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Do working forest easements work for conservation?

Environmental Research Letters
Conservation easements are voluntary legal agreements designed to constrain land-use activities on private land to achieve conservation goals. Extensive public and private funding has been used to establish ‘working forest’ conservation easements (WFCE ...
Jonathan R Thompson, Alexey Kalinin, Lucy G Lee, Valerie J Pasquarella, Joshua Plisinski, Katharine R E Sims   +5 more
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Optimum gamma irradiation doses for mutagenesis in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean L.) genotypes

Reproduction and Breeding
Genetic diversity enhancement to select Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea [L.] Verdc. 2x = 2n = 22) breeding lines with economic traits is imperative to improve the crop's utilization in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Maliata Athon Wanga, Ruusa Napandulwe Ithete, Rose-mary Kavemuine Hukununa, Annethe Kangumba, Magdalena Ndafapawa Hangula, Eddie B.S. Hasheela, Fatma Sarsu, Hussein Shimelis   +7 more
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The history and importance of private lands for North American waterfowl conservation

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2019
Waterfowl conservation in North America provides an example of an abundant wildlife resource that was driven to alarmingly low levels as a result of unregulated exploitation of its populations and habitats, but which has since recovered because of ...
Michael G. Brasher, James J. Giocomo, David A. Azure, Anne M. Bartuszevige, Mark E. Flaspohler, Dean E. Harrigal, Brian W. Olson, John M. Pitre, Randy W. Renner, Scott E. Stephens, Josh L. Vest   +10 more
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Stakeholder Perceptions of an Ecosystem Services Approach to Clearing Invasive Alien Plants on Private Land

Ecology and Society, 2013
Incentivizing private landowners and other stakeholders is central to the effective conservation of ecosystem services in working landscapes. To better understand how to design effective incentives, the perceptions of landowners and other stakeholders ...
Lauren S. Urgenson, Heidi E. Prozesky, Karen J. Esler   +2 more
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Forestry on Private Lands [PDF]

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1909
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Opportunities and challenges to implementing bird conservation on private lands

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2013
With >70% of the United States held in private ownership, land‐use decisions of landowners will ultimately dictate the future of bird conservation in North America.
Elizabeth Ciuzio, William L. Hohman, Brian Martin, Mark D. Smith, Scott Stephens, Allan M. Strong, Tammy Vercauteren   +6 more
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Baseline Assessment of Gender Distribution of Government Land Allocation and Private Titled Lands in Akure, Nigeria

Journal of African Real Estate Research, 2021
There is strong evidence that most land transactions in Nigerian urban areas take place in the private or informal land market and remain untitled. Only a small percentage of land transactions take place through government allocation even though it ...
Mary Adebola Ajayi
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What drives landholders to engage in coastal wetland programs? A synthesis of current knowledge and opportunities for future research

Conservation Science and Practice
Globally, coastal wetlands such as mangroves and saltmarshes are in decline. With many coastal wetlands dispersed across privately owned lands, one strategy to promote their protection is through private land coastal wetland programs.
A. Rifaee Rasheed, Peter I. Macreadie, Phebe I. Rowland, Melissa Wartman   +3 more
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Polynomial interpolation methods in development of local geoid model

Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, 2018
In geodesy three surfaces, the physical surface of the earth, the geoid and the reference ellipsoid are encountered giving rise to orthometric height (h), the ellipsoidal height (H) and the geoidal separation (N).
Rabindra Kumar Das, Sailesh Samanta, Sujoy Kumar Jana, Robert Rosa   +3 more
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Privatization of Urban Land in Shanghai

, 1996
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