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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Land-management decisions"”.
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Development and application of quantitative methods for ecosystem services
… framework has made little impact on policy and land management decisions, especially in the United States. Two of the main limitations for a lack of ecosystem service considerations in both policy and land management decisions are a need for more advanced quantification methods and the lack of …
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The Value of Knowing: Public Lands Monitoring by Non-Agency Groups
… that in order to make informed federal land management decisions, such decisions need to be based on information gathered from monitoring of those lands. While some monitoring is being conducted by federal land management agencies, it is happening too infrequently and is often inadequate …
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The Value of Knowing: Public Lands Monitoring by Non-Agency Groups
… that in order to make informed federal land management decisions, such decisions need to be based on information gathered from monitoring of those lands. While some monitoring is being conducted by federal land management agencies, it is happening too infrequently and is often inadequate …
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A vascular flora of Bendabout Farm, Bradley County, Tennessee and survey of native Castanea Dentata (Marsh) Borkh. (Fagaceae, American chestnut)
… 10 to assist property managers in making best land management decisions in regard to protecting C. dentata sprouts on the farm.
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Food webs and phenology models: evaluating the efficacy of ecologically based insect pest management in different agroecosystems
Integrated pest management (IPM) is defined as an effective and environmentally sensitive approach to pest management that relies on a combination of common-sense practices. Integrated pest management programs use current, comprehensive information on the life cycles of pests and their interactions …
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Past precipitation, watershed characteristics, and drought: interactive effects on watersheds of Northern California.
… of watershed resilience to aid in adaptive land management decisions.
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Risk Management in United States Forest Service: National Environmental Policy Act Planning Processes
… (NEPA), are a part of all major (and some minor) land management decisions by the agency. The outcomes of these processes are the result of multiple factors, many related to the manifold smaller incremental decisions made by agency personnel directing the processes. Through qualitative review of …
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Understanding the spring migration ecology of Sora and Virginia Rail in central Illinois: a study utiilizing automated telemetry
… nature in the dense emergent vegetation of wetlands. Detailed information about the spring migratory connectivity and stopover ecology of Sora and Virginia Rail is lacking. Much of the wetland habitat required by these secretive marsh birds has been lost across the Midwest over the last 200 …
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Drivers of reproductive variability in Vaccinium cespitosum and vaccinium vitis-idaea in northeastern Minnesota
… these factors is important for making informed land management decisions. I investigated how clonality impacts reproductive variability in Vaccinium cespitosum and Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Ericaceae), and how the history of land management affects reproductive variability in V. cespitosum. …
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Human Dimensions of Habitat Conservation on Western Agricultural Lands: Engaging Producers in the Conservation Conversation
… conservation incentive programs on agricultural lands requires a deep understanding of landowner needs and interests. However, social science research related to private lands conservation programs authorized by the United State farm bill lags behind biological research, limiting our knowledge …
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The Equal Access to Justice Act and Federal Land Management: Incentives to Litigate?
… use of litigation as a tool to influence land management decisions has been documented within the Forest Service. The Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), which allows successful litigants to recover attorney fees and other legal expenses from the federal government, has come under much …
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Relationships between Forest Productivity and Water Yield Across Virginia's Forests
Landowners and managers are often incentivized solely for maximized forest productivity (i.e., increasing biomass or carbon); however, maximizing forest productivity can result in a decline in downstream water resources, highlighting the need for a better understanding of such tradeoffs to inform …
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The effects of grassland management practices, and the role of hedgerows, on farmland carbon sequestration and storage
… and is included in national GHG inventories. Land management decisions, such as those taken in agricultural landscapes, play a crucial role in carbon cycle dynamics with the ability to convert land from a carbon source to carbon sink. Practises influencing carbon sequestration and storage of …
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The Use of GIS for Integrated Watershed Analysis
Practitioners of watershed management are increasingly turning to computer models to understand and make decisions about the diverse problems that occur in the watershed. Such models can provide insight into how human interactions with the landscape affect water quality and quantity. Additional …
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Active and passive microwave remote sensing: Validation and scaling over an agricultural region
… and for assisting producers in making effective land-management decisions. Soil moisture data are available from Earth Observation missions, which use active (radar) and passive (radiometer) microwave remote sensing. To take full-advantage of these data it is necessary to obtain a realistic …
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Seasonal soil carbon fluxes in transitioning agricultural soils in Central Washington State: Relations to land-use, environmental factors and soil carbon-nitrogen characteristics
Changing agricultural land-use practices to increase soil carbon sequestration contributes to climate change mitigation and improved food security by moving CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere into soil as soil organic carbon (SOC). In 2016, a farm in Thorp, Washington, Spoon Full Farm, began …
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Determining habitat and biotic factors driving puma (<i>Puma concolor</i>) space use and underlying dynamic processes (colonization and extinction) over 20 years in protected and private areas throughout Belize, Central America
… long-term puma distribution can affect land management decisions such as appropriate size of buffer zones around protected areas since pumas influence, and are influenced by, sympatric carnivore populations, lower trophic levels, and habitat. We used single-species, single-season and …
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Three essays on environmental valuation: the social value of carbon storage in wetlands, the impact of wind turbines on home prices, and the effect of flood risk on home prices
… the economic value of carbon stored in tidal wetlands undergoing land cover change. Coastal wetland systems are highly effective at sequestering and storing carbon dioxide, and represent an important “Blue Carbon” sink. This essay first develops an economic model for valuing carbon sequestration …
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Resilience of peaty systems to low-severity wildfires in the Cairngorms
… fire in peaty systems is critical, because peatlands are the most carbon-dense terrestrial environment, they face an increased fire risk due to shifting fire regimes, and there is a need to understand the current resilience of our landscapes to fire. Peaty systems exist in a broad range of …
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Controls on post-High Park Fire channel response, South Fork Cache la Poudre Basin, Colorado
… studies have focused on the hillslope scale, yet land management decisions and post-fire treatments are addressed at the watershed scale. The goal of this study was to evaluate how the channel network contributes to the production, transport, and storage of sediment by monitoring post-fire channel …
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