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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"French Guiana."”.
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Biodiversity, bioprospecting and patents: a case study of traditional knowledge in French Guiana.
Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and French Guiana are said to contain the “lungs of the Earth”, because 20% of earth’s oxygen is produced by their vegetation, known as the Amazonian tropical rainforest. French Guiana, a French overseas region, possesses an exceptionally rich biodiversity and …
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Learning to Change and Changing Learning in Environmental Management: A case study of the Kaw Nature Reserve in French Guiana
Participation is a key component in socially just, successful nature conservation. Yet, participation can range from informing citizens to offering them decision-making power. Only participation that allows for an open, respectful negotiation of conservation planning and implementation opens the …
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Learning to Change and Changing Learning in Environmental Management: A case study of the Kaw Nature Reserve in French Guiana
Participation is a key component in socially just, successful nature conservation. Yet, participation can range from informing citizens to offering them decision-making power. Only participation that allows for an open, respectful negotiation of conservation planning and implementation opens the …
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An expression of Guyanité: the writings of Serge Patient and Elie Stéphenson in the (re-) creation of a national literary allegory
… an academic sense, the history and literature of French Guiana remains largely obscure, overlooked, and unexplored. In the study that follows, an exploration of the history, demographics, and literary production, and the legacies of colonial discourse as they pertain specifically to the French …
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Guiana and the shadows of empire : colonial and cultural negotiations at the edge of the world.
… and its effects be more fruitful than in the Guianas, the region of three small states in northeastern South America. The purpose of this thesis is threefold. First, the history of these three Guianas, now known as Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname, is considered briefly, emphasizing their …
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A production of alterity: The Wayãpi of the Upper Oyapock and isolated groups
… carried out amongst the Wayãpi Amerindians of French Guiana, who have been made sedentary by governmental ‘francisation’ policies since the 1970s. Based on geographic location, ethnohistorical literature and Ameridian discourse, it proposes the definition of three “zones” near the …
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THE IMPACT OF MICROCLIMATE ON BRANCH COLONIZATION BY NEOTROPICAL CERAMBYCID BEETLES
… habitats for insects. A previous study in French Guiana revealed that wood-boring cerambycid beetles preferentially colonized branches at ground level in the dry season, but shifted to canopy level in the rainy season. The current beetle-rearing study was conducted to confirm the occurrence …
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Understanding tropical forest dynamics through remote sensing and deep learning
… geographies, including Malaysian Borneo and French Guiana, I show this tool holds promise for large-scale forest studies. The performance of the detection and delineation, especially for tall trees, enables tracking of tree growth and mortality for the study of carbon dynamics from cheap, …
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Etude des facteurs écologiques et écotoxicologiques impliqués dans la réussite d’incubation chez la tortue luth, Dermochelys coriacea, de Guyane Française
… of leatherbacks. On the Yalimapo beach, in French Guiana, hatching success is lower for this species than on other nesting sites, emphasising the problem of recruitment for the population. Understanding the causes of low hatching success is therefore an important conservation step towards …
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Conservation Through Population Assessments Across Variable Landscapes
… with some hotspots also occurring in Guyana and French Guiana. The areas with the highest metapopulation loss are the Caribbean, the Pacific coast of Central America, Madagascar, Borneo, and isolated patches in Southeast Asia in Burma and Malaysia. Regions with the highest loss of habitat area …