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RULES - Sistema de Ayuda para la Planificación del suelo rural
En este artículo se justifica la necesidad de disponer de herramientas de soporte para el proceso de toma de decisiones sobre el uso del suelo en el medio rural.
Inés Santé Riveira +1 more
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How endorser attributes influence conservation communication
Abstract Conservation communication often uses the celebrity endorsement strategy. However, robust evidence regarding its effectiveness is still limited. More importantly, practitioners do not have guidelines for selecting an ideal endorser because there is no clear consensus on what endorser attributes are most critical.
Xia He, Tien Ming Lee
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Loss of agro-productive soils resulting from urban sprawl in Ambato-Ecuador
With the passage of time, humanity has transformed a sea of rurality with some urban islands into a metropolitan sea with areas of countryside and nature (Naredo, 2004). Day after day, cities waterproof large areas of land, many of them with agricultural
Gabriel Granda
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Risk reduction, rangeland use, and the future of human–carnivore coexistence
Abstract Efforts to reduce livestock losses to large carnivores are widely regarded as essential for promoting human–carnivore coexistence. Predator‐proof enclosures, compensation programs, improved livestock guarding, and real‐time predator alert systems can reduce depredation and retaliatory killing while enhancing pastoralist livelihoods.
Craig Packer
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When tradition burns: Misinterpreting prescribed fire across the science–society gap in Iberia
Prescribed fire is a scientifically grounded management tool whose benefits depend on specific ecological and operational conditions. This Perspective examines how these benefits may be reinterpreted beyond their original context and proposes a framework to improve the translation of ecological knowledge into environmental decision‐making.
Luis Navarro
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En el Ecuador, la regulación del uso y ocupación del suelo, como competencia exclusiva de los gobiernos autónomos descentralizados municipales y metropoli- tanos, se realiza en el Plan de Uso y Gestión de Suelo.
Katia Paola Barros Esquivel +1 more
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Con el fin de evaluar el impacto de largos periodos de uso del terreno en propiedades estructurales del suelo, se realizó un muestreo a 0-20 cm de profundidad en los siguientes tratamientos: Suelo no intervenido 25% de pendiente (testigo), uso en pastura
Belisario Volverás Mambuscay +1 more
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Dinámica del paisaje y fragmentación de hábitats en la región terrestre prioritaria El Tokio
El cambio de uso de suelo, debido a diversas actividades antropogénicas, genera una fragmentación del hábitat. El objetivo de este trabajo es entender la dinámica del cambio en el uso de suelo, clasificar el índice de fragmentación, en base al índice de ...
Maritza Gutiérrez Gutiérrez +5 more
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Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha +3 more
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Tri‐stereoscopic PeruSat‐1 imagery enables the simultaneous generation of 0.70 m‐resolution topography and spatially distributed Manning roughness maps, achieving 0.434 m vertical accuracy. Integrated into HEC‐RAS, these products provide consistent, high‐resolution inputs that improve hydraulic modelling and flood risk assessment in data‐scarce river ...
Jorge L. Miranda‐Pita +3 more
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