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Inter ocean basin moisture fluxes and the onset of the summer rainy season over southern Mexico

Frontiers in Climate, 2022
The onset of the rainy season in monsoonal climates is a key element for the development of water related activities. In southern Mexico, it starts in late May or early June, while in western and northwestern part of the country in begins between early ...
Víctor Magaña, Sonia Diaz
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
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The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
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Congenital Malformations in Sea Turtles: Puzzling Interplay between Genes and Environment

Animals, 2021
The completion of embryonic development depends, in part, on the interplay between genetic factors and environmental conditions, and any alteration during development may affect embryonic genetic and epigenetic regulatory pathways leading to congenital ...
Rodolfo Martín-del-Campo, María Fernanda Calderón-Campuzano, Isaías Rojas-Lleonart, Raquel Briseño-Dueñas, Alejandra García-Gasca   +4 more
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Being-in-the-World-Hispanically: A World on the "Border" of Many Worlds [PDF]

, 2009
This translation of Enrique Dussel's “‘Ser-Hispano’: Un Mundo en el ‘Border’ de Muchos Mundos” offers an interpretation of hispanos (Latin Americans and U.S.
Dussel, Enrique, Stehn, Alexander
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Catch Shares in Action: Mexican Vigía Chico Cooperative Spiny Lobster Territorial Use Rights for Fishing Program [PDF]

, 2013
The Mexican Pescadores de Vigía Chico Cooperative is a group-allocated, area-based catch share that manages the Punta Allen spiny lobster fishery. The catch share, or Territorial Use Rights for Fishing (TURF) program, includes a number of special design ...
Erica Cunningham
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How multilingual is scholarly communication? Mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Language is a major source of systemic inequities in science, particularly among scholars whose first language is not English. Studies have examined scientists' linguistic practices in specific contexts; few, however, have provided a global analysis of multilingualism in science. Using two major bibliometric databases (OpenAlex and Dimensions),
Carolina Pradier, Lucía Céspedes, Vincent Larivière   +2 more
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Mexico City and the biogeochemistry of global urbanization [PDF]

, 2000
Mexico City is far advanced in its urban evolution, and cities in currently developing nations may soon follow a similar course. This paper investigates the strengths and weaknesses of infrastructures for the emerging megacities.
Blake, DR, Bossert, JE, Chow, J, Colina, JA, Dubey, MK, Duce, RA, Edgerton, S, Elliott, S, Gaffney, J, Gupta, M, Guzman, F, Matson, PA, McNair, LA, Ortiz, E, Riley, W, Rowland, FS, Ruiz, ME, Russell, AG, Simpson, IJ, Smith, FA, Sosa, G, Streit, G, Watson, J   +22 more
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A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson, Ellen Wohl, Laura L. Govers, Oscar Franken, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Han Olff, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Maryann S. Watson, Luísa M.S. Borges, Tjisse van der Heide   +9 more
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An Update of Knowledge of the Bacterial Assemblages Associated with the Mexican Caribbean Corals Acropora palmata, Orbicella faveolata, and Porites porites

Diversity, 2023
In this study, the bacterial microbiota associated with apparently healthy corals of Acropora palmata, Orbicella faveolata, and Porites porites and the surrounding seawater and sediment were evaluated via the MiSeq Illumina sequencing of the V4 region of
Joicye Hernández-Zulueta, Leopoldo Díaz-Pérez, Alex Echeverría-Vega, Gabriela Georgina Nava-Martínez, Miguel Ángel García-Salgado, Fabián A. Rodríguez-Zaragoza   +5 more
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