Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America -- 1 Rural Latin America: Exclusionary and Uneven Agricultural Development -- 2 Urban Transformation and Survival Strategies -- 3 Demilitarization and Democratic Transition in Latin America -- 4 The Contemporary Latin American Economies: Neoliberal Reconstruction -- 5 Economic Restructuring, Neoliberal Reforms, and the Working Class in Latin America -- 6 The Riddle of New Social Movements: Who They Are and What They Do -- 7 Latin American Women and the Search for Social, Political, and Economic Transformation -- 8 Latin America's Indigenous Peoples: Changing Identities and Forms of Resistance -- 9 Whither the Catholic Church in the 1990s? -- 10 Latin America and the Social Ecology of Capitalism -- 11 The Global Context of Contemporary Latin American Mfairs -- About the Book and Editors -- About the Contributors -- Index
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Background Dengue is the world's most important mosquito-borne viral illness. Successful future management of this disease requires an understanding of the population dynamics of the vector, especially in the context of changing climates. Our capacity to predict future dynamics is reflected in our ability to explain the significant historical changes in the distribution and abundance of the disease and its vector. Methodology/Principal Findings Here we combine daily weather records with simulation modelling techniques to explain vector (Aedes aegypti (L.)) persistence within its current and historic ranges in Australia. We show that, in regions where dengue presently occurs in Australia (the Wet Tropics region of Far North Queensland), conditions are persistently suitable for year-round adult Ae. aegypti activity and oviposition. In the historic range, however, the vector is vulnerable to periodic extinction due to the combined influence of adult activity constraints and stochastic loss of suitable oviposition sites. Conclusions/Significance These results, together with changes in water-storage behaviour by humans, can explain the observed historical range contraction of the disease vector. For these reasons, future eradication of dengue in wet tropical regions will be extremely difficult through classical mosquito control methods alone. However, control of Ae. aegypti in sub-tropical and temperate regions will be greatly facilitated by government policy regulating domestic water-storage. Exploitation of the natural vulnerabilities of dengue vectors (e.g., habitat specificity, climatic limitations) should be integrated with the emerging novel transgenic and symbiotic bacterial control techniques to develop future control and elimination strategies.
This study presents the results of a quasi-experiment to assess the effects of viewing the live televised general election presidential and vice-presidential campaign debates. We contribute to a growing empirical record on the polarizing effects of campaign debates by testing some contextual variables that have confounded past researchers. Specifically, we use Trump's aggressive first debate performance as a test-case of polarizing content and compare it with Trump's second debate performance along with the other 2020 debates. We also test whether, as some have hypothesized, vice-presidential debates are more polarizing. Finally, we consider Biden—a candidate who has been polarizing and depolarizing in his vice-presidential debates, as a candidate-specific source of uncertainty in existing findings. We find further evidence that campaign debates increase ingroup affection—or the extent to which co-partisans reward the ingroup candidate. Conversely, outgroup hostility did not increase even after Trump's first debate. We conclude that debates may contribute to polarization, but only through ingroup affection, not outgroup animosity.
Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, the thoroughly updated and revised second edition of Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America is an engaging critical analysis of the major political, economic, social, and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Expert chapter authors describe and analyze the economies and trading relations, politics and state policies, social inequalities and social injustices, indigenous communities, gender relations, influence of religion, wide array of social movements, and social ecology of the societies in this important region of the world.
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The collective essays in Sacred Rhetoric dissect the manner in which religious actors or religious themes inform various layers of cultural discourse to foster discussion based upon a greater awareness of the issues at stake and contribute to ongoing discourse about identity and meaning.
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Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly proposed to support conservation decision making. However, evidence of SDMs supporting solutions for on‐ground conservation problems is still scarce in the scientific literature. Here, we show that successful examples exist but are still largely hidden in the grey literature, and thus less accessible for analysis and learning. Furthermore, the decision framework within which SDMs are used is rarely made explicit. Using case studies from biological invasions, identification of critical habitats, reserve selection and translocation of endangered species, we propose that SDMs may be tailored to suit a range of decision‐making contexts when used within a structured and transparent decision‐making process. To construct appropriate SDMs to more effectively guide conservation actions, modellers need to better understand the decision process, and decision makers need to provide feedback to modellers regarding the actual use of SDMs to support conservation decisions. This could be facilitated by individuals or institutions playing the role of 'translators' between modellers and decision makers. We encourage species distribution modellers to get involved in real decision‐making processes that will benefit from their technical input; this strategy has the potential to better bridge theory and practice, and contribute to improve both scientific knowledge and conservation outcomes. ; AG's stay in Brisbane, Australia, was supported by the CSIRO McMaster Foundation. The three workshops (held on December 2011, April and May 2012) that led to this publication were organised with financial support and within the framework of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED; http://www.ceed.edu.au) led by HPP. AG benefitted from insights from a project on applying SDMs to invasive management in Switzerland granted by the Swiss Federal Office of the Environment (FOEN) and the National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) 'Plant Survival' in Neuchâtel. LB benefitted from support from the Catalan Government (CARTOBIO and 2010‐BE‐272 projects) and the EU‐FP7 SCALES (#226852) to attend the workshops.
In: Gallagher , R V , Falster , D S , Maitner , B S , Salguero-Gómez , R , Vandvik , V , Pearse , W D , Schneider , F D , Kattge , J , Poelen , J H , Madin , J S , Ankenbrand , M J , Penone , C , Feng , X , Adams , V M , Alroy , J , Andrew , S C , Balk , M A , Bland , L M , Boyle , B L , Bravo-Avila , C H , Brennan , I , Carthey , A J R , Catullo , R , Cavazos , B R , Conde , D A , Chown , S L , Fadrique , B , Gibb , H , Halbritter , A H , Hammock , J , Hogan , J A , Holewa , H , Hope , M , Iversen , C M , Jochum , M , Kearney , M , Keller , A , Mabee , P , Manning , P , McCormack , L , Michaletz , S T , Park , D S , Perez , T M , Pineda-Munoz , S , Ray , C A , Rossetto , M , Sauquet , H , Sparrow , B , Spasojevic , M J , Telford , R J , Tobias , J A , Violle , C , Walls , R , Weiss , K C B , Westoby , M , Wright , I J & Enquist , B J 2020 , ' Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life ' , Nature Ecology & Evolution , vol. 4 , pp. 294–303 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1109-6
Synthesizing trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand challenge for biodiversity science. Species traits are widely used in ecological and evolutionary science, and new data and methods have proliferated rapidly. Yet accessing and integrating disparate data sources remains a considerable challenge, slowing progress toward a global synthesis to integrate trait data across organisms. Trait science needs a vision for achieving global integration across all organisms. Here, we outline how the adoption of key Open Science principles—open data, open source and open methods—is transforming trait science, increasing transparency, democratizing access and accelerating global synthesis. To enhance widespread adoption of these principles, we introduce the Open Traits Network (OTN), a global, decentralized community welcoming all researchers and institutions pursuing the collaborative goal of standardizing and integrating trait data across organisms. We demonstrate how adherence to Open Science principles is key to the OTN community and outline five activities that can accelerate the synthesis of trait data across the Tree of Life, thereby facilitating rapid advances to address scientific inquiries and environmental issues. Lessons learned along the path to a global synthesis of trait data will provide a framework for addressing similarly complex data science and informatics challenges.
Synthesizing trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand challenge for biodiversity science. Species traits are widely used in ecological and evolutionary science, and new data and methods have proliferated rapidly. Yet accessing and integrating disparate data sources remains a considerable challenge, slowing progress toward a global synthesis to integrate trait data across organisms. Trait science needs a vision for achieving global integration across all organisms. Here, we outline how the adoption of key Open Science principles-open data, open source and open methods-is transforming trait science, increasing transparency, democratizing access and accelerating global synthesis. To enhance widespread adoption of these principles, we introduce the Open Traits Network (OTN), a global, decentralized community welcoming all researchers and institutions pursuing the collaborative goal of standardizing and integrating trait data across organisms. We demonstrate how adherence to Open Science principles is key to the OTN community and outline five activities that can accelerate the synthesis of trait data across the Tree of Life, thereby facilitating rapid advances to address scientific inquiries and environmental issues. Lessons learned along the path to a global synthesis of trait data will provide a framework for addressing similarly complex data science and informatics challenges.
In: Gallagher , R V , Falster , D S , Maitner , B S , Salguero-Gómez , R , Vandvik , V , Pearse , W D , Schneider , F D , Kattge , J , Poelen , J H , Madin , J S , Ankenbrand , M J , Penone , C , Feng , X , Adams , V M , Alroy , J , Andrew , S C , Balk , M A , Bland , L M , Boyle , B L , Bravo-Avila , C H , Brennan , I , Carthey , A J R , Catullo , R , Cavazos , B R , Conde , D A , Chown , S L , Fadrique , B , Gibb , H , Halbritter , A H , Hammock , J , Hogan , J A , Holewa , H , Hope , M , Iversen , C M , Jochum , M , Kearney , M , Keller , A , Mabee , P , Manning , P , McCormack , L , Michaletz , S T , Park , D S , Perez , T M , Pineda-Munoz , S , Ray , C A , Rossetto , M , Sauquet , H , Sparrow , B , Spasojevic , M J , Telford , R J , Tobias , J A , Violle , C , Walls , R , Weiss , K C B , Westoby , M , Wright , I J & Enquist , B J 2020 , ' Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life ' , Nature Ecology and Evolution , vol. 4 , no. 3 , pp. 294-303 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1109-6
Synthesizing trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand challenge for biodiversity science. Species traits are widely used in ecological and evolutionary science, and new data and methods have proliferated rapidly. Yet accessing and integrating disparate data sources remains a considerable challenge, slowing progress toward a global synthesis to integrate trait data across organisms. Trait science needs a vision for achieving global integration across all organisms. Here, we outline how the adoption of key Open Science principles—open data, open source and open methods—is transforming trait science, increasing transparency, democratizing access and accelerating global synthesis. To enhance widespread adoption of these principles, we introduce the Open Traits Network (OTN), a global, decentralized community welcoming all researchers and institutions pursuing the collaborative goal of standardizing and integrating trait data across organisms. We demonstrate how adherence to Open Science principles is key to the OTN community and outline five activities that can accelerate the synthesis of trait data across the Tree of Life, thereby facilitating rapid advances to address scientific inquiries and environmental issues. Lessons learned along the path to a global synthesis of trait data will provide a framework for addressing similarly complex data science and informatics challenges.