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The Use of Drought-Tolerant Vegetation on Green Roofs: A Method for the Digital Photographic Monitoring of Its Development

open access: yesHorticulturae
The increased number of buildings in urban areas limits the creation of vegetated areas, leading to the search for alternatives to create spaces to promote contact with nature. In this context, green roofs have been increasingly studied. These structures
Madalena Rodrigues   +2 more
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DroughtScape- Summer 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Upcoming Workshops Mild Drought Season Likely to Persist Drought Impacts Intensify in Upper Midwest Visiting Scientists North Carolina Takes Drought Monitor Seriously International Work- Murcia, Spain ...
Smith, Kelly
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STUDIES OF VOLUMETRIC RELATION BETWEEN VEGETATION AND BUILDINGS USING LIDAR DATA AND NDVI TO PROPOSE URBAN PARAMETERS

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Cartografia, 2018
The availability of high-resolution cartographic data is a trigger for the discussion about the quality of urban ambiance, as a result of comparison between indexes of vegetation cover and built area, aiming at the inclusion of new urban parameters in ...
Nicole Andrade da Rocha   +5 more
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Temperature Inversion and Vegetation Inversion in Xishuangbanna, Southwestern Yunnan, People's Republic of China

open access: yesMountain Research and Development, 1981
This paper describes the relationships between temperature inversions during winter months and vegetation distribution in Xishuangbanna, southwestern Yunnan Province. Temperature inversions are differentiated according to scale. Thus, macroinversions of several hundred metres, especially on north-facing slopes, produce a pronounced inversion of "normal"
openaire   +1 more source

Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Vegetation Fire Points Based on Genetic Optimization of Threshold Values

open access: yesFire
Vegetation fires are among the most common natural disasters, posing significant threats to people and the natural environment worldwide. Density-based clustering methods can be used to identify geospatial clustering patterns of fire points.
Xuan Gao, Tao Wang, Ke Xie
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FITCA-EMMC workshops on information exchange and training with rural communities on environment: Eastern Uganda. W1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Four workshops were held in four sub counties in the districts of Soroti, Tororo, Iganga and Kamuli. Five to seven villages were involved in each sub county.
Kang'Ethe, Erastus   +4 more
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Evolution Of Vegetation, Relief And Geology In Central Poland Under Anthropopressure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Published in: Origin of Relief of Central Poland and Its Anthropogenic Transformation in Łódź University Geographical Research, edited by. E.Kobojek, T.MarszałThe review of the localities with biogenic, slope, fluvial and aeolian deposits in which the ...
Forysiak, Jacek   +2 more
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Yams (Dioscorea spp.) in shellmounds and swiddens: ancient history in Babitonga Bay, Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background In Babitonga Bay, southern Brazil, records of yam consumption exist among shellmound builders from at least 4000 years ago. Shellmounds (sambaquis) are anthropogenic structures in the form of mounds with layers of shells associated with other ...
Dalzemira Anselmo da Silva Souza   +2 more
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A Framework to Assess Returns on Investments in the Dryland Systems of Northern Kenya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Governments need quantitative assessments of the outcomes of proposed investments so they can weigh the merits of each option. Without these, there is a risk that some proposed changes could in fact reduce rather than increase benefits to the economy and
Caroline King-Okumu
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Reconstruction of the Part Vegetation on the Headwaters of the Piney Creek Watershed in Houston and Trinity Counties, Texas [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The National Forests and Grasslands of Texas began a project in 1994 for ecosystem management involving multiple disciplines in an holistic approach to resource inventories.
Hubbard, Velicia R., Jurney, David H.
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