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"This chapter discusses how models, combined with modern data sources and statistical methods, can be used to test different hypotheses about the causes of migration. Mathematical formalisms for migration are presented. The ecological... more
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      StatisticsEnvironmental EducationScience CommunicationConservation Biology
Habitat utilisation
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      ConservationBiological SciencesEnvironmental SciencesBiological Conservation
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      ConservationCultural Heritage ConservationArchaelogyPolychromy in Ancient Art
Health care is ubiquitous in the lives of industrialized people. Yet, every medical development, technique, and procedure impact the environment. Green Bioethics synthesizes environmental ethics and biomedical ethics, thus creating an... more
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      EconomicsEnvironmental EconomicsEthicsApplied Ethics
The continued preservation of bison is one of Parks Canada’s greatest success stories. Canadian parks have been actively involved in protecting bison for over 100 years. While much has been written about the history of bison and... more
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      ConservationEnvironmental HistoryHistory of CanadaWildlife Conservation
Identifying the main factors that shape biological communities in human-modified tropical landscapes has key ecological and conservation implications. In these emerging landscapes, the maintenance of biodiversity may depend on both forest... more
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      ConservationForest Fragmentation
Not-guilty verdicts, mistrials, and impunity for the Bundy family and many of their supporters in the armed confrontations over public land use in Nevada and Oregon. Expanded access for private oil, gas, mining, and logging industries and... more
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      Critical TheoryHistoryAmerican HistoryCultural Studies
FOR LIJIANG OLD TOWN 丽江古城, 1 June 2016 was not a happy day. More than 800 hostels, guesthouses, and shops refused to open their doors. They had made a collective decision to protest against the local government’s insistence that they... more
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      Tourism StudiesDevelopment StudiesCultural HeritageConservation
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      Book HistoryConservationHeritage PreservationBookbinding
This paper discusses through a series of tests and three case studies (a 1930s embroidery, an Inuit blouse ribbon and a seventeenth‐century Doge's hat) recent developments in the application of solvent reactivated hydroxypropyl cellulose... more
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Amidst the expected, punning advertisements for data companies lining the drive into San Francisco, one passes a lone cultural billboard depicting Klimt’s The Virgin (1913). The image advertises Klimt & Rodin: An Artistic Encounter at the... more
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      ConservationRace and EthnicityFeminismModernism (Art History)
Este artículo es una extensa revisión sobre el pasado, presente y futuro del panorama que envuelve las estimaciones poblacionales de lobos en España. Lo que subyace detrás de estas estimas loberas es enrevesado y difícil de interpretar... more
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      Conservation BiologyConservationMonitoring And EvaluationLarge Carnivores
This presents a management strategy for the urban waterlogged deposits and archaeological remains at Nantwich, Cheshire, endorsed as a Supplmentary Planning Document by East Cheshire Council for its local plan. It advocates a holistic... more
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      ConservationHistoric PreservationSustainable DevelopmentCultural Heritage Conservation
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      Art HistoryArtMedieval HistoryCultural Heritage
- Diligenza e prestezza.è uno studio sulla tecnica della pittura attraverso l’analisi incrociata dei testi letterari e delle opere d’arte. Dopo aver ripercorsa la fortuna critica dei testi dei principali autori – Leonardo, Vasari,... more
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      Art HistoryMuseum StudiesMaterial Culture StudiesConservation
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      Art HistoryMaterial Culture StudiesConservation
This whitepaper provides a legal analysis to align the 1972 World Heritage Convention and the UNESCO Constitution and its commitment to human rights and fundamental freedoms. It sets out recommendations for UNESCO, the World Heritage... more
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      International RelationsIndigenous StudiesCultural HeritageHuman Rights Law
Preventive conservation is the act of preventing future loss and most definitions exclude actions that interfere with the structure and materials of the item. For archaeological sites, this definition is tested. Preventive conservation... more
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Expert knowledge is used widely in the science and practice of conservation because of the complexity of problems, relative lack of data, and the imminent nature of many conservation decisions. Expert knowledge is substantive information... more
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      Conservation BiologyConservationExpert testimonyBiological Sciences
ÖZET Ahşap binlerce yıldır temel yapı malzemesi olarak genel yada bölgesel, kendine özgü yapım tekniğinin gelişmiş olduğu, günümüzde de kullanılan yapı üretim geleneğinin önemli malzemelerinden biridir. ICOMOS hızla yok olmakta... more
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      Cultural HeritageConservationCultural Heritage ConservationAyvalık
Keywords: Conservation, Timber-Frame Structural System, Hagia Triada Church, Ayvalık Abstract Intoduction: This paper has emerged within the scope of "Design in Architectural Conservation" course of METU, Department of... more
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      ConservationCultural Heritage ConservationChurch HistoryAyvalık
Reservoir simulations of CO* injection into a water flooded oil reservoir show that significant amounts of oil may be recovered, and a high storage capacity of CO, is obtained also through displacement of water. Simulated storage... more
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      ConservationMigrationEnhanced Oil RecoveryReservoir Simulation
The text has been published in the exhibition catalogue organized at the Uffizi Gallery upon the new installation of the Leonardo da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi, after its restoration. The text is an extended summary of the forthcoming... more
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      ConservationRenaissance StudiesItalian Renaissance ArtPainting Conservation
Alvar Aalto’s career – his perspectives as seen in his writings and in his architecture - progressed from being initially influenced by classicism (which he applied in a playful manner aligned with Nordic Romanticism), on to modernist... more
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      EngineeringDesignArchitectureConservation
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs are one prominent strategy to address economic externalities of resource extraction and commodity production, improving both social and ecological outcomes. But do PES and related incentive... more
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      ConservationSocial ResponsibilityPayment for Ecosystem ServicesIncentives
White-nose syndrome (WNS) and wind-turbine facilities on the Delmarva Peninsula are emerging threats to the peninsula's current bat fauna. However, until our study, there had been no assessment of bat populations or their habitats in that... more
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      Conservation BiologyConservationBats (Mammalogy)Habitat Use
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      ArchaeologyConservationConstructionChina
1. The Mediterranean sperm whale sub-population is considered 'Endangered' by both ACCOBAMS and the IUCN. Conservation policies require protected species populations to be monitored, but the distribution and movements of sperm whales... more
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      Marine BiologyGeographyConservationBiological Sciences
Effect of physico-chemical conditions on the structure and composition of the phytoplankton community in
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      GeographyEcosystem ServicesConservationAgroforestry
Actions directed at saving the remaining natural resources, be it forests, biodiversity, or whole ecosystems should be expected to increase as levels of environmental degradation increase. This expectation is consistent with the comment... more
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      GeographyConservationPreservationEconomic Development
ABSTRACT A simple sol-gel technique for the preparation of methyl–modified silica coatings for the protection of the external surface of copper has been used in this study. Tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) has been used as a precursor to... more
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      ArchaeologyCultural HeritageConservationModification
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      Conservation BiologyConservationBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences
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      GeneticsZoologyConservationPopulation Genetics
Nowadays diving pretends to be an activity respectful with the environment but it ́s actually truth that we don ́t consider the consequences of us being there. The SS Thistlegorm, a II World War shipwreck (Red Sea,... more
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      ConservationEgyptWorld War IITourism
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      ConservationConservation GeneticsBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences
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      Conservation BiologyConservationTaxonomyEndangered Species
Land-use/land-cover change is the most important factor in causing biodiversity loss. The Mediterranean region has been affected by antropic disturbance for thousands of years, and is, nowadays, one of the most significantly altered... more
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      Landscape EcologyEarth SciencesSpatial AnalysisConservation
... We have linked these results in a proposal for the species' sustainable management and conservation. RESUMO Euterpe edulis Martius (Palmiteiro) é uma palmeira neotropical do sub-bosque que ocorre em alta freqüência e abundância... more
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      ConservationGenetic DiversityBiological SciencesEnvironmental Sciences
Context. Understanding how people view, think and talk about wildlife and the link between wildlife and human behaviour are important for wildlife management to be effective. In this paper, we used the notion of social representations to... more
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      ManagementConservationBiodiversityWildlife Conservation
The status of the Mediterranean Monk Seal, Monachus monachus, has been studied over a five-year period between 1994 and 1998 in the Foça Pilot Monk Seal Conservation Area. The identification of individual seals occurring in the area,... more
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      ZoologyConservationBiologyBehaviour
We describe the distribution and estimate densities of Grauer's gorillas (Gorilla gorilla graueri) and eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthi) in a 12,770-km2area of lowland forest between the Lowa, Luka, Lugulu, and Oku... more
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      ZoologyGeographyPrimatologyConservation
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      Environmental ScienceConservationScienceBrazil
The main objectives of this research were to determine which medicinal plants are culturally most important for the native community of Vencedor as well as testing a new measure of the cultural importance of medicinal plants that can be... more
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      GeographyEthnobotanyConservationSustainable Development
Modern-day zoos and aquariums market themselves as places of education and conservation. A recent study conducted by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) (Falk et al., 2007) is being widely heralded as the first direct evidence... more
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      ConservationMethodologyAnimal EthicsCritical Animal Studies
The present conservation status of the endemic fleshwater fish of Spain is reviewed and compared with a former list made in 1986. Ten taxa (species and subspecies) are exclusively endemic to Spanish waters, 13 are lberian endemics (Spain... more
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      ConservationBiological SciencesConservation StatusEnvironmental Sciences
In 2004 the Australian Government implemented a revised zone-based management plan for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area to increase protection of representative areas while minimising the impacts to the economic viability of... more
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      ManagementConservationBiodiversityWildlife Conservation
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      ConservationProcurementEcologyDensity
As the wilderness metaphor has decreased in utility due to widespread human-driven environmental change, conservationists and restorationists have struggled to find new ways to inspire nature conservation. Some have suggested gardening as... more
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      ConservationRestoration EcologyEnvironmental StewardshipUrban Gardening
One of the major cropping systems of South Asia is rice-wheat grown on 13.5 million hectares on the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). It is a major system for food security in the region and provides livelihoods and income to millions of... more
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      ConservationEnvironmental Impact AssessmentElectronicZero Tillage
Traditional sensitivity and elasticity analyses of matrix population models have been used to inform management decisions, but they ignore the economic costs of manipulating vital rates. For example, the growth rate of a population is... more
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      DemographyEconomicsConservation BiologyConservation