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ILCYM – Modelado del Ciclo de Vida de los Insectos 4.0. Un paquete de software para desarrollar modelos de fenología de insectos basados en la temperatura con aplicaciones para el... by Sporleder, M., Carhuapoma, Pablo, Juarez, H., Gamarra, H., Simon, R., Kroschel, Jürgen, Kreuze, Jan F.

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Veterinary epidemiology at ILRAD and ILRI, 1987–2018 by Perry, Brian D., Bett, Bernard K., Fèvre, Eric M., Grace, Delia, Randolph, Thomas F.

“…Topics include scientific impacts; economic impact assessment; developmental impacts; capacity development; partnerships; impacts on human resources capacity in veterinary epidemiology; impacts on national animal health departments and services; impacts on animal health constraints in developing countries; impacts on ILRI's research and strategy; the introduction of veterinary epidemiology and economics at ILRAD; field studies in Kenya; tick-borne disease dynamics in eastern and southern Africa; heartwater studies in Zimbabwe; economic impact assessments of tick-borne diseases; tick and tick-borne disease distribution modelling; modelling the infection dynamics of vector-borne diseases; economic impact of trypanosomiasis; the epidemiology of resistance to trypanocides; the development of a modelling technique for evaluating control options; sustainable trypanosomiasis control in Uganda and in the Ghibe Valley of Ethiopia; spatial modelling of tsetse distributions; preventing and containing trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa; rabies research; the economic impacts of rinderpest control; applying economic impact assessment tools to foot and mouth disease (FMD) control, the southern Africa FMD economic impact study; economic impacts of FMD in Peru, Colombia and India; economic impacts of FMD control in endemic settings in low- and middle-income countries; the global FMD research alliance (GFRA); Rift Valley fever; economic impact assessment of control options and calculation of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs); RVF risk maps for eastern Africa; land-use change and RVF infection and disease dynamics; epidemiology of gastrointestinal parasites; priorities in animal health research for poverty reduction; the Wellcome Trust Epidemiology Initiatives; the broader economic impact contributions; the responses to highly pathogenic avian influenza; the International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE) experience, the role of epidemiology in ILRAD and ILRI and the impacts of ILRAD and ILRI's epidemiology; capacity development in veterinary epidemiology and impact assessment; impacts on national animal health departments and services; impacts on animal health constraints in developing countries and impacts on ILRI's research and strategy.…”
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Genetic threats to the forest giants of the Amazon: Habitat degradation effects on the socio-economically important Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) by Chiriboga-Arroyo, Fidel, Jansen, Merel, Bardales-Lozano, Ricardo, Ismail, Sascha A., Thomas, Evert, García, Mishari, Corvera Gomringer, Ronald, Kettle, Christopher J.

“…We discuss how this evidence for reproduction vulnerability may affect the genetic resources and undermine the resilience of this ecological and socio-economic system in Peru.…”
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Exploring the regulatory space for improving availability, access and quality of vegetatively propagated crop seed: potato in Kenya by McEwan, M., Spielman, David J., Okello, J.J., Hareau, Guy, Bartle, B., Mbiri, D., Atieno, E., Omondi, Bonaventure Aman Oduor, Assfaw, T., González, L., Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Maredia, Mywish K.

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The value of local ecological knowledge to guide tree species selection in tropical dry forest restoration by Fremout, Tobias, Gutiérrez Miranda, Claudia Elena, Briers, Siebe, Marcelo Peña, José Luis, Cueva Ortiz, Eduardo Giovanni, Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo, La Torre-Cuadros, María de los Ángeles, Chang-Ruíz, Janette Cristina, Villegas Gómez, Tania, Libertad Acosta-Flota, Arantza Helen, Plouvier, Dominiek, Atkinson, Rachel, Charcape-Ravelo, Manuel, Aguirre-Mendoza, Zhofre, Muys, Bart, Thomas, Evert

“…Through interviews with 47 local experts and 197 randomly selected households in 8 rural communities of the tropical dry forests of northwestern Peru and southern Ecuador, we identified the species perceived as most useful, most threatened, and most resistant to local stress factors. …”
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Spatial and temporal contrasts in the distribution of crops and pastures across Amazonia: A new agricultural land use data set from census data since 1950: Crops and pastures acros... by Imbach, Pablo, Manrow, M., Barona, Elizabeth, Barretto, Alberto, Hyman, Glenn G.

“…Significant correlations were found between all ratios and the fraction of agricultural lands of each administrative unit, with the exception of planted to natural pastures ratio and pasture lands extent. Brazil and Peru in most cases have significant correlations for all ratios analyzed even for specific census and survey dates. …”
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La importancia de los árboles: Rendición de cuentas sobre las contribuciones de los sistemas silvopastoriles a los inventarios nacionales de GEI by Suber, Marta, Arango, Jacobo, Torres, Carlos Felipe, Rosenstock, Todd S.

“…Países como Colombia, Panamá y Perú han aprovechado ya esta oportunidad para la generación de datos sobre sus actividades en SSP. …”
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Assessing the Minimum Sampling Effort Required to Reliably Monitor Wild Meat Trade in Urban Markets by Mayor, P., El Bizri, H.R., Morcatty, T.Q., Moya, K., Solis, S., Bodmer, R.E.

“…We used two long-term monitoring datasets collected in one of the most important and largest urban markets in wildlife in the Amazon, in Iquitos, Peru, to estimate the minimum effort required to obtain reliable information on the amount and price of wild meat. …”
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Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for REDD+: The record to date and prospects for the future by Sunderlin, W.D., Sassi, Claudio de, Sills, E.O., Duchelle, Amy E., Larson, A.M., Resosudarmo, I.A.P., Awono, A., Kweka, D., Huynh Thu Ba

“…Field research was carried out in two phases (2010–2012 and 2013–2014) in five countries (Brazil, Peru, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia) at 21 subnational initiatives, 141 villages (half targeted for REDD+  interventions), and 3,754 households. …”
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Agroforestry governance for operationalising the landscape approach: connecting conservation and farming actors by Zinngrebe, Y., Borasino, E., Chiputwa, Brian, Dobie, P., Garcia, E., Gassner, A., Kihumuro, P., Komarudin, Heru, Liswanti, N., Makui, P., Plieninger, T., Winter, E., Hauck, J.

“…The analyses were conducted at national, sub-national and local levels in four countries: Honduras, Peru, Indonesia, and Uganda. Using trees on farms as a boundary object enabled all participants to bridge common interests and illuminate some of the constraints and opportunities of local governance systems while overcoming institutional and ideological barriers. …”
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Exploring the Acceptability and Feasibility of Integrating Vitamin A Rich Sweetpotato into AnteNatal Care Services in Western Kenya: Results from Operations Research Conducted duri... by Machira, Y.

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Unpicking the Inter-relationships Between Off-Farm Livelihood Diversification, Household Characteristics, and Farm Management in the Rural Andes by Caulfield, Mark E., Hammond, James, Fonte, Steven J., Florido, M.A., Fuentes, W., Meza, K., Navarrete, I., Vanek, Steven J., Wijk, Mark T. van

“…Using data from 588 Rural Household Multi-Indicator Surveys (RHoMIS) in three rural Andean regions in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, we identified a typology of farming household livelihood strategies, and assessed the differences among these household types with regard to household and farm level characteristics, and farm management. …”
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Assessment of Seed Producer Associations in Uganda by Namanda, S., McEwan, M., Rajendran, S., Oloka, B., Namazzi, S.

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Geographic distribution of Colombian spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) via ecological niche modeling: a prediction for the main tropical forages’ pest in the Neotropics by Hernández, Luis Miguel, Espitia, Paula A., Florián, David, Castiblanco, Valheria, Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés, Gómez-Jiménez, María I.

“…The results suggest that i) colombian spittlebugs imposes an important threat to Urochloa production in different South American countries, ii) each spittlebug species has a unique geographic distribution pattern, iii) in the future all the six species are likely to invade new geographic areas even in a pessimistic scenario, iv) A. lepidior and A. reducta showed a higher number of suitable habitats across Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador, where predicted risk is more severe. …”
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A gap analysis modeling framework to prioritize collecting for ex situ conservation of crop landraces by Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando, Khoury, Colin K., Achicanoy Estrella, Harold Armando, Mendez Alzate, Andres Camilo, Sosa, Chrystian C., Debouck, Daniel G., Kehel, Zakaria, Guarino, Luigi

“…Modelling revealed additional collection priorities for Andean landraces occur primarily in Chile, Peru, Colombia and, to a lesser extent, in Venezuela. …”
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Estudio de caso: Evaluación de impacto de la intervención del Proyecto INCOPA/ ADERS en Huánuco by Bucheli, B., Ordinola, M., Antezana, I., Maldonado, L., Obregon, C.

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Heterosis and Responses to Selection in Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) Improved Using Reciprocal Recurrent Selection by Grüneberg, W.J., Boeck, B. de, Diaz, F., Eyzaguirre, R., Low, Jan W., Reif, J.C., Campos, Hugo

“…The objectives were to estimate heterosis increments and response to selection in three OFSP hybrid populations (H1) developed in Peru for different product profiles after one reciprocal recurrent selection cycle, namely, H1 for wide adaptation and earliness (O-WAE), H1 for no sweetness after cooking (O-NSSP), and H1 for high iron (O-HIFE). …”
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Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America by Vliet, N. van, Sirén, A., Paemelaere, E.A.D., Cuesta Rios, E.Y., Antúnez Correa, M.S., Williams, T.B., Quintero, S.

“…In this study, based on data collected among indigenous people and local communities from South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, and Peru), we investigated changes in the use of wildlife resources for food during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Evaluation and improvement of the E3SM land model for simulating energy and carbon fluxes in an Amazonian peatland by Yuan, F., Ricciuto, D.M., Xu, X., Roman, D.T., Lilleskov, E., Wood, J.D., Cadillo-Quiroz, Hinsby, Lafuente, A., Rengifo, J., Kolka, R., Fachin, L., Wayson, C., Hergoualc'h, Kristell, Chimner, R.A., Frie, A., Griffis, T.J.

“…Here, we evaluated the ELM performance in simulating energy, carbon dioxide (CO2) and CH4 fluxes of an Amazonian palm swamp peatland in Iquitos, Peru. ELM simulations using default parameter values resulted in poor performance of seasonal carbon dynamics. …”
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Forest disturbance and recovery in Peruvian Amazonia by Requena Suarez, D., Rozendaal, D.M.A., Sy, V. de, Decuyper, M., Málaga, N., Durán Montesinos, P., Arana Olivos, A., De la Cruz Paiva, R., Martius, C., Herold, M.

“…We integrate tree-level data on aboveground biomass (AGB) and species richness from 1840 forest plots from Peru's National Forest Inventory with remotely sensed monitoring of forest change dynamics, based on disturbances detected from Landsat-derived Normalized Difference Moisture Index time series. …”
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