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Impacts of climate change and agricultural diversification on agricultural production value of Thai farm households
This paper examines how rising temperatures impact the agricultural production value of Thai farmers, compares potential adaptation strategies like...
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Oyster studies reveal the duplication and functional diversification of Bivalvia caspase-8 genes
Caspase-8, first classified as a pro-apoptotic caspase, is considered to have arisen from duplication with caspase-10 and involves multiple immune...
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Rates of Origination and Extinction of Genera and the General Scheme of the Diversification of Phanerozoic Marine Animals
AbstractThe main characteristics of the origination and extinction of marine animal genera during the Phanerozoic are considered. The independence of...
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Do rice varieties matter? Climate change adaptation and livelihood diversification among rural smallholder households in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam
While it is known that the threat of climatic stresses induces rural smallholders to diversify their livelihood strategies, a consensus has not been...
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Determinants of households’ livelihood diversification strategies to adapt to natural hazards: evidence from ecologically vulnerable haor region of Bangladesh
The haor region of Bangladesh is exposed to a variety of natural hazards such as flash floods, seasonal floods, droughts, riverbank erosion,...
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Evolutionary-Ecological Aspects of the Origin and Early Diversification of Multicellular Animals
AbstractOxygen oases were the ecological niches where the evolutionary processes that led to the emergence of the first multicellular animals...
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Livelihood diversification strategies and resilience to climate change in semi-arid northern Ghana
Climate change threatens the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in the Global South. In semi-arid northern Ghana, where over 73% of the population is...
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Sea Lilies in Spring: Crinoid Diversification during the Early Ordovician
AbstractThe many Early Ordovician crinoid discoveries over the past 30 years signal a largely undocumented crinoid radiation. The new crinoid...
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Women’s empowerment and farmland allocations in Bangladesh: evidence of a possible pathway to crop diversification
Climate change will likely affect several of the dimensions that determine people’s food security status in Bangladesh, from crop production to the...
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New fossil evidence from the late Pliocene of Yunnan, South China, sheds light on the distribution and diversification of Sambucus L. (Adoxaceae) in the northern low latitudes
Sambucus L. (Adoxaceae) has a rich fossil record with a major concentration in Europe and North Asia but a scarcity in relatively low latitudes of...
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Managing climate risk through crop diversification in rural Kenya
Climatic variability and change continue to militate against efforts to increase agricultural productivity and food and nutrition security in many...
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Agricultural diversification in West Africa: an archaeobotanical study of the site of Sadia (Dogon Country, Mali)
While narratives of the spread of agriculture are central to interpretation of African history, hard evidence of past crops and cultivation practices...
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Exploring farmers’ perceptions about their depleting groundwater resources using path analysis: implications for groundwater overdraft and income diversification
Iran is among the world’s top five groundwater exploiters and, similar to many countries in the world, aquifers in Iran have been rapidly depleted...
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Lithic raw material economy at the Huayang site in Northeast China: localization and diversification as adaptive strategies in the Late Glacial
The study of lithic raw material plays an important role in develo** archeologists’ understanding of the different adaptive strategies and...
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Farmers’ adaptation strategies to climate change and its determinants: the case of Hulla district, Southern Ethiopia
The purpose of this study was to investigate smallholder farmers’ perceptions of climate change, adaptation strategies used to offset climate...
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Altitude as environmental filtering influencing phylogenetic diversity and species richness of plants in tropical mountains
Elucidating how multiple factors affect biodiversity and plant community assembly is a central issue in ecology, especially in vulnerable ecosystems...
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Status and determinants of other gainful activities by farmers in mountainous rural regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Non-farm income sources are important for livelihood sustenance, especially in the mountainous regions of develo** countries. To implement...
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Precambrian Microfossils: Indicators of Early Life and Environments on the Earth
Precambrian biota, which primarily includes bacteria, prokaryotes, protists, algal-stromatolites, organic- walled microfossils (micro and...
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Southeastern Europe as the Arena of Vertebrate Evolution in the Late Miocene
AbstractThe paper considers the main features of the late Miocene faunas of terrestrial vertebrates and marine mammals of Southeastern Europe and...
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Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) adaptation, adaptation determinants and extension services synergies: a systematic review
Agriculture and weather are intrinsically linked. Variations in the weather patterns due to climate change pose a foremost risk to agricultural...
