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Review of Collins, Yolanda Ariadne. 2024. Forests of refuge: Decolonizing environmental governance in the Amazonian Guiana Shield

Journal of Political Ecology
  
Andrea Rizzi
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Assessing the evolutionary distinctiveness of a highly threatened plant group: The urgency to preserve a unique lineage of evolution in Brazil

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Brazil's diverse flora is under several threats, with many unique lineages facing extinction, particularly in biodiverse regions like the Cerrado and campo rupestre. This study sheds light on the conservation needs of Cambessedesia (Melastomataceae), an endemic genus with 95% of its species endangered, using an approach to rank and prioritise species ...
Najla Bastos Scheidegger, Raquel C. Pizzardo, Bruno Vilela, Thuane Bochorny, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +4 more
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Spawning Habitat Partitioning of Sympatric Salmonid Populations in the Upper Bois Brule River, Wisconsin

Fishes
Spawning habitat partitioning can be important for maintaining sympatric fish species. Likewise, critical spawning habitat loss may challenge the long-term persistence of sympatric fish species.
Benjamin T. Schleppenbach, Thomas R. Hrabik, Daniel D. McCann, Karen B. Gran, Greg G. Sass   +4 more
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Agroforestry and enhanced rock weathering: A dual strategy for sustainable cacao

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cacao production is both economically vital and environmentally intensive, presenting a major sustainability challenge as a crop largely cultivated by smallholder farmers in climate‐vulnerable regions. This review synthesises evidence that integrating agroforestry with enhanced rock weathering (EW) may significantly reduce emissions from cacao ...
Isabella L. Steeley, Edson S. França, Dimitar Z. Epihov, Noah J. Planavsky, David J. Beerling   +4 more
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Learning From 'Actually Existing' REDD+: A Synthesis of Ethnographic Findings

Conservation & Society, 2019
The 2015 United Nations Paris Agreement on Climate reinforces actions to conserve and enhance forests as carbon reservoirs. A decade after sub-national demonstration projects to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) commenced,
Sarah Milne, Sango Mahanty, Phuc To, Wolfram Dressler, Peter Kanowski, Maylee Thavat   +5 more
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An interdisciplinary review of the interplay of conflict, socio‐economic factors, and land cover and vegetation dynamics in Colombia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Colombia's forests play a crucial role in preserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, but they are currently facing severe degradation, particularly after the 2016 Peace Agreement. Our literature review highlights a growing research interest in this topic and demonstrates how interdisciplinary approaches combining diverse methods can enhance
Estefanía Muñoz, Jesús A. Anaya, Nicola Clerici, Lina M. Estupinan‐Suarez, Isabel Lopera, Solveig Richter, Alejandro Salazar, Carlos A. Sierra, Andrés Tangarife‐Escobar, Miguel D. Mahecha, David Montero, Pablo Palacios‐Rodríguez, Pablo Ramos, Santiago Botía   +13 more
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IMPLEMENTASI KEGIATAN REDD+ PADA KAWASAN KONSERVASI DI INDONESIA

Jurnal Analisis Kebijakan Kehutanan, 2017
Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) adalah mekanisme yang sedang dibangun di tingkat global sebagai kegiatan mitigasi perubahan iklim sektor kehutanan.
Ari Wibowo
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Dam It, I’m Stranded: Evaluating Fish Stranding Downstream of Two Hydropeaking Dams in Northern Ontario

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, there has been an increase in the development and use of hydropower to produce energy. Hydropeaking is an operating regime that is used to meet real‐time energy demands; however, daily fluctuations in flows may result in fish becoming stranded.
Raegan Davis, Steven J. Cooke, Karen E. Smokorowski   +2 more
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A Tool for Prioritizing Gravel Augmentation Reaches for Sediment Starved Rivers

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gravel augmentation is a widely used restoration technique used to improve habitat below dams, including salmonids spawning habitat. However, gravel augmentation can be cost‐prohibitive, and it is often unclear which stream segments have the highest potential to benefit spawning salmonids.
Patricia J. Wohner, Peter A. Samarin, James T. Peterson   +2 more
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The Case for Social Safeguards in a Post-2012 Agreement on REDD [PDF]

Law, Environment and Development Journal, 2010
This paper explores the policy need and legal case for including social safeguards in a post-2012 agreement on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).
David J. Kelly
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