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    Socio-ecological factors shape the distribution of a cultural keystone species in Malaysian Borneo

    Biophysical and socio-cultural factors have jointly shaped the distribution of global biodiversity, yet relatively few studies have quantitatively assessed the influence of social and ecological landscapes on ...

    David J. Kurz, Thomas Connor, Jedediah F. Brodie, Esther L. Baking in npj Biodiversity (2023)

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    Context-specific emergence and growth of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant

    The SARS-CoV-2 Delta (Pango lineage B.1.617.2) variant of concern spread globally, causing resurgences of COVID-19 worldwide1,2. The emergence of the Delta variant in the UK occurred on the background of a hetero...

    John T. McCrone, Verity Hill, Sumali Bajaj, Rosario Evans Pena, Ben C. Lambert in Nature (2022)

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    Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food–energy–water–CO2 nexus across metacoupled systems

    Irrigated agriculture has important implications for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, there is a lack of systematic and quantitative analyses of its impacts on food–energy–w...

    Zhenci Xu, **uzhi Chen, Jianguo Liu, Yu Zhang, Sophia Chau in Nature Communications (2020)

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    The Effect of Educational Messages on Implicit and Explicit Attitudes towards Individuals on the Autism Spectrum versus Normally Develo** Individuals

    This study extended previous research on the effect of education and communication on anti-autism bias and stigmatization, using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as an assessment tool and em...

    Diana Ferroni Bast, Christina Lyons, Ian Stewart, Thomas Connor in The Psychological Record (2020)

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    Interactive spatial scale effects on species distribution modeling: The case of the giant panda

    Research has shown that varying spatial scale through the selection of the total extent of investigation and the grain size of environmental predictor variables has effects on species distribution model (SDM) ...

    Thomas Connor, Andrés Viña, Julie A. Winkler, Vanessa Hull, Ying Tang in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    Effectiveness of China’s protected areas in reducing deforestation

    Protected areas (PAs) are considered a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation, and the number and extent of PAs are expanding rapidly worldwide. While designating more land as PAs is important, concerns abou...

    Hongbo Yang, Andrés Viña, Julie Ann Winkler in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2019)

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    What Is Telecoupling?

    The authors provide an overview of the telecoupling concept and framework as well as their applications to land system science. First, the authors clarify different interpretations of the framework such as it ...

    **guo Liu, Anna Herzberger, Kelly Kapsar, Andrew K. Carlson, Thomas Connor in Telecoupling (2019)

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    Long-term distribution and habitat changes of protected wildlife: giant pandas in Wolong Nature Reserve, China

    Changes in wildlife habitat across space and time, and corresponding changes in wildlife space use, are increasingly common phenomenon. It is critical to study and understand these spatio-temporal changes to a...

    Wenke Bai, Thomas Connor, **dong Zhang in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2018)

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    Climate variability and trends at a national scale

    Climate variability and trends have significant environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Global challenges such as food security, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and human health are affected by reference ev...

    Zhenci Xu, Ying Tang, Thomas Connor, Dapeng Li, Yunkai Li in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    C-groups of Suzuki type

    We prove that the only C-groups constructed from an almost simple group G of Suzuki type are of rank 3. Moreover, we show that in all cases, G must be simple and that there exist always a string C-group and a non...

    Thomas Connor, Dimitri Leemans in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (2015)