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Final Report - The Rufford Foundation
Final Report - The Rufford Foundation

... Troop was under human habitation and included agricultural fields. The greater presence and activity of people around the village may have reduced the presence of predators. With greater predation risks, it may be expected that allogrooming would decrease. The High-altitude Troop spent less time on ...
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... reforestation are not uncommon, sometimes resulting in non-forested conditions lasting for decades (Barnes 1978). Pocket gophers damage and kill large percentages of conifer seedlings in Idaho by feeding on their roots and stems (Graham and Kingery 1990, Ferguson and Adams 1994, Ferguson 1999). Rege ...
A Landowner`s Guide for Restoring and Managing Oregon White
A Landowner`s Guide for Restoring and Managing Oregon White

... motivating landowners to take action. An introduction to the ecology of the Oregon white oak is included so the reader can be�er understand how management practices are founded on aspects of the tree’s biology. Later chapters are designed to help landowners develop land management goals and understa ...
Clipboard - Indian Academy of Sciences
Clipboard - Indian Academy of Sciences

... Kumar et al. 2008). Such direct benefits are obvious and relatively easy to valuate, even if the role of evolution in generating such benefits may be far from obvious. The second type of evosystem service is constituted by the evolutionary processes themselves, including mutation, selection, genetic ...
to See an Example of A Best Management Plan for the Tree Octopus
to See an Example of A Best Management Plan for the Tree Octopus

... The Lilliwaup Outdoor Club has decided to do light logging. We’ve chosen light logging because of noise  reduction, not as much disturbed octopi, and less logging means less interruption for people’s activities.  We’ve also chosen only 1 overpass, because it would save money and some bridge supports ...
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John Turner - Ecology rebuttal evidence
John Turner - Ecology rebuttal evidence

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(2008) The utility of crop genetic diversity in maintaining ecosystem
(2008) The utility of crop genetic diversity in maintaining ecosystem

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Title Regeneration Processes and Coexistence Mechanisms of Two
Title Regeneration Processes and Coexistence Mechanisms of Two

... In the first category, many mechanisms maintaining tree species richness have been proposed. I do not review all of them here, but will mention some examples. Ashton (e.g. 1964, 1969, 1976) reponed that species-specific requirements for soil properties are related to tree richness. Connell (1971, 19 ...
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Staudinger et al., 2013

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long-term effects of rodent herbivores on tree invasion dynamics
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Losing history: how extinctions prune features from the tree of life
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Losing history: how extinctions prune features from the tree of life
Losing history: how extinctions prune features from the tree of life

... communities [20]. In some cases, the regional combination of projected climate variables have no present-day analogues [21], and we thus have no data on the likely composition or functionality of the communities that might occupy these novel climate regimes [22]. Therefore, if we wish to ensure the ...
Rehabilitation and Restoration of Degraded Forests
Rehabilitation and Restoration of Degraded Forests

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Plant responses to livestock grazing frequency in an Australian
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... Dorrough, J., Ash, J. and McIntyre, S. 2004. Plant responses to livestock grazing frequency in an Australian temperate grassland. / Ecography 27: 798 /810. Livestock grazing is often thought to enhance native plant species co-existence in remnant grasslands but may also favour exotic invaders. Rec ...
Cascadia Wildlands
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... adaptive cycle of each sub-system is synchronized. The whole system is most vulnerable when all sub-systems at a particular scale, say all firms in an economy, are at the same (least resilient) point in their cycle. This is referred to as hypercoherence (Stepp et al., 2003). Two aspects of the proble ...
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... for most of the total vascular plant species diversity in deciduous forests, leading to an average understorey–overstorey species richness ratio of 5 (Gilliam, 2014). In coniferous stands, this ratio may even be higher, due to lower overstorey richness in general (Gilliam, 2007). Moreover, the under ...
Abstracts - Society For Range Management
Abstracts - Society For Range Management

... affecting fire intensity on rangelands is the herbaceous fuel load. Alterations in plant community composition and structure in addition to decreased grazing intensities have led to relatively high fuel loads on many western North America caespitose grass rangelands. Increased fuel loads directly in ...
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STM_Eucalyptus porosa woodland eastern flanks final.docx

... Specht (1972) locates the Eucalyptus porosa low rainfall grassy woodland (as Eucalyptus odorata / Eucalyptus porosa) generally on the uphill side of Allocasuarina verticillata woodlands in its southern range, reversed in its northern range and intermixed in other areas. No Lomandra effusa grassland ...
Project description of University of Basel
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... decidua and Pinus uncinata. While Larix showed a stimulation in shoot growth and ring width over all four growing seasons when exposed to elevated CO2 supporting carbon limitation, Pinus did not. However, when trees were defoliated in spring 2002, this response was reversed in the two species. We co ...
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Farmer-managed natural regeneration

Farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) is a low-cost, sustainable land-restoration technique used to combat poverty and hunger amongst poor subsistence farmers in developing countries by increasing food and timber production, and resilience to climate extremes. It involves the systematic regeneration and management of trees and shrubs from tree stumps, roots and seeds.FMNR is especially applicable, but not restricted to, the dryland tropics. As well as returning degraded croplands and grazing lands to productivity, it can be used to restore degraded forests, thereby reversing biodiversity loss and reducing vulnerability to climate change. FMNR can also play an important role in maintaining not-yet-degraded landscapes in a productive state, especially when combined with other sustainable land management practices such as conservation agriculture on cropland and holistic management on rangelands.FMNR adapts centuries-old methods of woodland management, called coppicing and pollarding, to produce continuous tree-growth for fuel, building materials, food and fodder without the need for frequent and costly replanting. On farmland, selected trees are trimmed and pruned to maximise growth while promoting optimal growing conditions for annual crops (such as access to water and sunlight). When FMNR trees are integrated into crops and grazing pastures there is an increase in crop yields, soil fertility and organic matter, soil moisture and leaf fodder. There is also a decrease in wind and heat damage, and soil erosion.In the Sahel region of Africa, FMNR has become a potent tool in increasing food security, resilience and climate change adaptation in poor, subsistence farming communities where much of sub-Saharan Africa’s poverty exists. FMNR is also being promoted in East Timor, Indonesia and Myanmar.FMNR complements the evergreen agriculture, conservation agriculture and agroforestry movements. It is considered a good entry point for resource-poor and risk-averse farmers to adopt a low-cost and low-risk technique. This in turn has acted as a stepping stone to greater agricultural intensification as farmers become more receptive to new ideas.
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