Eastern Arc Mountains
With or Without Community Participation: A Lesson from Joint Forest Management in the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania
... Abstract: Participation is now a dominant conservation narrative in Tanzania as the government is advocating partnership with local communities through Joint Forest Management (JFM). However, conservationists claim that ...
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Sustainable Environmental Conservation in East Africa through Agroforestry Systems: A Case of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania
... This study aims to review the promises of agroforestry systems to sustainable conservation in the Eastern Arc Mountains. It groups agroforestry and allied conservation practices as tool powerful ...
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Spatial modelling, phytogeography and conservation in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and Kenya
... An increasingly accessible means to minimise this spatial uncertainty is through the use of dynamically downscaled forecasts, obtained from regional climate models (RCMs). RCMs employ thermodynamic processes, ...
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Perception and Indicators of Climate Change, Its Impacts, Available Mitigation Strategies in Rice Growing Communities Adjoining Eastern Arc Mountains
... respondents, Eastern Arc Mountain Conservation Endowment Fund (EAMCEF) - 7%, District Council - 5% as well as Association of Kilombero High Quality Rice Grower (AKIRIGO) mentioned by 2% of ...of ...
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Quantifying and understanding carbon storage and sequestration within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, a tropical biodiversity hotspot
... Our results show that the amount of carbon stored in forests across 33.9 million ha of the Eastern Arc Moun- tains of Tanzania is considerable: 1.32 (0.89 to 3.16) Pg. Our estimate is significantly higher ...
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Quantifying and understanding carbon storage and sequestration within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, a tropical biodiversity hotspot.
... Our results show that the amount of carbon stored in forests across 33.9 million ha of the Eastern Arc Moun- tains of Tanzania is considerable: 1.32 (0.89 to 3.16) Pg. Our estimate is significantly higher ...
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Elevational and latitudinal changes in tree associations and diversity in the Eastern Arc mountains of Tanzania
... A total of 200 variable-area plots covering 20.3 ha containing 4000 trees with a basal area of 921.4 m2 were assessed over a combined elevational range of 410-2180 m in the moist forests[r] ...
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Phylogenetic patterns of extinction risk : the need for critical application of appropriate datasets
... Gereau, R.E., C.M. Taylor & W.R.Q. Luke. 2006. Endemic plant species of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania: analysis and refinement of distribution patterns. Pp. 267-277 in: S.A. ...
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Reforestation planning in the West Usambara Mountains of Tanzania
... endemic species and provide critical water catchment protection. The study first quantifies forest distribution using LandSat 7 ETM satellite image data for one of the more signifcant ranges in the Eastern ...
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Local costs of conservation exceed those borne by the global majority
... the Eastern Arc Mountains is high; over thirty percent of people live below the national poverty line, and access to improved water, electricity and decent shelter is low on average (Fisher, ...
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The Shift of Traditional Agroecosystems in the in Eastern Arc Catchments of Tanzania
... The purpose of this study was to identify the drivers of the shift of traditional agro-ecosystems and their implication on catchment resources management of Eastern Arc Catchments of Tanzania. Lower Mngeta ...
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Precipitation measurement intercomparison in the Qilian Mountains, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau
... in eastern Tianshan from 1985 to 1987 (Yang, 1988), it is necessary to carry out field experiments on precipitation measurement in the other mountainous regions of western ...
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A checklist of vascular plants of the Amatole Mountains, eastern Cape Province/Ciskei
... Amatole Mountains is ...The mountains form part of the Winterberg Range in the eastern Cape/Ciskei region o f south-eastern Africa, and cover an area of approxi mately 900 ...
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Storage and weathering of landslide debris in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA: implications for mountain solute flux
... This document contains supporting material for Storage and weathering of landslide debris in the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA : implications for mountain solute flux, by Del Vecchio et al. ...
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Isotopic dating and island arc development in the Halmahera region, eastern Indonesia
... Vroon et al. (1996) used Pb and Nd isotope characteristics in an attempt to define provenance areas for some of these continental blocks, based on comparisons between the isotopic signatures of the rocks from the ...
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Impacts of forest loss in the eastern Carpathian Mountains : linking remote sensing and sediment changes in a mid altitude catchment (Red Lake)
... Regional Environmental Change SUPPORTING INFORMATION Impacts of forest loss in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains: linking remote sensing and sediment changes in a mid-altitude catchment R[r] ...
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Brief communication: Updated GAMDAM glacier inventory over high-mountain Asia
... Glaciers in high-mountain Asia (HMA) play a significant role as a water resource for people living downstream (Im- merzeel et al., 2010; Bolch et al., 2012). Glacier recession in recent decades has contributed to sea ...
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Design of a Cherenkov telescope for the measurement of PCR composition above 1 PeV
... simulations the pixel size of imaging telesopes is optimized for a spei observation level ∼ 4km whih is typial for the Eastern Pamir mountains.. Another goal to be pursued by the new det[r] ...
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Wild food trees in Eastern Nuba Mountains, Sudan: Use diversity and threatening factors
... The study investigated the importance of over graz- ing, agricultural land expansion, fuel wood collection, selective logging, uncontrolled fire, pests and diseases and drought as threatening factors to sustainability of ...
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A neotectonic model of Taiwan, with a focus on the Longitudinal Valley suture
... volcanic arc is colliding with the Hengchun forearc ridge, which is, in turn, colliding with the Eurasian continental ...volcanic arc and forearc ridge flip along with the flipping of the polarity of ...
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