Since the turn of the century, African pastoralists have been held responsible for overuse of woody plants and for the degradation and desertification of many arid and semiarid lands. We analyzed the impacts of pastoral nomads and their livestock on the recruitment (establishment to first reprodu...
Reid, Robin S.
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Ellis, J.E.
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[Impacts of pastoralists on woodlands in south Turkana, Kenya: Livestock-mediated tree recruitment]
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Impacts of pastoralists on woodlands in south Turkana, Kenya: Livestock-mediated tree recruitment
Lay perceptions about complementary feeding differ substantially from international complementary feeding recommendations. A large proportion of children do not consume sufficient amounts of complementary foods to meet their energy and micronutrient needs. There was a gap in knowledge about appro...
Rasheed, S
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Rukhsana, H
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Hassan, N
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Pachón, Helena
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Islam, S.
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Chowdhury, SBJ
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Sanghvi, TG
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[Why does nutrition deteriorate rapidly among children under 2 years of age? Using qualitative methods to understand community perspectives on complementary feeding practices in Bangladesh]
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Why does nutrition deteriorate rapidly among children under 2 years of age? Using qualitative methods to understand community perspectives on complementary feeding practices in Bangladesh
Los extractos foliares (EF) son utilizados como complemento nutricional en países como Nicaragua y Tanzania. Se evaluaron hojas y EF de yuca, fríjol, batata y alfalfa, y se cuantificó los componentes nutricionales, antinutricionales y biodisponibilidad por métodos in vitro. En promedio (DE), el E...
Pico, S
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Gutiérrez, D.
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Aragón Gallego, Ingrid J.
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Escobar, A.
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Ortiz, D.
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Sánchez, T.
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Imbachí Narváez, P.C.
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Pachón, Helena
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[Evaluación de la composición nutricional, antinutricional y biodisponibilidad in vitro de diferentes extractos foliares = Evaluation of the nutritional and antinutritional composition and in vitro bioavailability of foliar extracts]
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Evaluación de la composición nutricional, antinutricional y biodisponibilidad in vitro de diferentes extractos foliares = Evaluation of the nutritional and antinutritional composition and in vitro bioavailability of foliar extracts
Insect pests and plant diseases reduce cassava yields substantially, posing a threat to food security throughout the developing world. While agricultural scientists have recognized these threats, few assessments of the geographic distribution of cassava pests and diseases have been made at the gl...
Herrera Campo, Beatriz Vanessa
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Hyman, Glenn
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Bellotti, Anthony C.
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[Threats to cassava production: known and potential geographic distribution of four key biotic constraints]
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Threats to cassava production: known and potential geographic distribution of four key biotic constraints
In developing countries where economies and livelihoods depend largely on ecosystem services, policies for adaptation to climate change should take into account the role of these services in increasing the resilience of society. This ecosystem-based approach to adaptation was the focus of an inte...
Vignola, R.
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Locatelli, Bruno
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Martínez, C.
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Imbach, Pablo
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[Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change: what role for policy-makers, society and scientists?]
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Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change: what role for policy-makers, society and scientists?
Idinoba, M.
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Kalame, F.B.
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Nkem, J.
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Blay, D.
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Coulibaly, Y.
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[Climate change and non-wood forest products: vulnerability and adaptation in West Africa]
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Climate change and non-wood forest products: vulnerability and adaptation in West Africa
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in payments for environmental services (PES) for ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA). So far, however, experiences and theoretical analyses of PES specifically for adaptation have not been well documented. This paper addresses this gap by analysing ...
Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.
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Locatelli, Bruno
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Wunder, Sven
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Brockhaus, M.
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[Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change: What scope for payments for environmental services?]
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Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change: What scope for payments for environmental services?
The potential of forest to regenerate after harvesting is a key element for sustainability of the ecosystem. For semi-arid tropical savanna environments, managing resprouts after tree cutting is ideally suited because of the natural ability of many indigenous species to regenerate vegetatively. R...
Dayamba, Sidzabda Djibril
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Savadogo, P.
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Sawadogo, L.
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Zida, D.
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Tiveau, D.
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Oden, P.C.
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[Dominant species' resprout biomass dynamics after cutting in the Sudanian savanna-woodlands of West Africa: long term effects of annual early fire and grazing]
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Dominant species' resprout biomass dynamics after cutting in the Sudanian savanna-woodlands of West Africa: long term effects of annual early fire and grazing
Climate change can be addressed by mitigation (reducing the sources or enhancing the sinks of greenhouse gases) and adaptation (reducing the impacts of climate change). Mitigation and adaptation present two fundamentally dissimilar approaches whose differences are now well documented. Forest ecos...
Locatelli, Bruno
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Evans, V.
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Wardell, A.
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Andrade, A.
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Vignola, R.
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[Forests and climate change in Latin America: linking adaptation and mitigation]
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Forests and climate change in Latin America: linking adaptation and mitigation
Good estimates of ecosystem complexity are essential for a number of ecological tasks: from biodiversity estimation, to forest structure variable retrieval, to feature extraction by edge detection and generation of multifractal surface as neutral models for e.g. feature change assessment. Hence, ...
Rocchini, D.
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Petras, V.
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Petrasova, A.
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Chemin, Yann H.
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Ricotta, C.
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Frigeri, A.
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Landa, M.
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Marcantonio, M.
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Bastin, L.
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Metz, M.
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Delucchi, L.
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Neteler, M.
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[Spatio-ecological complexity measures in GRASS GIS]
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Spatio-ecological complexity measures in GRASS GIS