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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"environmental suitability"”.
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Climate change and disease at the human-wildlife interface
… climate variation from the last century on the environmental suitability of the rabies host Desmodus rotundus (common vampire bat) in Latin America. Findings revealed that average and standard deviation of temperature were the most important drivers of D. rotundus geographic distribution …
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School factors that contribute to the academic success of African American boys in an urban elementary school
… impacted by peer influence, teacher attitudes, environmental suitability within the school, and personal accountability of the participants themselves.
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Land degradation in drylands : resettlement and borehole provision in Gam, Namibia
… been recognised as a major economic, social and environmental problem, with more severity in arid and semi-arid regions of Africa. Throughout the dryland regions of Africa natural resources are deteriorating at an accelerating pace. This ecological degradation is caused by overexploitation of …
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Investigating the ecological and economic consequences of marine climate change in UK waters
… through bycatch and indicate likely changes in environmental suitability of protected areas. Results also demonstrate how an index of agreement may be used to promote the tractability and application of projections by non-specialist communities. Furthermore, total maximum catch potential within …
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Predicting malaria dynamics under climate change
… the dominant controls of malaria interact under environmental perturbations by quantitatively analyzing changes in malaria incidence rates. Here, a coupled ecohydrology-malaria dynamics model is developed to predict malaria dynamics under projected climate change. The impacts of ecologic …
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Ecological risk models for visceral leishmaniais [sic] in Bahia, Brazil and diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in dogs in south central Louisiana
… Bahia, Brazil. The objective was to define the environmental suitability of the disease as well as to obtain a deeper understanding of the eco-epidemiology of VL by associating environmental and climatic variables with disease prevalence. The RS, the GARP model and the GDD-WB model, using …
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Ecological niche models of early rice agriculture in prehistoric Japan
… to reflect the underlying variation in the environmental and climatic settings of the islands. However, this assumption has gone largely untested, mostly due to a focus within Japanese archaeological research on the local and micro scales. This thesis aims to explain the observed variation …
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Mechanistic modelling of the links between environment, mosquitoes and malaria transmission in the current and future climates of West Africa
… longevity, leading to a small net increase in environmental suitability for malaria transmission.
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Predicting the distribution and impacts of non-native birds in the Iberian Peninsula
… of non-native species, and interacts with environmental suitability to alter the species-environment relationship between the range-margin and the range core, and over time. Despite accounting for dispersal limitation in their evaluation, the performance of native-trained species …
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The ecology of chickens: an examination of the introduction of the domestic chicken across Europe after the Bronze Age.
… where its ancestor originates- geographically, environmentally and culturally. This study compiles zooarchaeological evidence for the chicken across Europe, combines it with evidence from archaeology and anthropology, and takes the novel approach of applying ecological and biogeographical …
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A “Neighborhood” Approach for Using Remotely Sensed Data to Post-Process Species Distribution Models for Conservation Assessments
… distribution models can be used to predict environmental suitability, estimate changes in species’ geographic ranges, and support conservation assessments. Masking suitability maps built from these models to remove areas currently lacking appropriate vegetation can refine predictions and aid …
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Quantifying the Service Life and Potential Environmental Benefits of Recycled Asphalt Pavements
… it has become important to document the cost and environmental impacts of different MandR strategies over the life cycle of the pavement to facilitate project selection decisions in the future. Asphalt pavement recycling, while cost-effective and environmentally friendly compared to other …
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Better understanding human impacts on river thermal regimes under climate change
… The number of stream segments that are environmentally suitable for an exotic and lucrative rainbow trout, a coldwater species, will greatly shrink under climate change. Only 4.4% of historically suitable streams will remain, mostly located at reservoir tailwaters. For endemic coolwater …
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Ecohydrology of Natural and Restored Wetlands in a Glacial Plain
… to future wetland restoration. </p> <p>From an environmental engineering perspective, wetlands are regarded as complex environments controlled by regional geomorphology, atmosphere, geologic setting, and human activity. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was tasked with developing a …