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Linking public perceptions of socioeconmic change and marine resource management in rural Maine [PDF]
, 2010 Rural coastal regions across the United States are coping with dramatic social and environmental changes. Historically, these areas relied heavily on fishing and marine commerce and these economic activities defined the character of coastal communities.
Safford, Thomas
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Road mortality alters the body size and age structure of amphibians
Oikos, EarlyView.Road mortality affects a wide range of animal species, including amphibians. Worldwide, many amphibian species, including the Asiatic toad Bufo gargarizans, are impacted by road mortality, but the ecological consequences remain poorly understood. This study aimed to evaluate how road mortality influences population traits by comparing body sizes and ...
Seung‐Min Park +6 more
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ICWL celebrates its 40th year! [PDF]
, 2017 http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/Documents/rock_lobster/the_lobster_newsletter/lobster_newsletter_v30_no2.pdfhttp://www.fish.wa.gov.au/Documents/rock_lobster/the_lobster_newsletter/lobster_newsletter_v30_no2.pdfPublished ...
Lavalli, Kari, Wahle, Richard
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The expansion of grey wolves (Canis lupus) across the western United States, including on public lands used for extensive livestock grazing, requires tools and techniques for reducing wolf–livestock conflict and supporting coexistence. We examined approaches used on forested lands managed by the U.S.
Robert M. Anderson +3 more
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Conservation Letters, 2023 Crustaceans, which are highly susceptible to the effects of climate change, are critical for food security worldwide. Yet, management rarely evaluates the performance of alternative regulatory strategies under climate‐driven life history change.
Noah Hunt +4 more
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Revisiting Maine’s lobster commons: rescaling political subjects [PDF]
, 2012 Calls for cross-scalar theoretical and methodological approaches are not new to commons scholarship. Such efforts might be hastened by channelling poststructuralist and critical theory perspectives through the geographic subfield of political ecology ...
Brewer, Jennifer F
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Different aspects of ecological systems, biotic or abiotic, often fluctuate in coordinated patterns over space and time. Such high concordance between ecological processes is often referred to as ecological synchrony. Human activities, including and beyond climate change, have the potential to alter ecological synchrony by disrupting or ...
Yiluan Song +9 more
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EcosphereClimate change is shifting the habitable ranges of hundreds of species, and a greater understanding of the mechanisms driving migration velocity may make the difference between extinction and persistence for at‐risk species. However, predicting migration
Ivy Yen, Alessio Mortelliti
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Environmental influences on commercial oceanic ommastrephid squids: a stock assessment perspective
Scientia Marina, 2017 Ommastrephid squids are short-lived ecological opportunists and their recruitment is largely driven by the surrounding environment. While recent studies suggest that recruitment variability in several squid species can be partially explained by ...
Jintao Wang +4 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Stewardship is broadly defined as ‘universal responsibility of humanity to care for the planet, to ensure that it can continue to provide the essential natural resources for life’. Stewardship practices shape ecosystems, create diverse biocultural landscapes, and can enhance the productivity, availability and health of plants used by ...
Megan Mucioki +9 more
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