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    Great apes and biodiversity offset projects in Africa: the case for national ...

    The development and private sectors are increasingly considering “biodiversity offsets” as a strategy to compensate for their negative impacts on biodiversity, including impacts...
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    Assessing alternative methods for unsupervised segmentation of urban vegetati...

    To analyze types and patterns of greening trends across a city, this study seeks to identify a method of creating very high-resolution urban vegetation maps that scales over...
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    Exploitation rates of two benthic resources across management regimes in cent...

    There is an urgent need to quantify the impacts of artisanal fisheries and define management practices that allow for the recovery and conservation of exploited stocks. The...
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    Citclops: A next-generation sensor system for the monitoring of natural water...

    41 pages, 28 figures, 1 table, supporting information https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230084.s001.-- Through the interface at [http://www.citclops.eu/search/welcome.php]...
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    Stirring the strategic direction of scuba diving marine Citizen Science: A su...

    ABSTRACT Citizen Science (CS) strengthens the relationship between society and science through education and engagement, with win-win benefits. Marine Citizen Science (MCS) is...
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    Suspected heroin-related overdoses incidents in Cincinnati, Ohio: A spatiotem...

    Background Opioid misuse and deaths are increasing in the United States. In 2017, Ohio had the second highest overdose rates in the US, with the city of Cincinnati experiencing...
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    Empirically derived guidance for social scientists to influence environmental...

    Failure to stem trends of ecological disruption and associated loss of ecosystem services worldwide is partly due to the inadequate integration of the human dimension into...
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    Characters matter: How narratives shape affective responses to risk communica...

    Introduction Whereas scientists depend on the language of probability to relay information about hazards, risk communication may be more effective when embedding scientific...
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    Aquatic macroinvertebrates stabilize gravel bed sediment: A test using silk n...

    Organisms can have large effects on the physical properties of the habitats where they live. For example, measurements in laboratory stream microcosms have shown that the...
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    Pricing and coordination in a dual-channel supply chain with a socially respo...

    This paper aims at designing coordination contract in a dual channel supply chain (DCSC) which consists of a socially responsible manufacturer and a retailer. We build stylized...
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    Evidence and impact of map error on land use and land cover dynamics in Ashi ...

    Previously, applications of intensity analysis (IA) on land use and land cover change (LULCC) studies have focused on deviations from uniform intensity (UI) and failed to...
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    What Is Citizen Science? – A Scientometric Meta-Analysis

    Context The concept of citizen science (CS) is currently referred to by many actors inside and outside science and research. Several descriptions of this purportedly new...
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    Spatial overlap between environmental policy instruments and areas of high co...

    In order to safeguard biodiversity in forest we need to know how forest policy instruments work. Here we use a nationwide network of 9400 plots in productive forest to analyze...
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    Retention and promotion of women and underrepresented minority faculty in sci...

    The current climate on college campuses has brought new urgency to the need to increase faculty diversity. In STEM fields particularly, the dearth of underrepresented minority...
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    Who is researching biodiversity hotspots in Eastern Europe? A case study on t...

    European farmlands are vital arenas for socio-ecological sustainability because of their significant land coverage and potential for integrating food production with...
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    webpic: A flexible web application for collecting distance and count measurem...

    : Despite increasing ability to store and analyze large amounts of data for organismal and ecological studies, the process of collecting distance and count measurements from...
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    Traffic exhaust to wildfires: PM2.5 measurements with fixed and portable, low...

    Air pollution with PM2.5 (particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micro-metres in diameter) is a major health hazard in many cities worldwide, but since measuring instruments have...
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    Assessing the flow to low-income urban areas of conservation and environmenta...

    : Government funding accounts for a large proportion of conservation and environmental improvements, and is often the result of citizen votes on state ballot measures. A key...
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    Given limited funds for research and widespread degradation of ecosystems, environmental scientists should geographically target their studies where they will be most effective....
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    Impact of product subsidies on R&D investment for new energy vehicle firms: C...

    Different consumer groups accept new energy vehicles sequentially from the perspective of innovation diffusion theory, and the early adopter group has recently been identified....