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Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.Biodiversity is declining globally, underscoring the need for conservation strategies informed by regional expertise. In the northeastern United States, 14 state wildlife agencies and taxonomic experts developed the Regional Species of Greatest Conservation Need (RSGCN) list, revealing that global and national datasets captured only ~55% of regionally ...
Melissa D. Starking +9 more
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How a Traveling Exhibition on Wasps Altered Public Perceptions
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Media portrays a caricature of the “evil” wasp (a flying insect), perpetuating fears developed at a young age or from individual negative experiences. Because wasps are critically important to nature and our agriculture, it is important to provide some form of education to lessen this fear.
Brenna L. Decker +3 more
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How do management practices in power-line corridors affect species richness and abundance of solitary bees? [PDF]
, 2015 In order to identify opportunities for biodiversity conservation, it is important to understand how current land use patterns threaten the integrity of ecosystems and the services they provide.
Stanescu-Yadav, Diana Nicoleta
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A systematic scoping review of the methodological approaches and effects of pesticide exposure on solitary bees. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Lehmann DM, Camp AA.
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Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article documents and critiques emerging accounts of museum “ecologization”. Drawing on political ecology, materialist theory, and contemporary museum practice, we challenge dominant frameworks of ecological modernization and advocate for a more critical understanding of museums in the web of life.
Colin Sterling +2 more
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Native and Solitary Bees In Virginia
, 2015 This home pest fact sheet describes the plants attacked, description of damage, identification, life cycle, control and remarks on the native and solitary bees In Virginia ...
Day, Eric R.
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Use of Social Bees and Solitary Bees as Bioindicators of Environmental Contamination
International Journal For Multidisciplinary ResearchWith an emphasis on the biology of bee nesting, their ecological functions, and their efficacy in determining heavy metal pollution, this review paper summarises current research on bees as bioindicators of environmental contamination. Review brought attention to the solitary nesting behaviours of species such as Epanthidium tigrinum and Megachile ...
Karan K. Deokar -, Saurabh S. Joshi -
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Learning with a Warmer World: Climate Change Education for Forms of Life*
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract Climate change poses a threat to young people's capacity to flourish both now and in the future. In response, Aristotelian Climate Change Education (CCE) aims to cultivate radicalized climate virtues in students and give them structured opportunities to contemplate Socrates's question—“How should one live?”—amidst conditions of unprecedented ...
Melissa Diamond, Tomas Rocha
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Thermoregulatory abilities of Alaskan bees: effects of size, phylogeny and ecology [PDF]
, 1999 Bishop, J., Armbruster, Scott
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The nesting ecology of fossorial solitary bees
, 2023 In the UK, fossorial solitary bees account for approximately 52% of bee species, but their nesting ecology has received little attention in the academic literature.
Stephanie Maher (16660788)
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