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Troy A. Byrnes and Ryan J. K. Dunn
Boating and shipping operations, their associated activities and supporting infrastructure present a potential for environmental impacts. Such impacts include physical changes to bottom substrate and habitats from sources such as anchoring and mooring an...
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Lauren M. Kuehne, Christine Erbe, Erin Ashe, Laura T. Bogaard, Marena Salerno Collins and Rob Williams
Military operations may result in noise impacts on surrounding communities and wildlife. A recent transition to more powerful military aircraft and a national consolidation of training operations to Whidbey Island, WA, USA, provided a unique opportunity ...
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Elizabeth Brunton, Jessica Bolin, Javier Leon and Scott Burnett
Drones are often considered an unobtrusive method of monitoring terrestrial wildlife; however research into whether drones disturb wildlife is in its early stages. This research investigated the potential impacts of drone monitoring on a large terrestria...
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Steven F. Wilson
A ?zone of influence? is the difference between an anthropogenic activity?s spatial footprint and the extent of the activity?s effects on surrounding habitat and wildlife. This article reviews studies that have measured zones of influence for site-level ...
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Greg D. Simpson, Jackie Parker, Erin Gibbens and Philip G. Ladd
Vegetation trampling that arises from off-trail excursions by people walking for recreation can negatively impact the structure of understory plants in natural spaces that are an essential element of urban green infrastructure in a modern city. In additi...
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Karen L. M. Martin and Loni C. Adams
Beach habitats are diminishing globally, particularly in urban areas, as sea-level rise, erosion, and shoreline hardening, along with reduced sediment inputs, combine to squeeze the coast. In California, USA an endemic marine fish, the California grunion...
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Shorna B. Allred, Rebecca L. Schneider and Jordan G. Reeder
Natural resource professionals, ranging from forest managers and educators to floodplain managers, play a critical role in implementing and conducting outreach with regards to climate mitigation and adaptation appropriate to local and regional scales. Na...
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Caroline E. Reilly, Julia Larson, Alicia M. Amerson, Garrett J. Staines, Joseph H. Haxel and Paul Morgan Pattison
Marine energy is poised to become an important renewable energy contributor for the U.S., but widespread deployment of the technology hinges on its benefits outweighing the potential ecological impacts. One stressor marine energy installations introduce ...
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Mai Ibraheam, Kin Fun Li, Fayez Gebali and Leonard E. Sielecki
Object detection is one of the vital and challenging tasks of computer vision. It supports a wide range of applications in real life, such as surveillance, shipping, and medical diagnostics. Object detection techniques aim to detect objects of certain ta...
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Gedimar Pereira Barbosa,Vlamir José Rocha,Helen Regina da Silva Rossi,Margareth Lumy Sekiama
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Agroforestry systems are known to reduce impacts of traditional agriculture due to their capacity of decreasing deforestation and maintain biological diversity. This study investigated bat abundance, richness and diversity in an alley cropping system in ...
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Aldo Pacheco Ferreira
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Concern over exposure to endocrine disruptors (EDs) and impacts on wildlife and human has gradually increased in importance in recent years. Wastewater systematically receives most if not all of these chemicals, so a deeper understanding of the fate of E...
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Laura M. Norman, Miguel L. Villarreal, Rewati Niraula, Thomas Meixner, George Frisvold and William Labiosa
In the Santa Cruz Watershed, located on the Arizona-Sonora portion of the U.S.-Mexico border, an international wastewater treatment plant treats wastewater from cities on both sides of the border, before discharging it into the river in Arizona. These ar...
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Alan Wiensczyk
This research report summarizes findings of an electronic survey designed by FORREX to document the information needs of British Columbia natural resource management professionals in the area of silvicultural systems and stand management techniques, incl...
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R. M. W. Rathnayake,U. A. D. P. Gunawardena
Horton Plains National Park (HPNP) is an area of high biodiversity and exceptional endemism receiving high visitation (166,613 visitors in 2009), both by local and foreigners. Although, tourism causes negative impacts on the environment, environmental va...
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Wissem Mnif, Aziza Ibn Hadj Hassine, Aicha Bouaziz, Aghleb Bartegi, Olivier Thomas and Benoit Roig
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) are compounds that alter the normal functioning of the endocrine system of both wildlife and humans. A huge number of chemicals have been identified as endocrine disruptors, among them several pesticides. Pesticides a...
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Ian Dickie, Guy Whiteley, Pavel Kindlmann, Zdenka Krenová, Jaromír Bláha
This analysis briefly compares the economic impacts of three potential future management scenarios for ?umava National Park (NP) in the Czech Republic: (1) continuation of current management, (2) the adoption of draft Bills that would declassify protecte...
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Shania Hunt, Jeremy Maher, Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan and Atiq Zaman
The United Nations? Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are regarded as the key policy agenda for national, regional, and local government to combat climate change impacts and promote sustainable development. For example, in Perth and Peel metropolitan ...
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Utsab Bhattarai
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The relationship between tourism and changing climate has been discussed and studied for a relatively long time in tourism research. Over the past 15 years, more focused studies have begun to appear, and especially recently, the issue of adaptation and m...
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Utsab Bhattarai
Pág. 355 - 373
The relationship between tourism and changing climate has been discussed and studied for a relatively long time in tourism research. Over the past 15 years, more focused studies have begun to appear, and especially recently, the issue of adaptation and m...
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Natalie S. Peyronnin, Rex H. Caffey, James H. Cowan, Dubravko Justic, Alexander S. Kolker, Shirley B. Laska, Alex McCorquodale, Earl Melancon, John A. Nyman, Robert R. Twilley, Jenneke M. Visser, John R. White, James G. Wilkins
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Future conditions of coastal Louisiana are highly uncertain due to the dynamic nature of deltas, climate change, tropical storms, and human reliance on natural resources and ecosystem services. Managing a system in which natural and socio-economic compon...
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