ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING: Demonstration of Line Transect Methodologies to Estimate Urban Gray Squirrel Density

abstract：:Riparian zones are critical for protecting water quality and wildlife, but are often impacted by human activities. Ongoing threats and uncertainty about the effectiveness of buffer regulations emphasize the importance of monitoring riparian buffers through time. We developed a method to rapidly categorize buffer width...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Owers KA,Albanese B,Litts T

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:Ecological indicators can facilitate an adaptive management approach, but only if acceptable levels for those indicators have been defined so that the data collected can be interpreted. Because acceptable levels are an expression of the desired state of the ecosystem, the process of establishing acceptable levels shou...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Smyth RL,Watzin MC,Manning RE

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adoption of environmentally sustainable techniques by cooperatives and small companies results in specific difficulties rarely discussed in the literature. This paper describes an "action-research" carried out by seafood cultivators and university researchers in Guanabara Bay, which resulted in the substitution of...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bessa Eda S,d'Avignon A,Valle R,Teixeira MG

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ In southern Bahia, Brazil, the traditional cocoa agroecosystem with a dense shade canopy of native trees is now recognized as a secondary conservation route for highly endangered Atlantic Rainforest species. This "chocolate forest" of the densely shaded farms persists despite a massive 20-year Brazilian government m...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： JOHNS ND

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Taking 109 gymnosperm species in China as a case, the uncertainty and risk of losing habitat areas of gymnosperm species under future climate conditions were investigated via representative concentration pathways climate change scenarios, fuzzy set classifications and Monte Carlo techniques. Under nonrandom climate ch...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Wu J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Land-use allocation has important implications for the conservation and management of tropical forests. Peru's forestry regime has recently been reformed and more than 7 million ha has been assigned as forest concessions. This potentially has a drastic impact on the land-use practices and species composition of the as...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Salo M,Toivonen T

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper proposes a model to evaluate the environmental impact of manufacturing processes. This model uses the potency factor approach to classify environmental impacts into five ecological health impact groups and uses their toxicological, cancer, and physical effects as the bases to rate the seven groups of human ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Li CP,Hui IK

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk-assessment methods are useful in collecting data that can help decision making to prevent the introduction of new species that have the potential of invading as well as in management of established taxa. Not only the complexity and unaffordability of available pre-introduction risk-assessment models make them rar...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Seburanga JL,Bizuru E,Mwavu EN,Kampungu KG,Gatesire T,Kaplin BA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study adopts and modifies the WWF Rapid assessment and prioritization of protected areas management methodology (RAPPAM) to evaluate the management effectiveness of five protected areas in Taiwan. The results indicate that, unlike the situation in most developing countries, the threats and pressures faced by prot...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lu DJ,Kao CW,Chao CL

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:Oil production operations produce waste fluids that may be stored in pits, open tanks, and other sites accessible to wildlife. Birds visit these fluid-filled pits and tanks ("oil pits"), which often resemble water sources, and may become trapped and die. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has a program to reduce...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Trail PW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Having volunteers collect data can be a cost-effective strategy to complement or replace those collected by scientists. The quality of these data is essential where field-collected data are used to monitor progress against predetermined standards because they provide decision makers with confidence that choices they m...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Gollan J,de Bruyn LL,Reid N,Wilkie L

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been significant diversions of water from rivers and streams around the world; natural flow regimes have been perturbed by dams, barriers and excessive extractions. Many aspects of the ecological 'health' of riverine systems have declined due to changes in water flows, which has stimulated the development o...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Shenton W,Bond NR,Yen JD,Mac Nally R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research addresses the need to improve our knowledge on the demand for national forests for recreation and offers an in-depth data analysis supported by the complementary use of count data and ordered models. From a policy-making perspective, while count data models enable the estimation of monetary welfare measu...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Simões P,Barata E,Cruz L

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mining-contaminated sites and the affected communities at risk are important issues on the agenda of both researchers and policy makers, particularly in the former communist block countries in Eastern Europe. Integrated analyses and expert based assessments concerning mining affected areas are important in providing s...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Dogaru D,Zobrist J,Balteanu D,Popescu C,Sima M,Amini M,Yang H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Floodplain forests are flood-dependent ecosystems. They rely on well-timed, periodic floods for the provision of regeneration sites and on tapered flood recession curves for the successful establishment of seedlings. These overbank flood events are described as "regeneration flows." Once floodplain forest trees are es...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Hughes FM,Rood SB

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerical clustering has frequently been used to define hierarchically organized ecological regionalizations, but there has been little robust evaluation of their performance (i.e., the degree to which regions discriminate areas with similar ecological character). In this study we investigated the effect of the weight...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Snelder T,Lehmann A,Lamouroux N,Leathwick J,Allenbach K

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The drylands in northern China are expected to face dramatic land system change in the context of socioeconomic development and environmental conservation. Recent studies have addressed changes of land cover with socioeconomic development in the drylands in northern China. However, the changes in land use intensity an...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Liu Z,Verburg PH,Wu J,He C

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:Migratory pastoralism is an adaptation to a harsh and unstable environment, and pastoral herders have traditionally adapted to environmental and climatic change by building on their in-depth knowledge of this environment. In the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, and particularly in the arid and semiarid areas of northern P...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Joshi S,Jasra WA,Ismail M,Shrestha RM,Yi SL,Wu N

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates farmers' preferences to participate in payment contracts to adopt silvopastoral systems in Ecuador. A choice experiment was used to elicit preferences between different contract attributes, including differing payment amounts and land management requirements. The research was carried out in the...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Raes L,Speelman S,Aguirre N

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last two decades, coral reefs have become popular among recreational divers, especially inside marine protected areas. However, the impact caused by divers on benthic organisms may be contributing to the degradation of coral reefs. We analyzed the behavior of 142 scuba divers in the Abrolhos National Marine Par...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Giglio VJ,Luiz OJ,Schiavetti A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ozegahara peatland, in the Nikko-Oze National Park in Japan, is ecologically significant because of its oligotrophic environment; it is one of the most strictly preserved areas in the country. The isotope ratio of nitrogen (15N/14N) and carbon (13C/12C) and C/N ratio of peat moss (Sphagnum spp.) and sundew (Droser...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Akagi T,Osawa K

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urban ecosystems are increasingly influenced by residential yard care decisions. This had led researchers to focus on homeowner education programs when it comes to yard care. Typically, the success of programs designed to influence yard care is based on whether the target subject changes his or her behavior in a more ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Martini NF,Nelson KC,Dahmus ME

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the causes of forest fires, and of the main driving factors of ignition, is an indispensable step towards effective fire prevention policies. This study analyses the factors driving forest fire ignition in the Mediterranean region including the most common human and environmental factors used for modellin...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Ganteaume A,Camia A,Jappiot M,San-Miguel-Ayanz J,Long-Fournel M,Lampin C

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local scale has an important role in environmental management. In Spain, rapid industrialization has occurred in the last three decades, leading to substantial changes in socioeconomic relations and resulting in significant environmental degradation. This paper describes the environmental status of the township of Sax...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Maestre Gil FT

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effluent from the waste stabilization ponds (WSPs) of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka Campus, is used for irrigation by poor rural farmers. There has been fear that the poorly maintained WSPs and the reuse practices are contributing to environmental degradation and health hazards. In this study the environmental...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Agunwamba JC

更新日期：2001-03-01 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