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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"forest clearing"”.
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Forest Loss Trajectories and Palm Oil Extent in Indonesia
Tropical forests provide critically important ecosystem services, and they are particularly important for their levels of biodiversity and for the carbon that they store. Yet despite global efforts to slow or halt deforestation, natural forests in the tropics continue to be cleared, primarily for …
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The clearing of being: a phenomenological study of openness in psychotherapy
… The study was guided by Heidegger’s image of a forest clearing (die Lichtung), a metaphor for the Openness of Being. Through phenomenological description the research explores how Openness enables the dialectic between disclosure and concealment in the therapeutic space. At the same time it …
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Optical and radar remote sensing of land use and land cover change in the tropics: An assessment of deforestation and secondary vegetation
… carbon flux requires estimates of rates of deforestation, pre- and post-disturbance biomass, and fate of the cleared land. Synoptic observations of the extent, persistence, rates of secondary succession, and structure or biomass of regrowing forests would also help constrain estimates of net …
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The effects of forest disturbance on stream stability
… stability of stream ecosystems in response to forest disturbance and subsequent succession. Stability was defined as the ability of streams to retain particulate organic matter and nutrients during storms. I hypothesized that forest streams are least stable during the intermediate stages of …
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The climatic significance of tropical forest edges and their representation in global climate models
… created in the clearance of tropical humid forests influence water exchange between remnant forest patches and the atmosphere, and, if so, how this affects regional and global water exchange. Fieldwork presented in this thesis ascertains whether the amount of water transferred to the …
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Forecasted Afrotropical Forest Responses to Climate Change Diverge from Neotropical Predictions with Consequences for Biodiversity Conservation and Carbon Storage
<p>Understanding how tropical forests respond to changes in the abiotic environment and human disturbance is critical for preserving biodiversity, mitigating climate change, and maintaining ecosystem services in the coming century. The lowland rainforests of Central Africa in particular are …
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Multi-Scale Modelling of Cold Regions Hydrology
… and mass budget were used to simulate SWE in a forest clearing in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. It was found that 1) a compensatory response was present in the fully coupled models’ energy and mass balance that reduced their sensitivity to errors in meteorology and albedo and 2) the weakly …
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Struktur komunitas tumbuhan bawah pada tegakan terbuka dan tertutup serta pemanfaatannya oleh masyarakat di Taman Hutan Raya (TAHURA) R. Soerjo Cangar Kota Batu
… Diversity of biological resources in tropical forests not limited on woody plant species or chronic, but there is also a lower vegetation which has a high species diversity. Under Plants are plants that live down on the forest floor, and covering the ground. The structure of tree stands formed …
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Effects of Forest Fragmentation on Central Amazonian Bird Demography
… in cleared and disturbed areas. Regenerating forest facilitates bird dispersal within degraded Amazonian landscapes and may tip the balance in favor of persistence in previously depauperate habitat patches. Despite the potential value of Amazonian second growth, we lack comparisons of …
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Tropical bracken, a powerful invader of pastures in South Ecuador: Species composition, ecology, control measures, and pasture restoration
… weeds, especially where fire has been used for forest clearing or maintenance of agricultural areas. Taxonomically, it is considered an aggregate that separates into a northern hemispherical and a southern, tropical complex. Different from the extensively studied northern bracken, the knowledge …
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The Unforgiving Margin in the Fiction of Christopher Isherwood
… bushy cliff behind shut it in like a house in a forest clearing. `As good as being on our own island,' George said." In essence, George and Jim cut themselves off from the world. They live unto each other and in a community of like-minded people. Together on the margin, they are content and …