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Natural Resources (NR) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in natural resources throughout the world. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and engineers (on all academic and professional levels) all over the world to promote, discuss and share various new issues…
Wenfeng Hao, 1 1, 1 1
Finite supply of non-regenerative resources triggers a competition between economic entities or between areas, which requires the ways regarding their utilization with higher levels in science and the standards regarding their use with higher efficiency in ec…
Moses Makonjio Okello, John Warui Kiringe, Philip Muruthi, Lekishon Kenana, Hanori Maliti, Noah Wasilwa Sitati, Erastus Kanga, Fiesta Warinwa, Samwel Bakari, Stephen Ndambuki, Nathan Gichohi, Edeus Massawe, David Kimutai, Machoke Mwita, Daniel Muteti
We examined the population status, trend and distribution of Gerenuk, Fringe-eared Oryx and Lesser kudu in the Northern Tanzania and Southern Kenya borderland after the 2007 to 2009 drought. The species were characterized by low numbers and sparsely distribut…
Moses Makonjio Okello, John Warui Kiringe, Lekishon Kenana, Fiesta Warinwa, Hanori Maliti, Noah Wasilwa Sitati, Erastus Kanga, Samwel Bakari, Stephen Ndambuki, Philip Muruthi, Nathan Gichohi, Edeus Massawe, David Kimutai, Machoke Mwita, Daniel Muteti
The Maasai ostrich ( Struthio camelus ) is a the largest avian species in East Africa and though it’s not considered to be a species of conservation concern, some populations are on the decline and this is attributed to bush meat activities, predation on thei…
Richard P. Vlosky, Todd F. Shupe, Anand Mishra
In the area of recycling of spent chromated copper arsenate (CCA)-treated wood, most studies to date have focused on methods of removing/extracting the residual preservative from the wood matrix. It is well recognized that exposure of CCA-treated wood to an a…
Ralf Riedel, 1 1
The Salton Sea is a closed-basin, 980 km 2 salt lake in the Sonoran Desert of southern California. Three marine species, bairdiella ( Bairdiella icistia ), orangemouth corvina ( Cynoscion xanthulus ), and sargo ( Anisotremus davidsoni ), established from intr…
Bikila Mengistu, Zebene Asfaw
Sustainable farming practice that utilizes and conserves biodiversity, reducing negative impacts of agriculture on biodiversity and provides wood and energy to local community is a good solution to reduce deforestation and forest degradation. This study was c…
Martti Venäläinen, Yonggang Hu, Erkki Verkasalo
In exterior use, wood is subjected to weathering that causes checking and other deterioration in the appearance and technical properties. We studied quantitatively the surface checking of radially and tangentially sawn specimens of Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestr…
Abubakarr Mansaray, Abdulai Barrie
Rural communities in third world countries are concerned over land use changes resulting from resource exploitation. This is the case for the Bumbuna watershed in Sierra Leone following impoundment of the Bumbuna reservoir in 2009. Farmers have increased acti…
Xiaosheng Yang, Jukka Laukkanen, Akseli Torppa, Neea Heino
The Lamuj ä rvi syenites intrusions occur within Svecofennian (ca. 1.92 Ga) gneisses, ca. 70 km west of the Otanmaki alkaline area in central Finland. Previous studies have revealed zones in the syenites that display strong enrichment in Zr (1587 ppm), N…
Yahya Farhan, Ibtisam Elmaji, Osama Khalil
The present study attempts to examine the morphometric characteristics and relationships of 43 fourth-order sub-basins over the Zerqa River watershed, using ASTER DEM, GIS and multivariate statistics. To achieve these objectives, Principal Component Analysis…
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