Effects of Post-Fire Plant Cover in the Performance of Two Cordilleran Cypress (Austrocedrus chilensis) Seedling Stocktypes Planted in Burned Forests of Northeastern Patagonia, Argentina.

abstract：:Maintenance of soil organic carbon (SOC) is important for sustainable use of soil resources due to the multiple effects of SOC on soil nutrient status and soil structural stability. The objective of this study was to identify the changes in soil aggregate distribution and stability, SOC, and nitrogen (N) concentration...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Su YZ,Liu WJ,Yang R,Chang XX

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The correlations between perennials and the herbaceous productivity in patches occupied by them were previously studied and several descriptive models were defined. Yet these studies focused on either single or several species without analyzing higher numbers and ranking their effects. Here we describe a handy analyti...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Mor-Mussery A,Leu S,Budovsky A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A holistic understanding of the magnitude and long-term trend of water vulnerability is essential for making management decisions in a given river basin. Existing procedures to assess the spatiotemporal dynamic of water vulnerability in complex mega-scale river basins are inadequate; a new method named ensemble hydrol...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Sun F,Kuang W,Xiang W,Che Y

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic disturbances in wetland ecosystems can alter the composition and structure of plant assemblages and affect system functions. Extensive oil and gas extraction has occurred in wetland habitats along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast since the early 1900s. Activities involved with three-dimensional (3D) sei...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Howard RJ,Wells CJ,Michot TC,Johnson DJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:Rivers in developing and emerging countries often lack good water quality. Tools to assess the water quality in rivers, including identification of possible sources of pollution, are therefore of increasing importance. The aim of this study is to apply mathematical material flow and spatial land use analyses to identi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kupkanchanakul W,Kwonpongsagoon S,Bader HP,Scheidegger R

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ The species richness of shoreline vegetation of unregulated lakes in Nova Scotia, Canada, is known to increase as a function of catchment area, a topographic variable governing water level fluctuations. Predictions based on catchment area however, fail to account for richness patterns at the margins of lakes enlarge...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hill NM,Keddy PA,Wisheu IC

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of many shorebird species are declining; habitat loss and degradation are among the leading causes for these declines. Shorebirds use a variety of habitats along interior migratory routes including managed moist soil units, natural wetlands, sandbars, and agricultural lands such as harvested rice fields. L...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lehnen SE,Krementz DG

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formulation of standards of quality in parks and outdoor recreation can be guided by normative theory and related empirical methods. We apply this approach to measure the acceptability of a range of use levels in national parks in Turkey and the United States. Using statistical methods for comparing norm curves across...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Sayan S,Krymkowski DH,Manning RE,Valliere WA,Rovelstad EL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper assesses the significance of stakeholder discourses on uses of water by aquaculture for public policy. Our discourse analysis focuses on the experiences with inland aquaculture in Thailand, drawing from interviews with stakeholders, and evidence in public documents such as newspapers and television news rep...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lebel L,Lebel P,Chuah CJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of literature addresses the role of science in environmental impact assessment (EIA) but less attention has been given to the views of practitioners themselves. In this research a survey of 31 EIA practitioners in Western Australia was undertaken to determine their perceptions of the quality and importanc...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Morrison-Saunders A,Bailey J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impacts of land use and land cover (LULC) change in buffer zones surrounding protected ecological reserves have important implications for the management and conservation of these protected areas. This study examines the spatial and temporal patterns of LULC change along the boundary of Rio Abiseo National Park in...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kintz DB,Young KR,Crews-Meyer KA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the findings of the first major visitor survey conducted at the Central Rhodope Mountain Complex, situated in northern Greece. The study area is one of a number of sites planned to become National Parks under a recent initiative of the Greek government. We used a logistic regression method to def...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Machairas I,Hovardas T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is often unclear what the role of a local jurisdiction is with regard to land use management on nearby federal properties. Yet federal lands clearly impact nearby local communities. The US Department of Energy (DOE), with over 100 sites across the United States with varying degrees of environmental contamination, m...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lowrie KW,Greenberg MR

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring long-term changes in aquatic biodiversity requires the effective use of historical data that were collected with different methods and varying levels of effort. Aggregating data into different spatial scales can control for such differences and provide a robust framework for monitoring distribution trends. ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kirk MA,Wissinger SA

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A numerical water quality criterion in the U.S. consists of three components representing magnitude, duration, and frequency. While magnitude and duration are well defined and conceptually unambiguous, the meaning of the frequency component is often debatable. We interpret the frequency component as a tool for account...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Qian SS

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transportation infrastructure in national parks has historically been designed for the automobile. With more vehicles in the parks, visitors found themselves in circumstances more reminiscent of a city than a park. Traffic jams, overcrowding, illegal parking, horn honking, and idling vehicles became common, creating s...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Mace BL,Marquit JD,Bates SC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementing effective conservation requires an understanding of factors affecting deforestation and forest degradation. Previous studies have investigated factors affecting deforestation, while few studies have examined the determinants of both of deforestation and forest degradation for more than one period. To addr...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Htun NZ,Mizoue N,Yoshida S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroelectric dams represent major investments and major sources of environmental and social impacts. Powerful forces surround the decision-making process on public investments in the various options for the generation and conservation of electricity. Brazil's proposed Belo Monte Dam (formerly Kararaô) and its upstrea...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fearnside PM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When central governments decentralize natural resource management (NRM), they often retain an interest in the local efforts and provide funding for them. Such outside investments can serve an important role in moving community-based efforts forward. At the same time, they can represent risks to the community if govern...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Koontz TM,Sen S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of voluntary programs targeting resource conservation on private land has become increasingly prevalent in environmental policy. Voluntary programs potentially offer significant benefits over regulatory and market-based approaches. This article examines the factors affecting landowner participation in voluntar...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kauneckis D,York AM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildfires lead to important economic, social, and environmental losses, especially in areas of Mediterranean climate where they are of a high intensity and frequency. Over the past 30 years there has been a dramatic surge in the development and use of fire spread models. However, given the chaotic nature of environmen...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Martin-Fernández S,Martínez-Falero E,Pérez-González JM

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental study was conducted in Tillamook, Oregon, USA, to quantify the effectiveness of edge-of-field vegetated buffers for reducing transport of fecal coliform bacteria (FCB) from agricultural fields amended with dairy cow manure. Installation of vegetated buffers on loamy soils dramatically reduced the bacte...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Sullivan TJ,Moore JA,Thomas DR,Mallery E,Snyder KU,Wustenberg M,Wustenberg J,Mackey SD,Moore DL

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural resource trustee agencies must determine how much, and what type of environmental restoration will compensate for injuries to natural resources that result from releases of hazardous substances or oil spills. To fulfill this need, trustees, and other natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) practitioners have...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Baker M,Domanski A,Hollweg T,Murray J,Lane D,Skrabis K,Taylor R,Moore T,DiPinto L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on government and other relevant documentation, this paper explores the conceptual linkage between population, development, and waste management in Botswana and the implications of this relationship for global climate change. Population is increasing, albeit at a decreasing rate. Spatially, the population is bec...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Gwebu TD

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ An important measure of the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the extent to which it achieves its goals for environmental protection and management. To determine this requires an examination of environmental outcomes for projects that have undergone EIA. The utility of the predecision stages ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Morrison-Saunders A,Bailey J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social learning is a process suited to developing understanding and concerted action to tackle complex resource dilemmas, such as freshwater management. Research has begun to recognise that in practice social learning encounters a variety of institutional challenges from the shared habits and routines of stakeholders ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Turner JA,Allen W,Fraser C,Fenemor A,Horita A,White T,Chen L,Atkinson M,Rush M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study, conventional resources-based ammonia generation routes are comparatively studied through a comprehensive life cycle assessment. The selected ammonia generation options range from mostly used steam methane reforming to partial oxidation of heavy oil. The chosen ammonia synthesis process is the mos...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bicer Y,Dincer I,Vezina G,Raso F

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural landscapes in Austria are multifunctional through their simultaneous support of productive, habitat, regulatory, social, and economic functions. This study investigates, if changing climatic conditions in Austria will lead to landscape change. Based on the assumption that farmers are the crucial decision make...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Pröbstl-Haider U,Mostegl NM,Kelemen-Finan J,Haider W,Formayer H,Kantelhardt J,Moser T,Kapfer M,Trenholm R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water governance occurs at multiple levels, from the local to the supra-national, which are often highly fragmented. The interconnected nature of water requires interactions among these multiple governance levels. Public participation may foster such interactions. Thus, many water management reforms involved decentral...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hassenforder E,Barreteau O,Daniell KA,Ferrand N,Kabaseke C,Muhumuza M,Tibasiima T

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00