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Defining the pollinator garden: is conceptual flexibility a feature or a bug?
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.Ecologists often aim to reduce conceptual ambiguity by attempting to create rigid shared lexicons. These efforts imply that ambiguity is undesirable. In some contexts, however, conceptual flexibility comes with under‐discussed benefits. Here, we use the lens of pollinator gardening to explore how conceptual flexibility is built into participatory ...
Atticus W Murphy +11 more
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Stakeholder Norms Toward Beaver Management in Massachusetts
, 2009 In Massachusetts, USA, both human and beaver (Castor Canadensis) population levels are increasing, beaver damage complaints are escalating, and beaver management options are restricted by the 1996 Wildlife Protection Act.
Jonker, SA +4 more
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Wildlife Damage Management at the County Level: Fresno County, California [PDF]
Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, 2012 Author(s): Rinder, Fred | Abstract: The Wildlife Damage Management program in Fresno County, California, which assists landowners with solving problems regarding property damage, crop, poultry, and livestock losses, and public health threats, is described.
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Legacy effects of redlining on the distribution of greenspaces in US cities
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.We investigated how a discriminatory housing policy—redlining—has shaped the spatial patterns and configurations of greenspaces throughout 177 cities in the contiguous US. Housing segregation has been a long‐term development practice that has sequestered communities of color to areas with elevated environmental and public health risks.
Travis Gallo +4 more
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On the management of interconnected wildlife populations [PDF]
Economic interdependency of wildlife or fish stocks is usually attributed to ecological interdependency, such as predator - prey and competitive relationships, or to density dependent migration of species between different areas.
Anders Skonhoft, Wenting Chen
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AnimalsHuman–wildlife conflicts are becoming increasingly common worldwide and are a challenge to biodiversity management. Compared with compensatory management, which often focuses on solving emergency conflicts, mitigation management allows decision-makers to
Junchen Liu +7 more
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Cooperative Extension Agents as Key Informants in Assessing Wildlife Damage Trends in Georgia
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2018 To manage emerging human-wildlife conflicts, wildlife managers will require more information regarding trends in wildlife damage and public perceptions of control measures.
Rhianna R. Hohbein, Michael T. Mengak
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Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.A conceptual framework of virtual water showing its sources, major applications, components of the virtual water footprint, and emerging future directions. The diagram emphasizes the growing role of virtual water in global sustainability and resource planning.
Priti Bhowmik +2 more
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Conservation of wildlife. A bio-economic model of a wildlife reserve under the pressure of habitat destruction and harvesting outside the reserve. [PDF]
Biodiversity is today threatened by many factors of which destruction and reduction of habitats are considered most important for terrestrial species.
Anders Skonhoft, Claire Armstrong
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, 2008 4 pp., 3 illustrationsSeveral species of woodpeckers, flickers and sapsuckers live in Texas. They can be destructive when they drill holes in wooden structures.
Texas Wildlife Damage Management Service
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