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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"changing landscapes"”.
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Vulnerability of Indigenous Forests in Changing Landscapes
Indigenous forests all over the world are suffering habitat alteration, loss of original extensions, and increase of isolation levels, affecting their existence and sustainability. In New Zealand about 70% of the original forest cover has been destroyed since human settlement, converting them to a …
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Conserving Moving Species under Changing Landscapes and Climates
… it is critical to understand the dynamic landscapes and climates through which species move and how the environment influences movement choices. In particular, I am interested in how species respond to human modifications to landscapes and climates. Chapter 1 uses datasets on the spatial …
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Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places : An Exploration of the Bjäre Peninsula
Changing Landscapes and Persistent Places is a study of the cultural landscape on the Bjäre peninsula in northwest Skåne. The many Bronze Age remains that give the landscape its distinctive character are the starting point for an attempt to increase our understanding of the historical depth of …
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THE PACE AND TIMING OF CHANGING LANDSCAPES AS VIEWED THROUGH COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES: SYNTHETIC AND REAL EXAMPLES FROM THE CENTRAL ANDES AND AMAZONIA
… tectonics, and surface processes in evolving landscapes. In contrast to dozens of studies investigating the modern erosion rates, less than ten studies actually pushed the boundaries of this application to seek paleo-erosion rates by querying older sedimentary rocks for their 10Be content from …
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Landscapes of the apes: modelling landscape use of chimpanzees and early hominins across an environmental gradient.
… studying the flexibility of primates to adapt to changing landscapes is important. Landscape-scale studies of primate habitat use are, however, scant. Predictive models can provide important tools in investigating primate landscape use. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) face habitat loss throughout …
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INDIRECT EFFECTS OF LOW AMPLITUDE ARVICOLINE CYCLES ON DAILY NEST SURVIVAL OF DUNLIN (CALIDRIS ALPINA HUDSONIA) IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING CLIMATE
… trophic dynamics that can be used to predict the changing landscapes of the Arctic as the boreal forest expands northwards.
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A landscape in transition : architecture for an extreme climatic condition : accommodating the informal within a flood-prone area
[Not copying properly]Changing landscapes The npid urbanization !leen within the City of Cape-Town is a dyn2mic fluid, non-linor process as opposed to being stable or closely pcc:dicrJ.ble. Ecology and systems theory are· concepts inherent to the city and iu relationship with landSCllpe. …
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Bat Habitat Ecology Using Remote Acoustical Detectors at the Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center - Fort Pickett, Blackstone, Virginia
… species interactions is especially important in changing landscapes and for species whose populations levels are threatened by outside factors of anthropomorphic disturbance from hibernacular visitation to energy production and fungal pathogens. For these reasons I have set out to establish …
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Community-based Mixed Method Research to Understand Rapidly Changing Cultural Landscapes
… and intangible heritage values of cultural landscapes are becoming lost or transforming under the threat of rapidly changing landscapes. Researcher-oriented documenting methods are missing significant meanings of landscapes for local communities. Community-based methods can reveal both …
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Only the Dead: The Construction of Memory and Myth in New Zealand’s Lost Battles of the Mediterranean
… of the island’s occupants, and must negotiate changing landscapes of truth and memory, honour and complicity, to find her own narrative of return and reconciliation.
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7 Realities// 2 Gravities// 1 Body//
This thesis endeavors to comprehensively examine and elucidate the factors and challenges that have shaped the city of Beirut, Lebanon into its current state. Extensive research has shed light on numerous incidents, which can be regarded as defining moments that have imbued the city with its …
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Sustainable Management of the Historic Environment Resource in Upland Peat: A Study from Exmoor
… or building up a picture of the mosaic of changing landscapes through time. Recent moves towards assessing the ecosystem services provided by different landscapes mean that, to make a case for preserving upland peatlands for the palaeoenvironmental remains they preserve, we must be able to …
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Old borders, new technologies : visual culture and social change in contemporary Northern Ireland
… and historical enquiry, social control, changing landscapes, memory and trauma.<br/><br/>This research project is grounded in film studies and stems from an interest in contemporary film from and about Northern Ireland. This context encounters two initial issues: firstly, how mainstream …
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Across mountains and deserts: Patterns of movement and interaction in fourth and third millennium BC south-east Iran
… Iran by situating them within their physical landscapes. Using a combination of archaeological legacy data, ethnohistorical data and a novel computational approach to modelling movement I reconsider where and how people, goods and ideas may have moved and what characterised the changing …
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A Hive Mind: Bounded Rationality and Bees
… in our studies, we focus on the impacts of changing landscapes on bees – whether those are environmental or political. In our investigations, we utilized bees, measuring their behaviors and community health, in multiple contexts to evaluate the interface of the human - bee world. In Chapter …
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Drinking from the Magic Well: Studies on Honey Bee Foraging, Recruitment, and Sublethal Stress Responses using Waggle Dance Analysis
… honey bees face, such as habitat loss, in our changing landscapes. While this emerging tool has improved our understanding of honey bee foraging in specific landscape contexts, additional research is needed to identify broad trends that span across landscapes. For this dissertation, I used …
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Spatial models of plant diversity and plant functional traits : towards a better understanding of plant community dynamics in fragmented landscapes
… of community dynamics in fragmented landscapes. In order to approach this overall aim, I identified key questions on the response of plant diversity and plant functional traits to variations in species' dispersal capability, habitat fragmentation and local environmental conditions. …
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Developing novel methodological approaches to understand the harvest and conservation of Neotropical wildlife
… responses within severely modified tropical landscapes. Perhaps more importantly, qualitative insights from respondent interviews illustrated the inter-linked social, economic and political drivers of changing landscapes and livelihoods that have shaped contemporary species patterns. The …
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Thermokarst dynamics in central-eastern Beringia
… understand past environmental dynamics in these landscapes. Causes and interactions of environmental variability can hardly be resolved by instrumental records covering modern time scales. However, long-term environmental variability is recorded in paleoenvironmental archives. Lake sediments are …