The challenges of independence: ontogeny of at-sea behaviour in a long-lived seabird by Delord, Karine, Weimerskirch, Henri, Barbraud, Christophe

“…The transition to independent foraging represents an important developmental stage in the life cycle of most vertebrate animals. Juveniles differ from adults in various life history traits and tend to survive less well than adults in most long-lived animals. …”
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Attraction points: A new sampling design method to quantify common finches’ population by Lorenzo Marazuela Pinela, Ángel Julián Martín Fernández, Pablo-Luis López-Espí

“…Consequently, its applicability is limited to other bird taxa with similar behavioural traits.The “Attraction Points Method” (APM), which uses the songs of live congeners, as described here, has been employed and evaluated in several projects for tracking finch populations in Spain, particularly in the Community of Madrid, where a continuous study of their populations has been conducted since 2018. …”
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Thermal Development, Mortality, and Fertility of an Apulian Strain of <i>Drosophila suzukii</i> at Different Temperatures by Nuray Baser, Luca Rossini, Gianfranco Anfora, Kürşat Mustafa Temel, Stefania Gualano, Emanuele Garone, Franco Santoro

“…Specimens of an Italian strain from Apulia were reared in growth chambers at different constant temperatures (6, 9, 13, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32 and 33 °C). The life cycle of each specimen was individually tracked from the egg to the death of the adults, considering the larval stages distinction as well. …”
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Sport commitment among children and adolescent through the lens of theory of organismic integration: A systematic literature review by Anna Pavlova

“…Popular sport therefore has a reserve of Olympic talent for the 2032-2044 cycles. The involvement of children and adolescents in sport contributes to their socialization, academic success and emotional stability, as well as to sustainable development goals in general. …”
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Towards quantitative reconstruction of past monsoon precipitation based on tetraether membrane lipids in Chinese loess by J. Guo, J. Guo, M. Ziegler, L. Fuchs, Y. Sun, F. Peterse

“…We present a new <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 130 000-year-long DC-based MAP record for the Yuanbao section on the western edge of the CLP, which closely tracks the orbital- and millennial-scale variations in available records of both speleothem <span class="inline-formula"><i>δ</i>¹⁸</span>O and the hydrogen isotope composition of plant waxes (<span class="inline-formula"><i>δ</i>²</span>H<span class="inline-formula">_wax</span>) from the same section. …”
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Editorial by Pieter Vanhuysse, Antony Mason, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche, Maria Lenk

“…Kotlikoff notes that since David Ricardo’s work, it took another century and a half for economists to develop models capable of realistically tracking the impact of policies on the welfare of current and future generations. …”
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