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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

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, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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., Daubenmire R., Ehrenfeld J. G., IPCC, Snedecor G. W., Weakley A. S., Young D. R.   +6 more
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Assessment of the Reverberations Caused by Predominant Air Pollutants on Urban Vegetation: A Multi-Site Study in Varanasi Located in Indo-Gangetic Plains

Gases, 2023
Plant responses to air pollution have been extensively studied in urban environments. Nevertheless, detailed and holistic studies assessing their retaliation to air contaminants are still limited.
Harshita Singh, Pallavi Singh, Shashi Bhushan Agrawal, Madhoolika Agrawal   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Ungulate Herbivory Translate into Diversity of Woody Plants? A Long-Term Study in a Montane Forest Ecosystem in Austria

Diversity, 2023
Different species-specific traits of woody plant species, feeding preferences of herbivores together with resulting effects on plant competition are expected to translate into different plant community structures and expressions of biodiversity.
Ursula Nopp-Mayr, Eva Maria Schöll, Frederik Sachser, Susanne Reimoser, Friedrich Reimoser   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cyrtophora citricola (Araneae: Araneidae: Cyrtophorinae), a first record for Turkey [PDF]

, 2012
We recorded the tent-web spider Cyrtophora citricola (Forsskål, 1775) (Araneidae: Cyrtophorinae) from Turkey for the first time at two sites. Body measurements and a brief description of the female are presented, as well as information on the sites ...
Elverici, Mert, Kunt, Kadir Boğaç, Tekşam, Ilyas, Özkütük, Recep Sulhi   +3 more
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The relationship between typical heavy metal content and physiological indexes of shrubs in bioretention facilities

Hydrology Research, 2021
Bioretention facilities have been widely constructed, but it is unknown whether rainfall runoff containing pollutants will hurt the plants in bioretention facilities.
Yongwei Gong, Zhihua Zhou, Baolin Xue, Xiyan Ren, Yan Hao, Junqi Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Competition suppresses shrubs during early, but not late, stages of arid grassland–shrubland state transition

Functional Ecology, 2019
Transitions from grass to woody plant dominance, widely reported in arid systems, are typically attributed to changes in disturbance regimes in combination with abiotic feedbacks, whereas biotic mechanisms such as competition and facilitation are often ...
Nathan A. Pierce, S. Archer, B. Bestelmeyer   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Environmental stress - what can we learn from chlorophyll a fluorescence analysis in woody plants? A review

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChF) signal analysis has become a widely used and rapid, non-invasive technique to study the photosynthetic process under stress conditions.
Tatiana Swoczyna, Hazem M. Kalaji, Filippo Bussotti, Jacek Mojski, Jacek Mojski, Martina Pollastrini   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Shrubs indirectly increase desert seedbanks through facilitation of the plant community [PDF]

, 2019
The mechanisms supporting positive ecological interactions are important. Foundation species can structure desert biodiversity by facilitating seedbanks of annual plants, but the direct and indirect mechanisms of shrub effects on seedbank have not been ...
Filazzola, Alessandro, Liczner, Amanda, Lortie, Christopher, Westphal, Michael   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Climate-induced shifts in leaf unfolding and frost risk of European trees and shrubs

Scientific Reports, 2018
Climate warming has advanced leaf unfolding of trees and shrubs, thus extending the growing period but potentially exposing plants to increased frost risk. The relative shifts in the timing of leaf unfolding vs.
C. Bigler, H. Bugmann
semanticscholar   +1 more source