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Quantifying the Aerodynamic Power Required for Flight and Testing for Adaptive Wind Drift in Passion-Vine Butterflies Heliconius sara (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

open access: yesInsects, 2023
Although theoretical work on optimal migration has been largely restricted to birds, relevant free-flight data are now becoming available for migratory insects. Here we report, for the first time in passion-vine butterflies, that Heliconius sara migrates
Robert B. Srygley   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global warming in the Wet Tropics: issues in tropical forest landscapes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Humans are rapidly changing the nature of our planet in profound ways. Global changes include alterations to the vegetation cover of the land, the chemical composition of the earth’s atmosphere, global climate and climate variability, and the rapid and ...
Rainforest CRC
core   +1 more source

The Progressive Spread of the Vascular Wilt Like Pathogen of Calophyllum Detected in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2020
Pathogens are threatening crops worldwide, but little attention has been given to the threat to tree species in undisturbed rainforest. This communication reports the first case of a tree die off caused by a “wilt” in Madagascar. In 2016 while monitoring
Patricia Chapple Wright   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative studies of the proximate composition, and anti-nutritional factors of Garcinia kola

open access: yesJournal of Food and Bioprocess Engineering, 2022
The study was undertaken to determine the comparative studies on the proximate composition and anti-nutritional factors of Garcinia kola. The proximate composition and anti-nutritional factors were performed on the seed kernel, fruit pulp, and the fruit ...
Olufunmilayo Oyenike Oyewale   +3 more
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

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

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
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The ‘cultured rainforests’ of Borneo [PDF]

open access: yesQuaternary International, 2017
Borneo has a 50,000-year record of Homo sapiens' interactions with rainforest on the coastal lowlands assembled especially by the interdisciplinary investigation of the archaeology and palaeoecology of the Niah Caves on the coastal plain of Sarawak (Barker et al., 2007; Barker, 2013). More recent work by many of the same team in the interior of Borneo,
Barker, Graeme   +8 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples’ Alliance (RAPA) Big Picture Interests 2012-2017

open access: yes, 2021
The 5+3 agenda developed and utilised (2012-2017) by the Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Alliance from the Wet Tropics biocultural region of Far North Queensland ...
Rainforest Aboriginal Peoples' Alliance (RAPA) (14272953)   +1 more
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