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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"ecological understanding"”.
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Ecological Understanding through Transdisciplinary Art and Participatory Biology
… programs may successfully increase public understanding of ecological phenomenon. As today’s environmental issues are often complex and large-scale, finding effective strategies that encourage public awareness and stewardship are paramount for long-term conservation of species and …
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Dynamics of two South African floodplain forests
… vegetation changes that will affect the understanding, management and conservation of these systems. This is particularly true in semi-arid environments where a functioning river is a vital source of water and nutrients for the maintenance of riparian biota, especially riverine forests. …
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Haiti's Troubles: Perspectives From the Theology of Work and From Liberation Theology
… workers in the context of entrenched poverty and ecological devastation. It seeks to formulate a Christian theological-ethical framework that will empower movements of both the Church and Haitian society to engage the problems of the degradation of work and exploitation of workers. This …
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Understanding Invasive Species Impacts on Reclaimed Surface-Mined Lands
… restoration outcomes, and advocate for a better understanding of how these species could contribute towards a more ecological understanding of reclamation. Reclamation goals are currently assessed after 5 years, prioritizing short-term goals (e.g. erosion control) instead of longer-term goals …
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Building A Mechanistic Understanding Of Biodiversity And Ecosystem Functioning In Forests
… using socially engaged art to co-create ecological understanding with broader communities. This research highlights the interconnectedness between trees, abiotic factors, and different trophic levels – including people. A deep understanding of how tree diversity and community composition …
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Ecological Factors Influencing Infection Rates of the Birch Polypore Inonotus obliquus in the Laurentian Mixed Forest Province
… properties. However, there is a dearth of ecological understanding of this fungus; even basic infection rates tend to be anecdotal or lack statistical rigor to guide new research and provide management guidelines ensuring sustainable harvest. Here I determine factors influencing conk …
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The ecological turn: positioning the natural world in post-Mao fiction and film
… (personal and cultural), and history. The term “ecological turn” derives from the work of notable ecocritics such as Lawrence Buell and Greg Garrard and it is assigned within this research to describe a heightening interest among Mainland Chinese intellectuals to study the interactions of humans, …
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A study of peer activity in the early years through a range of contextual frameworks
… is required to enhance the practitioner's understanding of peer activity. <br></br><br></br> It is argued that context and peer activity are inextricably linked. If we are to consider peer activity, then its relationship with context must be more fully studied and articulated than in …
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From Sympathy to Synergy: Humane Activism in the Modern Environmental Movement
… their politics, and they were rewarded with new understandings of human/animal relationships through advances in science in every field from ecology and ethology to genetics. Animal welfare activists capitalized on the widespread sympathy for other animals that Americans exhibited during the …
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The Cumberland Trail: an assessment of the land acquisitions and potential ecological value of Tennessee's new linear park
… State Park land acquisition effort, with further ecological monitoring and analysis, will provide substantial contributions to sound conservation of the Cumberland Plateau. The ecological value and potential contribution of the developing park receive close analysis here, using academic research …
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Yellow Perch Recruitment and Potential Interactions with Smallmouth Bass in Eastern South Dakota Glacial Lakes
… early life history dynamics is important for ecological understanding and applied management in an aut- and synecological context. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to: 1) estimate the extent of spatial synchrony in production of larval yellow perch; 2) estimate the influence of …
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Soils of regeneration: exploring conceptualizations of the natural world as a context for an ecologically-sensitive curriculum
David Orr (1994) asserts that the ecological crisis is a crisis of education. This study explores the relationship between the ecological crisis and education by examining the role that language plays in shaping perceptions of the natural world. Toward this end it analyzes narratives of science, …
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Using ecosystem services mapping in deep-sea Marine Spatial Planning
… simultaneous attainment of socio-economic and ecological goals. Yet there exists a bias towards assessing ES in terrestrial and coastal systems. Deep-sea applications are particularly scant. Assessing ES provided by the deep sea is undermined by the lack of ecological data and scientific …
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Predicting rates and patterns of alien plant spread
… was that such a model would both improve our understanding of the determinants of invasions and allow us to make predictions on the rates and patterns of alien plant spread. Such predictions are likely to be extremely valuable for the tactical and strategic management of plant invasions. Many …
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Rebuilding the city from an ecological perspective
The depth and severity of the planet's ecological and social crisis demands solutions and actions which exceed the capacity and ability of our dominant paradigm. Western culture -- its set of values, attitudes, ethics, institutions and traditions -- is inherently non-sustainable. This is especially …
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The Effects of Global Change on Avian Biodiversity
… observer behavior and expertise. Identifying and understanding the sources of these biases can help with integration of these two datasets in future analyses.</p><p>Next, I examined how winter climate and food availability interact to influence local bird abundances. During winter, temperature …
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Environmental Controls Over the Distribution and Function of Antarctic Soil Microbial Communities
… to microbial systems and accelerate an emerging ecological understanding of the "unseen majority." These considerations suggest a need to define the important mechanisms which affect microbial biogeography as well as the sensitivity of community structure/function to changing climatic or …
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Seaweed Farming and Intra-Household Gender Relations on Songo Songo Island, Tanzania
… relations within a highly dynamic social and ecological context. It focuses on how men and women use marine resources for their livelihoods and how the rise of seaweed farming and its decline due to plant disease have affected intra-household gender relations on Songo Songo Island in Tanzania. …
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Spatiotemporal Modeling for Wildlife Demographic Analysis: Bridging Analysis to Waterfowl Conservation
Examining variation in ecological systems is critical to understanding the fundamental demographic processes (e.g. reproduction, survival, growth, and dispersal) that govern populations and manage them in an increasingly altered world. Population dynamics often respond to environmental alterations, …
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Exploitation of underexplored physiological, metabarcoding and evolutionary aspects to enhance invasive insect pest management
… Drosophila populations, aiming to enhance the ecological understanding of this species and shed light on the metabolic and water management implications of living at different altitudes. Consequently, the results would provide insights into survivability, adaptability, pest distribution, and …
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