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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Landscape changes"”.
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Exploring Place Attachment and Impacts of Landscape Changes in Victoria's Chinatown
… Victoria’s Chinatown understand and respond to changes in the area’s physical and symbolic environment. Using qualitative methods, including interviews, TripAdvisor reviews, and document analysis, the study examines how people form emotional, cognitive, and behavioral connections to the place. …
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Avian population responses to Anthropogenic landscape changes in Pohnpei, Federated Sates of Micronesia
… species, including 6 Pohnpei endemics. However, changes in culture and forest use have originated substantial landscape changes on the island landscape in the last three decades. The Pohnpei avian community has not been studied thoroughly. Knowledge of life history traits is limited for several …
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The Varying Effects of Climate And Landscape Changes on Increased River Flows In Minnesota Watersheds
… from 1940-2009. Watersheds with large land-use changes had increases in seasonal and annual water yields of >50% since 1940. On average, changes in precipitation and crop evapotranspiration explained less than one-half of the increase, with the remainder highly correlated with artificial …
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Evaluating Repeat Photography in Documenting Natural and Cultural Landscape Changes: a Changing Crown of the Continent Ecosystem between 1899 and 2010
… a research method by conducting a case study on landscape change in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. Grounded in extensive archival research on the past, present, and future uses of photography as a research method, a repeat photography survey was conducted in order to interpret natural and …
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Evaluating Repeat Photography in Documenting Natural and Cultural Landscape Changes: a Changing Crown of the Continent Ecosystem between 1899 and 2010
… a research method by conducting a case study on landscape change in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. Grounded in extensive archival research on the past, present, and future uses of photography as a research method, a repeat photography survey was conducted in order to interpret natural and …
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A Shifting Island Landscape: Changes in Land Use and Daily Life in the 19th and 20th Century Village of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland
<p>This thesis investigates changes to village spatial arrangement and land use patterns in the nineteenth and twentieth century village of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. To understand how spatial changes within the historic village were shaped by interactions between villagers and outside groups, …
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The hydrological and limnological characterization of two Canadian water catchments sensitive to anthropogenic influences: Crawford Lake, Ontario and Old Crow Flats, Yukon
… of climate and anthropogenically- induced landscape changes on local hydrology, geochemistry, and limnology. Crawford Lake is a small meromictic lake near the Niagara Escarpment, whose bathymetry and wind-protected shores impede seasonal turnover, maintaining density stratification across …
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Modelling the structuring of animal communities in heterogeneous landscapes : the role of individual home range formation, foraging movement, competition and habitat configuration
… mammal and bird communities in heterogeneous landscapes, and to to better understand their response to landscape changes (habitat loss and fragmentation).
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Ghost Forests of the Mid-Atlantic : how sea-level rise is killing our coastlines
… if people will pay attention, of the disruptive changes in store for both natural ecosystems and human habitation. Dying coastal forests herald other coastal landscape changes: after the forests start to die, so do the marshes that live in zones between ocean and forest. As sea-level rise and …
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OpenIR [Open Infrared] : enhancing environmental monitoring through accessible remote sensing, in Indonesia and beyond
As the human landscape changes ever more rapidly, environmental change accelerates. Much environmental information is publicly available as infrared satellite data. However, for the general user, this information is difficult to obtain, and even more difficult to interpret. With this in mind, my …
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Factors affecting piping plover (Charadrius melodus) nest site selection following landscape and predator community changes
The dynamics of coastal landscapes following major storm events and human interventions significantly impact nesting habitat use by species like the piping plover (Charadrius melodus) along Atlantic coastlines. Our study focused on Fire Island, New York, assessing changes in vegetation succession, …
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Drive-By Geography: Perceptions of Urban Growth and Land Use in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
… the earth is through urbanization. Land use changes such as from cropland to businesses are important ways in which urban growth transforms landscapes. This study uses qualitative and quantitative methods in order to visualize where urban growth and landscape changes are occurring between …
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Zaniklá lázeňská místa západních Čech
… the historical development of these sites, landscape changes, and societal transformations that contributed to their decline or abandonment. Using historical sources, comparative photographs, old maps, and semi-structured interviews, it documents the current state of these locations and …
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Growth equilibrium modeling of urban sprawl on agricultural lands in West Virginia
With dynamic economic and social changes, increasing pressure is exerted on natural resources management. Agricultural land resources particularly face growing pressure of conversion to non-agricultural uses from population and development demands for land. The continual conversion of agricultural …
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Dynamo in the Desert: Energy Development and Environmental Contestation in the San Juan Basin, 1960-1985
… energy projects still resulted in social and landscape changes, such as intergroup conflict, factionalizing of Navajo political and social structures, changes in legal control over land, and the designation of wilderness areas within coal regions.
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Domestic Landscapes, Power, and Political Change: Comparing Classic Maya Communities in the Three Rivers Region of Northwestern Belize (A.D. 600 - 1000)
… (A.D. 600 - 830/850). I analyze the domestic landscapes looking specifically at this relationship and how it reflected political change at the Late Classic beginning and end. The domestic landscape includes two parts: 1) the community patterns of house spatial associations to each other, …
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Interactions between a changing agricultural landscape and regional trade
… This dissertation studies the agricultural landscape changes and environmental damages implications of increasing agricultural trade. Chapter 2 develops a spatial model that extends von Thunen theory with a focus on land use specialization. Using numerical simulations, we illustrate how …
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Land Cover Change and the Breeding Bird Survey: Rates of Change in Relation to Roads
… overall goal of this study is to determine if landscape changes have occurred on a broad scale over an expanded time period and if these landscape changes have been similar between road-side and non-road-side habitats, and if so, make assumptions whether or not they affect survey results of …
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