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Urbanizing the wild: shifts in bird communities associated to small human settlements

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2012
Urbanization limits the number and type of species that can colonize urban environments. As habitatchange and large abundances of urban exploiter species have been related to changes in urban bird communities, weevaluated shifts in the bird communities in 2 small sized settlements, 1 with exploiter species and one without them.Our results show that ...
Ian MacGregor-Fors, Jorge E. Schondube
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Evaluation of the Human Settlements Environment of Public Housing Community: A Case Study of Guangzhou [PDF]

Sustainability, 2020
With the improvement of social housing policies and an increase in the quantity of public housing stock, issues such as poor property management service, poor housing quality, and insufficient public services remain to be resolved. This study focuses on the human settlement environments of public housing communities in Guangzhou and establishes an ...
Fan Wu, Yue Liu, Yingyan Zeng, Hui Yan, Yi Zhang, Ling-Hin Li   +5 more
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Resilience of human settlements to climate change needs the convergence of urban planning and urban climate science

Computational Urban Science, 2022
The impact of climate extremes upon human settlements is expected to accelerate. There are distinct global trends for a continued rise in urban dwellers and associated infrastructure.
Xinyue Ye, D. Niyogi
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Spatial-Temporal Patterns of Network Structure of Human Settlements Competitiveness in Resource-Based Urban Agglomerations

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Resource-based urban agglomerations often encounter greater challenges in the sustainable development of human settlements. The aim of this study is to propose an approach to the coordinated development of competitiveness by analyzing the interaction of ...
Wenbo Yu, Jun Yang, Dongqi Sun, Huisheng Yu, Yao Yao, Xiangming Xiao, J. Xia   +6 more
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A Future Study of an Environment Driving Force (EDR): The Impacts of Urmia Lake Water-Level Fluctuations on Human Settlements

Sustainability, 2021
Lake Urmia, one of the world’s largest salt lakes, is rapidly losing water and drying up. This environmental hazard has raised concerns about the consequences and impact on the surrounding communities.
Somayeh Mohammadi Hamidi, C. Fürst, H. Nazmfar, Ahad Rezayan, M. Yazdani   +4 more
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Puma (Puma concolor) in the Neighborhood? Records Near Human Settlements and Insights into Human-Carnivore Coexistence in Central Chile

Animals, 2021
Simple Summary The presence of carnivores near human settlements is a poorly studied topic that generates concern and perception of risk in some human communities, especially for medium to large felids.
Diego Ramírez-Álvarez, C. Napolitano, Iván Salgado   +2 more
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Engaging a community for youth mental health and wellness: Reflections and lessons learned

Gateways, 2020
As clinicians at a university-affiliated health centre faced with youth mental health and substance use concerns, we reached out to the local community for guidance.
Lisa Bishop, Stephen Darcy, Rob Sinnott, Susan Avery, Amanda Pendergast, Norah Duggan   +5 more
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Bird Communities Across Different Levels of Human Settlement: A Comparative Analysis from Two Northern Amazonian Ecoregions

Science of The Total Environment, 2023
Urban ecosystems are increasingly dominating landscapes globally, so it is critical to understand the effects of human settlements on biodiversity. Bird communities are effective indicators because they are impacted by the size and expansion of human settlements, exemplified by changes in their habitat use, breeding and foraging behaviours, as well as ...
William M, Hayes, Brian J, O'Shea, Meshach A, Pierre, Asaph, Wilson, Jake E, Bicknell   +4 more
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Ancient Urban Ecology Reconstructed from Archaeozoological Remains of Small Mammals in the Near East [PDF]

, 2014
Acknowledgments We especially thank the many archaeologists who collaborated closely with our project and invested pioneering efforts in intensive fine-scale retrieval of the archaeozoological samples that provided the basis for this study: Shai Bar ...
Bar-Oz, Guy, Cucchi, Thomas, Finkelstein, Israel, Gadot, Yuval, Malkinson, Dan, Weissbrod, Lior   +5 more
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Assessing Risk and Prioritizing Safety Interventions in Human Settlements Affected by Large Wildfires

Forests, 2020
The large wildfires of June 2017 disturbed many communities in central Portugal. The civil parish of Alvares was severely affected, with about 60% of its area burnt.
S. Oliveira, A. Gonçalves, A. Benali, A. Sá, J. Zêzere, J. Pereira   +5 more
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