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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Land-use Intensification"”.
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Spatio-Temporal Connectivity in Dynamic Tropical Fragmented Landscapes
… tropical regions experience unique low intensity land-use and bioclimatic characteristics that result in highly dynamic forested landscapes. These dynamical landscapes, when subjected to the current scenario of intense global change, poses particular challenges for biodiversity conservation in …
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Fire and Stone: A Typological Study of Burned Rock Features and Their Role in Holocene Land Use at the Junction Site (DkPi-2)
… as cooking elements, heated homes, and were used for ceremonial purposes (Thoms 2017). Archaeologically, BRF are identified by dense concentrations of fire broken rock (FBR), which are stones that have been intentionally heated, resulting in discoloration, and fragmentation (Thoms 2017). …
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Digital places : rethinking urban elements : the case of the tower
… it argues for a better design of towers because, as shall be seen in later sections of this study, towers shall continue to be built as viable solution to cities' land use intensification. Another outcome of this approach is a new architecture which will be less about responding to a rigid …
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Assessing the effectiveness of reduced parking requirements in facilitating transit-oriented development: a case study of “PT areas” in Cape Town
… provision and improved parking management be used to support the restructuring of the city over time, in support of public transport and of transit-oriented development? Cape Town is used as a case study, by assessing the effectiveness of the implementation of a tool adopted by the City of …
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A Palaeoecological survey of French Island, Victoria's past environment from 9000 years ago
Fire has shaped the Australian landscape for millions of years but recent decades have seen intensified fire conditions in southeast Australia due to climate change and land management strategies. Increasing understanding of long-term environmental changes through palaeoecological research has the …
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A Palaeoecological survey of French Island, Victoria's past environment from 9000 years ago
Fire has shaped the Australian landscape for millions of years but recent decades have seen intensified fire conditions in southeast Australia due to climate change and land management strategies. Increasing understanding of long-term environmental changes through palaeoecological research has the …
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Interactions, Heterogeneity, and the Determinants of Multispecies Coexistence
No living being is an island. Every creature needs resources from its environment to survive and thrive throughout its life. But in a finite world with over 8.7 million species, acquiring such resources is an inherently competitive endeavour. This has resulted in an extraordinary diversity of …
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Ecological assessments of Pseudomonas communities in pastoral soils: implications for disease suppression and sustainable production in agricultural grasslands
Grasslands are an important source of biodiversity, providing a range of essential ecosystem services such as ensuring water quality and soil carbon storage. An increasing proportion of grasslands are being used to support grazing livestock, with agricultural grasslands covering over 25% of the …
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Assessing values for multiple and conflicting uses of freshwater in the Canterbury region
… makers need to consider the well-being from many uses that includes environmental, social, financial and cultural elements. Generally, there is a lack of information of how to balance these different well-being and what is the related value of improving water quality as this is not always …
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Restoring freshwater quality: an integrated environmental, economic and ecosystem services assessment of reducing nutrient loads to Lake Rotorua
… provided by a lake and its catchment, and uses quantitative analysis to study lake management dynamics to analyse what impedes successful lake restoration. This research uses a case study of Lake Rotorua, central North Island, New Zealand. Like many lake ecosystems, this lake has been …