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Madagascar's grassy biomes, from Holocene to Anthropocene

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 1555-1558, November 2025.
Madagascar's grassy biomes cover 80% of the island and are central to Malagasy history, culture and ecology. The research community continues to debate the extent to which these biomes are ancient ecosystems or products of human‐driven deforestation and the implications for ecosystem management.
Jan Hackel, Dylan S. Davis, Tanambelo Rasolondrainy, Estelle Razanatsoa, George P. Tiley, Leanne N. Phelps   +5 more
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Italians in the ‘Old Shanghai’: a Preliminary Contribution [PDF]

, 2013
Besides other Western nationalities, ‘Old Shanghai’ also hosted an Italian community, which experienced, throughout the years, a slight development, particularly after the establishment there of the consulate of the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1860 (later ...
Piastra, Stefano
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Investors as Uneasy Ethnographers: Resolving Frictions between Technical‐Rational Ideals and Para‐ethnographic Practice in Private Equity Due Diligence

Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings, Volume 2025, Issue 1, Page 93-103, November 2025.
Abstract This case study shows a private equity company improved due diligence, team evaluation, and decision making by adopting tools that formalized the tacit knowledge and relationship‐based methods of investors. The para‐ethnographic methods applied by investors in team evaluation were formalized as a more structured practice of ethnographic ...
Sakari Mesimäki
wiley   +1 more source

Capturing place semantics on the GeoSocial web [PDF]

, 2014
Massive interest in geo-referencing of personal resources is evident on the web. People are collaboratively digitising maps and building place knowledge resources that document personal use and experiences in geographic places.
Abdelmoty, Alia, ElGindy, Ehab
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Toward Scientific Clarity in the Evolutionary Puzzle of Austropotamobius Crayfish

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 11, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Illuminating the evolutionary history of Austropotamobius crayfish by uncovering patterns of biodiversity and biogeographical processes, thereby providing a foundation for accurate taxonomy and targeted conservation strategies. Location Europe. Time Period Miocene to present. Major Taxa Studied The crayfish genus Austropotamobius.
Lucian Pârvulescu, David Livadariu, Alexandru E. Mizeranschi, Marinela A. Chețan, Andreea M. Lamoly, Mihaela C. Ion, Ana‐Maria Neacă, Márta S. Mészáros, Ana Molnar, Ecaterina Mocioacă, Alina Satmari, Lucian Fusu, Cristian Panaiotu, Miguel Clavero, Dan V. Palcu Rolier   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Audio‐Visibility in a Guinean Trial: Sexual Justice and the Procès 28 Septembre

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT What does it mean to be audible and visible before the law and the public? Whose rights are preeminent? Who decides? In this article, I examine two moments of testimony from rape victim–witnesses in a high‐profile criminal trial in the Republic of Guinea.
Nomi Dave
wiley   +1 more source

SCIBA: A Geo‐Dataset of Damaging Rainfall Related Landslides and Floods Throughout 113 Years on a Mediterranean Study Area

Geoscience Data Journal, Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2025.
SCIBA is a geo‐dataset of damaging rainfall‐related landslides and floods that occurred throughout 113 years in a Mediterranean study area. It aims to support the Disaster Risk Reduction community by providing extensive data for testing cause‐effect models that predict rainfall thresholds preceding landslide and flood events.
Olga Petrucci, Michele Mercuri, Massimo Conforti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insights into the forests of Darién, Panama, from the new 10 ha Bacurú Drõa plot established through participatory methods within an Emberá territory

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 7, Issue 10, October 2025.
We present the first data from a new forest plot co‐developed with the Traditional Emberá Authorities of the Balsa River Collective Lands, Darién, Panama: The Bacurú Drõa plot. We compare floristic characteristics and conservation status of trees in BD with those of 53 forest plots across Panama.
Maximiliane Jousse, Salomon Aguilar, Hector Barrios, Davilio Chami, Daisy H. Dent, Iran Dogirama, Homilia Flaco, Matthias Kunz, Joseph Levitan, Edison Degaiza, Wiyan Valdespino, David Mitre, Edilberto Mosquera, Helene C. Muller‐Landau, Alexis Ortega, Rolando Perez, Jorge Valdes, Juan‐Carlos Villarreal, Camilo Alejo, Catherine Potvin   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ortsnamen im Spannungsfeld von Öffentlichkeitssprache und sprachlichem Wandel : germanistisch-linguistische Bemerkungen anhand der Kosovo-Krise [PDF]

, 2008
Der Balkan hält Europa - und andere Kontinente - seit einiger Zeit erneut in Atem. Diese politischen Erschütterungen und die Diskurse darüber haben auch sprachliche Ungereimtheiten und grammatische Zweifels- bzw.
Földes, Csaba
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GEOSUD SDI: accessing Earth Observation data collections with semantic-based services [PDF]

, 2014
Ponencias, comunicaciones y pósters presentados en el 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science "Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place", celebrado en la Universitat Jaume I del 3 al 6 de junio de 2014.Ecosystems and ...
Briand, Dominique, Desconnets, Jean-Christophe, Guerrero, Bertrand, Kazmierski, Mathieu   +3 more
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