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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
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Edge effects of an expanding shrub in a coastal grassland
EcosphereShrub expansion into grassland systems is a global phenomenon. Changing land uses and climate change are the main drivers, with common outcomes including reduced species richness and loss of historical grasslands.
Emily C. Riffe +2 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2014 According to the 2007 IPCC report, the alpine tundra ecosystems found on low mountains of the northern hemisphere are amongst the most threatened by climate change.
Catherine Dumais +4 more
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Enabling pastoralist management of rangelands to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.Rangelands cover 54% of the global terrestrial area and are threatened by land conversion and degradation, which erodes their global value and weakens the livelihoods of pastoralists who manage them. Sustainable Development Goal Target 15.3 on Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) provides a framework for sustainable rangelands management, but countries ...
Mounir Louhaichi +7 more
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Short-term Effects of Nutrients on a Barrier Island Grassland Community [PDF]
, 2017 Increased nutrient availability globally has the potential to affect community functional composition of plants in nutrient limited environments, such as coastal grassland systems.
Moulton, Ashley
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Flavour and Fragrance Journal, EarlyView.Graphical abstract illustrating the metabolic dynamics and regulation of terpenoid production in Zanthoxylum armatum callus cultures. On the left, callus initiation and growth from explants are shown, followed by the establishment of suspension cultures.
Sumit Purohit +11 more
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Drivers of C cycling in three arctic-alpine plant communities
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2019 Recent vegetation changes in arctic-alpine tundra ecosystems may affect several ecosystem processes that regulate microbe and soil functions. Such changes can alter ecosystem carbon (C) cycling with positive feedback to the atmosphere if plant C uptake ...
Mia Vedel Sørensen +4 more
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The Response of Zigadenus fremontii to Variation in Fire Regime [PDF]
, 2010 California\u27s chaparral shrub communities are naturally exposed to dry-season fire. It could be reasoned that prescription burns set during the wet season by land managers would have more detrimental effects on plant regeneration than dry season fires
Dinis, Shannon Elizabeth
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Future Postharvest and Food, EarlyView.The review critically evaluated and compared the selected superfruit phytochemistry, their bioactive composition and the key health benefits majorly emphasizing the antioxidant potential. It has highlighted the translational challenges in formulating functional foods by addressing the issues related to delivery system, bioavailability mechanism and the
Sharath Kumar Nagaraja +3 more
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Grassland Research, EarlyView.This literature‐based method estimates human appreciation of flower colours on target grasslands. Step 1: search literature sources (floristic surveys, national floras, web datasets and preference studies). Step 2: flower trait extraction (flower colour and area, flowering period and human colour appreciation scale).
Marco Bianchini +4 more
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