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Attempts to Establish Eider Farms in the USSR, and Why These Failed
Little-known information is presented on the efforts to set up eider farms in the USSR between 1930 and 1960.
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Droughts and Scarcity before Independence in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1800–1810
Droughts, high prices, and scarcity of food affected New Granada in the first decade of nineteenth century.
Multimedia | Env. blogs & websites
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
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Prevention or Poisoning? Dilemmas in Urban Rat Control
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.
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The Mystery of the Merganser
How Australian historical documents resolved questions about an unusual merganser specimen from Korea at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Fröttmaninger Müllberg | Ecopolis München
Fröttmaninger Müllberg: Can One Simply Bury the Past?
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"Environmental Disturbance Triggering Infestations of Gorse, Rabbits, and Thistles in Southern New Zealand: 1850 to 1980"
The authors use ecological theory to understand the spread, establishment, and dominance of three introduced organisms in New Zealand after episodes of natural and artificial environmental disturbance create opportunities for them to thrive.
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"The Care of Migrants: Telemetry and the Fragile Wild"
Hugo Reinert uses the highly endangered Lesser White-fronted Goose to develop an argument about a certain “biopolitics of the wild”—a particular mode of governing nonhuman life, rooted in certain conditions of visibility and engagement.
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Powys, Vicki, Hollis Taylor and Carol Probets, "A Little Flute Music: Mimicry, Memory, and Narrativity"
Vicki Powys, Hollis Taylor and Carol Probets discuss the sonic achievements of Lyrebirds through concepts of memory and narrativity.