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Handing Out Beauty: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Ritual Squanderers

Dr. Nicolette Pireddu, member of GEI's faculty advisory committee, analyzes the writings of Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio on beauty, exchange, and. …

August 8, 2017

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Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market

This paper investigates the impact of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on technological change, exploiting installations level inclusion criteria to estimate…

March 1, 2016

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Monarch butterfly studies tell a perplexing tale

The confusing picture emerges from seven monarch studies published this week in the Annals of the Entomological Society of. …

August 5, 2015

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A call for full annual cycle research in animal ecology

For vertebrates, annual cycles are organized into a series of breeding and non-breeding periods that vary in duration and location but are inextricably linked biologically. Here,…

August 1, 2015

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The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States

2013 Loss, Will, and Marra study suggests that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source…

January 29, 2013

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Conserving migratory land birds in the New World: Do we know enough?

This 2010 study with co-author Peter Marra discusses the knowledge gaps in the study of annual bird. …

March 1, 2010

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Optimal Conservation of Migratory Species

2007 study with co-author Peter Marra analyzes the utility and efficiency of current conservation efforts for migratory. …

August 15, 2007

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West Nile virus emergence and large-scale declines of North American bird populations

This 2007 article in Nature, coauthored by Dr. Marra, demonstrates the potential impacts of an invasive species on a diverse faunal assemblage across broad geographical scales,…

May 16, 2007

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Predicting the global spread of H5N1 avian influenza

This 2006 study highlights the potential synergism between trade and wild animal movement in the emergence and pandemic spread of pathogens and demonstrate the value of…

December 19, 2006

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Host heterogeneity dominates West Nile virus transmission

This 2006 study, co-authored by Dr. Marra, analyzes how heterogeneity in avian host species of West Nile Virus affects. …

May 23, 2006