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Crop landrace conservation, status, challenges and motivations in Great Britain

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Recent agricultural intensification has led to the widespread replacement of genetically diverse crop landraces with high‐yielding but genetically uniform modern cultivars, reducing the adaptive resilience of farming systems. In the United Kingdom, where large‐scale agriculture dominates, landraces require urgent conservation action.
Gabrielle Clarke, Joana Magos Brehm, Michael Ambrose, Abigail Cooke, Eve Eunson, Henry Creissen, Nigel Maxted   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Glaciological studies on Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica [PDF]

Journal of Glaciology, 1995
AbstractThe ice cap on Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica, was studied between 1985 and 1989. The ice cap has an average thickness of 120 m. it is temperate, exists under the sub-Antarctic maritime climate and almost completely covers the island.
Jiawen, Ren, Dahe, Qin, Petit, J., Jouzel, J., Wenti, Wang, Chen, Liu, Xiaojun, Wang, Songlin, Qian, Xiaoxiang, Wang   +8 more
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
wiley   +1 more source

The genus Nitzschia on the South Shetland Islands and James Ross Island [PDF]

Fottea, 2016
The purpose of this study was to present LM and SEM observations of Nitzschia taxa encountered on the South Shetland Islands and James Ross Island. During the ongoing taxonomical revision of the freshwater and limno-terrestrial diatom flora on the South Shetland Islands and James Ross Island (Maritime Antarctic Region) eight unknown taxa belonging to ...
Hamsher, Sarah, Kopalova, Katerina, Kociolek, J. Patrick, Zidarova, Ralitsa, Van de Vijver, Bart   +4 more
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A Simple Grid‐Maps Pipeline: Restructured, Accelerated and Upgraded

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Grid maps – spatially arranged small multiples – are a powerful tool to show complex geospatial data. Meulemans et al. (2020) introduced a pipeline for computing high‐quality grid maps that are shaped roughly according to their containing geographic outlines.
W. Meulemans
wiley   +1 more source

Late Quaternary relative sea level change in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica [PDF]

, 2010
Models have been inconsistent in their prediction of ice sheet volumes and extent over the Antarctic Peninsula and sub-Antarctic islands during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), and their contribution to sea level rise during subsequent deglaciation ...
Watcham, Emma Pearl, WATCHAM, EMMA,PEARL
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Two additions to the moss flora of the South Shetland Islands in the maritime Antarctic

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2018
Tortella fragilis (Drumm.) Limpr. (Pottiaceae) and Bryum nivale Müll. Hal. (Bryaceae) are recorded for the first time from the South Shetland Islands in the northern maritime Antarctic. They were discovered in the Admiralty Bay area on King George Island,
Mariusz Wierzgoń, Tomasz Suchan, Michał Ronikier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Updated Ecology of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) at Sea

Fisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Atlantic salmon have had a key role in European and North American oceans and human societies. Salmon are exploited and observed in rivers and along coasts, but there has always been great interest in knowing where salmon are going when they are at sea.
Robert J. Lennox, Knut Wiik Vollset, Kjell Utne, Vidar Wennevik, Jessie Lilly, Eva B. Thorstad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zoogeographical relationships of the littoral ascidiofauna at the Antarctic Peninsula, in the Scotia Arc and in the Magellan region

Scientia Marina, 2005
Three Spanish Antarctic research cruises (Ant-8611, Bentart-94 and Bentart-95) were carried out in the South Shetland Archipelago (Antarctic Peninsula) and Scotia Arc (South Orkney, South Sandwich and South Georgia archipelagos) on the continental shelf ...
Alfonso A. Ramos-Esplá, Juan A. Cárcel, Mercedes Varela   +2 more
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Paleomagnetic study of Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica [PDF]

Geophysical Journal International, 2003
SUMMARY A paleomagnetic study was carried out on recent volcanic rocks exposed on Deception Island (63.0°S, 60.6°W), Antarctica. Sampling comprised all stratigraphic units exposed on the island, which include basaltic, andesitic and trachytic lavas, basaltic dykes and pyroclastic flows.
Baraldo, A., Rapalini, A., Böhnel, H., Mena, M.   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources