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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"reserve management"”.
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Relative Invertebrate Availability in Nebraska's Conservation Reserve Management Access Program
<p>The Conservation Reserve Management Access Program (CRP-MAP) is a joint effort of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and Pheasants Forever of Nebraska that seeks to address brood habitat needs of pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) and other grassland birds by light disking and interseeding …
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Road reserves as conservation assets : exploring the species of conservation concern and the ecological condition of the N7 road reserve
… the ecological condition of the N7 road reserve, focusing on the vegetation condition and conservation value of the reserve and adjacent farmland, and the plant species of conservation concern (Red List species) located within the reserve. The aim was to assess the conservation value of …
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The effects of fire on the Southern Long-nosed Bandicoot (Perameles nasuta Geoffroy) in a highly heterogeneous landscape
Management of fire and fire regimes is an important part of reserve management. In Australia, fire is used as a management tool to protect human infrastructure and cultural and natural assets. It is also used in reserve management to reduce fuel loads and promote the regrowth of fire-dependent …
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The effects of fire on the Southern Long-nosed Bandicoot (Perameles nasuta Geoffroy) in a highly heterogeneous landscape
Management of fire and fire regimes is an important part of reserve management. In Australia, fire is used as a management tool to protect human infrastructure and cultural and natural assets. It is also used in reserve management to reduce fuel loads and promote the regrowth of fire-dependent …
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The Ecology and Management of Kalahari lions in a Conflict Area in Central Botswana
… in the north of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), in central Botswana. The collars acquired total of 241,858 usable GPS fixes and I visited each lion monthly. Lion spatial behaviour appears to have changed in response to the decline in herbivores, although there is only a small …
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The Ecology and Management of Kalahari lions in a Conflict Area in Central Botswana
… in the north of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), in central Botswana. The collars acquired total of 241,858 usable GPS fixes and I visited each lion monthly. Lion spatial behaviour appears to have changed in response to the decline in herbivores, although there is only a small …
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Planning for a changing environment: administration and management of South Georgia
The administration and management of South Georgia's fauna developed through the regulation of the sealing and whaling industries of the late 19th and 20th centuries. These regulations began as economic measures to benefit the industry with little thought given to preserving stocks. The relative …
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Phytosociology and vegetation ecology of uMlalazi Nature Reserve
… name the vegetation clusters in uMlalazi Nature Reserve. A total of 149 relevés were sampled. The sampling was carried out according to the Braun-Blanquet method with the plant data entered in TURBOVEG and exported into Juice. Classification was completed using the modified TWINSPAN algorithm, …
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Managing wet grassland landscapes: impacts on predators and wader nest predation
… ranges are now increasingly restricted to nature reserves. The habitat requirements of these species, and management actions to achieve these conditions, are well-established but the recovery of many populations may be limited by high levels of predation of eggs and chicks. In this thesis, I …
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Long-term Vegetation Change Before and After Converting from Livestock farming to Game Ranching in Asante Sana Game Reserve, South Africa
… production to game ranching. Asante Sana Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape has centuries old land use history, during which it was cultivated and heavily overgrazed by domestic livestock with associated loss in vegetation productivity and subsequent soil erosion. After 1996 game ranching was …
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Vegetation, diversity and rarity on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
… rarity has become a considerable problem for reserve management. To date, there have been no studies which compare the attributes of rare and ' common plant species. There were no strong relationships between rarity status and biological attributes of species. However, rare species occupy …
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Driving giants: spatial and temporal variables influencing giraffe movements in a private protected area
… Giraffe movement and landscape use within the reserve may therefore be strongly influenced by the presence of lions, together with various environmental factors such as water accessibility, habitat preferences, and the need for sufficient food intake to meet their substantial daily energy …
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Investigating the conservation value of leopard population indices obtained through camera traps in the greater Kruger region of South Africa
… densities are decreasing across many small reserves in South Africa. Modifications to current management regimes, informed by monitoring programs, are thus crucial to the persistence of the species. Kruger National Park (KNP) is the largest protected area in South Africa and has thus been …
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Parentage analysis in a free-ranging, closed population of southern white rhinoceros : genetics, pedigrees and management
… simum simum) located on Ongava Game Reserve (OGR) in the north of Namibia. I used genetic techniques to obtain a genotype for each animal in the population, and then used detailed reserve management records from the period 1993-2009 to constrain the statistical process of parentage …
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Sterling and the Stability of the International Monetary System, 1944-1971
… with sterling having lost its relevance as reserve currency. However, despite being a secondary reserve currency and having lost importance, sterling was the ‘first line of defence for the dollar’ as contemporaries put it. They frequently stressed the fact that a sterling crisis would have …
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Reserva Extrativista Chico Mendes AC: os desafios de gestão (com)partilhada
A presente pesquisa discute os desafios da gestão compartilhada na Reserva Extrativista Chico Mendes (RESEX Chico Mendes), localizada no Estado do Acre. Oficialmente, a gestão da RESEX Chico Mendes está sob a responsabilidade de um Conselho Gestor, do qual participam desde o órgão gestor (ICMBio) …