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"Fair" policies for the coffee trade - protecting people or biodiversity? [PDF]

, 2006
We investigate the role that economic instruments can play in the eradication of poverty and preservation of biodiversity in agroforestry management in coffee production.
Heikkilä, Jaakko, Huhtala, Anni, Kitti, Mitri   +2 more
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Assessing the role of dispersed floralresources for managed bees in providingsupporting ecosystem services for croppollination [PDF]

, 2018
Most pollination ecosystem services studies have focussed on wild pollinators and their dependence on natural floral resources adjacent to crop fields. However, managed pollinators depend on a mixture of floral resources that are spatially separated from
Colville, Jonathan F., Donaldson, John S., Melin, Annelie, Midgley, Jeremy J., Rouget, Mathieu   +4 more
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Partial recovery of large seed arrival following ecological restoration in fragmented tropical rainforests

Oikos, EarlyView.
Forest restoration success depends crucially on the reinitiation of ecological processes such as seed arrival that drive natural regeneration. We know little about whether, by increasing and diversifying local seed sources to alleviate seed limitation, and attracting animal frugivores to alleviate dispersal limitation, restoration could shift seed ...
Aparna Krishnan, Jyotsna Nag, S. Arun, Divya Mudappa, T. R. Shankar Raman, Mahesh Sankaran, Anand M. Osuri   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative Investigation of Intrusion Mechanics of Burstone Segmental Arc Technique and Ricketts Bioprogressive Treatment Technique in the Treatment of Adult Deep Sealed Closure Cases - Clinical Pilot Study

Turkish Journal of Orthodontics, 2001
The purpose of this study was to compare the skeletodental changes and the efficacy of overbite correction achieved by Ricketts Bioprogressive Therapy and Burstone Segmented Arch Technique.
Banu Çakırer, Aslı Ender Telli
doaj   +1 more source

From the surface to the seafloor: How giant larvaceans transport microplastics into the deep sea. [PDF]

, 2017
Plastic waste is a pervasive feature of marine environments, yet little is empirically known about the biological and physical processes that transport plastics through marine ecosystems.
Choy, C Anela, Katija, Kakani, Robison, Bruce H, Sherlock, Rob E, Sherman, Alana D   +4 more
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‘Using anuran community diversity and Pseudacris crucifer to predict landscape quality across a land use gradient'

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
As human‐modified landscape and climate changes proliferate, maintaining biodiversity and understanding the function and quality of available habitat is imperative. As anurans (frogs/toads) such as Pseudacris crucifer, can be an indicator species of habitat quality and ecosystem productivity, studying the anuran community in a mixed‐land use region ...
Brian C. Kron, Karen V. Root
wiley   +1 more source

Citizen science project on urban canids provides different results from camera traps but generates interest and revenue

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
As urbanization increases, wildlife increasingly encounters people. Coyotes Canis latrans and red foxes Vulpes vulpes are two canid species that have readily adapted to urban environments. Citizen science has emerged as a low‐cost method of collecting data on urban‐adapted species that can benefit management agencies but may provide different results ...
Neville F. Taraporevala, Jon P. Beckmann, Julie K. Young   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The discourses of homosexuality in the police: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]

, 1994
The present study examined the discourses of homosexuality in the police, using the discourse analytic method developed by Potter and Wetherell (1987). The study asked how police officers constructed gay men using their discourses and why gay men should ...
Praat, Angelique C
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Sobreposições cefalométricas de Ricketts [PDF]

Revista Dental Press de Ortodontia e Ortopedia Facial, 2005
O sucesso ou o fracasso do tratamento ortodôntico realizado em pacientes na fase de crescimento têm sido muitas vezes justificado pelo padrão e pela variabilidade que este crescimento pode apresentar. Compreender estas mudanças de correntes do crescimento e separá-las das mudanças impostas pelo tratamento ortodôntico-ortopédico facial é o objetivo ...
Figueiredo, Márcio Antonio de, Siqueira, Danilo Furquim, Bommarito, Silvana, Scanavini, Marco Antonio   +3 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source