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Unravelling vicious circles of land use competition and food insecurity in agropastoral rangelands

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract In many regions of the world, the adoption of new livelihood strategies that compete with traditional strategies is one driver of competition over land, resulting in unforeseen impacts on the livelihoods of land users and accelerating land degradation. One example is the Borana Zone in southern Ethiopia, where the expansion of crop cultivation
Gunnar Dressler, Lance Robinson, Birgit Müller   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geomorphic Responses to Post‐Grazing Recovery and Stream Restoration in Semiarid Grassland Streams

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semiarid grassland streams are sensitive to land use, climate, extreme discharges, and internal geomorphic thresholds that drive episodic erosion. Rooted in a process‐based philosophy and commonly applied to historically wood‐rich, beaver‐modified systems, low‐tech process‐based restoration using structures is increasingly being extended to ...
Owen Richardson, Ellen Wohl
wiley   +1 more source

Cameras do not always take a full picture: wolf activity patterns revealed by accelerometers versus road‐positioned camera traps

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Camera traps have become an increasingly popular non‐invasive alternative to animal‐attached devices for studying wildlife behaviour. This study compared wolf (Canis lupus) activity patterns derived from collar accelerometers and road‐positioned camera traps and revealed strong overall agreement but also important seasonal and diel mismatches between ...
Katarzyna Bojarska, Michał Żmihorski, Morteza Naderi, J. David Blount, Mark Chynoweth, Emrah Coban, Çağan H. Şekercioğlu, Josip Kusak   +7 more
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Deep learning‐based ecological analysis of camera trap images is impacted by training data quality and quantity

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Machine learning image classifiers are increasingly being used to automate camera trap image labelling, but we don't know how much ML model accuracy matters for downstream ecological analyses. Using two large data sets from an African savannah and an Asian dry forest ecosystem, we compared human labelled data with predictions from deep‐learning models ...
Peggy A. Bevan, Omiros Pantazis, Holly A.I. Pringle, Guilherme Braga Ferreira, Daniel J. Ingram, Emily K. Madsen, Liam Thomas, Dol Raj Thanet, Thakur Silwal, Santosh Rayamajhi, Gabriel J. Brostow, Oisin Mac Aodha, Kate E. Jones   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lacking data? No worries! How synthetic images can alleviate image scarcity in wildlife surveys: A case study with muskox (Ovibos moschatus)

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
This study investigates the integration of synthetic imagery, created with diffusion‐based models, to supplement limited training data and improve muskox (Ovibos moschatus) detection in zero‐shot (ZS) and few‐shot (FS) settings. ZS models detected more than 80% of muskoxen in real images, confirming the potential of synthetic data as a substitute for ...
Simon Durand, Samuel Foucher, Alexandre Delplanque, Joëlle Taillon, Jérôme Théau   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Education in a Changing Climate: A Systematic Review for Low and Middle‐Income Countries (LMICs)

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is a major global challenge that affects many aspects of human life and hinders progress on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One area that has not received enough attention is its impact on children's education in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), which are especially vulnerable to ...
Afshan Ameer, Rami Ghannam
wiley   +1 more source

Can Environmental Markets Pay for More Sustainable Farm Dams? A Cost–Benefit Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm dams are widespread artificial waterbodies that play a critical role in agricultural water security. Enhancing these systems through sustainable interventions such as fencing, hardened access points, and revegetation can improve water quality and deliver carbon and biodiversity co‐benefits.
K. U. D. N. Hansani, Lukas Schuster, Peter I. Macreadie, Kym Whiteoak, Martino E. Malerba   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Controlling noisy herds: Temporal network restructuring improves control of indecisive collectives. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Chakrabortty T, Bhamla S.
europepmc   +1 more source

From critique to catalyst: How academic entrepreneurs transform negative feedback into pivots and performance

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This study examines how academic entrepreneurs refine business ideas in response to external critique and how these responses relate to performance. We develop a framework that links feedback (critique), business‐idea changes (pivots), and performance, and test it using detailed data on external stakeholder feedback, changes ...
D. Carrington Motley, Michael Leatherbee, Riitta Katila   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Next Frontier: Micro/Nanorobots Operating Inside the Living Body

SmartBot, EarlyView.
Micro/nanorobots, with their tiny size and controllable motion capabilities, can perform complex and precise tasks in micro‐spaces, thus showing broad application prospects in the biomedical field. This review systematically summarizes the core advantages of micro/nanorobots in real‐time in vivo imaging, targeted drug delivery, and active barrier ...
Ningbo Yu, Jie Yang, Zicheng Ni, Yuepeng Cai, Beatriz Jurado‐Sánchez, Renfeng Dong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source