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Urban wild meat and pangolin consumption across southern forested Cameroon: The limited influence of COVID‐19

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Overexploitation of wildlife is pervasive in many tropical regions, and in addition to being a significant conservation and sustainability concern, it has received global attention given discussions over the origins of zoonotic disease outbreaks.
Franklin T. Simo, Ghislain F. Difouo, Christian N. Tchana, Alain Christel Wandji, Alfiery Laurel Djomnang‐Nkwala, Marcelle Mbadjoun Nziké, Sévilor Kekeunou, Markéta Swiacká, Daniel J. Ingram   +8 more
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Livelihood adaptation to climate-related changes in agroecological zones in developing countries—challenges, prospects, and policy concerns

Frontiers in Climate
Climate change significantly threatens the livelihoods, biodiversity, and food security within agroecological zones (AEZs) of developing countries. This research presents a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles published between 2013 and 2023 ...
Esan Ayeni Hamer, Temitope D. Timothy Oyedotun, Elroy Charles, Stephan Moonsammy   +3 more
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Stock market co-movement in the Caribbean [PDF]

, 2010
This paper investigates co-movement in five Caribbean stock markets (Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas and Guyana) using common factor analysis. The common factors are obtained using principal component analysis and therefore account
Harrison, B, Moore, W
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Secrets within stems: The cryptic Apodanthes caseariae (Apodanthaceae), a rare neotropical holoendoparasite

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Holoendoparasites are extremely rare plants that live entirely hidden inside their hosts, with only flowers and fruits visible. We studied Apodanthes caseariae, found in central and South America, parasitizing Casearia sylvestris. Little is known about its life cycle.
Jessica A. Ramírez‐Ramírez, Favio González, Estefanía Elejalde‐Baena, Juan F. Alzate, Natalia Pabón‐Mora   +4 more
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ECOSENSUS: developing collaborative learning systems for stakeholding development in environmental planning [PDF]

, 2007
ECOSENSUS *(Electronic/Ecological Collaborative Sensemaking Support System) investigates the socio-technological issues around developing collaboration tools for participatory environmental decision making amongst (a) marginalised natural resource users,
Bachler, Michelle, Berardi, Andrea, Bernard, Calvin, Buckingham Shum, Simon, Mistry, Jay, Reynolds, Martin, Ulrich, Werner   +6 more
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Wall‐to‐wall Amazon forest height mapping with Planet NICFI, Aerial LiDAR, and a U‐Net regression model

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Tree canopy height is a key indicator of forest biomass and structure, yet accurate mapping across the Amazon remains challenging. Here, we generated a canopy height map of the Amazon forest at ~4.8 m resolution using Planet NICFI imagery and a deep learning U‐Net model trained with airborne LiDAR data.
Fabien H. Wagner, Ricardo Dalagnol, Griffin Carter, Mayumi C. M. Hirye, Shivraj Gill, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang Takougoum, Samuel Favrichon, Michael Keller, Jean P. H. B. Ometto, Lorena Alves, Cynthia Creze, Stephanie P. George‐Chacon, Shuang Li, Zhihua Liu, Adugna Mullissa, Yan Yang, Erone G. Santos, Sarah R. Worden, Martin Brandt, Philippe Ciais, Stephen C. Hagen, Sassan Saatchi   +21 more
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Factors Driving Internet Banking Adoption in Guyana: A Study of Developing Countries

Journal of Information Systems and Informatics
Internet banking across banking institutions has grown tremendously in popularity over the past two decades. Internet banking among customers remains a crucial challenge within the banking industry, especially in developing countries.
Dave Sarran, Ibrahim Mohammed, Penelope DeFreitas   +2 more
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Municipal waste management in the era of COVID-19: Perceptions, practices, and potentials for research in developing countries

Research in Globalization, 2020
The novel COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted all facets of society globally. Often overlooked is the potential contamination of the waste disposed by individuals diagnosed with the virus.
Temitope D. Timothy Oyedotun, Oluwasinaayomi Faith Kasim, Ayomide Famewo, Temitayo Deborah Oyedotun, Stephan Moonsammy, Nasrudeen Ally, Donna-Marie Renn-Moonsammy   +6 more
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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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Do Donors Provide Foreign Aid Based on Needs? An Analysis of Funding Flows to Higher Education During the Implementation of the SDGs

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A key objective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to leave no one behind and support least developed and other fragile countries first. The same is an objective of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) group of bilateral donors.
Savo Heleta, Logan Cochrane
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