Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation

Monitoring plant-pollinator interactions is crucial for understanding the factors influencing these relationships across space and time.Traditional methods in pollination ecology are resource-intensive, while time-lapse photography offers potential for non-destructive and automated complementary techniques.However, accurate identification of pollin

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Mutual maintenance of di- and triploid Pelophylax esculentus hybrids in R-E systems: results from artificial crossings experiments

Abstract Background Interspecies animal hybrids can employ clonal or hemiclonal reproduction modes where one or all parental genomes are transmitted to the progeny without recombination.Nevertheless, some interspecies hybrids retain strong connection with the parental species needed for successful reproduction.Appearance of polyploid hybrid animals

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Fear, Conflict and Identity in International politic affairs

This paper considers the issue of fear in the field of international relations studies.Fear is a typical condition Doors of international relations because of the anarchical nature of the international political system characterized by a common threat perception among states.Since the very beginning of international political thought the notion of

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Tightly coupled policies and loosely coupled networks in the governing of flood risk mitigation in municipal administrations

Flood risk is a complex and transboundary issue that is expected to escalate with climate change and requires to be governed by collaborative networks of actors.Municipal administrations have been suggested to have a particularly important and challenging role in such governance.Although collaborative governance has attracted intense scientific att

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