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Janeth Mwile Mwasenga and Ibrahimu Chikira Mjemah
The development of socio-economic activities within the 60 m buffer zone has imposed change on the characteristics of rivers in northern Tanzania, subjecting rivers to collateral and irreversible damage due to their prolonged exposure to anthropic activi...
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Mateo Cano-Solis, John R. Ballesteros and German Sanchez-Torres
Vegetation encroachment in power line corridors remains a major challenge for modern energy-dependent societies, as it can cause power outages and lead to significant financial losses. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising solution ...
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Hosia T. Pule, Julius T. Tjelele and Michelle J. Tedder
Seriphium plumosum L. is an indigenous unpalatable shrub that occurs in fire-prone semi-arid South African grassland areas, yet research proposes the use of fire to control its encroachment of rangelands. This study investigated the interaction effects o...
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Mohammed Fareed Sherzad and Dirk Goossens
One of the key repercussions of the desertification process in the Sahara and the Arabian desert is increased aeolian sand drift and sand deposition. Despite its isolated location and severe desert climate?particularly in terms of solar radiation, sand d...
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Nicole Durfee and Carlos G. Ochoa
The combined impacts of woody plant encroachment and climate variability have the potential to alter the water balance in many sagebrush steppe ecosystems in the Western USA, leading to reduced water availability in these already water-scarce regions. Th...
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Michael Ajide Oyinloye, Isaac Oluwadare Olamiju, Benjamin Lanre Oladosu
Encroachment by host communities on pipeline right-of-way (PROW) constitutes a major problem for the oil and gas sector of the economy. This paper uses remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) technologies to assess the level of vulnerabili...
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Kim Ducherer,Yuguang Bai,Don Thompson,Klaas Broersma
The ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests in the Interior of British Columbia, Canada, are facing problems such as forest in-growth mainly due to fire suppression, reducing grazing land area. This study focused on the use of thinning to reduce forest st...
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Tiffany A. Aldworth, Michele L. W. Toucher, Alistair D. Clulow and Anthony M. Swemmer
Over the past century, increases in indigenous woody plant species, also known as woody encroachment (WE), has occurred in grasslands and savannas across the globe. While the impact on grassland and savanna composition and productivity has been well stud...
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Bharat Sharma Acharya, Gehendra Kharel, Chris B. Zou, Bradford P. Wilcox and Todd Halihan
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Bharat Sharma Acharya, Gehendra Kharel, Chris B. Zou, Bradford P. Wilcox and Todd Halihan
Woody plant encroachment has profound impacts on the sustainable management of water resources in water-limited ecosystems. However, our understanding of the effects of this global phenomenon on groundwater recharge at local and regional scales is limite...
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Joseph Park, Erik Stabenau, Jed Redwine and Kevin Kotun
South Florida encompasses a dynamic confluence of urban and natural ecosystems strongly connected to ocean and freshwater hydrologic forcings. Low land elevation, flat topography and highly transmissive aquifers place both communities at the nexus of env...
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Joseph Park, Erik Stabenau, Jed Redwine and Kevin Kotun
South Florida encompasses a dynamic confluence of urban and natural ecosystems strongly connected to ocean and freshwater hydrologic forcings. Low land elevation, flat topography and highly transmissive aquifers place both communities at the nexus of env...
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Joseph Park, Erik Stabenau, Jed Redwine and Kevin Kotun
South Florida encompasses a dynamic confluence of urban and natural ecosystems strongly connected to ocean and freshwater hydrologic forcings. Low land elevation, flat topography and highly transmissive aquifers place both communities at the nexus of env...
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Imam Suyodono,Lailan Syaufina,Didik Suharjito
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Indonesia's forest covers about 133 million hectares. Local people of Pulau Laut in Kalimantan used to do shifting cultivation to manage their agricultural activities for food crops in the forest due to its poor soil of minerals and nutrients for years.T...
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Patricio Bohorquez
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The present study aims to show the accuracy of paleoflood reconstruction techniques based on two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic modelling of a large flood. Using this reconstruction technique, we determined trends in flood stages over time in a regulated riv...
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R. James Ansley, Tian Zhang and Caitlyn Cooper
Honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) is an invasive native woody plant in the southern Great Plains, USA. Treatments used to slow the invasion rate have either killed the plant (?root-kill?) or killed above-ground tissue (?top-kill?). Top-killing provide...
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Daniel L. Hoff, Rodney E. Will, Chris B. Zou and Nathan D. Lillie
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Ying Fan, Xiao-Yan Li, Liu Li, Jun-Qi Wei, Fang-Zhong Shi, Hong-Yun Yao and Lei Liu
Harvesting is a common method in grassland management. With shrub encroachment into grassland, special hydrological and physiological dynamics probably occur in the shrub-grass coexisted ecosystem after harvesting, which remains largely unclear. Therefor...
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Patricio Bohorquez
The present study aims to show the accuracy of paleoflood reconstruction techniques based on two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic modelling of a large flood. Using this reconstruction technique, we determined trends in flood stages over time in a regulated riv...
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Stephen E. Silliman, Brian I. Borum, Moussa Boukari, Nicaise Yalo, Salifou Orou-Pete, Daniel McInnis, Chrstyn Fertenbaugh and Andrew D. Mullen
The largest city in Benin, West Africa (Cotonou), is reliant upon groundwater for its public water supply. This groundwater is derived from the Godomey well field which is located approximately 5 Km north of the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and in close p...
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