ASSESSING WATER STRESS OF DESERT TAMARUGO TREES USING IN SITU DATA AND VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING

Assessing Water Stress of Desert Tamarugo Trees Using in situ Data and Very High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing

The hyper-arid Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme environments for life and only few species have evolved to survive its aridness.One such species is the tree Prosopis tamarugo Phil.Because Tamarugo completely depends on groundwater, it is being threatened by the high water demand from the Chilean mining industry and the human consumption.In

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Using social-ecological systems theory to evaluate large-scale comanagement efforts: a case study of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

Comanagement efforts are increasingly tasked with overseeing natural resource governance at a large scale.I examine comanagement of subsistence harvesting in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) of the western Canadian Arctic, using a social-ecological systems framework.In doing so, this study joins a growing list of research that reviews design

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Investigation of the Relationship Between Rational and Intuitive Decision-Making Styles of Athletes and Their Levels of Mental Readiness

This research aims to examine the relationship between the rational and intuitive decision-making styles of athletes and their mental readiness levels.The research was designed by adopting the relational survey model, which is among the quantitative research methods.The research group, in which the easily accessible sampling method was adopted, con

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The evolution of reproductive strategies in turtles

Optimal egg size theory assumes that changes in the egg and clutch are driven by selection, resulting in adjustments for the largest possible production of offspring with the highest fitness.Evidence supports the idea that large-bodied turtles tend to produce larger clutches with small and round eggs, while smaller species produce small clutches wi

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