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Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests. [PDF]

, 2019
Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such "monodominant" forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurrence
Alonso, Alfonso, Amaral, Iêda Leão, Andrade, Ana, Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño, Arroyo, Luzmila, Assis, Rafael L, Aymard C, Gerardo A, Baraloto, Chris, Brienen, Roel, Bánki, Olaf S, Camargo, José Luís, Carim, Marcelo de Jesus Veiga, Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes, Castellanos, Hernán, Castilho, Carolina V, Casula, Katia Regina, Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Coelho, Luiz de Souza, Comiskey, James A, Costa, Flávia RC, Cárdenas López, Dairon, Dallmeier, Francisco, Damasco, Gabriel, de Aguiar, Daniel Praia Portela, de Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante, de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle, de Souza, Fernanda Coelho, de Toledo, José Julio, Demarchi, Layon O, do Amaral, Dário Dantas, Draper, Freddie, Duivenvoorden, Joost F, Duque, Alvaro, Dávila, Nállarett, Engel, Julien, Feeley, Kenneth J, Feitosa, Yuri Oliveira, Feldpausch, Ted R, Ferreira, Leandro Valle, Filho, Diogenes de Andrade Lima, García-Villacorta, Roosevelt, Gomes, Vitor HF, Groeneveld, Jürgen, Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Guimarães, José Renan da Silva, Helal, Nora, Henkel, Terry W, Honorio Coronado, Euridice N, Huth, Andreas, Irume, Mariana Victória, Killeen, Timothy J, Laurance, Susan GW, Laurance, William F, Lima de Queiroz, Helder, Lloyd, Jon, Lopes, Aline, Lopes, Maria Aparecida, Lozada, José Rafael, Luize, Bruno Garcia, Magalhães, José Leonardo Lima, Magnusson, William E, Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, Marimon, Beatriz S, Marimon-Junior, Ben Hur, Martins, Maria Pires, Matos, Francisca Dionízia de Almeida, Mendonça Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo, Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo, Mogollón, Hugo F, Molino, Jean-François, Montero, Juan Carlos, Moraes de Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia, Mostacedo, Bonifacio, Neill, David, Núñez Vargas, Percy, Petronelli, Pascal, Phillips, Oliver L, Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Pitman, Nigel CA, Quaresma, Adriano, Ramos, José Ferreira, Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa, Revilla, Juan David Cardenas, Rincón, Lorena M, Sabatier, Daniel, Salomão, Rafael P, Schietti, Juliana, Schöngart, Jochen, Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire, Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni, Sousa, Thaiane R, Stevenson, Pablo R, Ter Steege, Hans, Terborgh, John, Vasquez, Rodolfo, Venticinque, Eduardo Martins, Vicentini, Alberto, Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães, Wittmann, Florian   +99 more
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On an Aggregation Theory for Indicators Expressing Behaviors of Complex Systems With an Application to Sustainability

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou, Yannis A. Phillis   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing 'REDD'?: Forests, Climate Change Mitigation and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [PDF]

, 2008
Examines proposals for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) and their failure to protect indigenous peoples' rights or to address forest governance problems.
Tom Griffiths
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Tropical Forests and Sustainability: The Role of Multilateral Financing in Latin America

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The challenge of slowing deforestation and degradation in the tropical regions of Latin America requires financing mechanisms (public and private) that can enable actions to preserve and sustainably manage forest integrity. This paper begins by examining the strategy implemented by the World Bank to protect forest cover in tropical countries ...
Ángela Andrea Caviedes Conde, Encarnación Moral Pajares, Leticia Gallego Valero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of the family Bochicidae : with new species and records (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpionida) [PDF]

, 1998
A history of the family is presented. All of the genera and species previously assigned to the family are reviewed, and 4 new species are described: Leucohya par va from Venezuela and Guyana, Mexobisium venii from Belize and Guatemala, M.
Muchmore, William B.
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Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Consumption: The Moderating Role of Financial Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between climate vulnerability (CVUL) and renewable energy consumption (RECO) and tests the moderating effect of financial development (FD) on this relationship. The analysis is, particularly, relevant for the 162 panel countries observed between 1995 and 2022, which face diverse climate risks and exhibit ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
wiley   +1 more source

Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López, Samara López‐Ruiz, Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The ECOSENSUS Project: Co-Evolving Tools, Practices and Open Content for Participatory Natural Resource Management [PDF]

, 2006
ECOSENSUS (Electronic/Ecological Collaborative Sensemaking Support System)[www.ecosensus.info] is an ESRC e-Social Science pilot project, using a Participatory Action Research methodology to evolve tools and work practices for collaborative work in ...
Bachler, Michelle, Berardi, Andrea, Bernard, Calvin, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Ganapathy, Savitha, Mistry, Jayalaxshmi, Reynolds, Martin, Ulrich, Werner   +7 more
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Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract War is often viewed as a bargaining problem. However, prior to bargaining, countries can vie for leverage by expending effort on diplomacy. This article presents a dynamic model of conflict where agenda‐setting power is endogenous to pre‐bargaining diplomatic competition.
Joseph J. Ruggiero
wiley   +1 more source

Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees [PDF]

, 2011
Tropical tree height-diameter (H:D) relationships may vary by forest type and region making large-scale estimates of above-ground biomass subject to bias if they ignore these differences in stem allometry.
Affum-Baffoe, K., Arets, E. J. M. M., Baker, T. R., Banin, L., Berry, N. J., Bird, M., Brondizio, E. S., Chave, J., de Camargo, P., Djagbletey, G., Domingues, T. F., Drescher, M., Fearnside, P. M., Feldpausch, T. R., Franca, M. B., Fyllas, N. M., Higuchi, N., Hladik, A., Hunter, M. O., Lewis, S. L., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Palace, Michael W., Phillips, O. L., Quesada, C. A.   +23 more
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