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Modelling non-stationary annual maximum flood heights in the lower Limpopo River basin of Mozambique
In this article we fit a time-dependent generalised extreme value (GEV) distribution to annual maximum flood heights at three sites: …
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Cheating the Locals: Invasive Mussels Steal and Benefit from the Cooling Effect of Indigenous Mussels
The indigenous South African mussel Perna perna gapes during periods of aerial exposure to maintain aerobic respiration. This behaviour has …
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The role of communities in sustainable land and forest management: The case of Nyanga, Zvimba and Guruve districts of Zimbabwe
Forest benefit analysis is vital in ensuring sustainable community-based natural resources management. Forest depletion and degradation are key issues in …
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Turn It Off: An Action Research Study of Top Management Influence on Energy Conservation in the Workplace
This paper reports the results of an intervention study that aimed to encourage workplace energy conservation behavior by office-based employees. …
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Value chain analysis of grass seeds in the drylands of Baringo County, Kenya: A producers’ perspective
Pastoral households are increasingly practising fodder production in response to forage scarcity associated with land degradation, climate variability and change. …
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Exploring the environmental drivers of waterfowl movement in arid landscapes using first-passage time analysis
BACKGROUND: The movement patterns of many southern African waterfowl are typified by nomadism, which is thought to be a response …
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A Regional Model for Malaria Vector Developmental Habitats Evaluated Using Explicit, Pond-Resolving Surface Hydrology Simulations
Dynamical malaria models can relate precipitation to the availability of vector breeding sites using simple models of surface hydrology. Here, …
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Simulation of Lake Victoria Circulation Patterns Using the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
Lake Victoria provides important ecosystem services including transport, water for domestic and industrial uses and fisheries to about 33 million …
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Standardising Home Range Studies for Improved Management of the Critically Endangered Black Rhinoceros
Comparisons of recent estimations of home range sizes for the critically endangered black rhinoceros in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (HiP), South Africa, …
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Gender Differentiated Preferences for a Community-Based Conservation Initiative
Community-based conservation (CBC) aims to benefit local people as well as to achieve conservation goals, but has been criticised for …
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Sex-Based Differences in Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) Chick Growth Rates and Diet
Sexually size-dimorphic species must show some difference between the sexes in growth rate and/or length of growing period. Such differences …
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Division of Labor Brings Greater Benefits to Clones of Carpobrotus edulis in the Non-native Range: Evidence for Rapid Adaptive Evolution
Why some species become invasive while others do not is a central research request in biological invasions. Clonality has been …
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Proximate and ultimate controls on carbon and nutrient dynamics of small agricultural catchments
Abstract. Direct and indirect effects from human activity have dramatically increased nutrient loading to aquatic inland and estuarine ecosystems. Despite …
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Closing a gap in tropical forest biomass estimation: taking crown mass variation into account in pantropical allometries
Abstract. Accurately monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks is a challenge that remains outstanding. Allometric models that consider tree diameter, height …
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Cyanobacterial symbionts diverged in the late Cretaceous towards lineage-specific nitrogen fixation factories in single-celled phytoplankton
The unicellular cyanobacterium UCYN-A, one of the major contributors to nitrogen fixation in the open ocean, lives in symbiosis with …
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Can linear transportation infrastructure verges constitute a habitat and/or a corridor for biodiversity in temperate landscapes? A systematic review protocol
Abstract Background The role of linear transportation infrastructures (roads, railways, oil and gas pipelines, power lines, rivers and canals) in …
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Species Specificity of Bacteria Associated to the Brown Seaweeds Lobophora (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) and Their Potential for Induction of Rapid Coral Bleaching in Acropora muricata
While reef degradation is occurring worldwide, it is not uncommon to see phase shifts from coral to macroalgal dominated reefs. …
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Equilibrium adsorption isotherm studies of Cu (II) and Co (II) in high concentration aqueous solutions on Ag-TiO2-modified kaolinite ceramic adsorbents
Photocatalytic ceramic adsorbents were prepared from locally sourced kaolinite clay minerals for the removal of copper and cobalt ions from …
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Comparing CFSR and conventional weather data for discharge and soil loss modelling with SWAT in small catchments in the Ethiopian Highlands
Abstract. Accurate rainfall data are the key input parameter for modelling river discharge and soil loss. Remote areas of Ethiopia …
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Fallacies and fantasies: the theoretical underpinnings of the Coexistence Approach for palaeoclimate reconstruction
Abstract. The Coexistence Approach has been used to infer palaeoclimates for many Eurasian fossil plant assemblages. However, the theory that …