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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright +8 more
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The formation of the patterns of desert shrub communities on the Western Ordos Plateau, China: the roles of seed dispersal and sand burial. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The western Ordos Plateau is a key area of shrub diversity and a National Nature Reserve of endangered shrub species in north-west China. Desert expansion is becoming the most important threat to these endangered species.
Yange Wang, Xiaohui Yang, Zhongjie Shi
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Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2022 Warming across the low Arctic is increasing tundra vegetation productivity and facilitating the expansion of upright shrubs. We modeled the effects of warming on habitat suitability in green alder, dwarf birch, Labrador tea, bog bilberry, and lingonberry
Jordan H. Seider, T. Lantz, C. Bone
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Rapid shrub expansion in a subarctic mountain basin revealed by repeat airborne LiDAR
, 2021 As a consequence of increasing temperatures, a rapid increase in shrub vegetation has occurred throughout the circumpolar North and is expected to continue.
S. Leipe, S. Carey
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How will Snow Retention and Shading from Arctic Shrub Expansion Affect Caribou Food Resources?
Ecoscience, 2021 Increased snow cover and attenuation of light due to shrub expansion can lead to changes in the quantity and nutritional quality of food resources for migratory caribou (Rangifer tarandus). To determine how vegetation is affected by snow accumulation and
Evelyne Lemay, S. Côté, J. Tremblay
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Functional traits of expanding, thicket-forming shrubs: contrasting strategies between exotic and native species [PDF]
, 2017 Woody expansion has been documented for decades in many different systems globally, often yielding vast changes in ecosystem functioning. While causes and consequences of woody expansion have been well documented, few studies have addressed plant ...
Shiflett, Sheri A. +2 more
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Immediate effects of microclimate modification enhance native shrub encroachment [PDF]
, 2017 Shrubs have become more dense and expanded beyond their range all over the world for a variety of reasons including increased temperatures, overgrazing, and alteration of historical fire regime.
Badger C. J. +6 more
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Scientific African, 2022 The socio-economic and environmental effects of invasive alien plants have been well documented; however, little is known about expansion by expansive native species.
Sheunesu Ruwanza
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Complementary impacts of small rodents and semi‐domesticated ungulates limit tall shrub expansion in the tundra [PDF]
, 2013 Virve Ravolainen +4 more
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