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Limited impacts of climatic conditions on commercial oil palm yields in Malaysian plantations

open access: yesCABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2022
Background Oil palm is a key driver of deforestation, but increasing yields in existing plantations could help meet rising global demands, while avoiding further conversion of natural habitat.
Susannah Fleiss   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating Speed Error of Commercial Radar Tracking to Inform Whale–Ship Strike Mitigation Efforts

open access: yesSensors
Vessel speed reduction measures are a management tool used to reduce the risk of whale–ship strikes and mitigate their impacts. Large ships and other commercial vessels are required to publicly share tracking information, including their speed, via the ...
Samantha Cope King   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Glacial geomorphology of the Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2019
Several regions of tropical America show imprints of past glacial activity. These relict landforms can support the understanding of past climate conditions, such as during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), and the implications that these paleoclimatic ...
Adolfo Quesada-Román   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Projecting utopian thought: The conceptualization of the “good Anthropocene” in Kim Stanley Robinson’s "The Ministry for the Future" (2020)

open access: yesIlha do Desterro, 2023
While the Anthropocene has traditionally been associated with apocalyptic images, the notion of the good Anthropocene, widely criticized since its origin, has emerged as its utopian counterpart.
Ana Tejero-Marín
doaj   +1 more source

Climate impacts on tree growth in a Neotropical high mountain forest of the Peruvian Andes

open access: yesiForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2020
Global warming can jeopardize important ecosystem functions and services in sensitive Neotropical mountain areas. However, untangling the relative roles of natural climate variability pattern from current global warming trends still represent a major ...
Rodríguez-Morata C   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biodiversity arks in the Anthropocene

open access: yesRegional Sustainability, 2021
The Anthropocene proposal suggested that the Earth may have entered a new geological epoch, in which human activity and climate change are influencing the environment at global scale.
Honghu Meng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Abysses and Ghosts. Remarks for a Discourse on Anthropocene Hyper-Aesthetics

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2023
In reflecting on a possible aesthetic of the Anthropocene, it seems spontaneous to refer first of all to the figurative and visual outcomes that have been produced within the specific reflection on the topic or at least traditionally associated with the ...
Stefano Ascari
doaj   +1 more source

Multi‐Omics‐Driven Adaptive Management of Biological Invasions: Toward a Proactive, Predictive, and Integrative Framework

open access: yesBiological Diversity, EarlyView.
A proactive, predictive, and integrative framework that integrates multi‐omics innovations with ecological modeling and big data analytics to guide adaptive interventions and governance in invasive species management. By integrating multi‐omics insights with advanced ecological modeling, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and cross‐disciplinary ...
Aibin Zhan
wiley   +1 more source

Hazards and disasters in the Anthropocene: some critical reflections for the future

open access: yesGeoscience Letters, 2018
The arrival of the Anthropocene presents many challenges—both theoretical and practical. Scholars in different disciplines, practitioners, the public and others, are all considering the meaning of the Anthropocene and how its arrival affects their ways ...
Dale Dominey-Howes
doaj   +1 more source

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