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Three new species of Picipes (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) from China [PDF]
MycoKeysThree new wood-inhabiting fungi viz. Picipes abieticola, P. brevisporus and P. sinodictyopus spp. nov. are proposed, based on a combination of morphological features and molecular evidence.
Kai-Yue Luo +5 more
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Conservation Laws and Interactionist Dualism [PDF]
, 2016 The Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that since (1) every physical effect has a sufficient physical cause, and (2) cases of causal overdetermination are rare, it follows that if (3) mental events cause physical events as frequently ...
White, Ben
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Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 1980 Fifteen of the 36 indigenous freshwater fishes of the Cape Province are endemic to this region and a further eight are endemic to the Republic of South Africa. A third of the species are listed in the South African Red Data Book - Fishes.
I. G Gaigher, K.C.D Hamman, S.C Thorne
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The complete chloroplast genome of Acanthus ilicifolius, an excellent mangrove plant
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 Acanthus ilicifolius is an excellent mangrove plant. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of A. ilicifolius, a salt tolerant plant of Acanthaceae, was generated.
Li Xu +8 more
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The missing pillar: Eudemonic values in the justification of nature conservation
, 2018 The public justification for nature conservation currently rests on two pillars: hedonic (instrumental) values, and moral values. Yet, these representations appear to do little motivational work in practice; biodiversity continues to decline, and ...
R. J. G. Born +14 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 This study used 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing technology to examine the differences in gut microbiota between the Père David's deer populations in the Beijing and Shishou areas of China in order to understand the effects of ex situ conservation on ...
Meishan Zhang +13 more
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Values in nature conservation, tourism and UNESCO World Heritage Site stewardship
Protected Areas, Sustainable Tourism and Neo-liberal Governance Policies, 2017 This paper seeks to understand the complex values held by those involved in Protected Area and World Heritage stewardship. Using IUCN Protected Area categories, a values framework is developed and applied to demonstrate how values guide stewardship in ...
J. Liburd, S. Becken
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Global Ecology and ConservationGut microbiota is crucial for the health and survival of wildlife. In this study, metagenomic analysis was performed on fecal samples of endangered Sino-Mongolian beavers (Castor fiber birulai) from three groups rescued in the wild, to explore the ...
Wenwen Chu +8 more
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Illustrating Some Implications of the Conservation Laws in Relativistic Mechanics
, 2008 The conservation laws of nonrelativistic and relativistic systems are reviewed and some simple illustrations are provided for the restrictive nature of the relativistic conservation law involving the center of energy compared to the nonrelativistic ...
Boyer, Timothy H.
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Strengthening the global system of protected areas post-2020: A perspective from the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas [PDF]
, 2020 Protected areas are the cornerstones of biodiversity conservation and have never been more relevant than at the present time when the world is facing both a biodiversity and a climate change crisis.
Dudley, Nigel +10 more
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