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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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Crop-raiding macaques: predictions, patterns and perceptions from Langtang National Park, Nepal [PDF]
Endangered Species Research, 2013 Crop-raiding by wild animals is increasingly known to cause conflict between these animals and humans; subsequent losses incurred by farmers may make communities antagonistic and intolerant towards wildlife protection. There is an increasing need to understand interspecific and geographic differences in patterns of crop-raiding.
GR Regmi +3 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Tropical forests are rapidly declining. One promising strategy to reverse the loss of tropical forest is the establishment of agroforestry on open land. We combined interviews with biodiversity surveys to learn general lessons from success and nonsuccess stories of the establishment of open‐land‐derived coffee agroforests in one of the world's ...
Lucas M. Fonzaghi +3 more
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Do cattle determine elephant distribution in the Red Volta Valley of northern Ghana?
Pachyderm, 2002 Elephants in the northeastern Ghana border area adjacent Burkina Faso move along the Red Volta River Valley raiding crops enroute, and routinely cross back and forth between the countries.
Moses Sam +2 more
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Did Ebola emerge in West Africa by a policy-driven phase change in agroecology? Ebola's social context [PDF]
, 2014 SCOPUS: no.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics ...
Balan R +22 more
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Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, EarlyView.
Mark Rebeiz +9 more
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Effects of bioinsecticide exposure route on aphids and their natural enemies in oilseed rape
Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Fatty acids, silicone polymers and surfactants reduced aphid numbers but caused natural enemy mortality under direct exposure, while minimal residual activity suggests potential for targeted, compatible use in integrated pest management. Abstract BACKGROUND Myzus persicae Sulzer and Brevicoryne brassicae L.
Aimee J. Tonks +3 more
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An update on crop-raiding by elephants at Bia Conservation Area, Ghana from 2004 to 2006
Pachyderm, 2008 The study updates the post 2004 elephant crop-raiding situation around Bia Conservation Area (BCA). This was done through an analysis of data on elephant damage from crop-raiding report forms completed for all raids occurring between 2004 and 2006 at ...
Samuel Oppong +2 more
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Metabolic changes to GLUT-4 levels in urban Chacma baboons on the Cape Peninsula: raiding their way to type 2 diabetes? [PDF]
, 2013 The Chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) of the Cape Peninsula are established raiders of human food, leading to widespread conflict between this intelligent, adaptable species and humans.
Van Velden, Julia
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More valuable dead than deterred? Crop‐raiding bears in Lao PDR
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2014 ABSTRACT Human–bear conflicts may contribute to population declines of Asiatic black bears ( Ursus thibetanus ) and sun bears ( Helarctos malayanus ) in Southeast Asia.
Lorraine Scotson +2 more
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