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Growing dune encroachment threatens the habitability of the western Nile riverbank. [PDF]

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Taha MMN   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

When Universities Turn Carceral: Between Academic Freedom and Elimination

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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Gil Rothschild Elyassi
wiley   +1 more source

Live fences and landscape connectivity in a neotropical agricultural landscape

Agroforestry Systems, 2006
Live fences are common elements in neotropical agricultural landscapes and could play important roles in the conservation of biodiversity by enhancing landscape connectivity, however, little is known about their abundance and spatial arrangement. The objectives of this study were to characterize the abundance and spatial patterns of live fences in a ...
Celia A Harvey
exaly   +2 more sources

Live fences in Ségou, Mali : an evaluation by their early users

Agroforestry Systems, 2004
Market-oriented production of gardening crops and cassava (Manihot utilissima) in the dry season is an increasingly frequent practice in Segou, Mali. Traditionally, these crops are protected from roaming livestock with the help of dead fences. In order to provide a sustainable alternative to dead fences, the International Centre for Research in ...
Virginie Levasseur   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Live fences as tools for biodiversity conservation: a study case with birds and plants

Agroforestry Systems, 2010
Live fences may act as tools for biodiversity conservation by providing habitat for native species and increasing connectivity in the landscape. We studied the influence of live fence characteristics on species richness and fence use by birds by examining both local and landscape factors.
Paola Pulido-Santacruz   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Live fences – a hidden resource of soil fertility in West Kenya

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 2014
AbstractIn the highlands of Western Kenya, intensified land use combined with low use of mineral fertilizers at farm level is driving soil nutrient depletion and declining yield levels. All farms and individual field crop plots are surrounded by life fences and the area under such hedge structure is estimated to cover 3–5% of the total farmland area ...
Tim F. H. Theobald   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

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