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Reduction in Suspended Sediment Loads Following Canopy Closure: The Impact of Pasture‐To‐Pine Plantation (P.radiata) Conversion in a Headwater Catchment

open access: yesNew Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Volume 60, Issue 1, March 2026.
Plantation forestry is an important land use in New Zealand (currently 7% of the area), and recent central government incentives for tree planting will likely result in further increases in the future. Plantation forestry in New Zealand often occurs on steep, high‐erodible land, often as a form of catchment restoration and/or erosion control.
Andrew O. Hughes, Thanh D. Dang
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies for Mitigating Seasonal Heavy Metal Release in River Sediments Using Natural Mineral‐Based Materials

open access: yesEnvironmental Quality Management, Volume 35, Issue 3, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents an ecological and geochemical assessment of trace element contamination in the Huyva River (Ukraine), a right tributary of the Teteriv River that supplies drinking water to Zhytomyr and nearby settlements. The research involved monitoring key physicochemical parameters, including pH, mineralization, hardness, and major ion ...
Yuliia Trach   +4 more
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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 63-72, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
wiley   +1 more source

The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.
Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
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Land Grabbing And Food Crisis

open access: yesBollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2013
Paolo Sellari
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