Restoring Trust: Rebuilding the Forest Carbon Credit System Through Scientific Rigor
Biological Diversity, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As pivotal nature‐based climate solutions (NbCS), forests are increasingly recognized for their climate mitigation potential. However, this potential is undermined by fundamental flaws in current carbon credit systems. Our analysis identifies four interconnected systemic challenges: (1) subjective additionality assessments arising from ...
Xiaoqian Chen, Shaokun Li
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Habitat Mapping of Bos gaurus in Parsa National Park, Nepal: Ensemble Modeling Approach
Ecology and EvolutionBos gaurus, a globally vulnerable and protected priority species in Nepal, has experienced habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and diseases. Consequently, their population is isolated significantly in Parsa National Park and Chitwan National Park ...
Anish Dhakal +6 more
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Spatial metrics in fire ecology: seeking consistency amidst complexity
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Technological advances, including remote sensing, have led to a proliferation of metrics used in ecological studies to examine spatial patterns of fire regimes and their ecological effects. Researchers can use many different metrics to analyse spatial variation in both fire events and resulting fire regimes, including fire size, shape ...
Alexander R. Carey +5 more
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The Evaluation of Sustainable Development Projects in Marginal Areas: An A’WOT Approach
LandThe increasing urbanization trend, projected to reach 70% of the global population residing in cities by 2050, underscores the pivotal role of cities in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Rubina Canesi, Chiara D’Alpaos
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Diet of bird‐like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Troodontidae is a clade of small‐to medium‐sized maniraptoran theropods that mainly lived in Laurasia (modern Asia, North America and Europe) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are believed to have had a variety of diets. The uniqueness of troodontid teeth suggests that they diverged from the typical flesh‐based diet of non‐avian ...
Yui Chi Fan +2 more
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Allocation of Land at the Rural-Urban Fringe Using a Spatially-Realistic Ecosystem Constraint [PDF]
Development in rural-urban fringe communities is increasing with the potential to damage healthy ecosystems and endanger the long-term persistence of resident flora and fauna.
Bauer, Dana Marie, Swallow, Stephen K.
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Foraging under Predation Risk: A test of giving-up densities with samango monkeys in South Africa [PDF]
, 2013 Animals frequently make a trade-off between food and safety and will sacrifice feeding effort if it means safety from predators. A forager can also vary its vigilance levels to manage predation risk.
SASSOON, RACHEL
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The extension of the taxon cycle model to island plants: insights from the Canarian vascular flora
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Taxon cycle models describe eco‐evolutionary patterns of lineage colonization, diversification, and decline across archipelagos, inferring an important role for competition amongst ecologically similar taxa in driving concurrent niche changes.
José María Fernández‐Palacios +2 more
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STATED PREFERENCES AND LENGTH OF RESIDENCY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES: ARE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION VALUES HETEROGENEOUS? [PDF]
Newer residents of rural, urban-fringe communities are often assumed to have preferences for the development and conservation of rural lands that differ from those of longer-term residents.
Bauer, Dana Marie +2 more
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Corehead Orchard Tree Establishment and Grazing Damage Survey 2013: Report to the Borders Forest Trust [PDF]
, 2014 The research report describes the history of fruit orchards in Scotland and monitoring of efforts to establish a traditional fruit orchard. Comparisons are made of the performance of different fruit varieties during the first two years of growth and the ...
Davies, G. Matt
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