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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"conservation science"”.
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The Causes and Consequences of Community Disassembly in Human Modified Tropical Forest: Scarabaeine Dung Beetles as a Model System
A central aim of conservation science is improving our understanding how different human activities influence the persistence of native biota and associated ecological and evolutionary processes. Meeting this applied biodiversity research challenge requires that we understand (i) patterns in …
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The New Hope Experiment: An Investigation and Conservation Plan for the Antonin and Noémi Raymond Farm
… archival sources, building archaeology, and conservation science to create a comprehensive building chronology and condition assessment with prioritized treatment recommendations. The recommendations presented are in line with modern conservation values as well as the non-profit …
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Biologging for marine megafauna conservation: animal tracking, environmental monitoring, and modelling approaches.
… for understanding animal ecology and informing conservation strategies. This thesis explores the application of state-of-the-art biologging technologies to address major conservation challenges facing sharks and sea turtles, two groups that have experienced severe population declines driven by …
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Who’s at the gap between research and implementation? : The places and spaces of encounter between scientists and local people in Madidi, Bolivia
Increasing attention in the conservation sciences is being paid to the existence of a ‘gap’ between research and action. Although much research has implications for management, rarely does it have real impact on the problems it seeks to address. As a result researchers are increasingly concerned …
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Meissen Porcelain: Precision, Presentation, and Preservation. How Artistic and Technological Significance Influence Conservation Protocol
… how these factors impact certain restoration and conservation protocol. The diversity and range of objects produced at the Meissen studio paired with the artistic genius of their design repositioned European ceramics as a superior craft form among its pottery-producing competitors. The ware's …
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Ecology, history, management and conservation of the multipurpose Forest of Wyre
… vegetation patterns; and to suggest an effective conservation strategy on the basis of the findings of this study and an understanding of conservation science. Scant historical records coupled with a more detailed contemporary oral account identified three periods in the history of Wyre: the …
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Conservation in a changing world: assessing the conservation status of an agriculturally adapted species, the blue crane
With rapid human development and global change, conservation scientists need to stay abreast of changes to threatened species' demographics. The Blue Crane Anthropoides paradiseus has adapted to land-use change in some parts of its range. By the 1980s, numbers of cranes in their natural core range …
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The scientific and sociocultural value of citizen science
At its best, conservation science serves as an interface between multiple disciplines, bringing together innovation and insight from the humanities, arts, business and economics, health, natural and social sciences to address the most pressing challenges facing the planet and its biodiversity. …
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The process of conserving biodiversity: From planning to evaluating conservation actions on private land in the Cape Lowlands, South Africa
Conservation can be conceptualised as a process of linked phases that contribute to bringing about effective biodiversity protection: (i) a conservation assessment that identifies spatially explicit conservation priorities to provide strategic guidance on where best to invest conservation …
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Application of FTIR microscopy to cultural heritage materials
Research in art conservation has been developed from the early 1950s, giving a significant contribution to the conservation-restoration of cultural heritage artefacts. In fact, only through a profound knowledge about the nature and conditions of constituent materials, suitable decisions on the …
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Biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships in degraded and recovering ecosystems.
… be negatively affected. As such much modern conservation science focusses on preserving biodiversity whilst protecting priority ecosystem services. However, there may be spatial and temporal trade-offs between these services and the biodiversity that is considered important. Characterisation …
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A Chemical Comparison of Two Different Oxidizing Bleaches and the History of Early European Paper and Papermaking
… and controversial treatment employed in the conservation of art. The use of a bleach may greatly enhance the quality of an image but at a cost of lost structural integrity. In order to fully consider the ramifications of bleaching a paper artifact, a historical study of early European paper …
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The Role of Social, Economic, and Political Factors in the Design and Establishment of Antarctic Marine Protected Areas
… regimes, such as the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), to manage human activity and ensure the long-term persistence of biodiversity by establishing large-scale networks of marine protected areas (MPAs). Conservation scientists have developed …
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Exploring the past and the present in order to predict the future: herbarium specimens, field data and extinction probability for conservation managers
Loss of biodiversity is a global conservation crisis. Environmental change is rapid and biodiversity loss is happening at rates never experienced before. Conservationists must deal with an ever growing responsibility to conserve biodiversity and in addition to this they must also meet recently …
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External actors, high value resources and threatened species: shark fin commodity chains of Northern Madagascar, interception for conservation
… information and meliorate national conservation management.A combination of direct observation and semi-structured interviews was used to identify: the different types of actors along the commodity chain; trade routes; means of access and control; and patterns of price and income. …