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Abstract This study investigates the trends within the published research up to 2019 in relation to skeletal and dental age estimation in living individuals by using a novel bibliometric analysis which utilizes a specialist, open‐source R script. The analysis was performed on a total of 644 papers (627 articles, fifteen conference papers, and two ...
Valentina Panci, Lucina Hackman
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Scientists' warning to humanity on tree extinctions
Trees play vital roles in many of the world's ecosystems while providing many benefits to people. New evidence indicates that a third of tree species are threatened with extinction, representing a tree extinction crisis. Here we demonstrate how tree species extinction will lead to the loss of many other plants and animals and significantly alter the ...
Malin Rivers +3 more
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Pesticide effects on soil fauna communities—A meta‐analysis
Our study highlights that pesticide use has significant detrimental non‐target effects on soil biodiversity, eroding a substantial part of global biodiversity and threatening ecosystem health. This provides crucial evidence supporting recent policies, such as the European Green Deal, that aim to reduce pesticide use in agriculture to conserve ...
Léa Beaumelle +7 more
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The mutability and physical perfectibility of animal bodies was a scientific and aesthetic preoccupation in nineteenth‐century France, channelling anxieties about class, race and national identity into projects of breeding domestic animals. This essay explores how the animal painter Rosa Bonheur figured an imagined agricultural superabundance through ...
Stephanie Triplett
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Priority conservation areas for Cedrus atlantica in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Abstract Assessing biodiversity loss and species extinction is necessary to warn society and raise awareness of the impacts of ongoing climate change. Prioritizing protected areas is the pragmatic and applicable management measure under the pressure of ongoing climate change and limited resources to conserve species at risk of extinction.
Rachid Cheddadi +11 more
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Abstract Aim Holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) is regarded as a keystone plant species. Trophic interactions may affect the distribution and abundance of phytophagous species, but the number of arthropod species that use holm oak as a food resource and their levels of host specificity are not yet known.
Juan Antonio Hernández‐Agüero +3 more
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The Carolingian local ecclesia as a ‘temple society’?
This article assesses the question to what extent the model of a ‘temple society’ can be fruitfully employed as a tool of analysis for the Carolingian ecclesia, by which we mean not only the rich, well‐endowed churches, but also the small, local ones.
Steffen Patzold, Carine van Rhijn
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ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT'S CLIMATOLOGICAL WRITINGS
ABSTRACT Humboldt is often credited with being the forerunner of modern ecology and environmentalism and the founder of modern comparative climatology – without having written a single book on climate. His contributions can be found in the 800 articles and essays that he published in scientific journals.
Michael Strobl
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Ups and downs of belemnite diversity in the Early Jurassic of Western Tethys
Abstract Although belemnites form a major clade of extinct cephalopods, the early stage of their diversification remains poorly known in time and space. Here we investigate the first diversification episodes of belemnites (order Belemnitida) using a new species‐level database encompassing the Hettangian–Aalenian interval (Early Jurassic – earliest ...
Pascal Neige +3 more
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A 10‐point photonumeric scale was created, with corresponding descriptors and images for each grade of the scale. The scale has been rigorously validated and used in a split‐face randomised clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of a cosmetic treatment product over 8 weeks.
M.M. O’Mahony +9 more
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