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El estado trófico de los arroyos andino-patagónicos en un gradiente de urbanización
Los arroyos andinos norpatagónicos son ecosistemas oligotróficos y fluyen por cuencas de drenaje poco impactadas. Sin embargo, esto cambió con el tiempo por la urbanización de dichas cuencas.
Magalí Rechencq +5 more
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El medio físico y los recursos naturales en el diseño de programas leader de la UE
El Programa LEADER II es una Iniciativa Comunitaria creada para apoyar acciones innovadoras en el medio rural destinadas al desarrollo local. Durante el desarrollo del Programa LEADER I, antecesor del nuevo LEADER II, en los años 1991-94 se detectaron ...
José Luis Alier Gándaras +2 more
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Evaluating the use of taxonomy in the IUCN Red List
Abstract Taxonomy defines the units that conservationists strive to preserve for future generations. However, the discovery of new species and the taxonomic revision of existing species affect conservation efforts. Despite the importance of taxonomy for a species’ conservation, there is currently no overview of how those leading species extinction risk
Stephen T. Garnett +8 more
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Risks of concealing environmental degradation
Abstract Current practice seeks to conceal the visual impact of land‐use change (i.e., development). Six percent of development impact assessments in Australia and 14% of the World Bank's assessments recommend visual impact mitigation. This mitigation results in, for example, vegetated buffer strips alongside cleared agricultural areas and earthen ...
Matt W. Hayward +8 more
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Water security from Indigenous knowledge perspective: A scoping review
Abstract Water security is a growing field of research in water resources management and has been increasingly examined from the perspectives of Indigenous knowledge. This study presents a scoping review that explores how Indigenous knowledge perspectives on water security are represented in the scientific literature.
Juan Cueva‐Orjuela +4 more
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El artículo analiza la regla operacional que establece considerar la condición ambiental más desfavorable de los elementos del medio ambiente en la evaluación de im-pacto ambiental.
Javier Herrera, Katherine Lizama
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Forest cover within cattle ranches can strongly shape faunal biodiversity. In Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. We show that butterflies, moths, dung beetles, and birds respond differently to forest cover across habitats (pastures vs. forest fragments) and seasons, as a function of their specialization and resource needs.
Lina Adonay Urrea‐Galeano +6 more
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Our study highlights that when acclimatisation periods are too short, the substantial economic and logistical investment in soft‐release protocols may fail to deliver the expected conservation gains. Therefore, defining evidence‐based acclimatisation periods that are long enough to promote settlement, yet compatible with logistical constraints, may ...
Pablo Cisneros‐Araujo +14 more
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ABSTRACT This study explores the production of coherence between Uruguay's agricultural, environmental and water policies amidst growing tensions, which are particularly manifested in conflicts between an expanding agricultural sector and water insecurity for the broader public.
Simon Ryfisch +7 more
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Tracer Hydrology Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities Across Latin America and the Caribbean
Tracer monitoring characteristics across the LAC region: overview of sampled hydrologic systems, commonly used tracers, routine and event‐based sampling strategies, integration with hydrometric measurements, and monitoring durations. ABSTRACT Tracer hydrology in Latin America and the Caribbean has made significant progress in recent decades, largely ...
Ricardo Sánchez‐Murillo +47 more
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