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Living on the Edge: Juvenile Foraging and Adult Breeding Ecology of an Aerial Top Predator in Urban Environments. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe analyzed a combination of GPS tracking data and nest‐monitoring data from an urban population of an opportunistic rodent specialist, the Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo), to analyze how raptors utilize urban landscapes. Buzzards occupied even extreme habitats such as residential areas for foraging and breeding and benefit from lucrative foraging ...
Engler M, Krone O.
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Ecological drivers of nesting behavior in a subtropical city: An observational study on spotted doves. [PDF]
Ecol EvolHigh degree of urbanization promoted nest reuse. Nest reuse enhances avian reproductive success. Nest reuse did not increase the risk of predators. Abstract Due to rapid homogenization in habitat types as a result of urbanization, some urban birds adapt their nesting strategies to changes in local habitat characteristics.
Sheng Y +13 more
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Productive foraging grounds enhance maternal condition and offspring quality in a capital breeding species. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThe feeding ecology of loggerhead sea turtles plays a crucial role in shaping their reproductive outcomes and offspring quality. Through stable isotope analysis, we observed that females feeding at higher trophic positions produced larger clutches. Those with less depleted δ13C values, indicative of productive foraging areas, exhibited greater fat ...
Fouda L +9 more
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TESOL Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 1167-1196, December 2023., 2023 Abstract A major challenge for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) professionals is how to address the learning needs of diverse learners for whom a monolithic, native‐normed version of English is no longer always useful or appropriate.
Christopher J. Hall +2 more
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Functional Ecology, Volume 37, Issue 8, Page 2231-2245, August 2023., 2023 Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Maintaining a central refuge such as a nest or burrow can offer protection against environmental stressors but comes at the expense of the capacity to disperse to new locations. This trade‐off with mobility can be detrimental when environmental conditions become adverse
Terry J. Ord
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The sustainable delivery of sexual violence prevention education in schools [PDF]
, 2015 Sexual violence is a crime that cannot be ignored: it causes our communities significant consequences including heavy economic costs, and evidence of its effects can be seen in our criminal justice system, public health system, Accident Compensation ...
Good, G, Julich, SJ, Oak, E, Terrell, J
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The teaching of pragmatics by native and nonnative language teachers: What they know and what they report doing [PDF]
, 2016 The paper focuses on how nonnative teachers of a target language (NNTs) deal with pragmatics in their classes. It starts with a discussion of what pragmatics entails.
Cohen, Andrew D.
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Executive control is shared between sentence processing and digit maintenance: evidence from a strictly timed dual-task paradigm [PDF]
, 2011 We investigated whether the comprehension of syntactically difficult sentences taxes the executive control component of working memory more than the comprehension of their easier counterparts.
Desmet, Timothy +3 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores an understudied question of who teaches English in the Singaporean English language teaching (ELT) industry. Study 1 analyzed the website contents of ESL schools, and Study 2 conducted questionnaire surveys and interviews with three schools.
Yoko Kobayashi
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Learning English in the Shadows: Understanding Chinese Learners' Experiences of Private Tutoring [PDF]
, 2014 Given that private tutoring has received increasing attention in research as a global educational phenomenon with significant implications for educational practices, it has become necessary for TESOL researchers and practitioners to become aware of its ...
Yung, KWH
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