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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Kiribati."”.
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Implications of Climate Change for the Livelihoods of Urban Dwellers in Kiribati
… of human societies on the atoll islands of Kiribati. Climate change is also having detrimental effects on important cultural heritage including customary practices, traditional knowledge and native languages. The people have continued to live with the physical changes to the landscape, …
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Drowning in Development Discourse: The Effects of Climate Finance and the Development Industry on Ability to Adapt to Climate Change in Kiribati
… climate change and climate finance, in Kiribati. Kiribati, alongside other Pacific Island nations, is poised to receive a substantial increase in climate finance. This finance, pledged under the UNFCCC, is intended to help vulnerable countries not responsible for the problem of climate …
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Bacterial and archaeal community structure across a gradient of saline lakes in Kiritimati, Republic of Kiribati
Microbial mats, multilayered sheets of microorganisms often found in extreme environments, are increasingly gaining attention for their utility and influence on the global carbon cycle. However, our understanding of the organisms that define microbial mats and how they vary across environmental …
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Age-based demography and reproductive ontogeny of angelfishes belonging to the family Pomacanthidae
… in the first two species and from Kiritimati, Kiribati in the Central Pacific. An age-based approach combined with gonad histology was used in this thesis to examine the growth and longevity, reproductive ontogeny and the mechanism underlying larger male size in the study species.
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Hydrodynamics of a coral atoll lagoon and its connection to large-scale climate variability
… lagoon of Kanton Island, Republic of Kiribati, using a high-resolution three-dimensional numerical model. The baseline hydrodynamic variability is characterized across tidal to seasonal timescales, showing that tidal flows through the ~500 m-wide single, bifurcated channel dominate …