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The emergence of the identity of a fictional expert advice-giver in an American Internet advice column

Locher, Miriam A. ; Hoffmann, Sebastian

In: Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse Communication Studies, 2006, vol. 26, no. 1, p. 69-106

Université de Fribourg

A generic impact-scoring system applied to alien mammals in Europe

Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Kühnel, Elfi ; Bacher, Sven

In: Conservation Biology, 2009///doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01289.x

We present a generic scoring system that compares the impact of alien species among members of large taxonomic groups. This scoring can be used to identify the most harmful alien species so that conservation measures to ameliorate their negative effects can be prioritized. For all alien mammals in Europe, we assessed impact reports as completely as possible. Impact was classified as either...