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Territoires/territorialisation

open access: yes, 2004
Depuis quelques années, les références au territoire ou à ses dérivés dans les sciences sociales se révèlent d'un usage assez problématique en raison des incertitudes de sens qu'elles expriment. D'une part, le terme génère souvent des acceptions ambiguës dans les discours experts.
openaire   +2 more sources

Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aproximaciones a puertoLos espacios litorales colombianos desde la cartografía náutica francesa a comienzos del siglo xx

open access: yesAmérica
Les représentations cartographiques des littoraux colombiens, avec leurs itinéraires et accès aux ports respectifs à la fin du xixe siècle et au début du siècle suivant, permettent de voir leur importance économique et, en même temps, donnent un aperçu ...
Juan Alexis Acero Rangel
doaj   +1 more source

Extent, characteristics and policy applications of Key Biodiversity Areas

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) was published 10 years ago to provide a unified set of criteria for identifying ‘sites of significance for the global persistence of biodiversity’. We review the initiative's origins, the KBA identification process, characteristics of the current network, threats, policy
Stuart H. M. Butchart   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has become a critical threat to wildlife, shifting from a seasonal epizootic to a persistent, year‐round panzootic with global consequences. Here, we summarise the origin, evolutionary mechanisms, and expanding host range of the current H5N1 virus (clade 2.3.4.4b) and assess its impact on wildlife. Over
Ulrich Knief   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Territorialisation in postconflict context

open access: yesRevista Estudios de Políticas Públicas, 2018
The analysis of policy implementation in the context of Colombian post-conflict allow us to consider the role of local governments as a key actor of peace building dynamics, in particularly become relevant to analyze the synergy between governance and governability taking into account the institutional capacity, citizen participation and the ...
Dulfary Calderón Sánchez   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

On the importance of including both sexes in animal studies – insights from home‐cage monitoring

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A review of behavioural studies using home‐cage monitoring (HCM) systems revealed that over 61% of studies used only male subjects, with only 24% including both sexes, despite evidence of substantial behavioural differences between male and female animals. This bias could influence the outcomes of biomedical research.
Maša Čater   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Qualitative evaluation of European Rural Development Policy: Evidence from Comparative Case Studies [PDF]

open access: yes
Complexity and variable uptake of CAP (Pillar 2) measures and rural diversity of the EU provide significant challenges for evaluation. The rationale of indepth case study analysis as an essential complement to formal evaluation techniques is illustrated ...
Langstaff, Lesley   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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