tropical landscapes
Implications of zero-deforestation commitments: forest quality and hunting pressure limit mammal persistence in fragmented tropical landscapes
... fragmented tropical landscape dominated by oil palm, we tested the capacity for the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach to prioritize forest remnants that sustain mammal ...fragmented tropical ...
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A multi-functional approach to assessing species interactions in human-modified tropical landscapes
... 129 Abstract The demand for timber products is facilitating the degradation and opening up of large areas of intact habitats rich in biodiversity. Logging creates an extensive network of access roads within the forest, ...
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Conservation science and practice must engage with the realities of complex tropical landscapes
... that tropical conservation and the development of effective international conserva- tion policies are better served if scientists act as honest brokers than if they are ‘‘issue advocates’’ (Huitema & Turnhout, ...
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Animal-plant-interactions at different scales in changing tropical landscapes of southern Yunnan, China
... Carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) have widely been used to assess biodiversity values of different habitats in cultivated landscapes, but rarely in the humid tropics. This study aimed to investigate effects ...
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Evaluation of sentinel-1 and 2 time series for land cover classification of forest–agriculture mosaics in temperate and tropical landscapes
... The recent SAR Sentinel-1 (S-1) and optical Sentinel-2 (S-2) time series provide a great opportunity to monitor forest–agriculture mosaics due to their high spatial and temporal resolutions, with a five-day revisit time ...
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Burning biodiversity: Fuelwood harvesting causes forest degradation in human-dominated tropical landscapes
... to tropical biodiversity such as habitat loss and forest fragmentation ( Busa , 2013 ; Tscharntke et ...on tropical forests are anecdotal or come from studies aiming to assess poverty and/or energy issues ...
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Assessing biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in fragmented tropical landscapes
... 1.1.2 Global biodiversity Along with efforts to define different components of diversity, much ecological research has also focussed on quantifying global diversity patterns (Stork 1993; Mora et al. 2011; Costello et al. ...
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Informing tropical mammal conservation in human-modified landscapes using remote technologies and hierarchical modelling
... vii data. Using a novel application of ecological threshold analysis, I demonstrate how multispectral data and multi-scale occupancy models can help identify conservation and restoration areas in degraded forests. In ...
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Tropical forest degradation and recovery in fragmented landscapes — Simulating changes in tree community, forest hydrology and carbon balance
... most tropical regions are composed of a mixture of landscapes altered in different periods, a fact which could mask some small fragments with a representative biota, but which simply had not yet had time to ...
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Can joint carbon and biodiversity management in tropical agroforestry landscapes be optimized?
... in tropical landscapes, which are the second- and third-largest international trade commodities after petroleum, covered no less than ...in tropical agroforests as a basis for environ- mentally ...
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The Effectiveness of Conservation Reserves: Land Tenure Impacts upon Biodiversity across Extensive Natural Landscapes in the Tropical Savannahs of the Northern Territory, Australia
... For pastoral lands, our results demonstrate that biodiversity values are being reasonably well maintained, albeit with values generally less than for conservation reserves. However, this is not the case for the set of ...
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Ecological Properties of Landscapes
... geosystems, firstly, is marked with utilizing the technologies economically, which take into consideration the capability of restoring the resources. Comparing with retrievable resources (air, mineral water, soil ...
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Sandstone Landscapes III
... The Sandstone Phenomenon was the focus of two successful Sandstone Landscapes conferences held in Doubice (Czech Republic) in 2002 and Luxembourg in 2005. To continue this tradition, we now cordially invite all ...
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Forests, Landscapes and Conservation
... Fowler Common property resource institutions and forest management in Latin America Women, men and trees: gender, power and property in forest and agrarian landscapes Indigenous exploita[r] ...
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Shrubs. for Louisiana Landscapes
... Plant hardiness is the ability of a plant to withstand environmental excesses or deficiencies. The wide variation in temperature from north to south Louisiana determines, to a considerable extent, whether certain plants ...
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Landscapes of political action
... The radical and potentially non- or less-hierarchical organisational form (less hierarchical, that is, than traditional forms of political organisation like political parties [r] ...
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Landscapes of political action
... Thus, Virno reverses Arendt’s concern about the relationship between work and action, arguing that some of the work done in contemporary organizations has ‘acquired [r] ...
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Landscapes of refugee protection.
... Throughout this paper, I have used the case of non-signatory Thailand to explore some of the grey areas between official refugee protection as understood under the Convention and the dangers that face refugees in their ...
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Tropical production landscapes and conservation: a study investigating the biodiversity value of a native timber plantation landscape in Papua New Guinea
... production landscapes by not granting certification status to any plantation enterprise converting natural forest to plantations after November 1994 (Forest Stewardship Council ...
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Modern Landscapes
... Dissecting images of landscapes helped me explore symbolism and abstraction in nature, which are things that nature itself does not exhibit in any obvious way. After experimenting I began to reinstate some sense ...
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