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Publisher
Open Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"What are the best means of reducing illegal hunting of primates? Does changing the type of livestock benefit heathland vegetation? Does removing the upper layer of peat enhance peatland restoration? Is flame treatment effective for dealing with invasive floating pennywort? What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment...
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The effect of fire in burned ecosystems depends on the dominance of characteristic traits that allow plants to recruit new individuals. Regenerative characteristics such as resprouting and wind-dispersal are considered fire-adaptive traits as they allow the rapid establishment of individuals to post-fire conditions. Recently, the Andean subparamo in Colombia has experienced severe forest fires, but little is known on its ability to recover or not...
Author
Publisher
MDPI
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Afforestation/reforestation (or forestation) has been implemented worldwide as an effective measure towards sustainable ecosystem services and addresses global environmental problems such as climate change. The conversion of grasslands, croplands, shrublands, or bare lands to forests can dramatically alter forest water, energy, and carbon cycles and, thus, ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration, soil erosion control, and water quality improvement)....
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Urban forests are important for urban environments, and clarification of their ecological functions are vital for their management. We have studied the urban forest carbon sink, microclimate regulation, biodiversity conservation and soil properties in Northeast China. We found the following conclusion. 1)urban forest could function as carbon sink, and urbanization could result in the accumulation of soil carbon in forests;2) urban forest could shade...
Author
Publisher
Silver, Burdett and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Charles Almanzo Babcock (1847–1922) was a late-nineteenth-century superintendent of schools in Oil City, Pennsylvania. He is credited with launching Bird Day--a day to celebrate birds in American schools--on May 4. The first Bird Day was celebrated in Oil City schools in 1894, and by 1901 the practice was well established. “The aim of this book is to assist school children in the accurate study of a few birds. It is believed that if this be attained,...
Author
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Deutsch
Description
»Hope dies - Action begins« - so lautet das Motto der neuen weltweiten Umweltbewegung »Extinction Rebellion« (XR). XR will uns alle dafür sensibilisieren, endlich radikale Maßnahmen gegen das gigantische Artensterben und die Klimakatastrophe zu ergreifen.In diesem Buch kommen XR-Aktivist*innen zu Wort, die XR-Forderungen, XR-Prinzipien & Werte und XR-Aktionen aus ihrer je eigenen Sichtweise erläutern. Dadurch sollen Leser*innen ermutigt werden,...
Author
Publisher
News Publishing Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Laws recently enacted by most of the states for the better protection of the game, imposing a nominal license for the privilege of hunting it, have enabled us to take a census, as it were, of that vast number of the American people who enjoy the health-giving sports of the field. This census reveals the fact, that, of the whole population of the Pacific Coast, nearly twenty per cent of all those over fifteen years of age are licensed sportsmen. Add...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The season of ripe persimmons in the pine-barren region of New Jersey falls during the days of frosty mornings, of wind-strewn leaves and dropping nuts. Melancholy days these may be in other States, but never such here. The robin and the wren—I am not sure about all of the wrens—are flown, just as the poet says; but the jay and the crow are by no means the only birds that remain. Bob White calls from the swales and 'cut-offs'; the cardinal sounds...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sarah Barnes hurried up the hill road so fast that by the time she reached the short bit of lane that turned in at her own gate she was quite out of breath, and oh, so warm! Fanning vigorously with her sun-hat did not help her much, for its wide rim had a rent in it, made by Jack, the family puppy, so that when she reached the steps of the porch, she sank down in a heap, only having breath enough to exclaim, “Oh, grandma, what do you think?”
Author
Publisher
D. APPLETON & CO.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The history of life on the earth during the epochs of geological time unfolds no more wonderful discovery among types of animals which have become extinct than the family of fossils known as flying reptiles. Its coming into existence, its structure, and passing away from the living world are among the great mysteries of Nature.
Author
Publisher
Ginn and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The reader who follows these trails will find them leading into a new country, a land of space and silence where it is good to be, away up among the mountains and woods and salmon rivers and mossy barren grounds of Labrador and Newfoundland. There he will find himself face to face with new animals - white wolf, fisher, salmon, wild goose, polar bear, and a score of others big and little - that stop their silent hunting to look at the intruder curiously...
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