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Precision Restoration to Minimize Soil Loss in a Watershed in the Atlantic Forest Domain

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Turvo River Watershed, located in the Zona da Mata region of Minas Gerais and part of the Doce River Basin, faces serious problems of erosion and soil degradation, which compromise and reduce the quality of local water resources. Given this scenario, it is essential to implement environmental recovery strategies that prioritize the ...
Rodrigo Nobre Santana, Luíza Maria Affonso Lopes da Silva, Sady Júnior Martins da Costa Menezes, Getúlio Fonseca Domingues, Carlos Antônio Alvares Soares Ribeiro, Plinio Antonio Guerra Filho, Alexandre Rosa dos Santos   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

EcoGIS – GIS tools for ecosystem approaches to fisheries management [PDF]

, 2009
Executive Summary: The EcoGIS project was launched in September 2004 to investigate how Geographic Information Systems (GIS), marine data, and custom analysis tools can better enable fisheries scientists and managers to adopt Ecosystem Approaches to ...
Finnen, Eric, Haverland, Tim, Nelson, David Moe   +2 more
core  

Greater future range expansions in alien than native ant species

Oikos, EarlyView.
There is growing concern that many species may not be able to track suitable conditions under climate change and suffer range contractions as a result. At the same time, alien species introduced to novel geographic ranges are often assumed to benefit from climate change.
Tongyi Liu, Sébastien Ollier, Cleo Bertelsmeier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Induced landslides susceptibility, application of the AHP method / Suscetibilidade induzida a escorregamentos, via aplicação do método AHP

Diversitas Journal, 2020
The landslides are processes of the natural dynamics of the earth, amplified in face of the inadequate occupation of areas susceptible to mass movements, which can lead to disasters with material and human damages.
Carlos de Oliveira Bispo, Fabrizio de Luiz Rosito Listo, Danielle Gomes da Silva Listo, Nivaneide Alves de Melo Falcão   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geoprocess of geospatial urban data in Tallinn, Estonia

Data in Brief, 2023
The new digital era brings increasingly massive and complex interdisciplinary projects in various fields. At the same time, the availability of an accurate and reliable database plays a crucial role in achieving project goals. Meanwhile, urban projects and issues usually need to be analyzed to support the objectives of sustainable development of the ...
Nasim Eslamirad, Francesco De Luca, Kimmo Sakari Lylykangas, Sadok Ben Yahia, Mahdi Rasoulinezhad   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Creating a driving profile for older adults using GPS devices and naturalistic driving methodology [PDF]

, 2016
Background/Objectives: Road tests and driving simulators are most commonly used in research studies and clinical evaluations of older drivers. Our objective was to describe the process and associated challenges in adapting an existing, commercial, off ...
Addison, Aaron, Babulal, Ganesh M, Carr, David B, Morris, John C, Ott, Brian R, Roe, Catherine M, Stout, Sarah H, Traub, Cindy M, Webb, Mollie   +8 more
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UCanWBGT: urban street canyon heat stress calculation for weather and climate models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
This work introduces UCanWBGT, a new model to calculate wet‐bulb globe temperature in an urban environment, suitable for use with weather and climate model data. We present the model, then verify its performance against observations made in the streets of Paris during heatwave conditions.
Jonathan K. P. Shonk, Lewis P. Blunn, Vinod Kumar, Jean Wurtz, Valéry Masson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Funding, Facilities, and the Face of Homelessness: Heterogeneous Impacts of Federal Grants on Sheltered and Unsheltered Counts

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the causal impact of federal homeless‐assistance grants on reported homelessness and shelter capacity across 370 Continuums of Care in 2019. We exploit cross‐sectional variation in pre‐1940 housing shares, used in Community Development Block Grant formula allocations, as an instrument for combined CoC and Emergency ...
Luke Maddock, Anita Alves Pena
wiley   +1 more source

Antimicrobial Residues in a Key Cerrado River: Distribution, Persistence, and Effects on Zebrafish Embryo‐Larval Development

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The current study aimed to quantify the antimicrobials amoxicillin (AMX), cefazolin (CFZ), chloramphenicol (CHL), metronidazole (MTZ), and sulfamethoxazole (SX) in effluents and surface water of an important Cerrado river, calculate their half‐lives, and analyze their ecotoxicity following single and combined exposures.
Náthala Maria Simão, Igor Romeiro dos Santos, Jerônimo Raimundo de Oliveira Neto, Flávio Olimpio Sanches Neto, Felipe Cirqueira Dias, Jéssyca Moreira Morais, Lorranny Pereira de Assis Valadares, Naiara Raica Lopes de Oliveira, Mirelle Garcia Silva Bailão, Luiz Carlos da Cunha, Valter Henrique Carvalho‐Silva, Thiago Lopes Rocha, Elisa Flávia Luiz Cardoso Bailão   +12 more
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Supplementing beef cattle diets with brown seaweed affects coprophagous beetles' dung use

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Supplementing beef cattle diets with brown seaweed reduced the attractiveness of dung for a common dung beetle (Onthophagus nuchicornis). Dietary supplementation with brown seaweed appeared to reduce the proportion of major males in the F1 generation.
Samantha Bennett, Rhea Lumactud, Ghader Manafiazar, Paul Manning   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source