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Diversità ecosistemica nel Parco Nazionale dell'Asinara (Sardegna, Italia)
Full text linkLe aree protette costituiscono uno strumento utile per mantenere la biodiversità a livello ecosistemico, di paesaggio e di specie, ma anche per la promozione dei servizi ecosistemici. Tra i parchi nazionali italiani, uno dei più interessanti dal punto di vista biologico è il Parco Nazionale dell’Asinara, una piccola isola nel nord-ovest della Sardegna. In questo lavoro abbiamo fatto una sintesi delle conoscenze attuali su flora, fauna, vegetazione e habitat, 124 Ann. Mus. Civ. RoveReto 38 (2022) 1 IntroduzIone In tutto il mondo, la biodiversità è in continuo e drammatico declino (IPBES, 2018), tanto che si parla di “sesta estinzione di massa del pianeta Terra” (Barnosky et al., 2011; Ceballos et al., 2017). Le principali cause di questo declino sono il cambio di destinazione d’uso del territorio, l’urbanizzazione e l’uso non sostenibile delle risorse naturali, associati con il cambiamento climatico (IPCC, 2021, Zerbe, 2022). Nel quadro degli sforzi da compiere per l’attuazione degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile (DSDG, 2020) sui sistemi terrestri, costieri e marini, le aree naturali protette sono cruciali. Attualmente la superficie totale di aree protette è circa il 15% sulla terraferma (CBD, 2020), ma i ricercatori suggeriscono di mantenere e ripristinare gli habitat naturali su “almeno il 50% della superficie terrestre” (Dinerstein et al., 2019). I parchi nazionali rappresentano una strategia di conservazione per proteggere le specie le cui popolazioni sono suscettibili all’impatto umano e per promuovere i processi naturali degli ecosistemi. La IUCN definisce i parchi nazionali come aree protette di categoria II cioè “grandi aree naturali o quasi naturali per proteggere processi ecologici su larga scala, insieme alle specie ed ecosistemi caratteristici dell’area, che forniscono una base anche per opportunità spirituali, scientifiche, educative, ricreative e di visita compatibili con l’ambiente e la cultura” (Dudley, 2008). L’isola dell’Asinara è uno dei 25 parchi nazionali italiani ed è considerata una delle aree protette più importanti e interessanti d’Italia (Cinquepalmi et al., 2010). Come molti altri parchi nazionali in Italia e in Europa, l’isola combina caratteristiche naturali, semi naturali e culturali che spiegano la diversità di specie ed ecosistemi ivi presenti (Zerbe, 2022). L’isola è stata studiata in maniera approfondita per quanto riguarda la flora, la fauna, la vegetazione, gli habitat, l’uso del suolo e la storia dell’uso del suolo. In questo lavoro, abbiamo preso in esame la ricca bibliografia relativa a questo territorio per offrire una panoramica utile per lo sviluppo futuro del Parco. 2 MetodI 2.1 Area di studio L’isola dell’Asinara, con una superficie di 51,9 km2, si trova a nord-ovest della Sardegna (Italia). È un Parco Nazionale dal 1997 e un’Area Marina Protetta dal 2002 (Villa et al., 2002; Casu et al., 2006). Inoltre, fa parte della rete europea Natura 2000 (Zona Speciale di Conservazione “Isola dell’Asinara”, ITB010082). L’isola è diventata un’importante destinazione turistica da quando, con la dismissione della colonia penale presente sull’isola per 112 anni, è stato consentito di visitarla. In base ai dati del Parco, il numero di turisti stimati, pari a 81.400 nel 2010, è aumentato più o meno costantemente fino a 121.597 nel 2016 (Corbau et al., 2019). Il numero massimo di turisti si registra nella stagione estiva, tra maggio e settembre. Oltre al suo paesaggio peculiare, l’isola offre ai visitatori una storia e una cultura uniche (Carboni et al., 2015). Testimonianze dell’antica storia di questa isola risalgono al Neolitico e arrivano fino ai giorni nostri (Corbau et al., 2018). 2.2 Analisi Per la nostra analisi, abbiamo considerato la letteratura prodotta tra il 1909 e il 2022 riguardante specificamente l’Asinara o aree più ampie nelle quali è ricompresa. La nomenclatura delle specie e delle comunità vegetali citate in questo studio è quella originale degli studi quali si riferiscono. 3 rIsultatI Complessivamente, abbiamo preso in considerazione 73 studi, di cui 13 riguardano la geologia, la geomorfologia e il suolo, 3 il clima, 15 la flora, 7 la vegetazione e gli habitat, 23 la fauna, 12 l’uso del suolo e la sua storia e 3 i servizi ecosistemici (Tabella 1). considerando anche i fattori ambientali abiotici e la storia del paesaggio di questo territorio basandoci su più di 70 studi. La gestione futura del Parco Nazionale dovrebbe basarsi sulla combinazione delle risorse naturali e di quelle culturali uniche di quest’isola.Protected areas are a useful tool for maintaining biodiversity at the ecosystem, landscape and species level, but also for promoting ecosystem services. Among the Italian national parks, one of the most biologically interesting is the Asinara National Park, an island in the north-west of Sardinia. In this paper, we have summarised current knowledge on flora, fauna, vegetation and habitat, also considering abiotic environmental factors and the landscape history of this area based on more than 70 studies. Future management of the National Park should be based on the combination of the island’s unique natural and cultural resources
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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