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Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
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This study considered using insect families as bioindicators to establish the health status of an ecosystem of lentic bodies. The water quality in urban lentic bodies in the Metropolitan Region, Chile, was evaluated from aquatic insect family assemblages
Sebastián Rodríguez +4 more
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Plant communities of high-Andean bofedal wetlands across a trans-Andean transect in southern Peru [PDF]
Aims: Ecosystems of the Tropical Andes include plant communities above 4,000 m in elevation, associated with wetlands known as bofedales. To enhance our understanding of them, we surveyed bofedal plant communities in the Peruvian Andes.
Mónica Maldonado-Fonkén +3 more
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Características y enfoques de los proyectos sobre cambio climático en Costa Rica de 2011 a 2022
Con el fin de contribuir a una mejor toma de decisiones para enfrentar el cambio climático, la UICN analizó 43 proyectos sobre cambio climático en Costa Rica cuyo periodo de ejecución va del 2012 a 2022.
Melissa Marín-Cabrera
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El Informe anual 2019 de la Oficina Regional para México, América Central y el Caribe (ORMACC) de la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN) presenta los avances y retos en la conservación de la biodiversidad y la gestión ...
Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (UICN)
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When and why to give shorebirds a head start
Abstract Headstarting is a translocation technique involving the hatching or rearing of wild eggs or young in captivity and the release of those individuals back to the wild at or before independence. It has been trialed as a conservation intervention for shorebirds over recent decades to improve the population trend of target populations by increasing
Lynda Donaldson +4 more
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Andrea Wulf, “La invención de la naturaleza” [PDF]
Reseña del libro "La invención de la naturaleza. El nuevo mundo de Alexander von Humboldt", de Andrea Wulf (Taurus, 2017)
Rodríguez Tapia, Rafael
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Drivers of bat researchers’ intent to adopt field hygiene practices
Abstract Infectious disease is a growing threat to wildlife, with zoonotic transmission most likely at the human–wildlife interface. One underappreciated activity at this interface is fieldwork with wild animals, but associated risks can be mitigated through field hygiene (FH) practices, such as using personal protective equipment and other appropriate
Joanna L. Coleman +6 more
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Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) can promote different types of governance arrangements to address the triple challenge of biodiversity loss, climate change and air pollution.
Anahí Ocampo-Melgar +6 more
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