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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"community monitoring"”.
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Automated Plant Morphological Assessment and Microbial Community Monitoring in Simulated Lunar Regolith
… Mizuna mustard growth while assessing microbial community diversity and functionality. To support this effort, a custom software pipeline utilizing an open-source library, PlantCV, was developed to automatically track plant leaf area and height via image analysis. Results indicated that amended …
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Community-based resource use monitoring at the Olifants River Estuary
… users in all aspects of management, including monitoring. Research suggests that involvement of local resource users in resource monitoring is beneficial as it promotes local empowerment, community stewardship and contributes to social and resource sustainability. This study aims to contribute …
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CRISPR Biosensors for Resource-limited Nucleic Acid Detection
… CRISPR-based detection system for environmental monitoring. This work also examines how local and indigenous knowledge figure into the conceptualization, collection, and utilization of environmental data within local monitoring programs and considers how novel biosensing tools could generate data …
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Contextualising the bycatch 'problem' in the Olifants Estuary Small-Scale Gillnet Fishery using an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
… estuary small-scale traditional gillnet fishing community, located on the west coast of South Africa, provides a particularly relevant example of a complex fishery requiring a holistic approach. Current regulations prohibit the harvesting or retention of any bycatch species. Fisheries management …
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Status and Contribution of Small-scale Fisheries in Menabe, Southwest Madagascar
… presents research that uses participatory, community-based fisheries monitoring to generate the first multi-gear, multi-species dataset collected over a meaningful timeframe for southwest Madagascar. By engaging fishers directly in data collection and analysis, the research provides some of …
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Disturbance Related Patterns in Fish Community Structure and Function in River Systems of the Lower Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta
… and Oil Sands (OS) mining operations on fish community composition patterns in three rivers located in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR). Using historical data sets, this thesis attempted to evaluate disturbance-related patterns in fish community composition. Fish community-environmental …
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Health systems determinants of delivery and uptake of maternal vaccines in low and middle-income countries: A qualitative systematic review
… while influence of family and influential community members serves as a barrier to vaccine uptake. Limited healthcare worker capacity and subsequent decreased time spent educating patients is a barrier to both vaccine uptake and delivery for pregnant women. Health systems determinants of …