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Political Science and Conservation Biology: a Dialog of the Deaf
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2006-06)
Developmental adaptation to high altitude hypoxia
(Springer-Verlag; Swets & Zeitlinger B.V., 1977-06)
Experimental studies on animals and humans exposed to hypoxic stress have been reviewed. These data suggest that the influence of hypoxic stress, and the organism's response to it, are greater during growth than during ...
Land Use in Watersheds of the Venezuelan Andes: a Comparative Analysis
(Blackwell Science Inc, 2002-04)
The influence of deforestation on tropical watersheds has received limited study. We compared seven catchments in the Venezuelan Andes to examine variation in the relative extent of forested versus disturbed land and the ...
Contrasting Growth Rate Patterns in Eighteen Tree Species From a Post-Hurricane Forest in Nicaragua 1
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1997-06)
Hurricane Joan struck the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua in October 1988 causing extensive damage to the lowland rain forest of the zone. Six permanent plots were established in 1990 and the growth rates of all individuals ...
Growth Rates of Tree Height Six Years after Hurricane Damage at Four Localities in Eastern Nicaragua 1
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1998-12)
Growth rates for 44 species of trees in a posthurricane forest in Nicaragua were measured. The pattern is consistent with the interpretation of succession as a two stage process: an initial building phase after the hurricane ...
Quality of Agroecological Matrix in a Tropical Montane Landscape: Ants in Coffee Plantations in Southern Mexico
(Blackwell Science, Inc., 2002-02)
Conservation efforts in fragmented landscapes frequently focus on characteristics of the habitat fragments. We propose that the matrix within which habitat fragments occur is of equal importance and focus on quality of the ...
The Agricultural Matrix and a Future Paradigm for Conservation
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2007-02)
Unintended Population Consequences of Policies
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
Unintended population consequences of policies stem from three sources: (1) A policy overshoots its original goal; (2) different policies conflict, so that the implementation of one policy inhibits implementation of another ...