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Resources in Europe of interest to mathematics teachers, [PDF]

, 1952
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University. This thesis was written in conjunction with Dennis J. Roberts, Mary Lee McLaughlin and Robert F. Pierce.Statement of the problem: It is the purpose of this thesis to formulate plans for a guided tour throughout Western
McLaughlin, Mary Lee, Pierce, Robert F., Roberts, Dennis J.   +2 more
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Landscape-scale drivers of glacial ecosystem change in the montane forests of the eastern Andean flank, Ecuador [PDF]

, 2018
Understanding the impact of landscape-scale disturbance events during the last glacial period is vital in accu- rately reconstructing the ecosystem dynamics of montane environments. Here, a sedimentary succession from the tropical montane cloud forest of
Aalto, Angela L. Coe, Baker, Bakker, Bennett, Bennett, Blunier, Bogotá-A, Bond, Bronk Ramsey, Bruijnzeel, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bussmann, Campbell, Churchill, Clark, Clark, Coblentz, Colinvaux, Colinvaux, Colinvaux, Coltorti, Corlett, Crausbay, Cugny, Cárdenas, Cárdenas, Daniau, Davis, Encarni Montoya, Enzweiler, Faegri, Fahey, Galeas, Gelorini, Gill, Gosling, Gosling, Gosling, Grau, Groot, Grubb, Grubb, Grubb, Hall, Hamilton, Hanselman, Harling, Heiri, Hooghiemstra, Juggins, Keen, Krug, Liu, Loughlin, López-Vila, Marchant, Marshall, Mayle, Montoya, Montoya, Moore, Mosblech, Mourguiart, Neill, Neill, Newnham, Nicholas J.D. Loughlin, Patricia Mothes, Pauline Gulliver, Reimer, Roubik, Rull, Rull, Rull, Rull, Sanchez Goñi, Sarmiento, Sarmiento, Sierra, Stern, Stockmarr, Thomas, Urrego, Urrego, Urrego, Valencia, Valencia, van der Hammen, van der Werf, van Geel, van Geel, van Geel, van Geel, van Geel, van Geel, van Geel, van Smeerdijk, Vandergoes, Webster, Weng, Weng, Whitlock, William D. Gosling, Williams   +106 more
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Mapping arboretum research: Trends, gaps, and opportunities for biodiversity conservation, society, and climate resilience

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Arboreta bridge people and nature while conserving tree biodiversity, supporting climate resilience, and advancing environmental education. This study maps over a century of available and indexed arboretum research, uncovering trends, knowledge gaps, and opportunities for collaboration.
Catarina Patoilo Teixeira, Vítor Ramalhosa Ferreira   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Giraffe™: Animals and keepers between high nature and urban popular culture in the history of Zoological Gardens [PDF]

lo Squaderno, 2016
The Zoological Garden as a special form of modern keeping of animals is a thoroughly urban phenomenon. It can only be properly understood within the context of urban cultural practices, economies and popular amusement industry that have accompanied zoo ...
Wiebke Reinert
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Assessment of historical and current distribution records of the Indo-Pacific slender gecko, Hemiphyllodactylustypus bleeker, 1860, in Sri Lanka

Ceylon Journal of Science, 2016
Hemiphyllodactylus typus is a widespread but low abundant parthenogenetic taxon, which is widely distributed through Southeast Asia and the entire tropical Pacific Ocean of New Guinea to some other Oceanic Islands. The present study has reviewed the data
Hareschandra Bandula Jayaneththi, Daniel Jablonski   +1 more
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Light-dependent magnetoreception in birds : increasing intensity of monochromatic light changes the nature of the response [PDF]

, 2007
Background The Radical Pair model proposes that magnetoreception is a light-dependent process. Under low monochromatic light from the short-wavelength part of the visual spectrum, migratory birds show orientation in their migratory direction.
Wiltschko, Roswitha, Stapput, Katrin, Bischof, Hans-Joachim, Wiltschko, Wolfgang (Prof. Dr.)   +3 more
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Animating blossom: Time‐lapse to encourage plant awareness in the YouTube era

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Time‐lapse videos can effectively capture key traits of flower blossoms, such as color, 3D structure, and temporal changes, making them valuable complements to herbarium specimens and other botanical collections. Despite the abundance of such videos on YouTube, most provide no ecological and botanical insights.
Tae Kyung Yoon
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Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B.
Christopher Kreuzer, Geoff S. Ridley, Nathan E. C. Smith   +2 more
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Culicoides species composition and molecular identification of host blood meals at two zoos in the UK

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Culicoides biting midges are biological vectors of arboviruses including bluetongue virus (BTV), Schmallenberg virus (SBV) and African horse sickness virus (AHSV). Zoos are home to a wide range of ‘at risk’ exotic and native species of animals.
Marion E. England, Paul Pearce-Kelly, Victor A. Brugman, Simon King, Simon Gubbins, Fiona Sach, Christopher J. Sanders, Nic J. Masters, Eric Denison, Simon Carpenter   +9 more
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Information from the Elephant Interest Group Questionnaire [PDF]

, 1978
Elephant-related activities of answering respondents to the first newsletter\u27s questionnaire, along with the stated objectives of the Elephant Interest ...
Editors, Elephant
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