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The current status of invasive alien insect species in South Korea [PDF]

open access: yesBiodiversity Data Journal, 2022
We investigated the identity and distribution of the invasive alien insect species inhabiting Korean ecosystems, targeting 3,249 locations in nine regions between 2015 and 2018.
Dayeong Kim   +4 more
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Using Import Data to Predict the Potential of Introduction of Alert Alien Species to South Korea

open access: yesDiversity, 2022
As globalization progresses, human activities, such as travel and trade, are rapidly increasing beyond national boundaries. It is increasingly recognized that places, such as ports and airports, where trade occurs play a major role as an introduction ...
Aram Jo, Seunghun Son, Dongeon Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Using “management mosaics” to mitigate the impacts from extreme wildfires

open access: yesEcological Processes, 2021
Human activities and global change have resulted in more severe and destructive megafires in forest ecosystems worldwide. Here, I introduce and discuss the concept of “management mosaics” and how to use it over both space and time to mitigate the growing
Qinfeng Guo
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Evaluation of the Global Health Security Index as a predictor of COVID-19 excess mortality standardised for under-reporting and age structure

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2023
Background Previous studies have observed that countries with the strongest levels of pandemic preparedness capacities experience the greatest levels of COVID-19 burden.
Jennifer B Nuzzo   +7 more
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Mapping Firescapes for Wild and Prescribed Fire Management: A Landscape Classification Approach

open access: yesLand, 2023
Risks associated with severe wildfire are growing in forest landscapes due to interactions among climate change, fuel accumulation from fire suppression, an expanding wildland–urban interface, and additional factors.
Nicholas P. Gould   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards the cognitive and psychological perspectives of crowd behaviour: a vision-based analysis

open access: yesConnection Science, 2021
Smart and proactive surveillance of crowds has turned up into greater importance in recent years due to the increase in urban population and immutable crowd disasters. Although the behaviours that emerged in a crowd are often unpredictable, researches in
Elizabeth B. Varghese, Sabu M. Thampi
doaj   +1 more source

Dataset of monthly downscaled future vapor pressure projections for the conterminous USA for RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 compatible with NEX-DCP30

open access: yesData in Brief, 2023
Models that simulate ecosystems at local to regional scales require relatively fine resolution climate data. Many methods exist that downscale the native resolution output from global climate models (GCM) to finer resolutions.
Raymond J. Drapek   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scientific Collaborations: How do we Measure the Return on Relationships?

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2016
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are a challenge for public health and biosurveillance infrastructure across the globe. These etiological agents, which cause EIDs, are primarily of zoonotic origin. Due to the complexity of zoonotic pathogens, research
Jeanne Marie Fair   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bacteriophages, phage endolysins and antimicrobial peptides – the possibilities for their common use to combat infections and in the design of new drugs

open access: yesAnnals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2019
The antibiotic resistance in many pathogenic bacteria has become a major clinical problem, therefore, the necessity arises to search for new therapeutic strategies.
Tomasz Mirski   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

When threat to society becomes a threat to oneself: implications for right-wing attitudes and ethnic prejudice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The relationships between threat and right-wing attitudes and ethnic prejudice were investigated in a heterogeneous sample (N = 588). Specifically, we considered the perception of economic and terroristic threats in terms of their consequences at the ...
Onraet, Emma, Van Hiel, Alain
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