Springbrook: Challenges in developing a long-term, rainforest wireless sensor network [PDF]
, 2008 We describe the design, development and learnings from the first phase of a rainforest ecological sensor network at Springbrook - part of a World Heritage precinct in South East Queensland.
Brunig, Michael +8 more
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New records of Dipsas welborni Arteaga & Batista, 2023, Gelanesaurus flavogularis (Altamirano-Benavides, Zaher, Lobo, Grazziotin, Sales-Nunes & Rodrigues, 2013), and Synophis insulomontanus Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 in the Cordillera de Colán, Peru [PDF]
Check ListA herpetological survey during recent expeditions to the foothills of the Cordillera de Colán in the Amazonas region of Peru resulted in new records and extensions of the geographical distribution of three poorly known species of reptiles ...
Luis A. García-Ayachi +5 more
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Composition and Host-Use Patterns of a Scarab Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Community Inhabiting the Canopy of a Lowland Tropical Rainforest in Southern Venezuela [PDF]
, 2019 The adult scarab beetle fauna of the canopy in a lowland tropical rainforest in southern Venezuela was observed and collected by means of a 42 m-tall tower crane for a complete year.
Kirmse, Susan, Ratcliffe, Brett C.
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]
, 2017 Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun +57 more
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Journal of Political Ecology, 2016 Voluntary certification schemes have grown in popularity since the late 1980s. Today, a large number of consumer items from coffee and chocolate to oil palm and soya products carry labels that supposedly attest their contribution to promoting fair trade ...
Jutta Kill
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iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2010 Given the greater vulnerability of developing countries to climate change, their paramount interest is to establish effective mitigation policies including the land use and forestry sectors as part of the post-2012 Climate Agreement.
Federici S, Galluzzi G
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Climate Change Affects Reproductive Phenology in Lianas of Australia’s Wet Tropics
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Lianas are increasing in abundance in many tropical forests. This increase can alter forest structure and decrease both carbon storage and tree diversity via antagonistic relationships between lianas and their host trees.
Nara O. Vogado +5 more
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Do private sustainability standards contribute to income growth and poverty alleviation? : a comparison of different coffee certification schemes in Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2017 Private sustainability standards are increasingly important in food trade with developing countries, but the implications for smallholder farmers are still poorly understood.
de Mey, Yann +3 more
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The ‘cultured rainforests’ of Borneo [PDF]
Quaternary International, 2017 Borneo has a 50,000-year record of Homo sapiens' interactions with rainforest on the coastal lowlands assembled especially by the interdisciplinary investigation of the archaeology and palaeoecology of the Niah Caves on the coastal plain of Sarawak (Barker et al., 2007; Barker, 2013). More recent work by many of the same team in the interior of Borneo,
Barker, Graeme +8 more
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Press Start, 2020 This paper represents an initiatory investigation into moments of inaction in games. Two types of inaction are defined and discussed: stasis, which is inaction brought on by or through a game’s mechanics, and stillness, which is brought on by or through ...
Rainforest Scully-Blaker
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