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Pest management in the urban forest

California Agriculture, 1985
Studies are focusing on pest biology and sampling methods to develop environmentally safe ...
D Dahlsten, A Hajek, D Clair, S Dreistadt, D Rowney, V Lewis   +5 more
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Street trees provide an opportunity to mitigate urban heat and reduce risk of high heat exposure

Scientific Reports
Climate change is exacerbating the need for urban greening and the associated environmental and human well-being benefits. Trees can help mitigate urban heat, but more detailed understanding of cooling effects of green infrastructure are needed to guide ...
Ailene K. Ettinger, Gregory N. Bratman, Michael Carey, Ryan Hebert, Olivia Hill, Hannah Kett, Phillip Levin, Maia Murphy-Williams, Lowell Wyse   +8 more
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The quality of interaction with children in collective play: Children's agency

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a growing body of studies on increasing the quality of infant–toddler education and care. Yet little attention has been directed towards how to bring toddlers' agency and perspective to their personally meaningful learning in collective play.
Liang Li
wiley   +1 more source

String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
wiley   +1 more source

Prediksi Kebutuhan Hutan Kota Berbasis Oksigen di Kota Padang, Sumatera Barat (Predicting Oxygen-base Urban Forest Needs in Padang City, West Sumatera)

Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika, 2011
The study describes a method for predicting urban forest area in Padang City based upon oxygen needs. The result shows that the needs of urban forest in Padang City increase continously, mainly due to the increase of industries. Since the year 2002, the
Diana Septriana, Andry Indrawan, Endes Nurfilmarasa Dahlan, I Nengah Surati Jaya   +3 more
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Urban Forest Revolution

E3S Web of Conferences, 2018
The tendency of the last 100 years shows the radical change of the proportion between urbanized areas and those dedicated to wild nature and agriculture. Whether we agree with it or not, cities are our future.
Kucherova Anastasia, Narvaez Hana
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Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis, Ciro Cangiano, Alessandro Lovari   +2 more
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Conceptualizing, analyzing, and supporting stewardship: examining the role of civil society in environmental governance

Ecology and Society, 2020
Michelle L. Johnson, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika S. Svendsen   +2 more
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Morphological Traits Shape Foraging Scale but Not Precision: Divergent Responses of Four Tree Species to Water and Nutrient Heterogeneity

Plants
Soil nutrients and water are often distributed heterogeneously in space, yet how plant roots forage in response to such heterogeneity and how their strategies relate to functional traits remain poorly understood.
Liuduan Wei, Tianxin Dong, Liufeng Lan, Jian Lin, Xianwen Li, Miao Yu, Chengyang Xu   +6 more
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Cooperative learning strategies to raise attainment in mathematics with pupils aged 11–16 years: A systematic literature review

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Cooperative learning is a widely adopted teaching method to improve academic achievement. This review synthesises existing research on the use of cooperative learning within a school setting for pupils aged 11–16 years. Such a review has not been undertaken to date and will present an evidence base for educators considering implementation ...
Patricia Hampson, Zhe. Li, Allen Thurston   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source