62 resultados para Deli Proefstation.


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Quello del falso è un problema con cui si sono dovuti confrontare gli specialisti di ogni epoca storica, ma che ha subito un’accelerazione e un’esasperazione con la storia del tempo presente, anche per via della simultanea presenza dei protagonisti che hanno reso più complessa una scena storica e memoriale segnata profondamente dal rapporto tra storici e testimoni e dall’articolazione della memoria pubblica e di quella privata. L’evento che più acutamente ha risentito del problema del falso in età contemporanea è certamente il genocidio degli ebrei compiuto dai nazisti durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale perché è proprio al cuore dell’impresa genocidiaria che è avvenuta la grande falsificazione che ha alimentato qualsiasi successivo discorso revisionista. L’emersione del testimone sulla scena pubblica ha posto pertanto in modo acuto il problema dello statuto della testimonianza rendendo l’analisi del funzionamento della memoria indispensabile per comprendere quanto un testimone sia molto più utile per la descrizione, non tanto del fatto in sé, ma del modo in cui l’evento è stato socialmente codificato, registrato e trasmesso. Il legame tra i casi esaminati, pur nella loro estrema eterogeneità, spaziando da false autobiografie, come quella di Binjamin Wilkomirski, a testi controversi, come quello di Jean-François Steiner, o da racconti contestati, come quelli di Deli Strummer e Herman Rosenblat, a narrazioni che nel tempo hanno subito importanti variazioni, come nel caso Aubrac e nelle vicende del libro di Alcide Cervi, sarà stabilito grazie alla centralità giocata, in ognuno di essi, dalla forma testimoniale e dall’altrettanto fondamentale argomentazione in termini di affaire. Il problema del falso è stato perciò indagato all’interno delle ragioni storiche e culturali che hanno determinato la formazione discorsiva che ha per soggetto il testimone e la testimonianza come più autentico punto di vista sugli eventi del passato con le relative conseguenze sul piano storico e pubblico.

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Aim Geographical, climatic and soil factors are major drivers of plant beta diversity, but their importance for dryland plant communities is poorly known. The aim of this study was to: (1) characterize patterns of beta diversity in global drylands; (2) detect common environmental drivers of beta diversity; and (3) test for thresholds in environmental conditions driving potential shifts in plant species composition. Location Global. Methods Beta diversity was quantified in 224 dryland plant communities from 22 geographical regions on all continents except Antarctica using four complementary measures: the percentage of singletons (species occurring at only one site); Whittaker's beta diversity, β(W); a directional beta diversity metric based on the correlation in species occurrences among spatially contiguous sites, β(R2); and a multivariate abundance-based metric, β(MV). We used linear modelling to quantify the relationships between these metrics of beta diversity and geographical, climatic and soil variables. Results Soil fertility and variability in temperature and rainfall, and to a lesser extent latitude, were the most important environmental predictors of beta diversity. Metrics related to species identity percentage of singletons and β(W) were most sensitive to soil fertility, whereas those metrics related to environmental gradients and abundance (β(R2) and β(MV) were more associated with climate variability. Interactions among soil variables, climatic factors and plant cover were not important determinants of beta diversity. Sites receiving less than 178 mm of annual rainfall differed sharply in species composition from more mesic sites (> 200 mm). Main conclusions Soil fertility and variability in temperature and rainfall are the most important environmental predictors of variation in plant beta diversity in global drylands. Our results suggest that those sites annually receiving c. 178 mm of rainfall will be especially sensitive to future climate changes. These findings may help to define appropriate conservation strategies for mitigating effects of climate change on dryland vegetation.

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Aims Climate and human impacts are changing the nitrogen (N) inputs and losses in terrestrial ecosystems. However, it is largely unknown how these two major drivers of global change will simultaneously influence the N cycle in drylands, the largest terrestrial biome on the planet. We conducted a global observational study to evaluate how aridity and human impacts, together with biotic and abiotic factors, affect key soil variables of the N cycle. Location Two hundred and twenty-four dryland sites from all continents except Antarctica widely differing in their environmental conditions and human influence. Methods Using a standardized field survey, we measured aridity, human impacts (i.e. proxies of land uses and air pollution), key biophysical variables (i.e. soil pH and texture and total plant cover) and six important variables related to N cycling in soils: total N, organic N, ammonium, nitrate, dissolved organic:inorganic N and N mineralization rates. We used structural equation modelling to assess the direct and indirect effects of aridity, human impacts and key biophysical variables on the N cycle. Results Human impacts increased the concentration of total N, while aridity reduced it. The effects of aridity and human impacts on the N cycle were spatially disconnected, which may favour scarcity of N in the most arid areas and promote its accumulation in the least arid areas. Main conclusions We found that increasing aridity and anthropogenic pressure are spatially disconnected in drylands. This implies that while places with low aridity and high human impact accumulate N, most arid sites with the lowest human impacts lose N. Our analyses also provide evidence that both increasing aridity and human impacts may enhance the relative dominance of inorganic N in dryland soils, having a negative impact on key functions and services provided by these ecosystems.

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The biogeochemical cycles of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are interlinked by primary production, respiration and decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems. It has been suggested that the C, N and P cycles could become uncoupled under rapid climate change because of the different degrees of control exerted on the supply of these elements by biological and geochemical processes. Climatic controls on biogeochemical cycles are particularly relevant in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid ecosystems (drylands) because their biological activity is mainly driven by water availability. The increase in aridity predicted for the twenty-first century in many drylands worldwide may therefore threaten the balance between these cycles, differentially affecting the availability of essential nutrients. Here we evaluate how aridity affects the balance between C, N and P in soils collected from 224 dryland sites from all continents except Antarctica. We find a negative effect of aridity on the concentration of soil organic C and total N, but a positive effect on the concentration of inorganic P. Aridity is negatively related to plant cover, which may favour the dominance of physical processes such as rock weathering, a major source of P to ecosystems, over biological processes that provide more C and N, such as litter decomposition. Our findings suggest that any predicted increase in aridity with climate change will probably reduce the concentrations of N and C in global drylands, but increase that of P. These changes would uncouple the C, N and P cycles in drylands and could negatively affect the provision of key services provided by these ecosystems.

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