perfecto

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But the perfecto would not have been possible without the stout defense of third baseman Andy Carey, who got enough of his glove on Jackie Robinson’s second-inning smash to deflect the ball to shortstop Gil McDougald, who threw to first for the out, and caught a Gil Hodges low liner to his left about an inch above the ground in the eighth.

From Los Angeles Times

But in a Perspectives article published online Sept. 15 in the journal One Earth, University of Michigan ecologist Ivette Perfecto and her colleagues argue that agriculture can both help and hinder: It can act as an incubator of novel animal-borne microbes, facilitating their evolution into human-ready pathogens, or it can form barriers that help block their spread.

From Science Daily

"Many people assume that agriculture is always in conflict with biodiversity conservation, but that's not always the case," said Perfecto, a professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability.

From Science Daily

In contrast, landscapes with small-scale and diversified farms "are much more likely to avoid the major problems associated with industrial agriculture," said Perfecto, who, along with U-M ecologist John Vandermeer, has spent more than three decades investigating the interrelationships between biodiversity conservation, biological pest control and food sovereignty at organic coffee farms in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

From Science Daily

In their Perspectives article, Perfecto and colleagues present a novel "agricultural matrix framework" that can be used to examine the relationship between agriculture and zoonoses.

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