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Agroecological farming promotes yield and biodiversity but may require subsidy to be profitable

Journal of Applied Ecology, EarlyView.
These results highlight that while evidence for the role of ecosystem services in supporting crop yield can be found, overcoming economic constraints within conventional farming systems is likely to be a key barrier to widespread uptake. Agri‐environmental subsidy payments can offset these costs, but only for moderate interventions.
B. A. Woodcock, S. Cook, L. Hulmes, S. Hulmes, M. Torrance, J. Redhead, J. Swain, R. Ostler, J. Rainey, M. G. Weites, M. S. Heard, M. Nowakowski, J. M. Bullock, C. Carvell, J. Storkey, R. F. Pywell   +15 more
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Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
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New Records of Loxosceles amazonica Gertsch, 1967 (Arachnida: Araneae: Sicariidae) from Tocantins, Brazil with Description of Female Genitalia Variation

EntomoBrasilis
The knowledge of arachnofauna from Tocantins, Brazil, is still incipient. The present communication expands the known geographical distribution of Loxosceles amazonica Gertsch, 1967 (Arachnida: Araneae: Sicariidae) in Brazilian Cerrado. The brown spider
Kassia Madaleno, Lidianne Salvatierra
doaj   +1 more source

Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
Paul Stock
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanisms involved in the nociception triggered by the venom of the armed spider Phoneutria nigriventer.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
BackgroundThe frequency of accidental spider bites in Brazil is growing, and poisoning due to bites from the spider genus Phoneutria nigriventer is the second most frequent source of such accidents.
Camila Gewehr, Sara Marchesan Oliveira, Mateus Fortes Rossato, Gabriela Trevisan, Gerusa Duarte Dalmolin, Flávia Karine Rigo, Célio José de Castro Júnior, Marta Nascimento Cordeiro, Juliano Ferreira, Marcus V Gomez   +9 more
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Death and Nationalism's Moral Imperative: The Battle for Britain, Industry and the ‘Left Behind’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with how nationalism is convened and condensed in this moment by exploring the function of loss and death and their centrality to nationalism's articulation. The discussion attempts to make sense of how death possesses an ideological currency that wields an alluring quality and equips nationalism with a moral imperative.
Bethan Harries
wiley   +1 more source

Foraging by predatory ants: A review

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on ecological and behavioral characteristics of foraging in ants showing the wide diversity of cases. Most ants can feed on sugary substances, but some ground‐nesting species are strict predators. Except army ants during the nomadic phase, they are central‐place foragers that can recruit nestmates when necessary. They prey mostly on
Alain Dejean, Jérôme Orivel, Xim Cerdá, Frédéric Azémar, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +5 more
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Clinical characteristics of patients with black widow spider bites: A report of 59 patients and single-center experience. [PDF]

World J Emerg Med, 2021
Zhou HJ, Xu K, Zheng PY, Gu W.
europepmc   +1 more source

The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean, Xim Cerdá, Jérôme Orivel, Frédéric Azémar, Alexander L. Wild, Bruno Corbara, Axel Touchard   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local Search and the Evolution of World Models

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract An open question regarding how people develop their models of the world is how new candidates are generated for consideration out of infinitely many possibilities. We discuss the role that evolutionary mechanisms play in this process. Specifically, we argue that when it comes to developing a global world model, innovation is necessarily ...
Neil R. Bramley, Bonan Zhao, Tadeg Quillien, Christopher G. Lucas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source