Sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement

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An assessment of high carbon stock and high conservation value approaches to sustainable oil palm cultivation in Gabon

Industrial-scale oil palm cultivation is rapidly expanding in Gabon, where it has the potential to drive economic growth, but also …

2017 Open Access

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Earlywood and Latewood Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Variations in Two Pine Species in Southwestern China during the Recent Decades

Stable isotopes in wood cellulose of tree rings provide a high-resolution record of environmental conditions, yet intra-annual analysis of carbon …

2017 Open Access

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Household biomass fuel use, asthma symptoms severity, and asthma underdiagnosis in rural schoolchildren in Nigeria: a cross-sectional observational study

BACKGROUND: In 2014, the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) reported that the highest prevalence of symptoms …

2017 Open Access

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Microbiological quality of lettuce (Lactuca sativa) irrigated with wastewater in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and effect of green salads washing methods

In Addis Ababa, where irrigation water for vegetable production is commonly derived from the highly polluted Akaki river, information on …

2017 Open Access

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My cattle and your park: codesigning a role-playing game with rural communities to promote multistakeholder dialogue at the edge of protected areas

Perrotton, A., M. de Garine-Wichatitsky, H. Valls-Fox, and C. Le Page. 2017. My cattle and your park: codesigning a role-playing …

2017 Open Access

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The sauropodomorph biostratigraphy of the Elliot Formation of southern Africa: Tracking the evolution of Sauropodomorpha across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary

The latest Triassic is notable for coinciding with the dramatic decline of many previously dominant groups, followed by the rapid …

2017 Open Access

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Mineral inclusions in diamonds may be synchronous but not syngenetic

It is widely assumed that mineral inclusions and their host diamonds are 'syngenetic' in origin, which means that they formed …

2017 Open Access

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Smallholder farms in eastern African tropical highlands have low soil greenhouse gas fluxes

Abstract. Few field studies examine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from African agricultural systems, resulting in high uncertainty for national inventories. …

2017 Open Access

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The environmental, socioeconomic, and health impacts of woodfuel value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic map

Abstract Background In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the production and use of woodfuel remains an important socio-economic activity with more than …

2017 Open Access

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Mercury enrichment indicates volcanic triggering of Valanginian environmental change

Abstract The Valanginian stage (Early Cretaceous) includes an episode of significant environmental changes, which are well defined by a positive …

2017 Open Access

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Locating financial incentives among diverse motivations for long-term private land conservation

Selinske, M. J., B. Cooke, N. Torabi, M. J. Hardy, A. T. Knight, and S. A. Bekessy. 2016. Locating financial …

2017 Open Access

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Measurements of the total ozone column using a Brewer spectrophotometer and TOMS and OMI satellite instruments over the Southern Space Observatory in Brazil

Abstract. This paper presents 23 years (1992–2014) of quasi-continuous measurements of the total ozone column (TOC) over the Southern Space …

2017 Open Access

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Tropospheric water vapour isotopologue data (H 2 16 O, H 2 18 O, and HD 16 O) as obtained from NDACC/FTIR solar absorption spectra

Abstract. We report on the ground-based FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) tropospheric water vapour isotopologue remote sensing data that have been …

2017 Open Access

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Understanding and applying principles of social cognition and decision making in adaptive environmental governance

Environmental governance systems are under greater pressure to adapt and to cope with increased social and ecological uncertainty from stressors …

2017 Open Access

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Wildlife Population Dynamics in Human-Dominated Landscapes under Community-Based Conservation: The Example of Nakuru Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya

Wildlife conservation is facing numerous and mounting challenges on private and communal lands in Africa, including in Kenya. We analyze …

2017 Open Access

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Adsorption isotherm studies of Cu (II) and Co (II) in high concentration aqueous solutions on photocatalytically modified diatomaceous ceramic adsorbents

Photocatalytically modified ceramic adsorbents were synthesized for the removal of high concentration Cu (II) and Co (II) ions from their …

2017 Open Access

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Diel-scale temporal dynamics recorded for bacterial groups in Namib Desert soil

Microbes in hot desert soil partake in core ecosystem processes e.g., biogeochemical cycling of carbon. Nevertheless, there is still a …

2017 Open Access

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Archaean zircons in Miocene oceanic hotspot rocks establish ancient continental crust beneath Mauritius

A fragment of continental crust has been postulated to underlie the young plume-related lavas of the Indian Ocean island of …

2017 Open Access

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Troubling travellers: are ecologically harmful alien species associated with particular introduction pathways?

Prioritization of introduction pathways is seen as an important component of the management of biological invasions. We address whether established …

2017 Open Access

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Land use/land cover changes and their environmental implications in the Gelana sub-watershed of Northern highlands of Ethiopia

Soil erosion in the Ethiopian highlands is considered to be one of the major problems threatening agricultural development and food …

2017 Open Access