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The Safety-net Use of Non Timber Forest Products [PDF]
Incompleteness of insurance markets is a crucial weakness of developing countries. In this context, the poor households of rural regions often exploit common property resources, such as forests, as insurance in case of economics stress.
Philippe Delacote
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Astragalus ecomorphology in Quaternary elephantids
Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The astragalus plays a fundamental role in the graviportal locomotion of proboscideans, reflecting the biomechanical constraints imposed by large body masses. This study analyses the morphological variability of the astragalus in Quaternary elephantids using linear biometry and 3D geometric morphometrics, incorporating an unpublished ...
Darío Fidalgo +6 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While competition with large carnivores is likely to have shaped Middle Paleolithic hominins' subsistence behavior, palimpsested human and carnivore accumulations render the signal challenging to isolate. This study presents a detailed zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of a non‐anthropogenic faunal assemblage from a MIS 5 (~130–80 ka ...
Meir Orbach +4 more
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Macroeconomics and Forest Sustainability in the Developing World [PDF]
Governments often use fiscal, exchange rate, monetary policy as well as export promotion tax increases, privatization, and land reform as part of comprehensive adjustments packages for addressing economic imbalances, balance of payments, and structural ...
Sedjo, Roger
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi +15 more
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Contrasting leaf trait scaling relationships in tropical and temperate wet forest species
, 2013 We investigated whether plants adapted to thermally contrasting environments (e.g. tropical-temperate habitats) exhibit inherent differences in leaf trait scaling relationships.
Atkin, OK (reprint author), Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Biol, Div Plant Sci, Bldg 46, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. +4 more
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Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.Abstract Chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.) serve as a protein‐rich staple, particularly in Mediterranean countries, where they are often grown in marginal and water‐stressed areas. This meta‐analysis synthesized evidence from peer‐reviewed publications across Mediterranean countries to assess how chickpea rhizobial inoculation influences chickpea ...
Amira Hachana +11 more
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The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.We used 4 sampling methods to estimate or index the abundance and sex ratio of spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) over 14 years. The present study highlights the importance of considering individual heterogeneity in capture probability when estimating abundance of pond‐breeding amphibians from capture data with imperfect detection. Abstract Long‐
Patrick D. Moldowan +3 more
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Forest Inventories: Discrepancies and Uncertainties [PDF]
Credits for sequestered carbon augment forests’ already considerable value as natural habitat and as producers of timber and biomass, making their accurate inventory more critical than ever before.
Waggoner, Paul E.
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Modeling Spongy Moth Forest Mortality in Rhode Island Temperate Deciduous Forest
Invasive pests cause major ecological and economic damages to forests around the world including reduced carbon sequestration and biodiversity and loss of forest revenue.
Liubov Dumarevskaya, Jason R. Parent
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