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Takanori Hara, Masahiro Sasabe, Taiki Matsuda and Shoji Kasahara
When a large-scale disaster occurs, each evacuee should move to an appropriate refuge in a speedy and safe manner. Most of the existing studies on the refuge assignment consider the speediness of evacuation and refuge capacity while the safety of evacuat...
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Gu Gong, Yu-Dan Zhang, Zhen-Fei Zhang and Wei-Jian Wu
Resistant crop varieties can usually decrease the population density of insect pests; however, they can also easily cause the occurrence of highly virulent pest populations when repeatedly grown. Whether herbivorous insects feeding intermittently on a su...
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John S. Richardson
Headwaters, the sources of all stream networks, provide habitats that are unique from other freshwater environments and are used by a specialised subset of aquatic species. The features of headwaters that provide special habitats include predator-free or...
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Chea Phala, Tey Sarin, Murari Suvedi and Ramjee Ghimire
The Community Fish Refuge (CFR) is a fish conservation measure that is intended to improve the productivity of rice field fisheries and provide safe refuges for fish during the dry season. Cambodia’s Fisheries Administration aims to develop one wel...
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Alfredo González-Zamora,Manuel Esperón-Rodríguez,Víctor L. Barradas
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Aim of the study: The objective of this work is to compare tree diversity and richness among one grown-shade coffee plantation (CAE) and two sites of montane cloud forests, one preserved (MCF1) and other perturbed (MCF2). We also develop an analysis of t...
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John H. Hartig, Rebecca S. Robinson and Michael A. Zarull
In 2001, the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge was established based on the principles of conservation and sustainability. The refuge has grown from 49.1 ha in 2001 to over 2,300 ha in 2010. Agreement on a compelling vision for a sustainable fu...
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Liping Jiang, Xing Fang and Gang Chen
Cisco (Coregonus artedi) is the most common coldwater stenothermal fish in Minnesota lakes. Water temperature (T) and dissolved oxygen (DO) in lakes are important controls of fish growth and reproduction and likely change with future climate warming. Bui...
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Liping Jiang, Xing Fang, Gang Chen
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Cisco (Coregonus artedi) is the most common coldwater stenothermal fish in Minnesota lakes. Water temperature (T) and dissolved oxygen (DO) in lakes are important controls of fish growth and reproduction and likely change with future climate warming. Bui...
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Ying Ni, Yingying Cao, Keping Li
Pág. 1955 - 1963
Pedestrians are the most vulnerable users at signalized intersections, and their incorrect behaviors such as signal violation, and not crossing at crosswalks etc., which is greatly determined by their safety perceptions, makes the situation even worse. T...
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Daniel L. Mendoza, Erik T. Crosman, Corbin Anderson and Shawn A. Gonzales
The combination of extreme heat waves and ozone pollution is a major health hazard for urban populations in the summertime, particularly for the most sensitive groups such as children, the elderly, the unsheltered, and those with pre-existing health cond...
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Emese Mako, Petra Szakonyi
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Road traffic crashes result from a combination of factors related to the road layout, the vehicles, the road users and the way they interact. First the main causes of pedestrian fatalities and the safety effects of road measures (traffic lights, roundabo...
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Liping Jiang and Xing Fang
Fish habitat in lakes is strongly constrained by water temperature (T) and available dissolved oxygen (DO) that are changed under climate warming. A one dimensional, dynamic water quality model MINLAKE2012 was used for T and DO simulation over 48 years. ...
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Liping Jiang, Xing Fang
Pág. 1 - 23
Fish habitat in lakes is strongly constrained by water temperature (T) and available dissolved oxygen (DO) that are changed under climate warming. A one dimensional, dynamic water quality model MINLAKE2012 was used for T and DO simulation over 48 years. ...
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Cinthya M. Villegas, Jaime A. Verdugo, Audrey A. Grez, Jaime Tapia, Blas Lavandero
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Crop edges have significant effects on populations of natural enemies, acting as source or sink habitats during the growing season. Previous observations have shown that coccinellid species are associated with thistle (Sylibum marianum (L.) Gaertn), a co...
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Oleksandr Kanifolskyi and Valerio Ruggiero
Usually, the need for research arises when there is a discrepancy between the theoretical and practical data. For example, the RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) Rules describe two navigation areas for yachts: unrestricted navigation and a navigation area w...
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Mohammed Jemal Ahmed
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Nowadays migration has become the hot issue of the world and Africa in general and Ethiopia in Particular. However, a due attention has been given for international migration. The internal rural-urban migration has got less attention. But, currently, the...
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Maria Cristina Bruno, Alberto Doretto, Fulvio Boano, Luca Ridolfi and Stefano Fenoglio
We investigated the impact of intermittence in previously-perennial Alpine stream reaches, targeting the role of the hyporheic zone in increasing the resilience of these aquatic systems. We selected a perennial and an intermittent site in a reach of the ...
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Kim De Mutsert, Amanda Sills, C. J. Carroll Schlick and R. Christian Jones
After a local wastewater treatment plant significantly reduced phosphorus loading into a phytoplankton-dominated tributary of the Potomac River in the early 1980s, water quality and biological communities were monitored bi-weekly from April to September....
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Kim de Mutsert, Amanda Sills, C. J. Carroll Schlick, R. Christian Jones
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After a local wastewater treatment plant significantly reduced phosphorus loading into a phytoplankton-dominated tributary of the Potomac River in the early 1980s, water quality and biological communities were monitored bi-weekly from April to September....
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Ian MacGregor-Fors, Federico Escobar, Rafael Rueda-Hernández, Sergio Avendaño-Reyes, Martha Lucía Baena, Víctor M. Bandala, Santiago Chacón-Zapata, Antonio Guillén-Servent, Fernando González-García, Francisco Lorea-Hernández, Enrique Montes de Oca, Leticia Montoya, Eduardo Pineda, Lorena Ramírez-Restrepo, Eduardo Rivera-García and Elsa Utrera-Barrillas
Urbanization poses important environmental, social, and ecological pressures, representing a major threat to biodiversity. However, urban areas are highly heterogeneous, with some greenspaces (e.g., urban forests, parks, private gardens) providing resour...
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