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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Landscape configurations"”.
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High school landscapes
… Fortunately, research suggests that natural landscapes can help high school students recover from this stress. Students benefit academically, socially, and behaviorally from school campuses with natural landscape features and greener window views. What we don’t know, however, is to what …
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Comparing mosquito communities of various patch-matrix landscape combinations in central Missouri, with implications for developing models to forecast abundances of important mosquito taxa
… densities, combined with their relationship to landscape characters, will clearly affect the proliferation of arboviruses to humans present in these landscapes. Advanced mapping techniques (e.g., GPS, land cover surveys) allow for the characterization of specific locations with regard to …
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Home range use by Southern Ground-Hornbills (Bucorvus leadbeateri) - quantifying seasonal habitat selection and vegetation characteristics
… efforts, by providing a tool to identify optimal landscape configurations.
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Interpreting Cultural and Sociopolitical Landscapes in the Upper Piura Valley, Far North Coast of Perú (1100 B.C.- A.D. 1532)
… dissertation is a diachronic settlement and landscape study undertaken from an interpretive archaeology perspective. The outcome of this study has been an interpretation of the settlement and landscape configurations as well as of the sociopolitical organization during the entire prehispanic …
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The Spatialization of Knowledge and Power at the Astronomical Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II, c. 1721-1743 CE
… and the specific architectural elements and landscape configurations that affected the mobility and utility of that knowledge. Centered on a group of five astronomical observatories built between 1721 and 1743 CE under the patronage of the Maharaja Dhiraja of Jaipur and Amer, Sawai Jai Singh …
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Forests of the future: ecosystem services in a forest landscape facing significant changes
… of ecosystem services. Traditionally, many landscapes were managed to maximise the delivery of just a few benefits, such as food or timber, but this was often at the expense of other potential benefits, such as carbon sequestration or water supply. The ecosystem services approach aims to …
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Future Lyme Disease Risk in the Southeastern United States Based on Projected Land Cover
… areas and the relationship between certain landscape configurations were analyzed using FRAGSTATS 4.2. Significant variables established in previous research were used to develop a spatial Poisson regression model to project Lyme disease incidence for each decade to the year 2100. Results …
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EFFECTS OF SCALE AND HABITAT MANAGEMENT ON GRASSLAND BIRD RESPONSE IN CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM FIELDS IN NORTHWEST ILLINOIS
… for inherent variation between fields, field landscapes, and study year; thus, to disentangle specific effects of management, it is important to account for this variation by using these factors as random effects within mixed-effects models (Chapter 3). Understanding multi-scale habitat …