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Using participatory scenario planning to explore the synergies and trade‐offs from upland treescape expansion

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The future of land use in the UK uplands is highly debated, with growing interest in increasing tree cover and other land use changes, alongside a desire to maintain traditional land use patterns and practices. Treescape expansion is likely to result in synergies and trade‐offs between different outcomes, so integrating stakeholder preferences
Melissa Minter   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Discourses of Trans Surgery”: Transfeminists, TERFs, and Medical Transnormativity in Second Wave American Feminism

open access: yesFilanderas
This article explores how transfeminists and TERFs understood the relationship between trans identity and trans medical procedures in the US Second Wave feminist movement of the 1970s.
Willow Allen
doaj   +1 more source

Proximal Methods for Hierarchical Sparse Coding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Sparse coding consists in representing signals as sparse linear combinations of atoms selected from a dictionary. We consider an extension of this framework where the atoms are further assumed to be embedded in a tree.
Francis Bach   +4 more
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Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Compared to monocultures, agroforestry can promote biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and climate resilience, whilst maintaining or enhancing production and profits. Despite this, uptake in temperate regions remains low. Knowledge gaps amongst land managers are a primary barrier to uptake, but little is known about which aspects of ...
Amelia S. C. Hood   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of the energy willow planting density on the canopy architecture in 9th and 10th year of cultivation

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2018
The purpose of the present paper was an assessment of the dynamics of the regrowth of the shoots of 10 genotypes of basket willow (Salix viminalis L.) in the 9th and 10th year of cultivation on light soil in the Middle Pomerania (16°24’N and 54°8’E) with
Dąbrowski Janusz, Styszko Leszek
doaj   +1 more source

Shifting the paradigm: An Indigenous knowledge‐based stewardship plan to replenish boreal caribou in Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations' homelands

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Indigenous Peoples in northern Alberta, including Dené and Cree of the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations (ACFN and MCFN), have been using Indigenous laws and stewardship principles to care for their homelands for thousands of years. Since ACFN and MCFN signed Treaty 8 with Canada in 1899, Alberta's land management policies and
Lori Cyprien   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial Variability of Permafrost and Active Layer Thickness in a Forested Hillslope of the Taiga Shield

open access: yesPermafrost and Periglacial Processes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Under continued climate warming, understanding present‐day permafrost distribution and the controls on ground thaw are critical for predicting permafrost thaw trajectories and associated implications. This study presents a high‐resolution investigation of permafrost extent and active layer thickness (ALT) across a coniferous forested hillslope
Alana Muenchrath   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using conspecific broadcast for Willow Flycatcher restoration

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology, 2018
Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) populations have been in decline across the western United States for decades. California populations are especially vulnerable with fewer than 500 pairs remaining in the state.
Lynn N. Schofield   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Domestic family homicide in Australia [PDF]

open access: yes
Updates Mouzos and Rushforth’s (2003) findings describing characteristics of domestic/family homicides in Australia from 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2012. Introduction In 2003, the Australian Institute of Criminology published a report that drew attention ...
Tracy Cussen, Willow Bryant
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The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Community Survey, 2009: A Sourcebook of Community Attitudes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Community Survey (Mat-Su Survey) is a cooperative research effort between the Justice Center at University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough which asked Mat-Su Borough residents to evaluate the ...
Chamard, Sharon, Parker, Khristy
core  

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