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Natural riparian vegetation as corridors to promote bee diversity and pollination services in an urban landscape

People and Nature
Understanding how landscape structure and riparian vegetation impact bee diversity is important for maintaining pollination service in urban areas. We explored spatial and temporal variation of bee communities across land use types in a riparian zone ...
Yang Lan, Qing Zhao, Xin Zhang, Junlong Huang, Ying Shao, Zhongli Chen   +5 more
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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
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Imperata vegetation succession and carbon stocks on degraded land of beach forest in Marsegu Island, Maluku, Indonesia

Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management
Many sandy beach forests on small islands were cut down by people for farming to provide for their food needs. Land degraded due to over-exploitation is overgrown by Imperata cylindrica, which often causes fires in the dry season.
Irwanto Irwanto, S. Paembonan, P. O. Ngakan, R. Maulany, Andjela Sahupala, Hertasning Yatim   +5 more
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Ordinary sonic public space. Sound perception parameters in urban public spaces and sonic representations associated with urban forms

SoundEffects, 2012
The research referred to in the article concerns the factors influencing the perception of ordinary sonic public space and everyday sounds. Sound perception parameters, such as vegetation or sound sources, are analysed in urban public spaces.
Solène MARRY
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Landscape preferences, ecological quality and biodiversity protection [PDF]

, 2002
The loss of biological diversity is a major environmental problem occurring on a global scale. Human-environment researchers have an important role in shaping policy and programs at a local, national and international level.
Cary, John, Williams, Kathryn
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Do environmental attitudes and personal characteristics influence how people perceive their exposure to green spaces?

Landscape and Urban Planning
Background: This study explores the relationship between perceived and objective greenspace exposure, and how sociodemographic traits and environmental attitudes influence peoples’ perceptions of greenspace. Methods: We leveraged a cross-sectional survey
Emma S. Rieves, Colleen E. Reid, Kate Carlson, Xiaojiang Li   +3 more
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Reforming Farmland and Rangeland at Tharparkar: Suggested Implementations for Income Generation. [PDF]

This paper is the analysis of farming and rangeland of rain-fed area of Tharparkar and it is desert area, but the concept is general and applicable for every part of the world’s desert where agriculture is rain-fed dependant.
Allah Wasayo Rajar, Gobind M. Herani, Muhammad Ali   +2 more
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The Rain Forests of Home: an Atlas of People and Place [PDF]

, 1995
pdf contains 31 ...
Mitchell, Andrew P., Schoonmaker, Peter K., Wolf, Edward C.   +2 more
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Fifteen years of forest community management in Niger: From a technician's dream to social reality [PDF]

, 2010
Community forestry is based on the premise that local management by a community appropriating the resource on a delimited space guarantees a sustainable management.
Montagne, Pierre, Peltier, Régis, Rives, Fanny   +2 more
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Impacts of local human activities on the Antarctic environment [PDF]

, 2008
We review the scientific literature, especially from the past decade, on the impacts of human activities on the Antarctic environment. A range of impacts has been identified at a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
Agnew, Agnew, Ainley, Baker, Ballance, Bargagli, Barrera-Oro, Brown, C.A. Moreno, Chen, Clarke, Clarke, Constable, Constable, Constable, Convey, Convey, Convey, Convey, Cooney, Croxall, Croxall, D.G. Ainley, de Leeuw, de Poorter, Delord, DeVries, Duhamel, Edwards, Fraser, Frenot, Gon, Greenslade, Greenslade, Greenslade, Gremmen, Gröndahl, Hansom, Hee, Hemmings, Hofman, Holmes, Hughes, Huiskes, I. Snape, J. Scott, Jones, Jouventin, K.A. Hughes, Kennicutt, Kerry, Knox, Kock, Kock, Kock, Kohnen, Laws, McDonald, Moreno, Morris, Muller-Schwarze, Naveen, Naveen, Nicol, Ohtani, Olech, Otley, P. Convey, Pauly, Pauly, Peter, Pfeiffer, Pfeiffer, Rounsevell, S. Pfeiffer, Salwicka, Sjoling, Sladen, Smith, Smith, Snape, Snape, Summerson, T. Tin, Tejedo, Thor, Trathan, Weimerskirch, Wheeler, Willock, Woehler, Z.L. Fleming   +91 more
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