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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digitalisation is widely framed as a route to more efficient and participatory public administration. In authoritarian settings, however, digital governance often works less as administrative improvement than as a technopolitical instrument for managing dissent and insulating policy from contestation.
Arash Beidollahkhani
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Alien Flora on Weizhou Island, Northern South China Sea: Inventory and Invasion Risk Assessment
DiversityIslands subjected to anthropogenic disturbance are highly susceptible to alien plant invasions. However, the alien floral diversity of China’s islands has been insufficiently studied, hindering its control.
Hong Wei, Xuan Wu, Linyu Bai
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, 2022 The new website, Illinois Plants, has just about everything you’d want to know about the wild and naturalized plants growing in the Prairie State—hot off the presses and in a single place.Illinois Natural History ...
Pearse, Ian S. Spyreas, Greg Nickrent, Dan Anders, Phil Epstein, Aidan Greenwood, Mai
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw +3 more
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Notes on Two Newly Naturalized Plants in Taiwan
, 2017 本文報導近日於臺灣中部採獲的光貓兒菊(Hypochaeris glabra L.)，及於臺灣?部尋獲的多?水蜈蚣 (Kyllinga polyphylla Willd. ex Kunth.) 等?種歸化植物。本文提供此?種外?植物的手繪圖、臺灣分佈圖及描述。Hypochaeris glabra L. (Asteraceae) was recently collected in central Taiwan, and Kyllinga polyphylla Willd.
鍾明哲;許天銓;鐘詩文 +1 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Depictions of rewilded landscapes reveal the underlying principles shaping the future of rewilding. This paper analyses a virtual reality (VR) model of a rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands that is advertised as a vision of a rewilded nature in 50 to 100 years' time.
Nick Sidwell
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Naturalized plants in Japan : Seed-Image database
Naturalized Plants in Japan Seed-Image database is an image database of naturalized alien plant seeds recorded in Japan. This database contains plant images, information on morphological features of seeds and the name list of naturalized alien plants, as
Yamashita, Jun
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Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in Brazil
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Urban gardening offers an innovative conservation strategy by integrating native ornamental species into urban landscapes. We evaluated the ornamental potential of the Brazilian flora by comparing the representation of species from forests versus open biomes (focusing on campo rupestre grasslands) and introduced and validated the Index of Ornamental ...
Flávia Santos Faria +2 more
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Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2004 We review the literature on patterns, causes, processes and impacts of exotic plants, primarily in the mediterranean region of Chile, considering three major non-independent drivers of the invasion process: (a) Availability of exotic species propagules, (
JAVIER A. FIGUEROA +3 more
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