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Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem

Groundwater is a vital ecosystem of the global water cycle, hosting unique biodiversity and providing essential services to societies. Despite being the largest unfrozen freshwater resource, in a period of depletion by extraction and pollution, groundwater environments have been repeatedly overlooked in global biodiversity conservation agendas. Disregarding the importance of groundwater as an ecosystem ignores ...

Towards evidence‐based conservation of subterranean ecosystems

Subterranean ecosystems are among the most widespread environments on Earth, yet we still have poor knowledge of their biodiversity. To raise awareness of subterranean ecosystems, the essential services they provide, and their unique conservation challenges, 2021 and 2022 were designated International Years of Caves and Karst. As these ecosystems have traditionally been overlooked in global conservation agendas...

Brazilian cave heritage under siege

Erebonyx catacumbae, n. gen. et sp.: a blind, troglobitic cricket from Brazil (...

Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:31:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-05-25; Erebonyx catacumbae, new genus and species of a troglobitic phalangopsid cricket are described from Brazil. Few specimens were collected from a limestone cave located in the municipality of Campo Formoso, northern State of Bahia, in a semi-arid zone characterized by the Caatinga vegetation. A brief disc...

Effect of a quality improvement intervention with daily round checklists, goal ...

Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:32:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-04-12; Asian Development Bank; American Dysautonomia Institute; Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch; Health Systems Institute; ACG Institute for Clinical Research and Education; Ministério da Saúde; IMPORTANCE: The effectiveness of checklists, daily goal assessments, and clinician prompts as quality improv...

A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome

The 15th UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (COP15) will be held in Kunming, China in October 2021. Historically, CBDs and other multilateral treaties have either alluded to or entirely overlooked the subterranean biome. A multilateral effort to robustly examine, monitor, and incorporate the subterranean biome into future conservation targets will enable the CBD to further improve the ecological effect...

Cladistic analysis of the Brazilian troglobitic harvestmen genus Iandumoema Pin...

Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology

Five decades ago, a landmark paper in Science titled The Cave Environment heralded caves as ideal natural experimental laboratories in which to develop and address general questions in geology, ecology, biogeography, and evolutionary biology. Although the 'caves as laboratory' paradigm has since been advocated by subterranean biologists, there are few examples of studies that successfully translated their resul...

Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology

Five decades ago, a landmark paper in Science titled The Cave Environment heralded caves as ideal natural experimental laboratories in which to develop and address general questions in geology, ecology, biogeography, and evolutionary biology. Although the ‘caves as laboratory’ paradigm has since been advocated by subterranean biologists, there are few examples of studies that successfully translated their resul...

The determinants of teacher effectiveness in Portuguese schools

This work project analyses the impact of teachers on student exam scores and the determinants of teacher effectiveness in Portuguese schools. The main findings are that teachers are an important component of student achievement and that unobservable characteristics explain most differences in teacher quality. Having a master’s degree has no impact on teacher quality. Unlike their female counterparts male teache...