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Conifer host identity shapes wood‐boring beetle communities more than climate across a latitudinal forest gradient in Quebec (Canada)

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Host tree identity and latitude shaped wood‐boring beetle assemblages, with species richness declining northward but community composition varying among regions and hosts. Host tree species influenced beetle communities more strongly than climate; black spruce supported the most species, while eastern hemlock hosted very few.
Nicolas Perrault   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of logging and hunting on western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) populations and consequences for forest regeneration. A review

open access: yesBiotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2013
Timber exploitation is rapidly expanding throughout the Congo Basin. Forest areas assigned to timber harvesting have sharply expanded over the decades and logging concessions now largely overlap with the range of western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla ...
Haurez, B., Petre, CA., Doucet, JL.
doaj  

Helping People Live Alongside Tigers (Panthera tigris): The Role of Social Science

open access: yes
Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Ashish Bista   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

An investigation into the strength properties of reclaimed timber joists [PDF]

open access: yes
This research was designed to investigate the mechanical properties of timbers reclaimed from demolition, with the aim of generating a visual grade and model expression to grade these materials for structural reuse.
Smith, Michael J.
core  

Timber Harvesting Equipment in South Carolina

open access: yes, 2020
Timber harvesting is an essential part of forest management. Experienced landowners know the harvesting equipment used and are accustomed to the process of timber harvesting.
Steele, Janet W., Hiesl, Patrick
core  

No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
wiley   +1 more source

Methods to Reduce Forest Residue Volume after Timber Harvesting and Produce Black Carbon. [PDF]

open access: yesScientifica (Cairo), 2017
Page-Dumroese DS   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

INTERNAL CONSISTENCY IN MODELS OF OPTIMAL RESOURCE USE UNDER UNCERTAINTY [PDF]

open access: yes
For several decades, economists have been concerned with the problem of optimal resource use under uncertainty. In many studies, researchers assume that prices evolve according to an exogenous stochastic process and solve the corresponding dynamic ...
Provencher, Bill, Plantinga, Andrew J.
core  

Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
wiley   +1 more source

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