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A review of participatory mapping in conservation science and practice
Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.There has been a recent increase and diversification in the use of participatory mapping in the field of conservation, however, methodological standards remain both disjointed and confounding. We conducted a comprehensive review of the conservation participatory mapping literature and synthesized geographical, temporal, and topical trends across a ...
Michael B. Kowalski +3 more
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Galápagos Birds and Diseases: Invasive Pathogens as Threats for Island Species
Ecology and Society, 2004 Exotic diseases and parasites have caused extinctions on islands and continents, particularly when they spread through assemblages of immunologically naïve species.
Martin Wikelski +3 more
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Monogenetic Near‐Island Seamounts in the Galápagos Archipelago
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020 Rarely have small seamounts on the flanks of hotspot derived ocean‐island volcanoes been the targets of sampling, due to sparse high‐resolution mapping near ocean islands.
D. M. Schwartz +4 more
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, 1990 From a special issue: A Brief History of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands 1959 ...
Smith, G. T. Corley
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Panorama, artist Amie Siegel montaged films made by Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) staff in the 1930s–1970s when documenting their research expeditions and exhibition projects, along with her own footage shot in the museum. Displayed at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2023–2024, the exhibition made visible the often hidden labors of ...
Deirdre Madeleine Smith
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Aves, The Galapagos Islands, Ecuador [PDF]
Check List, 2006 Although the Galapagos avifauna has been described previously, it is necessary to list, clarify, and update the previously published records of birds occurring in the archipelago, and to clarify some recent records that are erroneous or were ...
Wiedenfeld, D. A.
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Frontiers in Conservation ScienceThe Galápagos archipelago is a vast reservoir of terrestrial and marine biodiversity and is particularly susceptible to human, animal, and environmental impacts. Climate change, globalization, and the blurring of human-domestic animal-wildlife interfaces
Patricio A. Vega-Mariño +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2015 The Galápagos giant tortoise is an icon of the unique, endemic biodiversity of Galápagos, but little is known of its parasitic fauna. We assessed the diversity of parasitic nematode communities and their spatial distributions within four wild tortoise ...
Guillaume Fournié +9 more
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Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Galapagos birds: Inference of risk factors associated with diet.
PLoS ONE, 2023 Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic intracellular parasite of particular concern in the conservation of wildlife due to its ability to infect all homeotherms and potentially cause acute fatal disease in naive species.
Juan D Mosquera +9 more
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Education and research - the "El Niño" years [PDF]
, 1990 From a special issue: A Brief History of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands 1959 ...
Smith, G. T. Corley
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