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Strategic spatial planning in emerging land-use frontiers: evidence from Mozambique

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2022
Land-use frontiers are territories with abundant land for agriculture and forestry, availability of natural resources relative to labor or capital and predisposed to rapid land-use change, often driven by large-scale land investments and capitalized ...
Eduardo Oliveira, Patrick Meyfroidt
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Planting Southern Pines in Florida

open access: yesEDIS, 2022
Florida landowners have contributed vastly to the Southeast’s planting of pines over many decades; recent incentive programs across the state have encouraged further interest. Understanding the factors that affect seedling quality and survival of native
Elysia Lewis   +2 more
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Netzwerk Wildobst: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der In-situ-Erhaltung von verwandten Wildarten am Beispiel von Wildobstarten in Wald und Forstwirtschaft

open access: yesJulius-Kühn-Archiv, 2020
Deutschland ist zu 32 % mit Wald bedeckt. Die Verteilung des Waldes in der Landschaft, seine Artenzusammensetzung und seine Struktur sind das Ergebnis menschlicher Einflussnahme von unterschiedlicher Intensität. Hierzu gehören zum Beispiel die Rodung von
Wolf, Heino   +1 more
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Browsing Damage on Scots Pine: Direct and Indirect Effects of Landscape Characteristics, Moose and Deer Populations

open access: yesDiversity, 2022
Reducing browsing damages from cervids (Cervidae) on economically valuable tree species is a challenging task in many countries. Apart from cervid abundance, landscape characteristics, such as forest composition, land use, forage availability and ...
Sabine E. Pfeffer   +4 more
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Automatic Identification of Forest Disturbance Drivers Based on Their Geometric Pattern in Atlantic Forests

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
Monitoring forest disturbances has become essential towards the design and tracking of sustainable forest management. Multiple methodologies have been developed to detect these disturbances. However, few studies have focused on the automatic detection of
Laura Alonso, Juan Picos, Julia Armesto
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Experiences from a Forestry Extension Long-term Impact Evaluation

open access: yesJournal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2020
This report describes a long-term impact evaluation conducted by a Forestry Extension program. Documenting long-term impacts is increasingly important to demonstrate the perceived public value of Extension programming. However, the extended time frame of
Jason Gordon   +3 more
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A new approach for modeling stand height development of German forests under climate change

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
IntroductionWe developed a new approach for site index curve models that combines longitudinal height development patterns derived from state-space data with the broad environmental conditions covered by space-for-time data.MethodsFor this, we gathered ...
Jan Schick   +3 more
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Gendering the Boy Scouts: Examining Hegemonic Masculinity at a Co-Ed Backpacking Camp

open access: yesThe Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2020
Masculinity has been studied in various outdoor settings, including the industries of ecotourism, outdoor education, and forestry. However, few studies have examined how physical space contributes to the construction of hegemonic masculinity in ...
Samantha Pentecost
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A study on the current status and suggestions of students’ character development education in secondary vocational school

open access: yesCogent Education, 2023
This study aims to understand the current situation of character development education for students in the direction of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishing in secondary vocational schools. A questionnaire was administered to 303 students
Jing Zhao, Xinyi Liu
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Neighbourhood Species Richness Reduces Crown Asymmetry of Subtropical Trees in Sloping Terrain

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
Reforestation in sloping terrain is an important measure for soil erosion control and sustainable watershed management. The mechanical stability of such reforested stands, however, can be low due to a strong asymmetric shape of tree crowns.
Maria D. Perles-Garcia   +5 more
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