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Across the Copperbelt : Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities
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ISBN: 1800101481 Year: 2021 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,


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Coral Reef Resilience
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

Onions are my husband
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ISBN: 0226107795 0226107809 9786612538711 0226107760 1282538713 9780226107769 9780226107790 9780226107806 9781282538719 6612538716 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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In the most comprehensive analysis to date of the world of open air marketplaces of West Africa, Gracia Clark studies the market women of Kumasi, Ghana, in order to understand the key social forces that generate, maintain, and continually reshape the shifting market dynamics. Probably the largest of its kind in West Africa, the Kumasi Central Market houses women whose positions vary from hawkers of meals and cheap manufactured goods to powerful wholesalers, who control the flow of important staples. Drawing on more than four years of field research, during which she worked alongside several influential market "Queens", Clark explains the economic, political, gender, and ethnic complexities involved in the operation of the marketplace and examines the resourcefulness of the market women in surviving the various hazards they routinely encounter, from coups d'etat to persistent sabotage of their positions from within.


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Boreal Bird Ecology, Management and Conservation
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Northern forested landscapes are important habitats for many boreal birds. This Special Issue portrays the current state of knowledge on boreal bird diversity, ecology, management, and conservation. Humans have diverse impacts on boreal habitats worldwide, and knowledge of the avian community associated with these northern forests is key to conservation measures.


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Quantitative Assessment of Environmental/Human Health Risks
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ISBN: 3036558527 3036558519 Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book focuses on the quantitative assessment of environmental and human health risks which are usually evaluated by the ecological risk assessment which is the process for evaluating how likely it is that the environment might be obstructed as a result of exposure to environmental stressors. This book can deliver novel data on the quantitative assessment framework and provide a theoretical basis for follow-up research on the mitigation measures and control strategies for stakeholders.


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New Insights into Food Fermentation
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This reprint is dedicated to new insights into food fermentation. The goal of this reprint was to broaden the current knowledge on advanced approaches concerning food fermentation, gathering studies on conventional and unconventional food matrix fermentation, functional compounds obtained through fermentation, fermentations increasing quality and safety standards, as well as papers presenting innovative approaches shedding light on the microbial community that characterizes fermented foods.


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Ecology of climate change : the importance of biotic interactions
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ISBN: 1400846137 9781400846139 9780691148472 0691148473 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the development of a conceptually unified treatment of them. In a remarkably comprehensive synthesis, this book presents past, ongoing, and future ecological responses to climate change in the context of two simplifying hypotheses, facilitation and interference, arguing that biotic interactions may be the primary driver of ecological responses to climate change across all levels of biological organization. Eric Post's synthesis and analyses of ecological consequences of climate change extend from the Late Pleistocene to the present, and through the next century of projected warming. His investigation is grounded in classic themes of enduring interest in ecology, but developed around novel conceptual and mathematical models of observed and predicted dynamics. Using stability theory as a recurring theme, Post argues that the magnitude of climatic variability may be just as important as the magnitude and direction of change in determining whether populations, communities, and species persist. He urges a more refined consideration of species interactions, emphasizing important distinctions between lateral and vertical interactions and their disparate roles in shaping responses of populations, communities, and ecosystems to climate change.

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Climatic changes. --- Bioclimatology. --- Bioclimatics --- Biometeorology --- Climatology --- Ecology --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental aspects. --- Bioclimatology --- Global environmental change --- Industrial Revolution. --- Late Pleistocene. --- PleistoceneЈolocene transition. --- abiotic changes. --- abiotic compartments. --- abiotic conditions. --- amphibian breeding. --- biodiversity. --- biome shifts. --- biotic compartments. --- biotic interaction. --- character displacement. --- climate change ecology. --- climate change. --- climatic fluctuation. --- climatic variability. --- coexistence. --- community composition. --- community dynamics. --- community stability. --- competitive interactions. --- density-dependent processes. --- density-independent processes. --- diminishing land ice. --- diminishing sea ice. --- ecological dynamics. --- ecological theory. --- ecology. --- ecosystem carbon dynamics. --- ecosystem components. --- ecosystem dynamics. --- ecosystem function. --- ecosystem respiration. --- ecosystem stability. --- ecosystems. --- egg laying. --- emigration. --- environmental disturbance. --- environmental variability. --- environmental variation. --- extinction. --- facilitation. --- flowering. --- habitat utilization patterns. --- immigration. --- interference. --- life history. --- mass extinctions. --- migration. --- net ecosystem production. --- net primary productivity. --- niche concept. --- niche overlap. --- niche packing. --- niche theory. --- phenological dynamics. --- phenological events. --- phenology. --- plant emergence. --- population dynamics. --- population stability. --- quantitative ecology. --- rapid climate change. --- rapid warming. --- rising temperature. --- speciation. --- species assemblages. --- species distributions. --- species diversity. --- species losses. --- stability theory. --- stochastic environments. --- temperature variability.


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Wildlife Protection and Habitat Management : Practice and Perspectives
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI Books

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The management of wildlife populations and their habitats are interdisciplinary fields that encompass many scientific disciplines that also impact the lives of people. Therefore, these are truly applied sciences where human dimensions play an important role.This book highlights the importance of conducting rigorous studies to design and implement the effective management and restoration of wild populations and their habitats. A new paradigm in conservation is developing that goes beyond the boundaries of protected areas to achieve the goal of sustainable development. The 16 papers in this book, including reviews and a project report, cover a broad range of topics, exploring a diversity of subjects that are representative of current practices and novel applications.We would like to thank both the MDPI publishers and editorial staff for their support and help during the process of editing this book, in addition to the authors for their contributions.

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road safety --- roadkill --- clustering --- growth rate --- traffic intensity --- mitigation measures --- roadkill analysis --- movement patterns --- habitat characterisation --- multiple criteria --- multi-objective ranking --- environmental awareness --- machine learning --- random forest model --- structural equation modelling --- latent class analysis --- visitor mapping --- social–ecological systems --- cultural rural landscape --- protected areas --- rewilding --- rural socioeconomics --- forest expansion --- rural to urban land conversion --- biocultural heritage --- biodiversity --- naturalness --- land-cover change --- habitat quality --- InVEST --- ecosystem-based approach and assessment --- nature-based solution --- decision-making support --- national park management --- wildlife protection --- biodiversity conservation --- policy framework --- policy formulation --- China --- agricultural management --- amphibians --- beta diversity --- community ecology --- metacommunities --- constructed wetlands --- bats --- urban ecology --- long-term monitoring --- acoustics --- city parks --- community dynamics --- conservation evaluation --- at-risk species --- golden-winged warbler --- landowner incentives --- New England cottontail --- Natural Resources Conservation Service --- U.S. Department of Agriculture --- Working Lands for Wildlife --- camera-trapping --- conservation puma --- relative integrated anthropization index --- INRA --- South American grey fox --- habitat adaptability --- habitat model --- habitat selection --- habitat suitability --- use versus availability --- Maxent --- presence points --- GPS radio-collars --- anthropogenic variables --- species distribution models --- Spermophilus citellus --- maximum entropy modeling --- species distribution modeling --- climate change refugia --- urodela --- salamandridae --- caudata --- biosphere reserve --- habitat restoration --- species management --- life project --- activity patterns --- Lepus granatensis --- population decline --- niche --- Oryctolagus cuniculus --- roadside census --- predator–prey relationships --- spatio-temporal behavior --- abundance --- distance sampling --- population density --- R package --- wildlife survey --- uncertainty --- occupancy modeling --- road ecology --- n/a --- social-ecological systems --- predator-prey relationships

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