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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"site impacts"”.
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Wilderness visitor response to ranger educational contacts at trailheads
… determined whether or not the visitors felt that site conditions in the wilderness were getting better or worse. On-site questionnaires were administered to visitors as they left the area. A majority felt the trailhead contact was a light-handed way to manage wilderness use. The visitors felt that …
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Spatial and Temporal Land Use Change in Southern Illinois' Clear Springs and Bald Knob Wilderness Areas
… system (GIS). Current wilderness recreation site impacts and opportunities for solitude conditions were inventoried. Land-cover data for 1938, 1965, 1993, and 2005 were created and analyzed utilizing a geographic information system (GIS). Results indicate that land use change and land …
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Effects of Bird Feeder Density on the Behavior and Ecology of a Feeder-Dependent Songbird: Patterns and Implications for Disease Transmission
… how the degree of anthropogenic feeding at a site impacts wild birds in ways relevant to disease transmission. We manipulated the density of bird feeders (low versus high) available at otherwise similar sites and tracked the local abundance, body condition (scaled-mass index), feeding …
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Evaluating Energywood Harvesting Operations in The Lower Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States
… from two other independent studies, comparing site impact metrics from energywood and conventional harvests across the Mountain, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain regions of Virginia. In the first study, cut and haul costs averaged $32.07/tonne and ranged from $26.19 to $38.28/tonne. Hauling …
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A Framework for Benchmarking and Monitoring Building Construction Embodied Carbon Footprint using Building Information Models
… delivery strategies that minimize the cradle-to-site impacts. Second, majority LCA tools ignore the impact of construction means and methods during the construction phase. Third, there is a lack of metrics and visualization tools that assess environmental impacts of decisions made during …
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Integration Sites in the Persistence of Latent HIV-1
… the contribution of proviral integration site to HIV-1 latency and the maintenance of the replication-competent, or intact, reservoir. Using an innovative single-cell sequencing technique that provides paired proviral sequence and integration site information, as well as enables selective …