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Data‐Based Detection of Antagonistic Agents in a Robot Swarm Solving a Dynamic Coverage Task

International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robot swarms can be deployed as moving surveillance systems, for instance, as mobile anti‐poaching systems for monitoring wildlife and detecting poaching activities. Since poachers have an interest in evading detection, robots are at risk of being hijacked and manipulated to behave antagonistically, for example, to prevent the correct ...
Ingeborg Wenger, Peter Eberhard, Henrik Ebel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from contingent valuation of elephants [PDF]

If local communities living adjacent to the elephant see it as a burden, then they cannot be trusted to be its stewards. To assess their valuation of it, a CVM study was conducted for one CAMPFIRE district in Zimbabwe.
Edwin Muchapondwa, Fredrik Carlsson, Gunmar Köhlin   +2 more
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Economy: photographs of the Elephant and Castle [PDF]

, 2012
Economy: the Elephant and Castle was the third part of a three-part work in book and exhibition format and entitled The Elephant Vanishes. Patrick Sutherland is Director of The Elephant Vanishes, a long-term photographic documentation of the ...
Sutherland, Patrick
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Partial recovery of large seed arrival following ecological restoration in fragmented tropical rainforests

Oikos, EarlyView.
Forest restoration success depends crucially on the reinitiation of ecological processes such as seed arrival that drive natural regeneration. We know little about whether, by increasing and diversifying local seed sources to alleviate seed limitation, and attracting animal frugivores to alleviate dispersal limitation, restoration could shift seed ...
Aparna Krishnan, Jyotsna Nag, S. Arun, Divya Mudappa, T. R. Shankar Raman, Mahesh Sankaran, Anand M. Osuri   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Butterfly and moth habitat specialisation changes along an elevational gradient of tropical forests on Mount Cameroon

Oikos, EarlyView.
Niche breadth, reflecting the range of environmental conditions or resources a species can exploit, influences its distribution, persistence, vulnerability to environmental change, and interspecific interactions. The elevational niche‐breadth hypothesis predicts broader ecological niches at higher elevations due to increased environmental stress and ...
Fernando P. Gaona, Sylvain Delabye, Vincent Maicher, Szabolcs Sáfián, Jan Altman, Jiří Doležal, Štěpán Janeček, Ishmeal N. Kobe, Mercy Murkwe, Robert Tropek   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

More than proteins for empty stomachs: Wild meat in the BaTonga food system

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Our paper highlights the limitations of the framework used by many conservation‐focused programmes that incorporate food security objectives. This framework encourages the substitution of wild proteins with domestic proteins by promoting animal farming in communities located near conservation areas.
Muriel Figuié, Luzibo Ottilia Munsaka, Vupenyu Dzingirai, Olivier Lepiller, Maxwell Phiri, Patrice Grimaud   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mean-Field Stochastic Control with Elephant Memory in Finite and Infinite Time Horizon

, 2019
Our purpose of this paper is to study stochastic control problem for systems driven by mean-field stochastic differential equations with elephant memory, in the sense that the system (like the elephants) never forgets its history.
Agram, Nacira, Øksendal, Bernt
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Bushmeat consumption frequency and preferences among rural households in a West African savanna landscape: Implications for food security and conservation

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The drivers of consumer demand for bushmeat are relatively well studied in tropical forest systems, but much less so in savanna areas. This is important because differing ecological and socio‐economic conditions lead to different factors affecting the relationship between local communities and their natural resources.
Hannah N. K. Sackey, James McNamara, E. J. Milner‐Gulland, Yaa Ntiamoa‐Baidu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Visioning ecologically diverse and harmonious futures of Korea in Good Anthropocene

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a buffer between North and South Korea, holds profound historical, cultural and ecological significance, as well as exceptional potential for conservation and transformation. This study explores ecologically diverse and peaceful futures for the Korean Peninsula by envisioning the DMZ as a landscape for ...
HyeJin Kim, Garry Peterson, Hyeonjeong Kim, Hanvit Lee, Miyoung Yeo, Youngcheol Cho, Paula A. Harrison, Gwanwoo Jin, Bohun Kang, Junsoo Kim, Sanha Kim, Kyung Ah Koo, Brian W. Miller, Laura M. Pereira, SoEun Ahn, Lisa Yeonjung Gwon, Jaegyun Im, Seul‐gi Lee, Chunhwa Park, Jiyeon Park, Soojin Park, Yea‐Yl Yoon, Yukyong Jung Yun Choe, Mijung Im, Jae Chun Choe   +24 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating indigenous crops in agroforestry systems: Lesser yam and teak mixed systems are more profitable than monocultures in Indonesia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Major staple crops are often introduced and cultivated in monocultures. Yams are staple crops native to the majority of low‐ and middle‐income countries and can provide an alternative to introduced staple crops. We showed that lesser yams cultivated together with teak trees (planted at the border of the farm) are more profitable than lesser yam ...
Budiadi, Sawitri, Enggal Primananda, Aqmal Nur Jihad, Marco Campera, Rika Bela Rahmawati   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source