In 2021, the New Zealand High Court issued a judgement that the wetland rules in the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Freshwater) Regulations 2020 (NES-F) do apply to wetlands in the Coastal Marine Area (CMA), more particularly which ones apply to 'natural wetlands'. ...
Wetlands are designated as “waters of the United States” under Section 404. Defining what constitutes a wetland can sometimes be a murky process. (Irina Mos/Shutterstock) Section 404 Defined USACE, which is separated into regional divisions and then divided into districts within those divisions, ...
Most visitors are here to see the Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Caño Negro, a vast wetland that makes up one of the most remote wildlife refuges in the country. Located at a key point on the migratory route between North and South America, it acts as the resting place for hundreds...
There are many practical applications of ecology in conservation biology, wetland management, natural resource management (agriculture, forestry, fisheries), city planning (urban ecology), community health, economics, basic & applied science and it provides a conceptual framework for understanding and rese...
The former approach treats disasters from a ‘predict-and-provide’ perspective [29] that constitutes, firstly, forecasting a disaster based exclusively on physical parameters such as wind speed, tidal height, quantum of rainfall. This is followed by offering physical security through temporary ...
(page 582) as a guide to what constitutes “forgotten taxa”—focussing on those animals with large populations but limited scientific investigation. We have added invertebrates, amphibians and fish to our analysis that were excluded or not fully included in the original Melfi paper for reasons ...
2 (page 582) as a guide to what constitutes "forgotten taxa"— focussing on those animals with large populations but limited scientific investigation. We have added invertebrates, amphibians and fish to our analysis that were excluded or not fully included in the original Melfi paper for reasons...
Due to the vast land area and the large span of latitude and longitude (north and south across the latitude of 50°, east and west across the longitude of 60°), the combination of temperature and precipitation is diverse and constitutes a complex and diverse climate environment, among which...
before section three describes the methodology that it adopted to collect and analyze sustainable urbanization and land use practices throughout Europe. Section four constitutes the core of the paper; it provides a quantitative overview of the collected interventions, in particular in relation to their...