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Community owned solutions: identifying local best practices for social-ecological sustainability

Ecology and Society, 2016
Policies and actions that come from higher scale structures, such as international bodies and national governments, are not always compatible with the realities and perspectives of smaller scale units including indigenous communities.
Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Andrea Berardi, Céline Tschirhart, Elisa Bignante, Lakeram Haynes, Ryan Benjamin, Grace Albert, Rebecca Xavier, Bernie Robertson, Odacy Davis, Deirdre Jafferally, Géraud de Ville   +11 more
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Community‐level egg and larval trait interactions with the Amazon River plume determine its role as a dispersal barrier

Ecography, EarlyView.
The Amazon River plume (ARP) functions as a dynamic and porous biogeographic barrier whose permeability to larval dispersal depends on the interplay between species' biological traits and oceanographic processes. Using biophysical modeling combined with a dual analytical framework, namely a multivariate regression tree (MRT) and a generalized additive ...
Ramon B. Santos, Nelson A. Gouveia, Douglas F. M. Gherardi   +2 more
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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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Three‐Year Propagation Experiment at Ku‐, Ka‐, and Q‐Band in French West Indies

International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From January 2021 to December 2023, the Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) conducted a three‐year Earth‐space propagation measurement campaign in Guadeloupe. The experiment used beacon receivers deployed in Pointe‐à‐Pitre airport to record signals at 11.2, 19.7, and
Jean‐Pascal Monvoisin, Laurent Castanet, Laurent Féral, Xavier Boulanger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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A Limited Survey of Aflatoxins in Poultry Feed and Feed Ingredients in Guyana

Veterinary Sciences, 2017
A study was conducted to determine the presence of aflatoxins in finished poultry feed from manufacturing companies, feed ingredients, and poultry feed at the point of sale. Two collections were made. In the first collection, samples of the finished feed
Donna M. Morrison, David R. Ledoux, Lambert F. B. Chester, Coretta A. N. Samuels   +3 more
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Gender equality and health equity: strategic lessons from country experiences of gender mainstreaming in health

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020
Objectives. To analyze progress in organizational structures, mechanisms, strategies, and enabling factors and barriers towards gender mainstreaming (GM) in health in Guatemala, Guyana, and Peru, given GM’s role in addressing gender inequalities in ...
Ana Cristina González Vélez, Anna Coates, Victoria Diaz Garcia, Denisse Wolfenzon   +3 more
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GOLD IN WEATHERING MANTLE OF THE GUIANA SHIELD (SOUTH AMERICA) [PDF]

Минералогия, 2019
The article describes mineral composition of laterite weathering mantle overlapping the Amamuri and Kontakt gold deposits in the greenstone rocks, located 20 km southeast of the Aurora deposit (reserves of 185 tons Au, Republic of Guyana).
E.E. Palenova, K.A. Novoselov, E.V. Belogub   +2 more
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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

Bubble pulses and power spectra of some marine seismograms

Geofísica Internacional, 1975
Sismogramas marinos de un reconocimiento marino de refracción hecho en el Lago Superior con explosivos "geogel" se estudian en función de su contenido espectral en relación a varios tamaños de detonación (1.25-200 libras).
L.N.S. Kunar
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