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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Open landscape"”.
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The Great American Road Trip: Exploring Identity in the Open Landscape
… TV, but who make up the essence of the American landscape. Using different authors’ writing, I discuss the role that our physical environment plays in people’s external relationships and internal dialogue. I also explore the literal and metaphorical contrast between cities and small towns, …
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Effects of experimental disturbance on multi-taxa assemblages and traits: conservation implication in a forest-open landscape mosaic
… networks are to be created in modernised landscapes. Within Europe much of the biodiversity interest is in semi-natural habitats that exist as isolated reserves. This thesis aimed to test the connectivity potential of open habitat for lowland heathland biodiversity within a mosaic forest …
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A panyological study of the impact of man on the landscape of central Southern England, with special reference to the chalklands
… and exhibits an early Ulmus decline clearance. Open conditions appear to have prevailed in at least this area of the Hampshire Downs since the Early Neolithic. The Snelsmore data show that from the end of the UImus decline clearance, woodland was a more common feature of the local …
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Endless Horizons Bed and Breakfast: A lodging retreat center
… made because of the dynamic views of the Caprock landscape and, the abundant natural features. Through the open landscape, vistas, and remoteness, one can find serenity, relaxation, and solitude. The scope of the facility is a modified bed and breakfast concept, which incorporates lodging and …
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Re-embedding the global soul
… of technology (transient) and the room as an open landscape (permanent) where the making-of place can begin to happen. The room then becomes an object that can be strategically 'plugged in' to existing buildings at nodes of an intense, urban context locally.
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Common ground : a place for worship with supporting workshops
… recapture building that is in harmony with the open landscape? Can the church be activated as a place of personal and communal belonging by providing additional mid-week facilities, previously provided by the school system? The site is in Lemont Township, a suburb southwest of Chicago. The …
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Palaeoecology of human impact in northwest England during the early medieval period: investigating ‘cultural decline’ in the Dark Ages
… at Barfield Tarn the pollen indicates a largely open landscape with limited evidence for agriculture. Drawing together the data from these sites with the small body of extant palaeoecological research relating to this period, it is clear that the timing and nature of land-use varied across the …
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Assessment Of Natural Roost Availability And Artificial Roost Preference By Indiana Bats In Scott County, Kentucky
… options. I sought to analyze roost use on a landscape with multiple roost types and determine the effects of reproductive condition on roost type and canopy closure selection. I also characterized the forest overstory composition and determined the quantity and quality of Indiana bat roosting …
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Changing Human Impact On The Montane Forests Of The Eastern Andean Flank, Ecuador
… change and human disturbance. Today much of this landscape has been transformed into a mosaic of secondary forest and agricultural fields. This thesis uses palaeoecological proxies (pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, charcoal, organic content) to interpret ecosystem dynamics during the late …
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A Palaeoecological approach to understanding the impact of coastal changes in Late Holocene societies using the Isles of Scilly as a case study
… analysis. These pollen diagrams suggest that the landscape of Scilly has been an open landscape, heavily managed for both pastoral and arable agriculture since the Bronze Age. There is evidence that the climate during the Holocene period was highly varied. The occurrence of blown sand in the …
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Estimating source area of pollen and pollen productivity in the cultural landscapes of southern Sweden - developing a palynological tool for quantifying past plant cover
… tool for reconstructing past cultural landscapes in terms of plant abundance and distribution. The aims of this thesis are (1) to explore pollen-vegetation relationships in the ancient, traditional cultural landscape of southern Sweden, (2) to test the potentials and limits of using …
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Analysis and evaluation of a traditional cultural landscape as a basis for its conservation management : a case study in Vikos-Aoos National Park - Greece
Traditional cultural landscapes represent the long interaction of man with nature and are often characterised with high nature conservation value as habitats of rare and endangered species, or for their high diversity in plants and animals species. Such areas are also associated with specific …
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Managing open habitats for species conservation : the role of wild ungulate grazing, small-scale disturbances, and scale
… loss of habitats and species. In Central Europe, open habitats are particularly affected. The main objective of this thesis was to experimentally test the suitability of wild megaherbivore grazing as a conservation tool to manage open habitats. We studied the effect of wild ungulates in a 160 ha …
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Holocene vegetation history and environmental change in the forest-grassland mosaic of the Central Highlands of Madagascar
The origin and classification of open and mosaic ecosystems, particularly in the tropics and subtropics, have led to controversy worldwide. This has affected biodiversity conservation and, in some cases, promoted the establishment of afforestation projects based on the assumption that open and …