A collaborative management model as an effort for the conservation of native plants of Java’s mountains in Mount Merbabu National Park by Gunawati Dewi, Sulaksono Nurpana, Ibrahim Mohd Hairy

“…Communities participate in various activities such as protected area security, plant monitoring, nursery development, planting, and environmental education. …”
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Impactos socioambientais que ameaçam os serviços ecossistêmicos de regulação e manutenção no Parque Regional Corno Alle Scale nos Apeninos Bolonheses, Itália by Maria do Socorro Ferreira da Silva, Elisa Magnani, Fernando Luiz Araújo Sobrinho

“…In this sense, tackling climate change is among the main challenges in managing the protected area, and it is crucial to seek strategies as alternatives to promote sustainable tourism in the Bolognese Apennines…”
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Air Quality Deterioration of Urban Areas Caused by Wildfires in a Natural Reservoir Forest of Mexico by Noel Carbajal, Luis F. Pineda-Martinez, Flor Bautista Vicente

“…We document the extreme impact of wildfire that occurs in the Protected Area of Flora and Fauna La Primavera located in neighborhood of Guadalajara, a large urban zone in Mexico. …”
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Site Selection of Landfill with emphasis on Hydrogeomorphological – environmental parameters Shahrood-Bastam watershed by Ahmad Reza Arabameri, Mohammad Hossein Ramesht

“…For this purpose, 12 data layers including Elevation, Stream density, Fault density, Habituate density, distance to road, plan curvature, lithology, slope, Temperature, soil, land use and distance to protected area extracted with Arc GIS 10.1 are prepared and one of MCDM methods which is Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is implemented. …”
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Biosphere Reserves in the Southwest of Ethiopia by Semegnew Tadese, Teshome Soromessa, Tesefaye Bekele, Brhane Meles

“…Hence, to reduce forest conversion and biodiversity loss, the government of Ethiopia is creating conservation mechanism like the establishment of the protected area and biosphere reserve which is controlled and managed by the community and the government.…”
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Perception des végétaux chez les Ribeirinhos d’Amazonie brésilienne by Claire Couly

“…This article deals with the perception that traditional people living in a protected area of the Brazilian Amazon (the Ribeirinhos of the Tapajós National Forest) have of the plants. …”
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Assessment of forest soil contamination by heavy metals in the Polish National Park near Warsaw by Aneta Łukaszek-Chmielewska, Joanna Rakowska, Marzena Rachwał, Olga Stawarz

“…The content of the cadmium, lead, manganese and chromium (using atomic emission spectroscopy with induction-coupled plasma), as well as granulometric composition, pH value and nitrogen and total carbon content, were conducted on soil samples taken from the surface layer (0–10 cm) in the protected area of the Kampinos National Park in Poland. …”
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Společenstva vodních měkkýšů řeky Oravy by Luboš Beran, Erika Šlachtová, Viktorie Klobušická, Jaroslav Beran

“…The river Orava has been part of the protected area “Rieka Orava” since 1997 and included in NATURA 2000 as a Site of Community Importance since 2004. …”
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SIRENA, une plateforme participative au service de la gouvernance du delta transfrontalier du fleuve Sénégal by Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, Labaly Toure, Mathilde Fabre, Yasmin Bouaita, Boubacar Ba Mamadou El Abass, Élisabeth Habert

“…This paper will present SIRENA (concepts, actions, first results) and questions the relevance of such a participatory platform for the sustainable governance of the resources and ecosystems of the Senegal River Delta.The emphasis is on the co-construction of the platform with the various stakeholders (protected area managers, researchers, geomatics experts) through all its phases from design to implementation. …”
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Soil Quality Assessment Strategies for Evaluating Soil Degradation in Northern Ethiopia by Gebreyesus Brhane Tesfahunegn

“…Eight LUSMS selected for soil sampling and analysis included (i) natural forest (LS1), (ii) plantation of protected area, (iii) grazed land, (iv) teff (Eragrostis tef)-faba bean (Vicia faba) rotation, (v) teff-wheat (Triticum vulgare)/barley (Hordeum vulgare) rotation, (vi) teff monocropping, (vii) maize (Zea mays) monocropping, and (viii) uncultivated marginal land (LS8). …”
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ASSESSMENT OF ROMANIAN ALPINE HABITATS SPATIAL SHIFTS BASED ON CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTION SCENARIOS by ADRIAN CONSTANTINESCU, JENICĂ HANGANU, ANTHONY LEHMANN, NICOLAS RAY

“…The European Union priority habitat 6230 occurring in mountain areas and sub-mountain areas of the Carpathians was selected for modeling being of high priority conservation status in the Natura 2000 network of protected area. Maxent and BIOCLIM were used to create spatial distribution models for Mesophilous oligotrophic mountain pasture and Subalpine oligotrophic pastures. …”
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A mixed method evaluation of ecosystem services and services-to-ecosystems illuminates culturally important trees in a settled landscape by Jacqueline Hamilton, Murray M. Humphries, Elena M. Bennett

“…The results have implications for protected area management, suggesting that reduced human-tree interactions could negatively impact biocultural values.…”
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Efficient sampling designs to assess biodiversity spatial autocorrelation: should we go fractal? by Laroche, Fabien

“…Quantifying the autocorrelation range of species distribution in space is necessary for applied ecological questions, like implementing protected area networks or monitoring programs. However, the power of spatial sampling designs to estimate this range is negatively related with other objectives such as estimating environmental effects acting upon species distribution. …”
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Prediction of suitable habitat for tundra swans in the Nanji wetland Nature Reserve of Poyang Lake under different water level conditions by Tianwei Fang, Jin Jin, Chao Chen, Li Zhang, Yankuo Li, Chaoyang Li

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Hydrological Evaluation of Streamflow Drought Index Method for Different Time Scales: A Case Study of Arsuz Plain, Turkey by Evren TURHAN, Buse Duyan Çulha, Serin Değerli

“…In this paper, Arsuz Plain, one of the agricultural protected area in the Asi River Basin, was selected as the case study for the hydrological drought analysis. …”
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Detecting and Mapping Peatlands in the Tibetan Plateau Region Using the Random Forest Algorithm and Sentinel Imagery by Zihao Pan, Hengxing Xiang, Xinying Shi, Ming Wang, Kaishan Song, Dehua Mao, Chunlin Huang

“…According to the classification results, the total area of peatlands on the TP is 57,671.55 km², and they are predominantly located in the northeast and southwest, particularly in the Zoige Protected Area. The classification primarily relied on the NDVI, NDWI, and RVI, while the DVI and MNDWI were also used in peatland mapping. …”
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Biomonitoring potential of trace metal accumulation and bioavailability in coral skeletons and reef sediments of Persian Gulf: A comparative study by Seyed Hassan Mousavi, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Seyed Mahmoud Ghasempouri

“…To achieve this, three Faviidae coral and sixteen sediment samples were collected in March 2023 from three sites: an industrial zone (site I), a rural fishing zone (site II), and a marine protected area (site III). In first step, coral samples washed, sun-dried, sliced into 1-cm slabs, X-rayed to reveal annual growth bands, and powder was prepared from each growth band. …”
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Condensed Aerosol Generators in Fire Safety of Buildings. Part 1 – Analysis of Normative and Legal Documents by Robart Śliwiński

“…For this reason, emphasis is placed on the reliability of the generators, whose only task is to trigger appropriately at a specific time and fill the protected area with aerosol. Methodology: The theoretical research, such as analysis of literature and legal documents, synthesis, generalisation, inference, comparison and analogy, was used in the development of the paper. …”
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An Assessment of Local People’s Support to Private Wildlife Conservation: A Case of Save Valley Conservancy and Fringe Communities, Zimbabwe by Given Matseketsa, Billy B. Mukamuri, Never Muboko, Edson Gandiwa

“…The long-term survival of a protected area (PA) may depend to a greater extent on the goodwill and support of the people residing around it. …”
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Vegetation Structure and Tree Species Diversity inside and outside a Newly Established Zalon Taung National Park in Northwest Myanmar by Tin Hnaung Aye, Shozo Shibata

“…The Zalon Taung National Park (ZNP) in Banmauk township, northwest Myanmar, is a recently established protected area to protect the area’s cultural value, ecosystems, native flora, and wildlife. …”
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