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Determinants of malaria from environmental and poverty aspects in Indonesia: A spatiotemporal perspective, 2016-2020

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine
Objective: To investigate the environmental and social aspects of poverty contributing to malaria incidence in Indonesia from 2016 to 2020. Methods: Random forest regression was used to analyse the independent variables contributing to malaria incidence.
Afi Nursafingi, Prima Widayani, Sidiq Purwoko, Andy Bhermana   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Vegetation Dynamics in Relation to Shifting Inundation and Fire Regimes: Disentangling Environmental Variability from Land Management Decisions in a Southern African Transboundary Watershed

Land, 2015
Increasing temperatures and wildfire incidence and decreasing precipitation and river runoff in southern Africa are predicted to have a variety of impacts on the ecology, structure, and function of semi-arid savannas, which provide innumerable livelihood
Narcisa G. Pricope, Andrea E. Gaughan, John D. All, Michael W. Binford, Lucas P. Rutina   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vegetation development at a mountain settlement site in the Swedish Scandes during the late Holocene: palaeoecological evidence of human-induced deforestation

, 2009
A palaeoecological study was conducted close to the forest limit in the northern Scandinavian mountain range. The aim was to elucidate the degree to which human impact has affected the vegetation at Hiednikvalta, a Stallo settlement site.
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet., Staland, Hanna,, Hörnberg, Greger,   +2 more
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's De Hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina (1761): Mercury Mining, Mercurialism, and Preventive Reasoning in Eighteenth‐Century Occupational Medicine

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), a physician‐naturalist of the Enlightenment, is primarily remembered for his contributions to botany and entomology. Less attention has been paid to his medical work De hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina physico‐chymico‐medica (1761), written during his fifteen years of service as physician at the mercury mines
Alberto Zanatta, Paola Mason, Sofia Bollini, Giovanni Magno   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dégradation des ressources végétales au contact des activités humaines et perspectives de conservation dans le massif de l'Aïr (Sahara, Niger)

VertigO, 2006
The Aïr mountain range is nested inside the Saharan part of Niger. It is populated with approximately 80000 inhabitants depending mostly on local vegetation resources. We aimed to study the relationships between the recent changes in human activities and
Fabien Anthelme, Maman Waziri Mato, Dimitri de Boissieu, Franck Giazzi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who Pays to Protect Native Vegetation? Costs to Farmers in Moree Plains Shire, New South Wales [PDF]

The Native Vegetation Conservation Act was introduced on January 1st 1998 to limit the clearing of native grassland and woodland in NSW. The Act has limited clearing and development to crops, has protected biodiversity, and may have enhanced soil and ...
Sinden, Jack A.
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Quantitative muscle architecture in large carnivorous marsupials (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) and links to substrate use and prey processing

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dasyurid species Sarcophilus harrisii, Dasyurus maculatus, and Dasyurus viverrinus, occupying diverse ecological niches and forming a guild structure in Tasmania, provide a basis for examining the roles of various forelimb muscle groups in prey capture and locomotion.
Riya G. Bidaye, Samuel H. Frenkel, David P. Hocking, Alistair R. Evans, Justin W. Adams   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aboriginal people and Australia's vegetation: Past and Current Interactions

, 2017
Plants have had significant and multiple roles in past and present Aboriginal people's lives. Aboriginal people extracted the food, medicine and material resources they needed from their immediate environment.
Walsh, Fiona, Ens, Emilie, Clarke, Philip   +2 more
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Floristic composition and structure of vegetation under isolated trees in neotropical pastures

, 1992
Large isolated trees are a common feature of the agricultural landscape in humid tropical regions originally covered by rain forest. These isolated trees are primarily used as a source of shade for cattle and people. 13 pastures (totalling ca.
Moreno-Casasola, P, J. Laborde, J. Meave, S. Guevara, Guevara, S, Meave del Castillo, Jorge Arturo, Laborde, J, P. Moreno‐Casasola   +7 more
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First Record of Tasmanian Devils in the Pilbara: Late Quaternary Subfossils From Juukan Gorge, Puutu Kunti Kurrama Country, and Insights Into Human—Faunal Relationships and Extinction

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the first unequivocal evidence for the presence of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) in the Pilbara region of northwestern Australia, based on material recovered from archaeological excavations at Juukan Gorge on Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura country.
Timothy J. Churchill, Michael Slack, Elise Matheson, Liam Neill, Wanchese M. Saktura, Gavin Ashburton   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source