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Opium Cultivation Imperilling Endangered Species in Northern Laos

open access: yesAnimal Conservation, EarlyView.
To avoid government eradication efforts, farmers in northeastern Laos shifted opium cultivation deep into a national park, causing a > 1000% increase in protected forest cleared for the crop between 2018 and 2022. This displacement directly threatened endangered species like white‐cheeked gibbons, elephants, and dholes by causing a rise in hunting ...
Jay White   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bureaucrat assignments as instruments of political control: Theory and evidence from land administration officials in India

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how politicians use the assignment of officials to geographical posts—a personnel system found in many countries—as a system of incentives to control, and possibly corrupt, bureaucratic behavior. The argument is developed with a matching model and tested with a nationwide survey of Indian officials who administer land ...
Anustubh Agnihotri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forest Fire Characterization Using Landsat-8 Satellite Data in Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary. [PDF]

open access: yesRemote Sens Earth Syst Sci, 2022
Chaudhary SK, Pandey AC, Parida BR.
europepmc   +1 more source

Crop identification and area estimation through the combined use of satellite and field data for county Durham, northern England [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
This thesis investigates the use of combined field and satellite data for crop identification and area estimation in County Durham, Northeast England. The satellite data were obtained by the Thematic Mapper (TM) sensor onboard Landsat-5 on 31 May 1985 ...
Shueb, Saleh Saber
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A Review and Critique of Methods and Knowledge Gaps in Quantifying Spillover Effects from Protected Areas

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The sustainability of area‐based conservation initiatives depends on their value to society. Conservation often focuses inside protected areas, but the impacts of protected areas beyond their boundaries (spillovers) are critical for their social license.
Ilaria Gliottone   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protection status and environmental gradients shape butterfly assemblages in an East African tropical ecosystem

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Observed butterfly richness was highest in moderately protected areas. During the dry season, vegetation productivity increased butterfly richness while human population density reduced it. Moderately protected areas supported high butterfly abundance and a high proportion of host‐specialist species.
Richard Alphonce Giliba   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lithological discrimination and mineralogical mapping using Landsat-8 OLI and ASTER remote sensing data: Igoudrane region, jbel saghro, Anti Atlas, Morocco. [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Baid S   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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