| Titre : | AMBIO 40(3) - MAY 2011 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/05/2011 |
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Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Auteur ;
Unai Pascual, Auteur ;
Vincent Vadez, Auteur ;
Tomas Huanca, Auteur
Research on the benefits of local ecological knowledge for conservation lacks empirical data on the pathways through which local knowledge might affect natural resources management. We test whether ethnobotanical skills, a proxy for local ecolog[...]
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Andrea E. Izquierdo, Auteur ;
Hector R. Grau, Auteur ;
T. Mitchell Aide, Auteur
Global trends of increasing rural-urban migration and population urbanization could provide opportunities for nature conservation, particularly in regions where deforestation is driven by subsistence agriculture. We analyzed the role of rural po[...]
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Payments for Environmental Services in Latin America as a Tool for Restoration and Rural Development
Florencia Montagnini, Auteur ;
Christopher Finney, Auteur
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) can encourage projects that enhance restoration, production, and rural development. When projects promote differentiated systems by paying farmers for the provision of services, the application of PES re[...]
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Andres Vina, Auteur ;
Xiaodong Chen, Auteur ;
William J. McConnell, Auteur ;
Wei Liu, Auteur ;
Weihua Xu, Auteur ;
Zhiyun Ouyang, Auteur ;
Hemin Zhang, Auteur ;
Jianguo Liu, Auteur
Conservation policies are increasing in response to human-induced ecosystem degradation, but little is known about their interplay with natural disasters. Through an analysis of satellite imagery and field data we evaluated the impacts of a deva[...]
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Giovanni Leonelli, Auteur ;
Manuela Pelfini, Auteur ;
Umberto Morra di Cella, Auteur ;
Valentina Garavaglia, Auteur
Global warming and the stronger regional temperature trends recently recorded over the European Alps have triggered several biological and physical dynamics in high-altitude environments. We defined the present treeline altitude in three valleys[...]
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David D. Breshears, Auteur ;
Laura Lopez-Hoffman, Auteur ;
Lisa J. Graumlich, Auteur
Assessments of adaptation options generally focus on incremental, homogeneous ecosystem responses to climate even though climate change impacts can be big, fast, and patchy across a region. Regional drought-induced tree die-off in semiarid woodl[...]



