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From elephant memory to conservation action: using chili oil to mitigate conflict one elephant at a time
(Wiley, 2021-07-05)Short Communication: Here we present a case study of an alternate method, disruptive darting, that can be deployed quickly on elephants visiting a location where they are not desired. This method deters an elephant from a ... -
The role of hunting on Sapajus xanthosternos’ landscape of fear in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
Habitats with spatial variation in food availability, predation risk, and hunting pressure allow us to study how animals resolve the trade-off between food searching and predator avoidance. We investigated the influence ... -
Rare nonhuman primate tool-use culture is threatened by land use changes in northeastern Brazil
(Springer Nature, 2020-07-02)Animal traditions are increasingly threatened by human impact on natural habitats, posing a challenge to conservation policies. In northeastern Brazil, bearded capuchins (Sapajus libidinosus) inhabiting the Cerrado–Caatinga ... -
Spatial mapping shows that some African elephants use cognitive maps to navigate the core but not the periphery of their home ranges
(2019-01-21)These files are datasets for an article published in the journal Animal Cognition (Presotto, A., Fayrer-Hosken, R., Curry, C. et al. Spatial mapping shows that some African elephants use cognitive maps to navigate the core ... -
Spatial mapping shows that some African elephants use cognitive maps to navigate the core but not the periphery of their home ranges
(Springer, 2019-01-28)Strategies of navigation have been shown to play a critical role when animals revisit resource sites across large home ranges. The habitual route system appears to be a sufficient strategy for animals to navigate while ... -
Habitual Route Analysis Method (HRAM)
(Open Source Software, 2018-12-20)The Habitual Route Analysis Method (HRAM) tool automates the analysis method to evaluate the existence of habitual routes present within navigational data. A habitual route is based on the animal uses of repeated routes ... -
Spatial patterns of primate electrocutions in Diani, Kenya
(Springer, 2018-06-26)Electrocution from power lines threatens many primate species, yet knowledge of effective evidence-based mitigation strategies is limited. Mitigation planning requires an understanding of the spatial distribution of ... -
On Borrowed Time: The Past, Present, and Future of Virginia’s Barrier Islands under Differing Sea-Level Rise Scenarios
Virginia’s barrier islands constitute one of the most undeveloped shorelines of the eastern US. Aside from a few islands in the north, the islands are uninhabited and managed for conservation. These islands play important ... -
Universities and hospitals as agents of economic stability and growth in small cities: A comparative analysis
(The Industrial Geographer, 2014)Institutions of higher education and health care (‘Eds and Meds’) have become increasingly recognized as stable centers of employment and important contributors to urban economic development. Existing research into the ... -
Creation of a high spatiotemporal resolution global database of continuous mangrove forest cover for the 21st Century (CGMFC-21)
(2016)Aim: To provide high-resolution local, regional, national and global estimates of annual mangrove forest area from 2000 through to 2012 with the goal of driving mangrove research questions pertaining to biodiversity, carbon ... -
Titling community land to prevent deforestation: An evaluation of a best-case program in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador
(2015)Assigning land title to collective landholders is one of the primary policies land management agencies use to avoid deforestation worldwide. Such programs are designed to improve the ability of landholders to legally exclude ... -
A geospatial methodology to identify locations of concentrated runoff from agricultural fields
(2015)A geospatial methodology has been developed that utilizes high resolution lidar-derived DEMs to help track runoff from agricultural fields and identify areas of potential concentrated flow through vegetated riparian areas ... -
Assessing the role of commercial aquaculture in displacing mangrove forest
(2013)To fill a gap in the marine science literature, I calculated the amount of mangrove deforestation in tropical estuaries that is attributable to commercial aquaculture. The eight countries analyzed were Indonesia, Brazil, ... -
Mangrove forest cover and loss since 2000 in areas with year 2000 mangrove forest
(2016)MFW. This raster dataset represents mangrove forest cover and mangrove forest change annually from 2000 – 2012 inclusive. The attribute value is m2 (stored as a 16 bit unsigned integer value) of mangrove cover for each ... -
Mangrove forest cover and change in the mangrove biome
(2016)TEOW. This raster dataset represents mangrove forest cover and mangrove forest change annually from 2000 – 2012 inclusive. The attribute value is m2 (stored as a 16 bit unsigned integer value) of mangrove cover for each ... -
Ecuador’s mangrove forest carbon stocks: A spatiotemporal analysis of living carbon holdings and their depletion since the advent of commercial aquaculture
(2015)In this paper we estimate the living carbon lost from Ecuador’s mangrove forests since the advent of export-focused shrimp aquaculture. We use remote sensing techniques to delineate the extent of mangroves and aquaculture ...
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