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Characteristics and maturity level analysis of four communities in Ehuangzhang tropical monsoon forests of northern edge

Guangxi Zhiwu
To analyze the community characteristics of tropical monsoon forests with different succession stages, four different plant communities named A, B, C, and D were investigated in this study, respectively, in a typical monsoon forest of Ehuangzhang in ...
LIU Yue, YU Yaohong, WU Miaolan, WANG Yiying, TAO Yuzhu, LIN Zizhan, ZHOU Qing, MO Qifeng   +7 more
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante, Armel Lekeufack, Nina Tamara Barbosa Ponce, Roger Amos Kañaa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Short-term effects of management intensity on the spatial structure and biodiversity of Camptotheca acuminata-Liquidambar formosana mixed plantations

Forest Systems
Aim of study: We aimed to 1) analyze the initial responses of stand spatial structure and understory biodiversity in Camptotheca acuminata Decne and Liquidambar formosana Hance mixed plantations to crop tree release (CTR) under varying thinning ...
Meng Zhang, Jing-Yong Cai, Yang Wang
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Impact of long and short-term conservation periods on structure of English yew (Taxus baccata L.) in Arasbaran forests, Iran

Journal of Forest Science, 2019
Yew (Taxus baccata L.) is one of the most important and threatened tree species in the Arasbaran region of northwestern Iran. To understand the natural stand structure of yew forests to inform forest management, we assessed the structural characteristics
Sajad Ghanbari, Kiomars Sefidi, Matthew M. Aghai   +2 more
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The Optimism Ignited by Nature‐Based Solutions: Mobilizing Public Support and Policy Champions in a “First‐Ever” Oyster Reef Restoration Project

Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, a major push to restore oyster reefs has helped to revive the marine environments that were depleted in South Australia. Categorized as “Nature‐based Solutions” (NbS) that foster the return of biodiversity, these efforts have led to pockets of environmental optimism while countering an otherwise gloomy marine health forecast ...
Georgina Drew, Alexandra S. Wawryk, Dominic McAfee, Ishtar Kenny, Sean D. Connell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the Relationship of Humanity to God and to Creation Through God's Love: Tuomo Mannermaa's New Interpretation of Martin Luther's View of the Two Kinds of Love

Dialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on Luther's twenty‐eighth thesis in the Heidelberg Disputation, which contrasts God's love and human love, Tuomo Mannermaa offers a detailed analysis of the theme of love in Luther's theology, highlighting its paradoxical character. According to Mannermaa's interpretation, Luther insists that God's love and human love move in opposite ...
Ying Yang, Paulos Z. Z. Huang
wiley   +1 more source

The (Simp)le Truth About Excessive and Obsessive Romantic Behaviors in Men

Journal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective “Simps” are individuals (primarily men) who engage in costly or extravagant gestures toward a romantic interest without receiving reciprocation. As its first empirical validation, the current study newly operationalizes simping behaviors as well as the motivating factors predicting simping.
Daniel Ho, Kenneth Tan, Norman P. Li, Lester Sim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
wiley   +1 more source