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Conservation of Genetic Diversity of Tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.)

Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca: Agriculture, 2021
Among the main problems encountered with crop plants, the most important one is represented by genetic erosion. At world level this issue has been debated within the Convention on Biodiversity adopted in UN Conference of Rio de Janeiro and The ...
Cristian ALBU, Aurel MAXIM, Raluca Maria PÂRLICI   +2 more
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Stakeholder mapping as a transdisciplinary exercise for jaguar conservation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Conservation Science and Practice, 2022
Transdisciplinary projects are fundamental to a more effective and just conservation, but their application and coherent framing present challenges, since their nature is to bring together different epistemological backgrounds and world views. This paper
Laila Thomaz Sandroni, Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de BarrosFerraz, Silvio Marchini, Alexandre Percequillo, Robert Coates, Roberta Montanheiro Paolino, Yara Barros, Mariana Landis, Yuri Geraldo Gomes Ribeiro, Leticia Prado Munhoes   +9 more
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Bridging the gap between researchers, conservation planners, and decision makers to improve species conservation decision‐making

Conservation Science and Practice, 2021
Species distribution modeling (SDM) is a promising tool for priority setting, conservation decision‐making and overall support for species conservation. We developed a participatory modeling process (PMP) to ensure both the proper use of SDMs as well as ...
Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz, Ronaldo Gonçalves Morato, Alex Augusto Abreu Bovo, Carolina Ortiz Rocha daCosta, Yuri Geraldo G. Ribeiro, Rogério Cunha dePaula, Arnaud Leonard Jean Desbiez, Cintia Silva Camila Angelieri, Kathy Traylor‐Holzer   +8 more
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Soil management practices adopted by farmers and how they perceive conservation agriculture

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2022
: In some rural properties of Brazil, soil and water conservation practices are partially or inappropriately implemented, intensifying soil erosion, even in no-tillage (NT) areas.
T. S. Telles, T. Melo, A. Righetto, E. Didoné, G. M. Barbosa   +4 more
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Soil Health Check-Up of Conservation Agriculture Farming Systems in Brazil

Agronomy, 2021
Conservation agriculture has been promoted as the main strategy to regenerate soil life but its effect on soil enzyme activity remains little documented. This study investigated the β-glucosidase and arylsulfatase enzymes as tools to evaluate soil health
Jardel H. Passinato, T. Amado, A. Kassam, Jose A. Acosta, L. P. Amaral   +4 more
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AGRICULTURE IN URBAN ECOSYSTEMS: A STEP TO CITIES SUSTAINABILITY1 [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade, 2019
Urban Agriculture (UA) has emerged as an alternative capable of fostering sustainable relations among the economic, social and environmental spheres in cities.
THAYZA DE OLIVEIRA BATITUCCI, ERIKA CORTINES, FÁBIO SOUTO ALMEIDA, ÂNGELA ALVES DE ALMEIDA   +3 more
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Relation entre taux de couverture du sol et biomasse de résidus de cultures : une simplification prédictive est envisageable

Cahiers Agricultures, 2019
En système d’agriculture de conservation, les résidus de cultures ne sont plus brassés dans un volume de sol labouré mais maintenus à la surface des sols ou partiellement enfouis.
Thiebeau Pascal
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Social Repercussion of Translocating a Jaguar in Brazil

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022
The translocation of “problem-animals” is a common non-lethal strategy to deal with human-wildlife conflict. While processes of wildlife translocation have been widely documented, little is known about the social repercussions that take place once the ...
Cláudia S. G. Martins, Mônica T. Engel, Maria Augusta Guimarães, Roberta M. Paolino, Roberta M. Paolino, Francine Schulz, Carolina Franco Esteves   +6 more
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The Committee on Lands of the Conservation Commission, Canada, 1909-1921: Romantic Agrarianism in Ontario in an Age of Agricultural Realism [PDF]

, 1997
The Conservation Commission of Canada (CCC) was formed in 1909 as an advisory body to Liberal Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier. It was divided into eight committees, each of which dealt with the management of a specific natural resource.
Bowley, Patricia M.
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A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods

Nature, 2022
Comprehensive assessments of species’ extinction risks have documented the extinction crisis1 and underpinned strategies for reducing those risks2. Global assessments reveal that, among tetrapods, 40.7% of amphibians, 25.4% of mammals and 13.6% of birds ...
N. Cox, B. Young, Philip Bowles, Miguel Fernandez, Julie Marin, G. Rapacciuolo, M. Böhm, T. Brooks, S. B. Hedges, C. Hilton‐Taylor, M. Hoffmann, Richard K. B. Jenkins, M. Tognelli, G. Alexander, A. Allison, N. Ananjeva, M. Auliya, L. Avila, D. G. Chapple, D. Cisneros-Heredia, H. Cogger, G. Colli, Anslem de Silva, C. C. Eisemberg, J. Els, A. Fong G., Tandora D Grant, R. Hitchmough, D. Iskandar, Noriko Kidera, M. Martins, Shai Meiri, N. Mitchell, Sanjay Molur, C. Nogueira, J. Ortíz, Johannes Penner, A. Rhodin, Gilson A. Rivas, Mark‐Oliver Rödel, U. Roll, K. Sanders, G. Santos-Barrera, G. Shea, S. Spawls, B. Stuart, K. Tolley, J. Trape, Marcela A Vidal, P. Wagner, B. Wallace, Yan Xie   +51 more
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