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The paradox of mosquito net fishing: Complex socio‐ecological trade‐offs in southwestern Madagascar

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Small‐scale fisheries are vital for the livelihoods, nutrition and well‐being of millions of people in coastal regions. In many parts of the Global South, rising poverty, limited alternatives and declining resources have driven the spread of mosquito net fishing (MNF), a non‐selective practice using repurposed health‐distributed nets.
Francéline Marie Rasoanirina, Georgeta Stoica, Léono Declerck Todimazava, Sandra Ranaivomanana, Emma Gibbons, Jamal Mahafina, Thomas Lamy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sighting of a rare whale [PDF]

, 2009
Indopacetus pacificus (Longman, 1926), Longman’s beaked whale (also known as Indo-pacific beaked whale or tropical bottlenose whale) is a rare ziphid restricted to tropical waters of Indian and Pacific ...
Manojkumar, P P
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Modulation of Sri Lankan Maha rainfall by the Indian Ocean Dipole [PDF]

, 2003
Investigating the September to December rainy season in Sri Lanka associated with the Maha rice growing season provides insights into the Asian monsoon during the boreal fall.
Rao, Suryachandra A., Yamagata, Toshio, Zubair, Lareef M.   +2 more
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Digitisation of herbarium specimens to the benefit of research: An African perspective focusing on South Africa and Western Indian Ocean Island states

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper, Hester M. Steyn, Cláudia Baider, Benny Bytebier, Anisha Dayaram, F. B. Vincent Florens, Nivohenintsoa Rakotonirina, Domitilla Raimondo, Marc Sosef, M. Marianne le Roux   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The lichen flora of the Chagos Archipelago : including a comparison with other island and coastal tropical floras [PDF]

, 2000
The 1996 Chagos Expedition provided the first opportunity to study the archipelago’s lichen flora. Seventeen of the 55 islands were ecologically investigated, some in more detail than others, and lists and representative collections of lichens have been ...
Aptroot, André, Seaward, Mark R. D.
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Pacific origin of the abrupt increase in Indian Ocean heat content during the warming hiatus [PDF]

, 2015
Global mean surface warming has stalled since the end of the twentieth century1, 2, but the net radiation imbalance at the top of the atmosphere continues to suggest an increasingly warming planet.
AL Gordon, AL Gordon, AL Gordon, Arnold L. Gordon, Bruce Huber, G Danabasoglu, G Meyers, GA Meehl, GP Compo, GT Csanady, J Sprintall, KE Trenberth, KE Trenberth, KE Trenberth, M Steele, MH England, MH England, Molly O. Baringer, N Maher, NG Loeb, PR Gent, RD Susanto, RP Allan, S Levitus, S-K Lee, Sang-Ki Lee, SS Drijfhout, T Lee, W Han, W Han, WG Large, Wonsun Park, WS Broecker, X Chen, Y Kosaka, Yanyun Liu   +35 more
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Climate change‐driven expansion of goosegrass highlights risks to global food production

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Climate change is expanding the climatic suitability of Eleusine indica into temperate agricultural regions, increasing its overlap with major soybean and maize production areas. These findings highlight a growing global threat to food security and the need for proactive weed management strategies.
Thiago Deomar Ludwig, Ednaldo Alexandre Borgato, Luis Antonio de Avila, Laura Montipó Roncaglia, Maria Imaculada Zucchi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the Relative Contributions of the Global Oceans to ENSO Predictability With Deep Learning

Geophysical Research Letters
We propose a unified statistical method based on deep learning and heatmap analysis to quantify the relative contributions of the global oceans to El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) predictability. By incorporating subsurface signals in the Indian Ocean
Tang Li, Youmin Tang, Tao Lian, Anfeng Hu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling monsoons: understanding and predicting current and future behaviour [PDF]

, 2011
The global monsoon system is so varied and complex that understanding and predicting its diverse behaviour remains a challenge that will occupy modellers for many years to come.
Giannini, Alessandra, Kimoto, Masahide, Mechoso, C. Roberto, Meehl, Gerald, Slingo, Julia Mary, Sperber, Kenneth, Turner, Andrew George   +6 more
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Potential predictability of tropical Indian Ocean SST anomalies [PDF]

Geophysical Research Letters, 2005
Retrospective 9‐month 15‐member ensemble forecasts from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction Coupled Forecast System (NCEP CFS) for 1981 to 2003 are used to assess forecast skill and potential predictability of sea‐surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs) over the poles of the Indian Ocean Dipole Mode (IDM).
openaire   +1 more source