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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Ecological methods"”.
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Burkina Faso: The Effects of Environmental Migration on the Implementation of Agro-ecological methods, Exchanges and Cooperation
This study addresses the surge in North-South internal migration in Burkina Faso that has accompanied the land degradation spurred by a series of severe droughts starting in the late 1960s (Lindqvist, Tengberg, 1993). Drawing from the hypotheses of Gray and Kevane (2001) and Deshinkar (2011) that …
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Infrastructure for Ephemeral Expenditure at Land's End
… (drawing, spatializing, visualizing) with ecological methods and content in order to increase the capacity of built design for evoking the distinctive character of place, in this case, Land's End in San Francisco, California. Land's End is a park that acts as a border between the city and …
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Land Use, Diverse Values, and Conservation Practice in the Periphery of Makira Natural Park, Northeastern Madagascar
… policy and practice. Using both ethnographic and ecological methods, I explored the multiple and contested values related to land use. Changing local land use practices, especially reducing swidden agriculture, is a major focus of conservation interventions in the region. The conservation project …
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Primates in Proximity: The Lives of Monkeys in Costa Rican Sanctuary Tourism
… three focal sites where I employed mixed socio-ecological methods. The results demonstrate that each focal site, varyingly but positively, contributes to animal welfare and the conservation of monkeys– which is essential to sustainable wildlife tourism. Document review from sanctuaries across …
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Chimpanzee ecology and interactions with people in an unprotected human-dominated landscape at Bulindi, Western Uganda
… sympatry in detail. This thesis explores the ecological and behavioural adaptation of a previously unstudied chimpanzee community to an increasingly ‘agriculturalised’ landscape at Bulindi, Uganda. These chimpanzees live in exceptionally close proximity to farmers that exert unsustainable …
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The perception of expressive movement in music performance
This thesis is an attempt to develop empirical methods which address the issue of body movements in music performance. The closest equivalent work is found in studies which adopt "ecological', methods, based on the theoretical approach of J. J. Gibson. Chapters 1 and 2 present this framework …
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Komi reindeer herding: mobility and land use in a changing natural and social environment
… was explored by using anthropological as well as ecological methods to (i) identify how social and political change and environmental variability influence the reindeers’ and herders’ movements alike and (ii) examine how nomadic movements occur in relation to nonecological and ecological factors. …
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Phylometagenomics: a new framework for uncovering microbial community diversity
… and a large proportion of rare OTUs. The current methods used to characterize how communities are structured rely on multivariate statistics, which operate on pair-wise distance matrices. My analyses demonstrate that use of these methods, by reducing a highly-dimensional data set (tens of samples, …
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Investigating the sustainability of medicinal plants and the loss of traditional knowledge in a rural community in Namaqualand
… achieved by employing a variety of social and ecological methods. It became apparent from the interactions and interviews with the residents that medicinal plants are an important resource to the Paulshoek community since more than 70% of the population regularly use herbal remedies. While …
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Analysis of transformations to socio-technical systems using agent based modeling and simulation
Transformations to socio-technical systems may be enacted at fairly low levels, i.e., through changes in technology, processes, information and workers, to obtain a change in system level performance. This thesis provides a conceptual framework and a simulation platform to a priori computationally …
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Developing novel methodological approaches to understand the harvest and conservation of Neotropical wildlife
… recognise the need to embrace social-ecological approaches, often designed around initiatives that aim to safeguard biodiversity and the benefits provided to humans by ecosystems, and promote social progress. Yet development of monitoring techniques to better inform these strategies …
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Fish scales as ecological indicators: empirical approaches to improve their practical application to fish ecology
… of their potential for application to other ecological methods, yet there is also considerable uncertainty in how this can be achieved. Thus, the purpose of this research was to examine how the use of scales within age and growth studies can be enhanced and investigate their application to …
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Diversity and evolution of ecosystems: From genomes to the biosphere
… scales of space and time: biodiversity of ecological systems, the dynamics of repetitive elements and their diversity in the genome, and the development of phylogenetic trees in evolution. The unifying theme is the interplay between ecology and evolution, expressed within an ecosystem, …