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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
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Annotated checklist of Hongkong lichens [PDF]
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]
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.
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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
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The beetles of St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera): diversity and distributions [PDF]
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]
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 ...
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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
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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
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Fissidens in the Neotropics [PDF]
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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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
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