Community forests and protected areas have each been proposed as strategies to stop deforestation. These management strategies should be regarded as hypotheses to be evaluated for their effectiveness in particular places. We evaluated the community-forestry hypothesis and the protected-area hypot...
Bray, D.B.
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Durán, E.
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Ramos, V.H.
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Mas, J.F.
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Velásquez, A.
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McNab, R.B.
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Barry, D.M.
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Radachowsky, J.
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[Tropical Deforestation, Community Forests, and Protected Areas in the Maya Forest]
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Tropical Deforestation, Community Forests, and Protected Areas in the Maya Forest
Global deforestation and forest degradation rates have a significant impact on the accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. The Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that during the 1990s 16.1 million hectares per year were affected by deforestation, most of them in the tro...
Schlamadinger, B.
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Ciccarese, L.
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Dutschke, M.
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Fearnside, P.M.
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Brown, S.
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Murdiyarso, Daniel
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[Should we include avoidance of deforestation in the international response to climate change?]
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Should we include avoidance of deforestation in the international response to climate change?
Senda, Trinity S.
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Robinson, Lance W.
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Gachene, C K.K
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Kironchi, G.
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Doyo, J.
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[An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems]
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An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems
According to the latest report of the Intergovern- mental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), emissions must be cut by 41–72 % below 2010 levels by 2050 for a likely chance of containing the global mean temperature increase to 2 ◦C. The AFOLU sector (Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use) contribu...
Román Cuesta, Rosa Maria
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Rufino, Mariana C.
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Herold, Martin
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Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus
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Rosenstock, Todd S.
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Herrero, Mario T.
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Ogle, Stephen M.
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Li C
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Poulter B
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Verchot, Louis V.
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Martius, Christopher
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Stuiver J
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Bruin, S. de
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[Hotspots of gross emissions from the land use sector: patterns, uncertainties, and leading emission sources for the period 2000–2005 in the tropics]
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Hotspots of gross emissions from the land use sector: patterns, uncertainties, and leading emission sources for the period 2000–2005 in the tropics
The diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in soils under a yam cropping system in four agroecologies of Nigeria was investigated. Soil samples were collected from yam fields at Onne (humid forest, high rainfall area), Ibadan (derived savanna), Abuja (Guinea savanna) and Ubiaja (humid for...
Dare, M.O.
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Abaidoo, R.C.
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Fagbola, O.
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Asiedu, Robert
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[Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soils of yam (Dioscorea spp.) cropping systems in four agroecologies of Nigeria]
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Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soils of yam (Dioscorea spp.) cropping systems in four agroecologies of Nigeria
Reduced river runoff and expected upstream infrastructural developments are both potential threats to irrigation water availability for the downstream countries in Central Asia. Although it has been recurrently mentioned that a reduction in water supply will hamper irrigation in the downstream co...
Bekchanov, Maksud
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Lamers, J.P.A.
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[Economic costs of reduced irrigation water availability in Uzbekistan (Central Asia)]
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Economic costs of reduced irrigation water availability in Uzbekistan (Central Asia)
East African highland cooking bananas (Musa spp., AAA) are one of the most important staples in the Great Lakes region of Africa. It has been hypothesized that land use intensification within the region has led to decline in soil fertility, increased pest pressure, and decline in production. To d...
Gold, C.
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Speijer, P.
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Ssali, H.
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Karamura, E.B.
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Okech, S.
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[Relationships between soil fertility, banana weevil and nematodes in the East African highland cooking banana in Ntungamo, southwestern Uganda]
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Relationships between soil fertility, banana weevil and nematodes in the East African highland cooking banana in Ntungamo, southwestern Uganda
Fernando, Sudarshana
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Semasinghe, Christina
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Jayathilake, Nilanthi
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Wijayamunie, R.
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Wickramasinghe, N.
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Dissanayake, S.
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[City region food system situational analysis, Colombo, Sri Lanka]
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City region food system situational analysis, Colombo, Sri Lanka
By altering evapotranspiration and influencing how water is routed and stored in a basin, natural and agrarian ecosystems affect river flow. To quantify the impact of ecosystems on streamflow in two large river basins in Asia and Africa, simple statistical relationships were calculated, enabling ...
Lacombe, Guillaume
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McCartney, Matthew P.
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[Evaluating the flow regulating effects of ecosystems in the Mekong and Volta river basins]
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Evaluating the flow regulating effects of ecosystems in the Mekong and Volta river basins
Molle, Francois
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El Hassan, W.A.
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Salama, S.
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Al-Agha, D.E.
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Rap, Edwin
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[Water and salt dynamics at the meso-level in IIIMP areas, Mares El Gamal canal]
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Water and salt dynamics at the meso-level in IIIMP areas, Mares El Gamal canal