Search Results - "Mountaineering"

  1. Perception of local communities on protected areas: lessons drawn from the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia by Gulte, E., Tadele, H., Haileslassie, Amare, Mekuria, Wolde

    Published 2023
    “…A study targeting the Bale Mountains National Park in Ethiopia was conducted to gain a deeper understanding of local communities’ opinion on benefits and disbenefits of protected areas and existing benefit-sharing mechanisms and to suggest future research for development direction related to the management of protected areas. …”
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  2. Nesting behavior of Gorilla gorilla diehli at Kagwene Mountain, Cameroon: implications for assessing group size and density by Sunderland-Groves, J., Ekinde, A., Mboh, H.

    Published 2009
    “…We recorded nesting data at 569 fresh night nest sites, comprising 7032 individual nests, of Cross River gorillas inhabiting the Kagwene Mountain in western Cameroon. The mean night nest group size was 12.4. …”
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  3. Modeling the response of tropical highland herbaceous grassland species to climate change: The case of the Arsi mountains of Ethiopia by Mekasha, A., Nigatu, L., Tesfaye, K., Duncan, Alan J.

    Published 2013
    “…In this study, we modeled the response of herbaceous species of grasslands within the Arsi Mountains in Ethiopia under no-migration and with migration scenarios to the projected 4.2 °C increase of temperature by 2090 (under the A2 emission scenario). …”
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  4. Land use and land cover dynamics in Dendi-Jeldu hilly-mountainous areas in the central Ethiopian highlands by Minta, M., Kibret, K., Thorne, Peter J., Nigussie, T., Nigatu, L.

    Published 2018
    “…This study was aimed to define the rate and pattern of LULC changes in Dendi-Jeldu hilly-mountainous areas in the central Ethiopia. Aerial photographs of years 1957 and 1995, and Landsat images taken at 1995 and 2014 were used to analyze the historical land use and land cover (LULC) changes. …”
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  5. Landscape-scale variability of soil health indicators: effects of cultivation on soil organic carbon in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania by Winowiecki, Leigh Ann, Vågen, Tor-Gunnar, Massawe, Boniface H.J., Jelinski, Nicolas A., Lyamchai, Charles, Sayula, George, Msoka, Elizabeth

    Published 2016
    “…These impacts are greatly understudied, especially in biodiversity rich mountains in East Africa. The objectives of this study were to: conduct a biophysical baseline of soil and land health; assess the effects of cultivation on soil organic carbon (SOC); and develop a map of SOC at high resolution to enable farm-scale targeting of management interventions. …”
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