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Heteroleptic and Homoleptic Iron(III) Spin-Crossover Complexes; Effects of Ligand Substituents and Intermolecular Interactions between Co-Cation/Anion and the Complex

open access: yesInorganics, 2017
The structural and magnetic properties of a range of new iron(III) bis-tridentate Schiff base complexes are described with emphasis on how intermolecular structural interactions influence spin states and spin crossover (SCO) in these d5 materials.
Wasinee Phonsri   +3 more
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New records of Dipsas welborni Arteaga & Batista, 2023, Gelanesaurus flavogularis (Altamirano-Benavides, Zaher, Lobo, Grazziotin, Sales-Nunes & Rodrigues, 2013), and Synophis insulomontanus Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 in the Cordillera de Colán, Peru [PDF]

open access: yesCheck List
A herpetological survey during recent expeditions to the foothills of the Cordillera de Colán in the Amazonas region of Peru resulted in new records and extensions of the geographical distribution of three poorly known species of reptiles ...
Luis A. García-Ayachi   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Composition and Host-Use Patterns of a Scarab Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Community Inhabiting the Canopy of a Lowland Tropical Rainforest in Southern Venezuela [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The adult scarab beetle fauna of the canopy in a lowland tropical rainforest in southern Venezuela was observed and collected by means of a 42 m-tall tower crane for a complete year.
Kirmse, Susan, Ratcliffe, Brett C.
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Microbial responses to changes in land use [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background/Question/Methods Land use change is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. This is especially true for land use change that results in the destruction of intact forest, or "deforestation”.
Brendan Bohannan   +6 more
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun   +57 more
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The role of voluntary certification in maintaining the ecologically unequal exchange of wood pulp: the Forest Stewardship Council's certification of industrial tree plantations in Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2016
Voluntary certification schemes have grown in popularity since the late 1980s. Today, a large number of consumer items from coffee and chocolate to oil palm and soya products carry labels that supposedly attest their contribution to promoting fair trade ...
Jutta Kill
doaj   +1 more source

The treatment of land use, land use change and forestry in the post-2012 climate agreement: a perspective from non-Annex I Parties

open access: yesiForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2010
Given the greater vulnerability of developing countries to climate change, their paramount interest is to establish effective mitigation policies including the land use and forestry sectors as part of the post-2012 Climate Agreement.
Federici S, Galluzzi G
doaj   +1 more source

Climate Change Affects Reproductive Phenology in Lianas of Australia’s Wet Tropics

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Lianas are increasing in abundance in many tropical forests. This increase can alter forest structure and decrease both carbon storage and tree diversity via antagonistic relationships between lianas and their host trees.
Nara O. Vogado   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stasis and Stillness

open access: yesPress Start, 2020
This paper represents an initiatory investigation into moments of inaction in games. Two types of inaction are defined and discussed: stasis, which is inaction brought on by or through a game’s mechanics, and stillness, which is brought on by or through ...
Rainforest Scully-Blaker
doaj  

Two new ant species of the genus Leptogenys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Hainan, China, with a key to the known Chinese species [PDF]

open access: yesZooKeys
Two new species of ponerine ants from Hainan Province, China, Leptogenys hainanensis sp. nov. and L. zhoui sp. nov., are delineated and depicted based on the worker caste. Leptogenys hainanensis sp. nov. belongs to the L.
Chao Chen   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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