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Christine Matindu, Nimalka M. Weerasuriya, Francis N. Muyekho, Irena F. Creed, R. Greg Thorn and Anthony W. Sifuna
The metabarcoding of prokaryotic and fungal (Ascomycota only) ribosomal DNA was used to describe the microbial communities in soils of a remnant equatorial rainforest, maize?bean intercrop, and sugarcane in western Kenya. Cropping systems influenced the ...
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José Azinheira, Reginaldo Carvalho, Ely Paiva and Rafael Cordeiro
This paper proposes a new kind of airship actuator configuration for surveillance and environmental monitoring missions. We present the design and application of a six-propeller electrical airship (Noamini) with independent tilting propellers, allowing i...
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Emili Bezerra, Salomão Mafalda, Ana Beatriz Alvarez, Diego Armando Uman-Flores, William Isaac Perez-Torres and Facundo Palomino-Quispe
Remote sensing involves actions to obtain information about an area located on Earth. In the Amazon region, the presence of clouds is a common occurrence, and the visualization of important terrestrial information in the image, like vegetation and temper...
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Nathalia Celis, Alejandro Casallas, Ellie Anne Lopez-Barrera, Martina Felician, Massimo De Marchi and Salvatore E. Pappalardo
Recent times have witnessed wildfires causing harm to both ecological communities and urban?rural regions, underscoring the necessity to comprehend wildfire triggers and assess measures for mitigation. This research hones in on Cartagena del Chairá, divi...
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Marcos V. L. Sousa, Silas N. Melo, Juciana C. B. Souza, Carlos F. A. Silva, Yuri Feitosa and Lindon F. Matias
Protected areas (PAs) help in strategies for maintaining biodiversity and inhibiting deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. However, there are few studies that evaluate the effectiveness of lands protected by states (or federation units). Our goal was t...
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Izchel Gómez, Rodolfo Silva, Debora Lithgow, Janner Rodríguez, Anastazia Teresa Banaszak and Brigitta van Tussenbroek
In a relatively short timescale (less than 50 years), urbanization has caused many anthropogenic disturbances that have affected ecosystem health and, directly or indirectly, quality of life for the local human population. Global disturbances, such as cl...
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Anand Nainar, Maznah Mahali, Kamlisa Uni Kamlun, Normah Awang Besar, Luiza Majuakim, Vanielie Terrence Justine, Fera Cleophas, Kawi Bidin and Koichiro Kuraji
There have been conflicting findings on hydrological dynamics in tropical montane cloud forests (TMCFs)?attributed to differences in climate, altitude, topography, and vegetation. We contribute another observation-based comparison between a TMCF (8.53 ha...
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Santiago Cabrera, Marie Anne Eurie Forio, Koen Lock, Marte Vandenbroucke, Tania Oña, Miguel Gualoto, Peter L. M. Goethals and Christine Van der heyden
Adequate environmental management in tropical aquatic ecosystems is imperative. Given the lack of knowledge about functional diversity and bioassessment programs, management is missing the needed evidence on pollution and its effect on biodiversity and f...
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Fabiola Guzmán-Uria, Isabel Morales-Belpaire, Dario Achá and Marc Pouilly
In rivers and other freshwater bodies, the presence of mercury can be due to direct contamination by anthropic activities such as gold mining. However, it can also be attributed to atmospheric deposition and erosion, runoff, or lixiviation from surroundi...
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Gabriel Gonino, Evanilde Benedito, Vivian de Mello Cionek, Maria Teresa Ferreira and João Manuel Oliveira
Multimetric indices are considered a low-cost and rapid means of assessing ecological integrity in streams. This study aimed to develop a fish-based Index of Biotic Integrity (N3S-IBI) in an agricultural region within the domains of the Atlantic rainfore...
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