ...
Charlotte Knowles
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Quantifying Mechanisms of Aeolian Dust Emission: Field Measurements at Etosha Pan, Namibia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, Volume 127, Issue 8, August 2022., 2022
Abstract Determining the controls on aeolian dust emissions from major sources is necessary for reliable quantification of atmospheric aerosol concentrations and fluxes. However, ground‐based measurements of dust emissions at‐source are rare and of generally short duration, failing to capture the annual cycle.
Giles F. S. Wiggs, Matthew C. Baddock, David S. G. Thomas, Richard Washington, Joanna M. Nield, Sebastian Engelstaedter, Robert G. Bryant, Frank D. Eckardt, Johannah R. C. von Holdt, Shayne Kötting   +9 more
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Connectivity: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network

Ecosphere, Volume 12, Issue 5, May 2021., 2021
Abstract Ecosystems across the United States are changing in complex and surprising ways. Ongoing demand for critical ecosystem services requires an understanding of the populations and communities in these ecosystems in the future. This paper represents a synthesis effort of the U.S.
David M. Iwaniec, Michael Gooseff, Katharine N. Suding, David Samuel Johnson, Daniel C. Reed, Debra P. C. Peters, Byron Adams, John E. Barrett, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Max C. N. Castorani, Elizabeth M. Cook, Melissa J. Davidson, Peter M. Groffman, Niall P. Hanan, Laura F. Huenneke, Pieter T. J. Johnson, Diane M. McKnight, Robert J. Miller, Gregory S. Okin, Daniel L. Preston, Andrew Rassweiler, Chris Ray, Osvaldo E. Sala, Robert L. Schooley, Timothy Seastedt, Marko J. Spasojevic, Enrique R. Vivoni   +26 more
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The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education

Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 55-82, February 2021., 2021
Abstract Philosophical arguments regarding academic freedom can sometimes appear removed from the real conflicts playing out in contemporary universities. This paper focusses on a set of issues at the front line of these conflicts, namely, questions regarding sex, gender and gender identity.
JUDITH SUISSA, ALICE SULLIVAN
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State of the Field: The History of Political Thought

History, Volume 105, Issue 366, Page 470-483, July 2020., 2020
Abstract This article surveys the state of the field of the history of political thought. The premise of the discipline is that political arguments and ideas have developed historically and thus have theoretical histories that can be located and traced.
DANIELLE CHARETTE, MAX SKJÖNSBERG
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Small‐scale barriers mitigate desertification processes and enhance plant recruitment in a degraded semiarid grassland

Ecosphere, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2016., 2016
Abstract Anthropogenic desertification is a problem that plagues drylands globally; however, the factors which maintain degraded states are often unclear. In Canyonlands National Park on the Colorado Plateau of southeastern Utah, many degraded grasslands have not recovered structure and function >40 yr after release from livestock grazing pressure ...
Stephen E. Fick, Cheryl Decker, Michael C. Duniway, Mark E. Miller   +3 more
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Unbundling marriage law

Family Court Review, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 877-899, October 2024.
Abstract This article illuminates the legal regulation of the economic rights of non‐marital partners at separation or death. Current approaches have typically fallen into two categories: one advocating for the separation of legal regimes based on formal status, treating cohabitant partners as strangers, and the other taking a functional approach ...
Shahar Lifshitz
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When Is Work Unjust? Confronting the Choice between ‘Pluralistic’ and ‘Unifying’ Approaches

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 218-234, May 2024.
ABSTRACT Individuals have different experiences of work when they are self‐employed, when they perform tasks in the gig economy, and when they follow directives from managers. But such differences are not represented in some of the most prominent non‐ideal theories of work. These describe workers as a coherent group, with a position in the structure of
Sarah C. Goff
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Cybersecurity carrots and sticks

American Business Law Journal, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 5-29, Spring 2024.
Abstract In an unsustainable trend, each year is touted as the worst on record for data and system breaches. 2020's dubious top distinction was exceeded across numerous metrics in 2021, and 2022's numbers set another unwanted record. The growing epidemic of ransomware, data breaches, and cyber‐enabled attacks pushes policymakers and business leaders to
Janine Hiller, Kathryn Kisska‐Schulze, Scott Shackelford   +2 more
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