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Integrated Analysis of Physical Resilience in the Historical Area of Hasan Abad Bazaar in Isfahan against Earthquakes [PDF]
مسکن و محیط روستا, 2023 Preserving historical fabric has always been a major challenge in urban management systems. For example, in terms of increasing safety, these fabrics are either subjected to large-scale interventions or left untouched as a separate area in higher-level ...
Mohammadhosein Mahdavi Ghahsareh +1 more
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Animals, 2022 Researchers have proposed a variety of classification schemes for the species in the genus Muntiacus (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) based on morphological, molecular, and other evidence, but disputes remain.
Yuan Wang +6 more
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Landscape metrics as indicators of avian community structures – A state of the art review
Ecological Indicators, 2022 In this state-of-the-art review, we investigate the use of landscape metrics in landscape ecology studies to predict structure of avian communities. We reviewed papers published in international peer-reviewed journals indexed by Web of Science Core, from
Katharina Adler, Eckhard Jedicke
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Forest Ecosystems, 2017 Background Forest management strategies such as thinning have long been used to enhance ecosystem functions, especially in plantations. Thinning in plantations with high deer density, however, may not yield a desired increase in understory vegetation ...
Atsushi Tamura, Masanobu Yamane
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Place Identity translating into Culture: the town of Rajapur in the cultural region of Konkan
Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2023 This paper deals in defining the place identity of cultural town of Rajapur, located in the Konkan region. Rajapur is the valley situated at the confluence of the 'Arjuna' and ‘Godi’ river.
Prachitee Naik, Vishakha Kawathekar
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Conservation Businesses and Conservation Planning in a Biological Diversity Hotspot [PDF]
Conservation Biology, 2013 Abstract The allocation of land to biological diversity conservation competes with other land uses and the needs of society for development, food, and extraction of natural resources. Trade‐offs between biological diversity conservation and alternative land uses are unavoidable, given the realities of limited conservation resources ...
DI MININ, ENRICO +5 more
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Sensitivity analysis of conservation targets in systematic conservation planning [PDF]
Ecological Applications, 2015 Systematic conservation planning has rapidly advanced in the past decade and has been increasingly incorporated in multiple studies and conservation projects. One of its requirements is a quantitative definition of conservation targets. While the Convention on Biological Diversity aims to expand the world's protected area network to 17% of the land ...
Levin, Noam +4 more
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A simple and practical measure of the connectivity of protected area networks: The ProNet metric
Conservation Science and Practice, 2022 Measuring connectivity is key to track progress toward broad conservation goals, such as the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity's proposed Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
David M. Theobald +3 more
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Evaluation of the wind erosion risks in GIS
Soil and Water Research, 2007 The paper refers to the possibilities of the evaluation of the wind erosion risks by using a model created in GIS. The model exploits the pedological information database for determining the potential risks of soils by wind erosion.
Jana Podhrázská, Ivan Novotný
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Landscape Online, 2020 Biosphere Reserves are considered as means for the people who live and work within them to attain a balanced relationship with the natural and semi-natural environment.
Mita Drius +5 more
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