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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"habitat protection"”.
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An Analysis of Environmental Advertising Frames from 1990 to 2010
… was issue-specific (e.g., pollution, species/habitat protection) or generic. Findings indicate that responsibility frames were overwhelmingly dominant as the strategy used to advertise products, goods and services. The responsibility frame was also prevalent in issue-specific ads. …
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Optimising the trade-offs between food production, biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Neotropics
… links high yield agriculture with increased habitat protection or restoration. Previous studies have examined the relative benefits of the two strategies in different agricultural systems and regions. However, my research is the first to look at a wide range of alternative livestock …
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A geospatial tool for assessing potential wildland fire risk in central Texas.
… of WUI fire disasters, facilitate watershed and habitat protection, and help direct efforts in post wildland fire mitigation and restoration.
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Money for something? Investigating the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation interventions in the Northern Plains of Cambodia
… intervention (including species conservation, habitat protection, human wellbeing or participation goals), and because the process of measuring impacts can involve a simplification of more sophisticated ideals. These questions were investigated for a suite of biodiversity conservation …
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American rivers are transporting more sediment in less time
… implications for sediment budgeting, aquatic habitat protection, reservoir and flood-control infrastructure, and the design of best-management practices.
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Genetic Assessment of Rare Blackbanded Sunfish (Enneacanthus Chaetodon) Populations in Virginia
… good fitness and were not impacted severely by habitat alteration. The results of this study are relevant to selection of proper management techniques and strategies for this species. Mitochondrial DNA analyses detected no variation in the Virginia populations but significant (P F > 0.2) of …
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Ecotourism and Human-Bear Relations in Ontario: Working for Multispecies Respect and Economic Sustainability
… of guided bear viewing and accompanying habitat protection. This study also reveals areas of possibility and incentive for locales seeking to transition into ecotourism.
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The Impact of Relational Model Bases on Organizational Decision Making: Cases in E-Commerce and Ecological Economics
… being preservation of biodiversity through land (habitat) protection.
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AN INQUIRY INTO ECO-LABELING: THE PROMISE OF PREDATOR FRIENDLY CERTIFICATION (PFC)
… key roles in preserving biodiversity through habitat protection while providing ecosystem services necessary for rural livelihoods. There is a small, but growing movement among agricultural producers to live with nature rather than to dominate nature. Within this larger agriculture movement …
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AN INQUIRY INTO ECO-LABELING: THE PROMISE OF PREDATOR FRIENDLY CERTIFICATION (PFC)
… key roles in preserving biodiversity through habitat protection while providing ecosystem services necessary for rural livelihoods. There is a small, but growing movement among agricultural producers to live with nature rather than to dominate nature. Within this larger agriculture movement …
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Holomorphology and systematics of the eastern Nearctic stonefly genus Remenus Ricker (Plecoptera: Perlodidae)
… was used to identify potentially suitable habitats for these species. Model results were used to identify differences in the bioclimatic envelope inhabited by each species, and assess the current status of habitat protection. The models were able to successfully predict the potential …
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Space Use by Piscivorous Birds, Fish, and Humans on a Multi-Use Lake in Southern Saskatchewan
… as industrial and agricultural uses, may alter habitat and water quality. Consequently, it is important to understand how economically important fish species (walleye Sander vitreus; northern pike Esox Lucius; and burbot Lota lota) use lakes and identify key areas for protection and management …
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Boundaries of absolute protection: distribution of benefit and harm to birds through law and planning in New Zealand
… indigenous Threatened or At Risk species, their habitats, and ecosystems upon which they depend, will benefit birds. It concludes that conservation status, as opposed to habitat or sectoral dispensation, is an important determinant for application of the standard, as this provides the most …
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INVASION DYNAMICS OF FRESHWATER CRAYFISH IN A MAN-DOMINATED LAND: SPATIO-TEMPORAL, ECOLOGICAL AND HUMAN DIMENSIONS
… limited diffusion and offered less suitable habitat for establishment. Second, the field study presented in Chapter 3 warns on the possible negative effects of P. clarkii on native amphibians living at the border of today’s distribution in hilly and mountain areas. The research compares …
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The role of abiotic and biotic interactions in deep-sea benthic habitats of the northeastern Gulf of Cadiz
… a wide variety of geomorphic features, benthic habitats, and organisms. A high-resolution morpho-sedimentary analysis, based on geophysical data, sediment samples and submarine imagery, has been carried out; the onset and evolution of the main geoforms are discussed; and the influence of …
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Conserving the iconic and highly threatened mahseer fishes of South and Southeast Asia.
… development of economic incentivised community habitat protection initiatives. Specifically, community level recognition that a live fish captured and released by paying anglers has a renewable value over the single revenue value of a harvested fish, has been shown to offer employment …