Detecting suitable habitat patches for wild animals based on the cumulative resistance: A case study of Yunnan snub-nosed monkey

ABSTRACT Background: Food for the Muyu tribe was an actualization of daily life over the belief in the religious dimension that is adopted and lived. This study aims to explore the food taboo among the Muyu tribe in Indonesia.Methods: The authors conducted the case study in Mindiptana, Boven Digoel, Papua. The study carried out data collection by participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and document searches. The authors carried out the report using an ethnographic approach an emically perspective.Results: Belief in the lord of wild animals, the lord of fruits and plants, and the lord of sago, was so thick that many spells appear to hunt and search for food in the forest, which was a form of recognition of the power of these. The Muyu tribe had restrictions on several types of food. Food can be taboo based on its physical form; meanwhile, because of Muyu people's belief that there was a bad quality inherent in these food ingredients. It was especially closely related to ritual practice for men as a process of undergoing initiation as a big man. The Muyu intended women taboo for mothers who are pregnant and breastfeeding. Abstinence for pregnant Muyu women was often related to the fetus in the womb. For children, especially for boys, it was almost the same as abstinence for adult Muyu men. This abstinence applies to boys who were prepared to be tómkót, especially when undergoing the initiation process.Conclusions: The food taboo applies to all Muyu people, both men, women, and children.

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Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation

Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation ◽

10.47886/9781888569124.ch27 ◽

1999 ◽

Keyword(s):

Lake Erie ◽

Habitat Management ◽

Fish Habitat ◽

Learning By Doing ◽

Suitable Habitat ◽

Physical Habitat ◽

Fish Stocks ◽

Habitat Features ◽

Fish Habitats

Abstract.— The quality and quantity of habitats determine ecosystem productivity. Hence, they determine the potential fish productivity that sustains the fish harvests extractable from freshwaters and seas. Efforts to conserve and protect fish habitats are frustrated by key unanswered questions: which habitat types and how much must be protected to ensure natural self-sustaining fish stocks? Minns and Bakelaar presented a prototype method for assessing suitable habitat supply for fish stocks in Lake Erie, an analysis that can be used to address conservation issues. Here, the method is refined and extended, taking the assessment of habitat supply for pike Esox lucius in the Long Point region of Lake Erie as a case study. As with the previous study, much emphasis is placed on “learning by doing.” Because available inventories of habitat features are coarse and incomplete, improved guidelines for estimating habitat supply are expected from these prototype studies. The habitat supply method previously presented by Minns and Bakelaar is elaborated in three ways here: (1) the basic physical habitat assessment is derived from a remote-sensing inventory database; (2) methods of quantifying the thermal regime and integrating it with other habitat elements are examined; (3) habitat supply estimates are used in a pike population model, and pike biomass and production are simulated for the Long Point region of Lake Erie and then compared with available records. The roles of error and uncertainty are examined for all elements in the estimation and application of suitable habitat supply values. There is potential for supply measurement and analysis to guide fish habitat management.

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15. Case Study: Constitutionally Contested Legislation

Public Law ◽

10.1093/he/9780198820284.003.0015 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 443-482

Author(s):

Andrew Le Sueur ◽

Maurice Sunkin ◽

Jo Eric Khushal Murkens

Keyword(s):

Wild Animals ◽

House Of Commons ◽

Labour Government ◽

House Of Lords ◽

The Commons ◽

Constitutional Conventions ◽

Set Up ◽

The Uk ◽

The Relationship

This chapter looks at the circumstances surrounding two events. The first is the 2005 decision of the UK Parliament to set up a committee to examine whether the constitutional conventions governing the relationship between the House of Lords and the House of Commons should be codified. The second is the decision of the Commons (and the Labour government) to press ahead and present the Hunting Bill 2004 for royal assent despite the opposition of the Lords to the policy of a total ban on hunting wild animals with dogs; the Lords preferred a policy of licensed hunting.

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Combining Deforestation and Species Distribution Models to Improve Measures of Chimpanzee Conservation Impacts of REDD: A Case Study from Ntakata Mountains, Western Tanzania

Forests ◽

10.3390/f11111195 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. 1195

Author(s):

Rebecca Dickson ◽

Marc Baker ◽

Noémie Bonnin ◽

David Shoch ◽

Benjamin Rifkin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Biodiversity Conservation ◽

Species Distribution ◽

Carbon Emissions ◽

Species Distribution Models ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Climate Mitigation ◽

Suitable Habitat ◽

Distribution Models ◽

Western Tanzania

Projects to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) are designed to reduce carbon emissions through avoided deforestation and degradation, and in many cases, to produce additional community and biodiversity conservation co-benefits. While these co-benefits can be significant, quantifying conservation impacts has been challenging, and most projects use simple species presence to demonstrate positive biodiversity impact. Some of the same tools applied in the quantification of climate mitigation benefits have relevance and potential application to estimating co-benefits for biodiversity conservation. In western Tanzania, most chimpanzees live outside of national park boundaries, and thus face threats from human activity, including competition for suitable habitat. Through a case study of the Ntakata Mountains REDD project in western Tanzania, we demonstrate a combined application of deforestation modelling with species distribution models to assess forest conservation benefits in terms of avoided carbon emissions and improved chimpanzee habitat. The application of such tools is a novel approach that we argue permits the better design of future REDD projects for biodiversity co-benefits. This approach also enables project developers to produce the more manageable, accurate and cost-effective monitoring, reporting and verification of project impacts that are critical to verification under carbon standards.

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Fire policy optimization to maximize suitable habitat for locally rare species under different climatic conditions: A case study of antelopes in the Kruger National Park

Biological Conservation ◽

10.1016/j.biocon.2015.07.021 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 191 ◽

pp. 313-321 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michela Pacifici ◽

Piero Visconti ◽

Edoardo Scepi ◽

Anna Hausmann ◽

Fabio Attorre ◽

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Keyword(s):

Rare Species ◽

National Park ◽

Climatic Conditions ◽

Kruger National Park ◽

Suitable Habitat ◽

Fire Policy ◽

Policy Optimization

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A Gripping Tail: Re-interpreting the Archaic Potnia Theron Schema

10.26686/wgtn.17008168 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Emily Simons

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Archaic Period ◽

Source Material ◽

Wild Animals ◽

Greek Religion ◽

Early Archaic ◽

The Subject ◽

The Bronze Age

The Archaic Potnia Theron schema depicts a central female figure grasping an animal in each hand. She is often associated with the goddess Artemis. Yet, evidence from the early Archaic period indicates that she was not yet associated with the goddess. The identity of the schema has been the subject of a number of studies, and the connection of the figure with Artemis is well ingrained in scholarship. The identification of the figure as Artemis relies heavily on a brief description from Pausanias’s Perigesis, and the epithet Ποτνία Θηρῶν given to Artemis once in the Iliad (Hom. Il. 21.470). Furthermore, the image was later attributed to the goddess Artemis on account of her affiliations to wild animals. However, this thesis investigates the identification of the figure and examines the evidence (or lack thereof) for the attribution of the figure to Artemis in the Archaic period. Chapter One will investigate the Potnia Theron schema and its use in the Bronze Age. It will consider the possible contribution that the Bronze Age schema may have had on the image in the Archaic period, acknowledging possible influence from the Near East. It will also discuss problems with Archaic source material, the fluidity of Archaic Greek religion, and the characteristics of the Archaic Potnia Theron schema. Chapter Two will analyse the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia in Sparta as the main case study for the use of the Archaic schema in a sanctuary context. The chronology at the site, and its examples of the schema make it particularly useful for this investigation. Chapter Three will follow with an analysis of the schema on items lacking contexts, as it was used for decorative purposes on vases, jewelry, and plaques. Finally, Chapter Four will examine the role of Artemis, how the Potnia Theron pose has since been interpreted to represent the goddess. This thesis will determine when the schema became associated with Artemis and investigate evidence for its use prior to this association.

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Microclimate Observation at Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni boettgeri) Habitat in the “Iron Gates” Natural Park. Case Study: Lower Eșelniţa Watershed (Banat, Romania)

Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research ◽

10.1515/trser-2015-0032 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 47-58

Author(s):

Cristiana-Maria Ciocanea ◽

Athanasios-Alexandru Gavrilidis ◽

Vasile Bagrinovschi

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Vegetation Structure ◽

Conservation Management ◽

Global Climate ◽

Suitable Habitat ◽

The South ◽

Natural Park ◽

Testudo Hermanni

Abstract “Iron Gates” Natural Park is located in the South-Western part of Romania and is recognized for its great diversity of ecosystems, wide variety of species and emblematic landscapes. Due to its Mediterranean climatic influences and vegetation structure, the area is a suitable habitat for the existence and development of Testudo hermanni boettgeri. Monitoring both, the evolution of the microclimatic features in the lower Eșelnița watershed and the species behaviour, represents a useful step in order to determine if the global climate change endangers the conservation management of the tortoise.

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Size, connectivity and edge effects of stream habitats explain spatio-temporal variation in brown trout ( Salmo trutta ) density

Proceedings of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rspb.2021.1255 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 288 (1961) ◽

Author(s):

Carl Tamario ◽

Erik Degerman ◽

Daniela Polic ◽

Petter Tibblin ◽

Anders Forsman

Keyword(s):

Temporal Variation ◽

Brown Trout ◽

Salmo Trutta ◽

Extinction Risk ◽

Suitable Habitat ◽

Habitat Patches ◽

Lotic Habitats ◽

Lotic Habitat ◽

Spatio Temporal

Ecological theory postulates that the size and isolation of habitat patches impact the colonization/extinction dynamics that determine community species richness and population persistence. Given the key role of lotic habitats for life-history completion in rheophilic fish, evaluating how the distribution of swift-flowing habitats affects the abundance and dynamics of subpopulations is essential. Using extensive electrofishing data, we show that merging island biogeography with meta-population theory, where lotic habitats are considered as islands in a lentic matrix, can explain spatio-temporal variation in occurrence and density of brown trout ( Salmo trutta ). Subpopulations in larger and less isolated lotic habitat patches had higher average densities and smaller between-year density fluctuations. Larger lotic habitat patches also had a lower predicted risk of excessive zero-catches, indicative of lower extinction risk. Trout density further increased with distance from the edge of adjacent lentic habitats with predator ( Esox lucius ) presence, suggesting that edge- and matrix-related mortality contributes to the observed patterns. These results can inform the prioritization of sites for habitat restoration, dam removal and reintroduction by highlighting the role of suitable habitat size and connectivity in population abundance and stability for riverine fish populations.

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The Struggle Between Life and Death: A Case Study of Panapur Flood, District Saran, Bihar, India

Journal of Marine Science Research and Oceanography ◽

10.33140/jmsro.04.03.02 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

Keyword(s):

Women Elderly ◽

Anthropogenic Activities ◽

Survey Result ◽

Sampling Techniques ◽

Wild Animals ◽

Life And Death ◽

Wild Pigs ◽

History Of ◽

The Impact

The flood is one of the natural calamities that are the outcome of anthropogenic activities by humans. It is largely defined as the overflow of water on normally dry ground. The most common reasons are overflowing of river in short span of time, breaking of dam, or heavy rainfall. The most deadly flood that occurred in the history of Panapur is the flood of 2020 which worsened the condition of the native inhabitants. The most fragile section of society was pregnant women, elderly people, children and animals. The local inhabitants experienced fear of death from very close, submerging of houses in water, rampant rainfall, snake biting, lack of drinking water and food worked as the catalyst in worsening the condition. There was the rampant destruction not only of infrastructure but also of the wildlife. Large chunk of population lost their animals in the furious flood. Dear, pig, snake, and many other wild animals washed away from the forests of Nepal to Panapur block during flood. Many wild animals lost their lives in this nature’s fury, villagers somehow managed to save lives of eight floating dear and 32 wild pigs. People left from different corona infected state to take shelter in native village in month of April and May were left disillusioned due to the flood of July 2020. As officially reported eight people washed away and died during flood. The further unrest came when the prices of fodder surged up to 14/kg. This paper studies the impact of flood on inhabitants of Panapur block, Saran district, Bihar, India. This study is based on primary survey using sampling techniques. Six villages have been selected for survey. Result have been analysed and it was found that people lost their economy, crop, shelter, pet animals, forest, dignity and humanity. They are left under the utter disillusionment. They became homeless, helpless, hopeless and health less.

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