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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"ecological services"”.
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Trans-boundary river basins: a discourse on water scarcity, conflict, and water resource management.
… water resource use in developing countries. The ecological services of trans-boundary rivers are explored in conjunction with the potential impacts to freshwater availability due to economic modernization, water resource development, and decision making regimes that determine how water is …
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An examination of the riparian bottomland forest in north central Texas through ecology, history, field study, and computer simulation
… description of a southern bottomland forest, the ecological services it provides, and a history of bottomland forests in Texas from the nineteenth century to the present. A report on a characterization study of the Lake Ray Roberts Greenbelt forest comprises Chapter Two. The final chapter reviews …
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USING DEEP LEARNING AND UAV IMAGERY TO DETECT ELKHORN CORAL IN ST. CROIX’S EAST END MARINE PARK
… that promotes species abundance and other ecological services to the communities in the US Virgin Islands. We captured high resolution imagery of a reef in St. Croix’s East End Marine Park using a Wingtra One UAV. We then used deep learning techniques to detect individual coral colonies. We …
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Teaching Forests as Living Museums: Case Study Research in Innovative Practices that Further National, Community, and Environmental Sustainability
… attributes for human well-being, including ecological services (e.g., flood control, carbon storage relevant to climate change), provision of timber and non-timber forest harvests, health, and social benefits, and are places of spiritual value. In response to increasingly changing forest …
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Green Infrastructure: The Landscape of Urban EcoHousing
… Design goals for the project connect the "Ecological Services of the Urban Landscape" to the "Rights of the Urban EcoHousing Resident" to create livable green spaces that can serve ecological functions and give the residents spaces to use. A comparison study with a conventional housing …
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A Comparative Analysis of Plastic Pollution Distribution in Costa del Este in Panama and Central American countries: Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua
… essential for coastal communities' economies and ecological services, including shoreline protection, preventing erosion, and water filtration. However, pollution poses a significant threat. My study investigated the impacts of marine plastics, mangrove conservation practices, and waste management …
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Algal Biodiversity Survey of the Middle Chattahoochee River Using DNA Metabarcoding
… play vital roles in water systems by providing ecological services, and one group that is understudied is algae. Algae play a crucial role in water systems as bioindicators and primary producers. They can be challenging to identify with the naked eye, so researchers have been using DNA …
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Guaratiba verde: subsídios para o projeto de uma infra-estrutura verde em área de expansão urbana na cidade do Rio de Janeiro
… basis presents several topics related to ecological landscape planning. It starts with a brief history of its origins in the late XIX century, delineates its development during the XX century and emphasizes its substantive role in the sustainable development awareness during the last …
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Mechanisms facilitating coexistence between leopards (Panthera pardus) and their competitors in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Large carnivores provide key ecological services to ecosystems, and full species assemblages are thought to be important in maintaining full ecosystem function. The African large carnivore guild represents one of the last functionally intact guilds of large carnivores on Earth, but relatively …
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Row crop environments provide an all-you-can-eat buffet and pesticide exposure to foraging honey bees
… Apis mellifera, provide invaluable economic and ecological services while simultaneously facing stressors that may compromise their health. For example, agricultural landscapes, such as a row crop system, are necessary for our food production, but they may cause poor nutrition in bees from a lack …
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Digital change detection and separation of anthropogenic and natural impacts on ecohydrological conditions in the Pilbara region, WA
… dependent vegetation) which provide important ecological services and, as such, require regional protection. However, such invaluable assets experience changes over time due to either human activities such as land development or natural phenomena such as climate change or fire events. The main …
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Manipulating social information to promote frugivory by birds on a Hawaiian island
… relationships, many of which provide valuable ecological services. As humans continue to modify environments, novel conservation approaches may be required to maintain important ecological functions.
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Apple orchards feed and contaminate bees during, but even more so after bloom
… Apis mellifera Linn., provide vital economic and ecological services via pollination while concurrently facing multiple interconnected stressors impacting their health. Many crops like apples, peaches, and cherries that add diversity and nutrition to our diet are wholly or partially dependent upon …
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Economic incentives for institutional change: the case of the Virginia Wetlands Act
… the view that some institutions provide economic services, and that pressure for institutional change result from changes in demand for these services. A general hypothesis to be tested in the case of the Virginia Wetlands Act is that institutional change to assure protection of ecologically …
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Woodland Owners Motivations for Involvement in Landscape Scale Forest Stewardship
… their parcel boundaries. These forests provide ecological services to society, timber products and recreation. Keeping the forest healthy and productive is very important for the common good. Threats related to development parcelization, invasive species and pests are some of the challenges when …
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The changing face of Andean peatlands: the effects of climate and human disturbance on ecosystem structure and function
… are ecosystems that offer extremely important ecological services but that may have started an irreversible decline.
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Peace through parks : the challenge of overcoming social frictions and ecological tensions in the development of parks in post-conflict Bogotá
… the challenges when maximizing the benefits of ecological services, while fostering spatial equity, social cohesion, and civic formation in the development of parks in post-conflict contexts. This thesis employs an inductive research methodology that combines qualitative methods with spatial …
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Oligohaline wetland response and recovery following storm-driven saltwater intrusion in coastal Louisiana
… Because oligohaline wetlands provide vital ecological services in many coastal regions, great effort should be put forth to understand both natural and human impacts to these systems. Information gained through research should be applied in a way that encourages the maintenance of healthy, …
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Resources, Environment, and Rural Development in Uruguay, 1779-1913
… to draw its comparative advantage from the ecological services of its grassland environment. As these became more expensive relative to the declining terms of trade of beef, leather, and wool, Uruguayan agriculture entered a long cycle of stagnation: the background to the country’s divergent …
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the South African forestry industry – a Western Cape perspective
… a pivotal role in terms of timber production, ecological services and maintaining local livelihoods. In South Africa commercial forestry occupies a relatively small portion of the total land area, but contributes significantly towards the national GDP. Forestry had been labelled as a streamflow …
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