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The importance of groundwater for riverine fish faunas in a region of shale gas development in northern Australia

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Northern Australia contains the continent’s largest number of intact river systems, but these are facing increasing pressure as the proposed development of multiple and large-scale industries, including onshore gas, mining, horticulture, and agriculture,
Jenny Davis   +6 more
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The Role of Habitat Heterogeneity in Structuring Mangrove Bird Assemblages

open access: yesDiversity, 2015
Mangrove habitats are under severe land use pressure throughout the world and Australia is no exception. Here we describe the heterogeneity of mangrove habitat and its relationship with mangrove bird diversity.
Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan   +2 more
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Unearthing Livelihoods: Sámi Trade as an Active Livelihood

open access: yes, 2022
AbstractMany Sámi have been reindeer herders for centuries and their livelihood has usually been understood (solely) in terms of reindeer herding, yet agriculture has also been a typical Sámi livelihood. This chapter investigates trade, another forgotten Sámi livelihood, as portrayed in the journals of two nineteenth-century Nordic clergymen, Jacob ...
openaire   +1 more source

Collaborative Measurement of Performance of Jointly Managed Protected Areas in Northern Australia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2013
Responsibility for the management of many protected areas in the Northern Territory, Australia, is shared between the management agency and the aboriginal owners of that land.
Natasha Stacey   +2 more
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Improving agricultural soil health with feces-derived compost: a case study in northern Haiti

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science
Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan) may help achieve multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, such as SDG 2, SDG 6, and SDG 13, through circular management of local biogeochemical cycles.
Elena Bischak   +7 more
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity among selected schoolchildren and adolescents in Cofimvaba, South Africa

open access: yesThe South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2021
Background: Childhood obesity has become a growing global epidemic. In South Africa, overweight and obesity during childhood and adolescence are rising.
Olufunmilola Otitoola   +2 more
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Key lessons from Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ farming systems: insights from a global review

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Indigenous and traditional farming systems, used and practised by the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), over millennia, offer viable, secure, and diverse solutions to many problems caused by the modern agricultural systems, such as soil ...
Kamaljit K. Sangha   +4 more
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Dynamics of bird assemblages in response to temporally and spatially variable resources in arid Australia

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
Bird assemblages in arid Australia are often characterized as being highly variable through time in response to boom and bust dynamics, although the importance of habitat in structuring assemblages at a local‐scale is also recognized.
Bruce A. Pascoe   +3 more
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A review of conservation-related benefit-sharing mechanisms in Tanzania

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Benefit-sharing has been instrumental in empowering local communities living on the edge of protected areas to engage in natural resource management and enhance biodiversity conservation outcomes. Tanzania has various categories of protected area managed
Juma J. Kegamba   +3 more
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