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Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has become a critical threat to wildlife, shifting from a seasonal epizootic to a persistent, year‐round panzootic with global consequences. Here, we summarise the origin, evolutionary mechanisms, and expanding host range of the current H5N1 virus (clade 2.3.4.4b) and assess its impact on wildlife. Over
Ulrich Knief, Sandra Bouwhuis, Anja Globig, Anne Günther, Wouter Courtens   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dinucleotide (CA)n tandem repeats on the human X-chromosome and the history of the Mediterranean populations

Annals of Human Biology, 2018
Background: Tandem repeats (STRs) are genomic markers of particular interest in forensic and population genetics. Most of the population data currently available correspond to the variation of STRs of forensic panels, which barely include dinucleotide ...
Josep Santamaría, Miguel M. Álvarez-Álvarez, M. Esther Esteban, Elies Ramon-Gurrea, Pedro Moral   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use of Rhizobacteria and Mycorrhizae Consortium in the Open Field as a Strategy for Improving Crop Nutrition, Productivity and Soil Fertility

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are known for their beneficial effects. In recent years, more attention has been paid to their use as biofertilizers to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers causing ...
Anas Raklami, Anas Raklami, Noura Bechtaoui, Abdel-ilah Tahiri, Abdel-ilah Tahiri, Mohamed Anli, Abdelilah Meddich, Khalid Oufdou   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long‐term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on biotic resistance has accumulated since the last comprehensive review on the subject 20 years ago, enabling us to achieve a refined understanding of ...
Christine S. Sheppard, Joshua I. Brian, Wayne Dawson, Petr Dostál, Franz Essl, Michal Gruntman, Tina Heger, Mark van Kleunen, Mialy Razanajatovo, Lena C. Reimann, Frank M. Schurr, Montserrat Vilà, Florencia A. Yannelli, Marina Golivets   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are structural policies in countries bordering mediterranean appropriate to economic convergence: Panel ARDL application

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2019
Our main contribution in this paper consists of analyzing long-run interactions between structural policies and economic growth accounting for possible convergence. For this purpose, we are based on a sample of eight countries bordering the Mediterranean
Wajdi Bardi, Saif Eddine Ayouni, Mekki Hamdaoui   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mediterranean Regional Security in the 21st Century: Regional Integration Through Development and Its Security Impact On Euromed Partnership Members. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 7 No. 9 May 2007 [PDF]

, 2007
[From the introduction]. In this paper I seek to explore a region of the world, the Mediterranean, which has been significant as a passageway for peoples and their trade and cultures through the millenia. However, as S.
Boening, Astrid B.
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Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Alessandro Tarullo, Marco Abbiati, Eugenio Fossi, Federica Costantini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

المجلة الصحية لشرق المتوسط

, 2016
Is the official health journal published by the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization. It is a forum for the presentation and promotion of new policies and initiatives in health services; and for the exchange of ideas ...
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
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Communication of Business‐Nonprofit Collaborations and Environmental Legitimacy: Exploratory Insights From Italian Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Collaborations with nonprofits can enhance firms' legitimacy, yet the relationship between their communication and corporate environmental legitimacy remains poorly understood. Furthermore, research lacks an analysis of the communication of business‐nonprofit collaborations through multiple actors' perspectives.
Andrea Rizzuni, Daniel Lundgaard, Maria Alejandra Torres‐Cuello, Steen Vallentin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Governance Structures Drive Green Building Adoption? A Machine Learning Approach With Random Forests

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez, José Manuel Santos‐Jaén, María Estefanía Sánchez Pacheco, Fernando José Zambrano Farías   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source