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Ecological Solutions and EvidenceMapping hotspots of negative human–wildlife interactions and understanding environmental drivers of crop raiding and livestock predation risk provide a foundation to work towards coexistence between people and wildlife. In this study, the binomial linear
Knowledge Kudakwashe Mawere +6 more
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The Collective Power of Bacteria as a Blueprint for Emergent Intelligence
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Small cells, powerful collectives. Bacteria demonstrate how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from many simple individuals working together. We explore the remarkable world of bacterial communities and the mechanisms that underpin their complex emergent behaviors, enabling impressive adaptability, robustness, and responsiveness to changing ...
Johanna A. Blee +2 more
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Elephant problem in the Mungo Division, Littoral Province (Cameroon)
Pachyderm, 1997 Results of a questionnnaire survey, involving 100 interviewees from 19 villages, and a dung survey in the Mungo Division provided insight into the seasonal migration patterns, density and distribution of elephants in the area and well as a better ...
Atanga Ekobo
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS) are historically distinct constructs that have converged to the point of conceptual confusion. This paper operates within the CSR tradition, arguing that authentic CS is structurally impossible without the ethical foundation CSR provides.
Massimo Franchi
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Crop raiding and conflict: Farmers’ perceptions of human-wildlife interactions in Hoima district, Uganda [PDF]
, 2012 Conflict between humans and crop raiding wildlife is a growing problem, particularly in tropical, unmechanised farming communities where increased competition for resources intensifies the likelihood of human-wildlife interactions.
Hiser, K
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Pachyderm, 2012 We investigated the degree to which crop raiding by elephants in the Red Volta Valley is a function of: the density and diversity of their natural browse, extent of degradation of their habitat, and proximity of crop enclaves to the nearest forest ...
Patrick Adjewodah +2 more
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Microclimate mediates the strength and direction of avian biotic interactions
Ecography, EarlyView.Theory predicts that the strength and direction of species interactions can shift from being competitive in benign environments toward being facilitative in stressful environments. However, the environmental context dependency of species interactions has rarely been tested in animal communities.
Sarah J. K. Frey +6 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
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Effect of spatial factors to crop-raiding by Japanese macaque
ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH, 2004 猿害は, 種々の防御策がとられてきたにも拘らず顕著に減っていない. 猿害急増の背景には, 自然林の大規模伐採等人為的な環境変動がサルの環境適応能力を発現させたためと考えられる, 本研究では, 鹿児島県屋久島を対象に, 被害低減に効果的な自然林および農地の配置決定を目的とし, ロジスティック回帰分析により, 被害レベルに対する空間要素の近接性の影響を調べた. その結果, 農地が森林, あるいは川幅の広い河川と離れていること, 幅員の広い道路と近いことが, 被害レベルを緩和することが示唆された.
MORINO, Mari, KOIKE, Fumito
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article advances three claims regarding the matrilineal organization of Wiradjuri society in central New South Wales. Drawing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century ethnographic record, it demonstrates that Wiradjuri descent, totem, moiety identity, and ceremonial authority were and are matrilineally organized, despite ...
Jessa Rogers
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