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Grassland Research, EarlyView.Herbaceous plant recovery following shrub clearing and reseeding in the rangelands of Peddie, Eastern Cape of South Africa. CTL, control; CO, cutting only; CR, cutting and reseeding; UPO, uprooting only; UPR, uprooting and reseeding. Abstract Background Shrub encroachment (SE) drives rangeland degradation, threatening biodiversity and forage ...
Monelisi Makanya +3 more
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Agricultural Best Management Practices and Treatment Wetlands in the Gabilan Watershed: Project Asessment and Evaluation Plan [PDF]
, 2006 Several local groups have come together for this project to addresses water quality concerns in the Gabilan Watershed – also known as the Reclamation Ditch Watershed (Fig. 1.1). These are Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML), the Resource Conservation
Brown, Karminder +8 more
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Realistic Representation, Dynamic Evolution and Determinants of Institutional Quality in China
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper delves into the role of institutional quality in bolstering China's economic resilience post‐COVID‐19, CITIC‐Entropy. It divides institutions into basic and changeable categories, establishing an index system via the CITIC‐Entropy TOPSIS model.
Susu Wang, Qidi Zhang, Jing Fang
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PLoS ONE, 2017 The article examines the detailed spatial and temporal distributions of coastal reclamation in the northwest coast of Bohai Bay experiencing rapid coastal reclamation in China from 1974 to 2010 in annual intervals.
Gaoru Zhu +4 more
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Geotechnical aspects of coastal reclamation projects
, 2013 This paper discusses important geotechnical aspects of coastal reclamation projects, in particular it addresses the key considerations related to planning and specification of ground improvement in calcareous sands. Out of the many factors that govern the formulation of adequate and effective ground improvement specifications, the paper discusses two ...
Ali, H.E., Damgaard, J.S.
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Coastal resource planning system: Integrating evaluation of ecological integrity and ecosystem services valuation [PDF]
, 2010 Efficient and effective coastal management decisions rely on knowledge of the impact of human activities on ecosystem integrity, vulnerable species, and valued ecosystem services—collectively, human impact on environmental quality (EQ). Ecosystem-based
McGee, Leslie-Anne, Stone, Harry
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Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, EarlyView.We demonstrated that Awaous tajasica performs facultative air breathing under experimental conditions of dissolved oxygen limitation, retaining air bubbles in the buccal cavity during gill ventilation. Morpho‐functional evidence indicates the use of atmospheric oxygen as a respiratory support under conditions of low water oxygenation.
João Pedro Trevisan +3 more
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Haiyang Kaifa yu guanli, 2022 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is an important space carrier for China to build a world-class city group and to participate in global competition. Since the 1980s, large-scale reclamation and cultivation activities have been carried out
Mianrun CHEN +4 more
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From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola +7 more
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