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Abstract Introduction Urban soil unsealing, the removal of impervious surface layers, is increasingly promoted as a habitat restoration strategy to enhance ecosystem resilience in cities. Yet, its potential to support soil biodiversity from the onset remains underexplored.
Robin Chevrel +4 more
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ABSTRACT Variations in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) have important consequences for animal ecology, behavior, population dynamics, and the evolution of life‐history traits, and can be explained by many intraspecific and interpopulation hypotheses. Urbanization is an important factor that affects anuran phenotypic characteristics (including morphology),
Ben Li +7 more
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We used 27 years of data from an insectivorous passerine in southeastern Australia, the superb fairy‐wren Malurus cyaneus, to assess how climate variation influences vegetation productivity and, indirectly, reproduction and survival via potential trophic interactions.
Richard S. Turner +6 more
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Population Development in the Czech Republic in 2024
The article analyses the demographic development of the Czech Republic in 2024 and sets it in the context of the previous five years. The study focuses on the main demographic processes, namely fertility, mortality, nuptiality, the divorce rate, and ...
Jana Koukalová
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Nuptiality in Early 20th Century Yekaterinburg: Quantitative Analysis
This article analyses one of the main characteristics of the demographic behaviour of Russian citizens, i.e. their age at first marriage and its dynamics in the early twentieth century. The authors examine the situation in Yekaterinburg, a compact but an
Elena Mikhailovna Glavatskaya +3 more
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Scoring of male courtship behaviour in Dolomedes minor revealed no effect of female mating status on courtship duration or sequence structure, but males delayed the initiation of courtship when encountering previously mated females. ABSTRACT The evolution of male courtship rituals has traditionally been attributed to female mate selection, but may also
Bastien E. Clémot +2 more
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Measuring and explaining the baby boom in the developed world in the mid-twentieth century
Background: The early research on the baby boom tried to account for it as a logical recovery following the end of the Second World War (WWII). But it cannot be understood merely as a post-war phenomenon because its origins go back to the 1930s and early
Jesús J. Sánchez-Barricarte
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Demography and COVID-19: risks, responses and impacts. [PDF]
Jatrana S, Temple J, Wilson T, Payne C.
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Migração Portuguesa para São Paulo na segunda metade do século XIX: um estudo de caso
Resumo Por meio da análise de uma singular experiência migratória ocorrida entre Portugal (Província da Beira / Concelho da Lousã) e a província de São Paulo (região de Espírito Santo do Pinhal) apresentam-se algumas considerações sobre as ...
Ana Silvia Volpi Scott
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