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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King +2 more
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E-RPH, 2018 Se analizan los fundamentos de una serie de manifestaciones de educación no formal relacionadas con el Patrimonio Histórico dirigidas a escolares de Castilla y León para valorar sus principios y objetivos.
Antonio Bellido Blanco
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Soil drought imposes moderate, temporary costs on a strictly fossorial amphisbaenian reptile. However, these animals seem to cope with, at least, moderately short droughts thanks to their peculiar adaptations to living in an underground environment. ABSTRACT The physiological traits of animals can be strongly influenced by climatic fluctuations, and ...
José Martín +5 more
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Studi di estetica : 45, 1, 2012, 2012 The evolution of the modern museum runs parallel to the history of the system of the fine arts. The dissolution of the system in XX century coincides with a serious reflection on the status of the museum. The hypothesis presented in this paper is that the contemporary organisations of the museum can capture the features of a common sense on the arts, a
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.The transition of cetaceans from a terrestrial to an aquatic environment involved a crucial sensory adaptation to environments with limited visibility. Vibrissae, important mechanoreceptors, undergo an ontogenetic transformation in odontocetes. This research describes the histomorphology of vibrissae and crypts at different developmental stages ...
Cecilia Mariana Krmpotic +10 more
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Los museos, oferta consolidada para el turismo sostenible y la calidad del paisaje
Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2017 El Consejo Internacional de Museos (ICOM) y la Federación Mundial de Amigos de los Museos (WFFM) reconocen los museos como oferta de turismo cultural sostenible para una sociedad cada vez con más tiempo libre y capacidad de desplazarse por ocio y turismo.
Manuel Antonio Zárate Martín +1 more
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The Wonder Years: A Demographic Approach to Revisit the Age‐at‐Size Conundrum in Amphibians
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We combined repeated body size measurements of marked individuals of unknown age throughout their adult life with growth records of individuals marked as postmetamorphic juveniles and recaptured years later as sexually mature adults, focusing on 10 amphibian species in central Spain.
Gregorio Sánchez‐Montes +5 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Vegetation cover promotes rodent activity and acorn dispersal, while wild boars exert a direct negative effect on mice. Conversely, deer and predators displayed no significant impact on rodent behavior. These results identify wild boars as the main disruptors of rodent‐mediated forest regeneration.
David Notario Rincón +9 more
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Alteridades, 2014 La relación dialéctica entre museología, arquitectura y sociedad dan como resultado el constructo social museo. Las dos primeras se insertan en el devenir cultural, económico y político de la última, constituyéndose en un reflejo de la sociedad, misma ...
Yani Herreman
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