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Effects of vegetation strata and human disturbance on bird diversity in green areas in a city in southern Chile
... to human disturbance (Vejrup 2004), for this reason the exotic species Passer domesticus is a bird associ- ated with anthropized environments around the world (De Laet and Summers-Smith ...
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Influence of Human Disturbance to the Small Mammal Communities in the Forests
... the human disturbance. Compared with the protected forests, human disturbance significantly de- creased species richness, cover rate (except the youngest forests) and abundance of shrubs, ...
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Beetles in the city: Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Coquitlam, British Columbia as indicators of human disturbance
... by human activity are more susceptible to invasion by European generalist ...because human contact has altered the forest habitats or because population pressure from European species in adjacent ...
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Sand Dune Species Distribution and Size Variations in Two Areas Inside a Natural Protected Area Subjected to Different Human Disturbance
... different human distur- bance. The strong human disturbance at Ostia is the re- sult of the large presence of beach establishments, nu- merous buildings, the intense use of mechanical means to clean ...
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Quantifying the response of tree hyraxes (Dendrohyrax validus) to human disturbance in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania
... Human disturbance can have a major impact on canopy structure. This can occur by direct removal of stems, secondary damage caused by fallen stems, and increased elephant activity encouraged by rapid ...
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Impacts of human disturbance stimuli on the behaviour and breeding biology of Subantarctic Yellow eyed Penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Conservation Biology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... This thesis would not have been possible without Chris Muller – thank you for your unwavering support, your confidence in me and all the help you gave me from beginning to end. Thank you for keeping me sane during those ...
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Red deer Cervus elephus vigilance behaviour differs with habitat and type of human disturbance
... Human disturbance to wildlife species occurs as a result of hunting (Kilgo et ...perceive disturbance from activities such as human recreation as a predation risk (Frid & Dill ...of ...
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Impact assessment research: use and misuse of habituation, sensitisation and tolerance in describing wildlife responses to anthropogenic stimuli
... and outcome of its exposures to anthropogenic stimuli over the course of its lifetime (Knight & Temple 1995). Principle 5: Impact studies typically document dif- ferences in levels of tolerance, not habituation or ...
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Ch 2: Impacts of Infrastructure on Apes, Indigenous Peoples and Other Local Communities
... such human disturbance can have significant negative impacts on apes, affect- ing the landscape’s structural connectivity (habitat type and composition) as well as its functional connectivity, which ...
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WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY OF MOOSE?
... with human safety and economic concerns, as well as to document important behavioral adaptations and responses of moose related to predation, human disturbance, and climate ...
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The first recorded interaction between two species separated for centuries suggests they were ecological competitors
... Abstract: Human-induced reductions in species’ ranges have resulted in the geographic separation of some previously sympatric species that interacted ...to human disturbance, but that are now being ...
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American Exceptionalism: Population Trends and Flight Initiation Distances in Birds from Three Continents
... of human impact can be explained by susceptibility to human ...to human disturbance as reflected by FID on population trends; (2) test for differences in relationships between population ...
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Intestinal Parasitic Helminths of Rattus spp. in Caspian Sea Littoral, Iran
... Some rats live in close association with humans and take the advantages of urban environments such as food and shelter [7]. There is evidence that human disturbance of the ecosystem like forest clearing is ...
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A Case Study of Wetlands in Pakistan with Special Reference to Balloki wetland
... of human disturbance or natural disturbance (threats) on wetlands such as by land use changes, natural resource utilization (vegetation trampling, domestic livestock grazing, hunting, shooting, ...
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RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THE EXPLOITATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS IN TRADITIONALMEDICINE IN THE NORTHEASTERN SAHARA
... that the exploitation of medicinal plants was inversely proportional to the number of species transcribed in each lifestyle. The analysis of variance reveals a significant difference in use of species between the two ...
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BIOTIC INTERFERENCES IN AND AROUND DACHIGAM NATIONAL PARK
... The Fisheries Department has established a Trout Fish Farm in 1905. Since then it is a source of continuous disturbance to Dachigam National Park. The feed provided to the fish is having adverse effects on ...
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Disturbance Decoupling in Graphs
... the disturbance decoupling problem (DDP) in systems ...the disturbance decoupling problem with graph theory by providing a method to rewrite graphs as discrete time ...
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Marine mammals and sonar : dose response studies, the risk disturbance hypothesis and the role of exposure context
... Qualitative scoring of the severity of behavioural responses has been used to specify the probability that specific responses could lead to biologically significant effects (Miller et al., 2012; Sivle et al., 2015; ...
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Feedback Linearization with Intelligent Disturbance Observer for Autonomous Quadrotor with Time-varying Disturbance
... with disturbance parts are ...domain disturbance observer is ...the disturbance compensation by approximating the bounded estimation error produced by the disturbance ...
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Design and Analysis of Disturbance Force Observer for Milling Cutting Force Compensation
... The workpiece used is aluminum and it is attached on Kistler Dynamometer [10]. Fig. 3 shows a straight line milling cutting process was performed onto an aluminum block using HSS cutter of diameter 10mm with four flute ...
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