Sedum simingshanense (Crassulaceae), a new species from Zhejiang, East China [PDF]
In this paper, Sedum simingshanense sp. nov. is described as a new species based on morphological and molecular analyses, and its taxonomic relationships are discussed. Morphological analysis indicates S.
Shi-Qi She+7 more
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Understanding the users and uses of UK Natural History Collections [PDF]
UK natural science collections hold over 137 million items, an unrivalled source of data about 4.56 billion years of planetary development and hundreds of years of biological change, including the differences made by humans — but the scientific ...
Helen Hardy+4 more
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Cultural Heritage and the Problem of Prioritization
Monitoring impacts to cultural heritage during armed conflict or natural disaster has often relied on priority lists. These lists rank cultural properties by relative importance.
Hayden Bassett+4 more
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Boosting biodiversity in school grounds: a theory of change [PDF]
The National Education Nature Park aims to involve every nursery, school, and college in England in enhancing the biodiversity on their site, whilst supporting young people’s wellbeing, pro-environmental behaviours, and green skills.
Victoria J. Burton+5 more
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Description of a new species of black coral in the family Aphanipathidae (Anthozoa, Antipatharia) from Puerto Rico [PDF]
Black corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) are an anthozoan lineage in the class Hexacorallia that occur across a wide range of habitats from the tropics to the poles and from surface waters to depths deeper than 8000 m.
Jeremy Horowitz+3 more
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The Idaho Virtualization Laboratory 3D Pipeline
Three dimensional (3D) virtualization and visualization is an important component of industry, art, museum curation and cultural heritage, yet the step by step process of 3D virtualization has been little discussed.
Nicholas A. Holmer+6 more
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SummaryA new book attempts to catalogue the world's wealth of natural history collections. Nigel Williams reports.
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Identification of snails within the Bulinus africanus group from East Africa by multiplex SNaPshotTManalysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms within the cytochrome oxidase subunit I [PDF]
Identification of populations of Bulinus nasutus and B. globosus from East Africa is unreliable using characters of the shell. In this paper, a molecular method of identification is presented for each species based on DNA sequence variation within the ...
JR Stothard+5 more
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Incongruent molecular and morphological variation in the crab spider Synema globosum (Araneae, Thomisidae) in Europe [PDF]
Establishing species boundaries is one of the challenges taxonomists around the world have been tackling for centuries. The relation between intraspecific and interspecific variability is still under discussion and in many taxa it remains understudied ...
Karin Urfer+5 more
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A prospective natural-history study of coronary atherosclerosis.
BACKGROUND Atherosclerotic plaques that lead to acute coronary syndromes often occur at sites of angiographically mild coronary-artery stenosis. Lesion-related risk factors for such events are poorly understood.
G. Stone+14 more
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