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The Value of Controlling Wilding Conifers in New Zealand
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Exotic, invasive conifer tree species, known as ‘wilding conifers’, pose a significant threat to natural ecosystems and are costly to manage, creating a need to identify community preferences in order to inform and balance public investment in their control.
Maksym Polyakov +6 more
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On the probabilistic nature of the species-area relation
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2019 The Species-Area Relation (SAR), which describes the increase in the number of species S with increasing area A, is under intense scrutiny in contemporary ecology, in particular to probe its reliability in predicting the number of species going extinct as a direct result of habitat loss.
Zaoli S. +4 more
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Individualism Without Individuality: Friedrich Hayek and the Neoliberal Citizen
Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Critics of neoliberalism increasingly examine its corrosive effects on democracy. Scholars often turn to Friedrich Hayek's political theory, arguing that it produces citizens who passively conform to spontaneous social orders. Yet insufficient attention has been paid to the normative conception of the human individual underlying his ...
Tal Tzur
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Comparative genomics and the nature of placozoan species
PLOS Biology, 2018 Placozoans are a phylum of nonbilaterian marine animals currently represented by a single described species, Trichoplax adhaerens, Schulze 1883. Placozoans arguably show the simplest animal morphology, which is identical among isolates collected worldwide, despite an apparently sizeable genetic diversity within the phylum.
Michael Eitel +10 more
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Antifa Theory: Beyond the Western Metaphysics of Maturity
Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article I ask whether the main traditions of Western political thought, republicanism, conservatism, liberalism, and socialism, can supply an account of human flourishing capable of sustaining a broad antifascist movement. Each tradition defines full humanity as an achievement reserved for the mature adult and treats the child as a ...
Toby Rollo
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Nature's Ambiguous Sex: The Body as a Feminist Resource in German Naturism Around 1900
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While gender relations around 1900 were generally marked by sharp dichotomies grounded in nature and the body, the case of naturism appears paradoxical. An influential movement in Germany, it promoted a reform of the body according to natural principles.
Johannes Bosch
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Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2012 The native and naturalized species of Silene L. in southern Africa are reviewed, with full synonomy and the description of two new species from the West Coast of Western Cape.
J. C. Manning, P. Goldblatt
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On the nature of keystone species
Conservation Ecology, 1999 There is an unfortunate tendency to nominate large and conspicuous creatures as likely keystone species playing pivotal roles in ecosystems. Particular favorites in the tropics include fig trees (Ficus spp.), large apes, and colorful birds, but such claims are rarely supported by empirical evidence.
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, 2012 Chorological additions to non-native species naturalized in Portuguese Estremadura Palavras-chave. Flora, Espécies exóticas, Solanaceae, Pittosporaceae, Cascais. Keywords.
Saraiva, Sara +2 more
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN
History, EarlyView.Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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