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Neotropical Fabulation

open access: yesEcocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, 2021
About the Artist: Teo Monsalve is a visual artist with a focus on painting and collage. By exploring themes related to the natural world, Monsalve is invested in entangling a conversation with a variety of topics including history and landscape painting, the idea of the exotic as well as the sublime experience of nature. The predominant concerns in his
openaire   +3 more sources

Annotated checklist of Hongkong lichens [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
An annotated checklist of the lichens of Hong Kong, based on all available literature reports and specimens, including those recently collected by the authors, is presented.
Aptroot, André, Seaward, Mark R.D.
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Securing tropical forest carbon: the contribution of protected areas to REDD [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Forest loss and degradation in the tropics contribute 6-17% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Protected areas cover 217.2 million ha (19.6%) of the world's humid tropical forests and contain c.
Alison Campbell   +13 more
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Functional Stability Despite Taxonomic Changes in Mixed‐Species Foraging Flock Participants Along an Elevational Gradient in Knuckles Montane Reserve, Sri Lanka 斯里兰卡纳克斯山地保护区 (Knuckles Montane Reserve) 海拔梯度上混合物种觅食群参与者的功能稳定性与分类变化

open access: yesIntegrative Conservation, EarlyView.
This research reveals the functional stability of mixed species foraging flocks (MSF) and their foraging height change with different taxonomic differences along the elevational gradient at Knuckles Montane Reserve, Sri Lanka. This offers new insights into how MSFs sustain with the elevational gradients supporting the altitudinal shifting species ...
Vimukthi. R. Gunasekeara   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The beetles of St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera): diversity and distributions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The published beetle fauna of the island of St. Lucia is summarized. It contains 135 genera, and 175 species in 25 families. Four species are accidentally introduced by human activities. Twenty three species are endemic (restricted) to the island. Twenty
Peck, Stewart B.
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Reconciling timber extraction with biodiversity conservation in tropical forests using reduced-impact logging [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Over 20% of the world's tropical forests have been selectively logged, and large expanses are allocated for future timber extraction. Reduced-impact logging (RIL) is being promoted as best practice forestry that increases sustainability and lowers CO2 ...
Azevedo-Ramos   +49 more
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Prevalence and Mechanisms of Sustained Force Production in the Musculature of the Southern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria multicarinata)

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The southern alligator lizard (Elgaria multicarinata) exhibits prolonged mate‐holding behavior. This behavior maybe be underpinned by a phenomenon known as sustained force, observed in the jaw muscles of this species, in which the muscle fails to relax between subsequent contractions.
Allyn Nguyen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Padrões de distribuição geográfica das espécies de Euploca e Heliotropium (Heliotropiaceae) no Brasil

open access: yesRodriguésia
RESUMO Baseando-se na análise de espécimes advindos de 71 herbários nacionais e estrangeiros, trabalhos de campo e literatura especializada, foram determinados os padrões de distribuição geográfica das espécies dos gêneros Euploca e Heliotropium no ...
José Iranildo Miranda de Melo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fissidens in the Neotropics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
The land areas of the Western Hemisphere south of the United States support over 276 species of Fissidens (Wijk et al. 1962, 1969). This number is approximately 30% of the total number of species known.
Pursell, Ronald A.
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Asphalted parking lots are environmental filters for multiple propagule dispersal and pollination strategies

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Understanding community assembly for wild species in anthropogenic settings has become increasingly important as biodiversity and ecosystem services are threatened by development pressures. Urban hardscape habitats such as parking lots are widespread, extreme, terrestrial anthropogenic environments that influence plant community assembly by way of ...
Lauren J. Frazee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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