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Influence of Displacements on Calculus of the Longitudinal Modulus of Elasticity of Pinus Caribaea Structural Round Timber Beams [PDF]
Round timber shows great potential for use as a building material, having the advantage of not being proc-essed, such as the sawn wood. In Brazil, the normative standards that deal with the existing round timber elements are mainly headed for the pole ...
Christoforo, André Luis +4 more
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a low‐cost, adaptable agroforestry practice that enhances land restoration by promoting systematic integration of naturally regenerating trees within farming systems through tree selection and management.
Irene Awino Ojuok +5 more
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O desflorestamento na amazônia brasileira
Ciência Florestal, 2007 The process of occupation in Amazon stimulated lots of factors that induced deforestation. These factors are cattle ranching and agriculture, logging, settlement projects, the opening of new roads, land property rights, populational growth, land ...
Humberto Angelo +1 more
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What happens in global value chains when the markey shifts from the north to the south?
, 2010 This paper charts the evolution of financial and economic crisis in the global economy and argues that the likely outcome will be sustained growth in the two very large Asian Driver economies of China and India and stagnation in the historically dominant
Farooki, Masuma +3 more
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Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Coastal soil salinization from rising seawater levels has adverse impacts on soil function, seed germination, and plant growth. Root exudates play a key role in supporting microbial activity, nutrient cycling, and plant health, yet little is known about the combined effects of salinization and the addition of artificial root exudates (AREs) on
Nicolina Lentine +4 more
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Maple Syrup Value Systems and Value Chains - Considering Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Perspectives [PDF]
, 2014 Harvested from both intensive sugar maple stands and diverse mixed forest ecosystems across Ontario, maple syrup is an important rural and Aboriginal non-timber forest product that contributes to social, economic and environmental sustainability.
Chrétien, Annette +2 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Functional diversity (FD) is an essential community property connecting biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and conservation objectives. In agricultural landscapes, avian communities, which play key functional roles, are facing large‐scale biodiversity erosion, largely due to land‐use changes.
Pietro Tirozzi +3 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Forest restoration success depends crucially on the reinitiation of ecological processes such as seed arrival that drive natural regeneration. We know little about whether, by increasing and diversifying local seed sources to alleviate seed limitation, and attracting animal frugivores to alleviate dispersal limitation, restoration could shift seed ...
Aparna Krishnan +6 more
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The importance of wild meat and freshwater fish for children's nutritional intake in the Congo Basin
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Wild meat and freshwater fish are widely consumed in the Congo Basin, but in some areas, they are at risk of disappearing due to unsustainable hunting and fishing and changes in their habitat. Wild meat is also at risk of being eliminated from local diets due to potential policy changes such as wild meat bans.
Amy Ickowitz +6 more
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