Impact of urban sprawl on water quality in eastern Massachusetts, USA.

abstract：:Scientists and managers of natural resources have recognized an urgent need for improved methods and tools to enable effective adaptation of management measures in the face of climate change. This paper presents an Adaptation Design Tool that uses a structured approach to break down an otherwise overwhelming and compl...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： West JM,Courtney CA,Hamilton AT,Parker BA,Gibbs DA,Bradley P,Julius SH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding climate variability in a winegrowing region is fundamental to understanding how its vineyards can adapt to climate change. For Uruguay, studying the vulnerability and adaptive responses of vineyards to climate change and climate variability is relevant due to its winegrowing region's economic importance ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fourment M,Ferrer M,Barbeau G,Quénol H

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In agricultural landscapes, studies that identify factors driving species richness and occupancy are important because they can guide farmers to use conservation practices that minimize species loss. In this context, anurans are threatened by habitat loss because they depend on the characteristics of both local water ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Prado VH,Rossa-Feres Dde C

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale bioenergy production will affect the hydrologic cycle in multiple ways, including changes in canopy interception, evapotranspiration, infiltration, and the quantity and quality of surface runoff and groundwater recharge. As such, the water footprints of bioenergy sources vary significantly by type of feeds...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Watkins DW Jr,de Moraes MM,Asbjornsen H,Mayer AS,Licata J,Lopez JG,Pypker TG,Molina VG,Marques GF,Carneiro AC,Nuñez HM,Önal H,da Nobrega Germano B

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Describing patterns in the landscape and interpreting the effects of these patterns on flora, fauna, and other factors has been of long-standing interest. Many descriptors have been developed, and these aggregate factors into a single index. The identical numerical result for a multifactor index can be attained by u...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： GILES JR RH,TRANI MK

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ The Itapiranga Sustainable Logging Plan provides an example of how Brazil's licensing system functions for logging companies in the state of Amazonas. Two questions need to be dealt with: "How sustainable can logging in the Amazon be?" and "What and how effective are existing legal mechanisms to deal with logging pr...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Eve E,Arguelles FA,Fearnside PM

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ While extinctions of individual species are part of a normal cycle, the current rate of extinctions should be a concern to us all. The maintenance of biological diversity is important for utilitarian reasons, quality of life considerations, and because biodiversity is important to sustainable regional economies. Sin...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： PIPKIN J

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change affects public land ecosystems and services throughout the American West and these effects are projected to intensify. Even if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, adaptation strategies for public lands are needed to reduce anthropogenic stressors of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and to help nativ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Beschta RL,Donahue DL,DellaSala DA,Rhodes JJ,Karr JR,O'Brien MH,Fleischner TL,Deacon Williams C

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic differences in the Posidonia oceanica meadow of Monterosso al Mare (NW Mediterranean, Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) "Cinque Terre") were compared in three stations, at an increasing distance from a source of impact (beach nourishment) in the recent decade. Random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis showed a hig...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Micheli C,Cupido R,Lombardi C,Belmonte A,Peirano A

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further the understanding of climate change adaptation processes, more attention needs to be paid to the various contextual factors that shape whether and how climate-related knowledge and information is received and acted upon by actors involved. This study sets out to examine the characteristics of forest owners'...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： André K,Baird J,Gerger Swartling Å,Vulturius G,Plummer R

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forests provide myriad ecosystem services that are vital to humanity. With climate change, we expect to see significant changes to forests that will alter the supply of these critical services and affect human well-being. To better understand the impacts of climate change on forest-based ecosystem services, we applied...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Susaeta A,Adams DC,Carter DR,Dwivedi P

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A field study at Coeur d'Alene Lake, Idaho, USA, was conducted between October 1998 and August 2001 to examine the potential importance of sediment-water interactions on contaminant transport and to provide the first direct measurements of the benthic flux of dissolved solutes of environmental concern in this lake. Be...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kuwabara JS,Carter JL,Topping BR,Fend SV,Woods PF,Berelson WM,Balistrieri LS

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The U.S. federal government, as well as many state and local governments, operate a number of conservation programs aimed at ameliorating the environmental problems associated with agriculture. While motives and barriers to conservation program participation and adoption of conservation practices have been extensively...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Reimer AP,Denny RCH,Stuart D

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than half a decade has passed since the December 26th 2004 tsunami hit the Indian coast leaving a trail of ecological, economic and human destruction in its wake. We reviewed the coastal ecological research carried out in India in the light of the tsunami. In addition, we also briefly reviewed the ecological rese...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Mukherjee N,Dahdouh-Guebas F,Kapoor V,Arthur R,Koedam N,Sridhar A,Shanker K

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While non-industrial private forest landowners have a significant amount of forest landholdings in the US, they are underrepresented in the California cap-and-trade market forest offset program. Additional participation could benefit both the market and non-industrial private forest landowners. We developed a mail que...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kelly EC,Gold GJ,Di Tommaso J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proponents of the scientific adaptive management approach argue that it increases knowledge acquisition rates, enhances information flow among policy actors, and provides opportunities for creating shared understandings. However, evidence from efforts to implement the approach in New Brunswick, British Columbia, Canad...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： McLain RJ,Lee RG

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anoxia can restrict species establishment in aquatic systems and the artificial promotion of these conditions can provide an effective control strategy for invasive molluscs. Low abundances (2-20 m(-2)) of the nonnative bivalve, Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea), were first recorded in Lake Tahoe, CA-NV in 2002 and by 2...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Wittmann ME,Chandra S,Reuter JE,Schladow SG,Allen BC,Webb KJ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose this study was to improve operational planning and management of national parks in Turkey to balance conservation use and sustainable management. Soguksu National Park (SNP) was chosen as the study area. The data were obtained from interviews of 182 visitor groups (in total, 819 people) and analyzed using ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Daşdemir I

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a template for implementing an integrated community sustainability plan. The template emphasizes community engagement and outlines the components of a basic framework for integrating ecological, social and economic dynamics into a community plan. The framework is a series of steps that support a...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Ling C,Hanna K,Dale A

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of many African game reserves is today often still an art based on experience and intuition, rather than a science. Decision-making is based on an informal integration of accumulated individual knowledge and keen field observations. Data are generally poorly captured and curated. Until fairly recently, deno...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Stalmans M,Balkwill K,Witkowski ET,Rogers KH

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for defining and retrieving reference conditions for large rivers were explored with emphasis on hydromorphologic and biologic quality indicators. For a set of four large rivers in the European Western Plains ecoregion, i.e., the rivers Meuse, Loire, Allier, and Dordogne, reference reaches were selected based ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Van Looy K,Meire P,Wasson JG

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring is essential to track the long-term recovery of endangered species. Greater emphasis on habitat monitoring is especially important for taxa whose populations may be difficult to quantify (e.g., insects) or when true recovery (delisting) requires continuous species-specific habitat management. In this paper,...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bried J,Tear T,Shirer R,Zimmerman C,Gifford N,Campbell S,O'Brien K

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article analyzes the potential for landscape governance in large-scale commodity landscapes in Indonesia. It conceptualizes landscape governance as the spatialization of governance, which entails the interplay between natural-spatial conditions of place, public-private actor constellations, and policy responses. ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： van Oosten C,Moeliono M,Wiersum F

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined long-term (10 years) meadow plant community responses to (1) livestock grazing under riparian grazing utilization limits; (2) suspension of livestock grazing; and (3) meadow site wetness and precipitation on the Inyo National Forest, California. Observed trends in meadow plant species richness, diversity, ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Freitas MR,Roche LM,Weixelman D,Tate KW

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Land cover change in protected areas is often associated with human use, especially illicit extraction, but the direction and spatial distribution of such effects and their drivers are poorly understood. We analyze and explain the spatial distribution of vegetation change at the Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary in the A...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Robbins PF,Chhangani AK,Rice J,Trigosa E,Mohnot SM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trees are a major threat to power line security across forested regions of the world. We developed a decision support system for identifying locations in Connecticut, USA where trees have grown tall enough to make contact with transmission lines during storms. We used the Random Forest algorithm, danger tree presence/...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Poulos HM,Camp AE

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of human activity on ecosystem carbon fluxes (e.g., net ecosystem exchange (NEE), ecosystem respiration (R(eco)), and gross ecosystem exchange (GEE)) are crucial for projecting future uptake of CO2 in terrestrial ecosystems. However, how ecosystem that carbon fluxes respond to grazing exclusion is still under ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Chen J,Shi W,Cao J

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ We identified and ranked 108 resident and migratory wildlife taxa on John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) that were vulnerable to local, regional, or global extinction. We ranked taxa based on their vulnerability to extinction, their potential role for maintaining faunal integrity, and the relevance of KSC for maintai...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Breininger DR,Barkaszi MJ,Smith RB,Oddy DM,Provancha JA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community participation in climate change adaptation (CCA) programs has been advocated for long, but its implementation remains uncertain. There is also very little understanding and consensus on how and to what extent local communities can and should be involved in these projects. Arguably, both the concept and pract...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Samaddar S,Oteng-Ababio M,Dayour F,Ayaribila A,Obeng FK,Ziem R,Yokomatsu M

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental impacts of ski resorts in the Balkan region are great and can lead to landscape degradation and loss of land functionality. In this study, we present an example of the negative effects of human activities at the Stara Planina ski resort in southeastern Serbia. The objective of this study is detailed ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Ristić R,Kašanin-Grubin M,Radić B,Nikić Z,Vasiljević N

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00