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EL CONTEXTO DE LAS SERPIENTES DE COLOMBIA CON UN ANÁLISIS DE LAS AMENAZAS EN CONTRA DE SU CONSERVACIÓN

open access: yesRevista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 2023
La fauna de serpientes de Colombia excede las 270 especies de ellas 30 son elápidos (corales) y 19 vipéridos (cascabel & talla equis). En Colombia las serpientes están distribuidas en casi todo del territorio, excepto en las aguas del Caribe y en las ...
John D. Lynch
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Amazonian Activism for European Museum Audiences: Critical Reflections on the Development of an “Amazonia” Exhibition at the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 277-295, April 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper describes and expands on the discussions held at a symposium at the Research Center for Material Culture in the Netherlands in February 2020, which was held as part of the planning of an upcoming “Amazonia” exhibition to be curated at that institution by some of the authors.
Laura Osorio Sunnucks   +4 more
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First national assessment of wildlife mortality in Ecuador: An effort from citizens and academia to collect roadkill data at country scale

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 3, March 2023., 2023
The first national assessment of wildlife mortality caused by road traffic in Ecuador. A comprehensive roadkill dataset with more than 5000 roadkill records in Ecuador that includes threatened and poorly known species. A joint effort of citizens and academia to collect roadkill data at a country scale.
Pablo Medrano‐Vizcaíno   +8 more
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“The universal word speaks only in dialect”

open access: yesThe Ecumenical Review, Volume 73, Issue 4, Page 495-508, October 2021., 2021
Abstract Postcolonial theories announce an “exit”: the departure from the West as the world’s centre of gravity and from Eurocentric hegemonic claims of superiority, turning away from the universal, and placing unheard voices at the centre – those who are excluded from academic, public, and political discourse. Such stories and histories of the margins
Claudia Jahnel
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The value and limitations of local ecological knowledge: Longitudinal and retrospective assessment of flagship species in Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 3, Issue 3, Page 627-638, June 2021., 2021
Abstract Anthropogenic activities and climate change are affecting marine ecosystems world‐wide, but systematic biodiversity assessments through periodic biomonitoring can be challenging and costly. Local ecological knowledge (LEK), obtained from experienced residents, can complement other approaches and provide improved understanding of the ...
Brooke L. Bessesen   +1 more
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Geography of roadkills within the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot: Poorly known vertebrates are part of the toll

open access: yesBiotropica, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 820-830, May 2021., 2021
We analyzed wildlife roadkill patterns along a road network between tree protected areas in the Andes of Ecuador. Roadkills included poorly known small and endemic vertebrates, such as caecilians (Gymnophiona) and fossorial snakes (Atractus spp.). Most roadkills occurred in areas where roads crossed pasturelands adjacent to natural habitat.
Pablo Medrano‐Vizcaíno   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

DIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION STATUS OF REPTILES ASSOCIATED WITH TWO RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEMS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF HUIMANGUILLO, TABASCO, MEXICO

open access: yesTropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2022
Background. Riparian environments offer microhabitats that can serve as development sites and pathways for various reptile species, however, these species are threatened by habitat loss, illegal trafficking, use and persecution by the man, among others ...
José María Gutierrez Suárez   +3 more
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An Edition of Ambrosio Nieto’s Paradise Lost: A Drama in Four Acts (c. 1920–50)

open access: yes, 2023
Milton Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 59-88, October 2023.
Angelica Duran
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Representaciones ofídicas en el arte rupestre de Alva (Bongará, Amazonas-Perú): el culto al agua y las redes de interacción interregional durante el Formativo

open access: yesCiencia y Sociedad, 2021
El estudio de las pinturas rupestres plasmadas en un abrigo rocoso de la zona de Alva (distrito de Shipasbamba, provincia de Bongará, Amazonas-Perú) tuvo como objetivo determinar la función de ese abrigo durante el periodo Formativo, así como sus ...
Anthony Alex Villar Quintana
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Assessing the Increase of Snakebite Incidence in Relationship to Flooding Events

open access: yesJournal of Environmental and Public Health, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020
Snakebite envenoming causes up to 138,000 deaths and 400,000 permanently disabled victims worldwide every year. Flooding is one of the many factors that seems to influence the incidence of snakebite. The catastrophic floods from late 2018 in Kerala (India) were widely broadcast and are an example of how flooding events are related to the increased ...
Carlos Ochoa   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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