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Can natural enemy diversity ensure stable biological control in the future?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)
Natural enemy diversity generally strengthens biological control, but individual studies have found anything from positive to negative effects. However, most studies investigating the impacts of natural enemy diversity on ...
Being Creative in Literary Translation: A Practical Experience
(2010)
This contribution focuses on the implications of creative processes with respect to translation. Translation offers, indeed, a great ambiguity as far as creativity is concerned. This paper explores by means of practical ...
Scenario-based modelling of local land-use policy choices to achieve No Net Loss of wetland functions in the face of cumulative impacts
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)
Going beyond project by project approaches to biodiversity offsetting is challenging and local governments are struggling to find ways to achieve the no net loss (NNL) goal at the landscape level. In the Grenoble area ...
A context-specific boundary object to strengthen collaborations across science, policy and society
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)
Science-policy interfaces (SPIs) are social processes that are avenues for addressing sustainability challenges through strengthening collaborations between researchers, decision makers and social actors. These transdisciplinary ...
Conservation value of low-productive forests measured as the amount and diversity of dead wood and saproxylic beetles
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)
In many managed landscapes a major part of all remaining unmanaged land is low-productive. Low-productive land is also often over-represented within protected areas, as it is less expensive to set aside. Despite this the ...
eDNA metabarcoding of rivers: Is all eDNA everywhere, all the time?
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)
Environmental DNA metabarcoding has become a popular tool for the assessment of freshwater biodiversity, but it is largely unclear how sampling time and location influence the assessment of communities. Abiotic factors in ...
Identifying pathways for habitat restoration in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil with co-benefits for biodiversity and local livelihoods
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)
The Atlantic Forest of Brazil (Mata Atlântica) is one of the world’s 25 biodiversity conservation hotspots, home to thousands of endemic species and over half of Brazil’s threatened animal species. Around 80% of Brazil’s ...
Self-Efficacy of Piano Teachers’ of Specialized Music School
(2009)
The piano teachers from specialized music schools have been often criticized for a lack of psychological and pedagogical competences, i.e. emotional instability, proneness for engendering fear, inability to motivate pupils ...
Metabarcoding of arthropod communities as biomonitoring tool for the conservation
(Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 2018)
Deforestation and fragmentation of forests contributes to dramatic loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. As a strategy to combat this degradation, it has been proposed to recover deforested areas through forest ...
Music in Gambling Contexts : What are Individuals' Perceptions of Music Experienced in Gambring Contexts & Why Do Individuals Self-Select Music to Accompany Gambling?
(University of Jyväskylä, Department of Music, 2013)
Music influences behaviours in everyday contexts (North & Hargreaves, 2008) and is a factor which can influence gambling behaviour (Griffiths & Parke, 2005; 2003). Experimenter-selected background music has been found to ...