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Showing 1 to 20 of 233 for “"Encroachment"”.
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Actual Encroachment v. Perceived Encroachment: A Case Study of Fort Jackson, South Carolina
<p>The problem of encroachment on military training lands has accelerated throughout the latter part of the 20th and early 21st century. A lack of planning and a proliferation of low density developments on the urban fringe have contributed to increased pressure on military training lands. …
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TREE ROOT ENCROACHMENT ON LEVEE DRAINAGE SYSTEM
The objectives of this study were to estimate the influence of roots on the drainage facilities associated with the levees along the middle Rio Grande (MRG), and to suggest an appropriate drainage design. This study consists of three research elements: (1) GIS-based analysis in estimating root …
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The Encroachment of Secularism Among Young Ecuadorian Cuencano Mestizos
In this dissertation I purpose to identify key indicators of contemporary secularization discovered through literary resources documenting the rise of secularism in Western culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. After identifying these key cultural markers of secularization, I demonstrate …
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The Significance and Nature of Vehicle Encroachment on Medians of Dividedhighways
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Some consequences of woody plant encroachment in a mesic South African savanna
… and also investigates how woody plant encroachment is affecting ecosystem services in Hluhluwe Game Reserve, with a focus on biodiversity, carbon storage and recreation and tourism.
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Eastern Redcedar Encroachment In Southern Great Plains Grasslands: Wildlife Consequences And Management Implications
… two centuries has facilitated extensive woody encroachment by eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana, hereafter redcedar). Conversion of grassland to redcedar woodland occurs rapidly as a result of the interaction between changing disturbance and land use patterns. In addition, redcedar …
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Insurgency, Secession and Encroachment: Contemporary National Security in the Republic of the Philippines
Strategically located near the latitudinal midpoint of the Asian Pacific Rim, the Republic of the Philippines has a unique historical relationship with the United States. Although Filiopino-American ties were weakened by the U.S. military base closures in 1992, the threat posed by an increasingly …
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Analysing the road reserve encroachment in Maseru Lesotho using remote sensing and image analysis
… of urbanization and the problem of road reserve encroachment mean that there is no space for road expansion and sometimes for maintenance and road furniture, these and other problems have exposed the problem of road reserve encroachment. The main aim of this study was to investigate methods of …
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Ecosystem Transformation Across a Changing Social Landscape: Landowner Perceptions and Responses to Woody Plant Encroachment
… livelihoods. A global phenomenon, woody plant encroachment (WPE) has been particularly problematic in the Southern Great Plains of the United States where the actions of private landowners are integral to sustaining grasslands. Increased diversity in landowners’ motivations for owning land have …
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A study of bush encroachment in Hluhluwe National Park, using aerial photographs within a GIS framework
Bush encroachment has been an ongoing process since the proclamation of the Hluhluwe Reserve. In this paper, I assess both the total extent of bush encroachment over the last 40 years for a section of the reserve (9.1 %}, as well as which landscape factors pre-dispose areas to encroachment in that …
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Turfgrass species composition, resistance mechanisms, and management strategy impacts on brown patch incidence and weed encroachment
… it can also thin out the turf and allow for the encroachment of undesirable weedy species. Cultivar selection, cultural practices, mixing turf species and timing of pesticide applications all can impact the epidemiology of brown patch in tall fescue. Research was conducted in tall fescue to …
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Practices combining fire and grazing in the Central U.S. reduce woody encroachment and accommodate grassland and shrubland birds
… one may be at the expense of the other. Woody encroachment is one of the greatest contemporary threats to grasslands, but reversing encroachment necessarily reduces shrublands. A parallel conundrum arises with avian biodiversity, as both grassland and shrubland birds are in steep decline. Yet …
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Firearms, technology and culture: resistance of Taiwanese indigenes to Chinese, European and Japanese encroachment in a global context circa 1860-1914
… indigenous tribes lived. Political and economic encroachments within Taiwan had moved further and further eastward. Numerous clashes between the indigenes and the Qing armies and Chinese exploiters were inevitable. Ceaseless skirmishes by the Formosan indigenes obstructed the progress of …
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<sup>~</sup>° and /--: Their origins, their grammaticalization, and the process of encroachment of the former by the latter from a historical perspective
… and /--, as well as the process of the encroachment of the former by the latter. The usages of <sup>~</sup>° and /-- are illustrated by semantic features using a binary (+ or -) system in order to show clearly the original feature sets of <sup>~</sup>° and /--, their grammaticalization …
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Using an airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR integrated sensor approach to spectrally discriminate and map savanna bush encroaching species in the Greater Kruger National Park region
Bush encroachment is an environmental phenomenon which affects arid and semi-arid savanna rangelands across the world. Bush encroachment has numerous negative and positive impacts on these savanna ecosystems depending on the land use practices and associated rangeland management regimes.
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The ecology and control of typha capensis in the wetlands of the Cape flats, South Africa
… Cape Flats wetlands through invasion and encroachment. This thesis establishes the extent of such encroachment and investigates aspects of the phenology, life-history, growth, production and decomposition of the species in a Cape Flats wetland. The process of invasion by indigenous species …
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Habitat influences on avian diversity and reproductive success in western aspen forests
… A major correlate of aspen decline is conifer encroachment, where conifer trees gradually replace aspen trees through competition for space and light. Conifer encroachment on an aspen stand may increase bird diversity by increasing vegetation complexity. The presence of conifers may also affect …
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Habitat influences on avian diversity and reproductive success in western aspen forests
… A major correlate of aspen decline is conifer encroachment, where conifer trees gradually replace aspen trees through competition for space and light. Conifer encroachment on an aspen stand may increase bird diversity by increasing vegetation complexity. The presence of conifers may also affect …
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