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Niche-dependent forest and savanna fragmentation in Tropical South America during the Last Glacial Maximum

npj Biodiversity
The refugia hypothesis, often used to explain Amazonia’s high biodiversity, initially received ample support but has garnered increasing criticism over time.
Douglas I. Kelley, Hiromitsu Sato, Michaela Ecker, Chantelle A. Burton, João M. G. Capurucho, John Bates   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua) in Nigeria: Regional cultivation patterns, landrace diversity, and farmer knowledge for conserving a climate‐resilient indigenous cereal

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Fonio (Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua) cereals are valued for their drought resilience, adaptability to poor soils, and cultural importance. In Nigeria, where both species are cultivated, fonio has declined due to labor‐intensive processing, lower yields, and changing livelihood choices. By documenting 21 landraces (15 D. exilis and 6 D. iburua),
Ishaq Muawiyya, Abubakar Bello, George P. Burton, Philippa Ryan, Maria S. Vorontsova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Niche‐tracking as a collecting method: Habitat‐targeted search strategies for taxon‐focused botany

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Biodiversity science depends on more than collecting plants—it depends on how we search for them. Although GPS and digital maps have transformed fieldwork, they can also encourage repeated visits to the same easy‐to‐access sites, leaving other habitats and populations unknown to science.
Lucas C. Marinho, Isabela M. Waga, Domingos Cardoso   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Management Strategies of Tropical Savanna Ecosystem for Multiple Benefits of Community Livelihoods in Semiarid Region of Indonesia

World Development Sustainability
Tropical savannas are complex landscapes composed of mainly grasses and a matrix of proportions of discontinuous tree cover. They play an essential role in providing multiple ecosystem services including biodiversity, carbon storage, and socio-economic ...
Perdinan, Raden Eliasar Prabowo Tjahjono, Delta Yova Dwi Infrawan, Ardi Nur Armanto, Syafararisa Dian Pratiwi, Erianto Indra Putra, Yonvitner, Shabrina Oktaviani, Kania Gita Lestari, Ryco Farysca Adi, Ade Reno Sudiarno, Evi Kaban, Rosalia Widyaningrum, Jansen Mayor   +13 more
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Improved Cerrado Wetland Mapping Through Seasonal Moisture Metrics, Terrain Information and Semantic Segmentation

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Brazil's Cerrado valley wetlands—swamp savanna and gallery forest—are highly important for the biome's water cycle and carbon storage and are susceptible to degradation from the impacts of land use expansion and the climate crisis. In support of their detailed monitoring and assessment, we developed and tested a transferable mapping approach that ...
Felix Beer, Hugo do Nascimento Bendini, Mateus de Souza Miranda, Vu‐Dong Pham, Leila Maria Garcia Fonseca, Cássia Beatriz Rodrigues Munhoz, Sebastian van der Linden   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The inadequacies of the steppic savanna classification system to describe the vegetation of the semi-arid Caatinga of Brazil [PDF]

Rodriguésia
The steppic savanna term was originally employed to classify a single type of tropical vegetation in Africa, but it has been expanded by the pioneering RADAMBRASIL authors and it is currently used to classify the vegetation of the Caatinga in ...
Edgard Bontempo, Flora Martins, Christianne Corsini, Frans Pareyn, Dalton de Morrison Valeriano   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Vegetation of the Australian Tropical Savannas [PDF]

Pacific Conservation Biology, 2002
THE publication is a CD containing 1:2 000 000 scale maps in three sheets and an accompanying technical report produced by members of the Queensland Herbarium. It is the result of a collaboration of State, Territory and Federal agencies and researchers. The full list of authors include Fox, I. D., Neldner, V. J., Wilson, G. W., Bannink, P.
openaire   +1 more source

frontiermetrics: An R Package for Characterizing Deforestation Frontiers

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Deforestation frontiers are major drivers of biodiversity loss, carbon emissions, and ecosystem degradation, yet our understanding of how deforestation progresses in these frontiers is limited. We present frontiermetrics, an R package to quantify a range of metrics describing the speed, severity, and spatio‐temporal patterns of forest loss. The package
Pablo Yair Huais, Ana Buchadas, Eduardo Lacerda, Javier Nori, Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Sustainability of Robusta Coffee Under Global Change—A Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This contribution reviews the scientific evidence concerning climate resiliency claims as well as sustainability issues for robusta coffee (Coffea canephora), focusing on: climate change analyses, climate parameters, soil water, and farming inputs, especially irrigation and synthetic fertilizer use.
Aaron P. Davis, Akshay Dashrath, Justin Moat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Socio‐Economic Benefits of Communal Trophy Hunting in Africa: A Value Chain Perspective From Namibia

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International concerns around the equitable distribution of income generated by communal trophy hunting tourism have raised questions about the industry's effectiveness in promoting rural livelihoods and nature conservation. We examine how communities in Namibia derive benefits from wildlife and explore local perspectives on fostering active ...
Luke Symonds‐Mayes, Enrico Di Minin, Hayley Clements   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source