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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…
Ryan Blake Williams, Rashid Al-Hmoud
This paper utilizes the virtual water concept to evaluate water usage of agricultural production in West Texas. This work evaluates the measure of virtual water, as it relates to informing water policy in a semi-arid, agriculture-intensive region, which relie…
Jaesung Choi, David C. Roberts, EunSu Lee
North Dakota’s oil production has been rapidly increasing during the past several years. The state’s oil production in March 2013 even increased to more than twice the quantity produced in March 2011, and the estimated Bakken Formation reserves were reported…
C. Ken Smith, Elise Landreaux, Hali Steinmann, Royce Hayes, Alastair Keith-Lucas, Christa Hayes
Maritime forests in the southeastern United States are very susceptible to climate change and have experienced dramatic reductions in extent following anthropogenic disturbances over the past two hundred years. St. Catherines Island, Georgia, an undeveloped b…
Elenwo Ephraim Ikechukwu
Floods are naturally occurring phenomena that are part of the physical and biological process which have shaped our nation’s landscape. It occurs in Nigeria environment when there is heavy rain fall for prolonged period of time. The data collection for this r…
Wei Zhang, 1 1
Three Gorges Dam Project is the world’s largest water-control and hydraulic-electric project in the 21 st century. However, it has been shrouded in controversy since long even before it began construction in 1994. On one hand, the benefits of the Three Gorges…
Ian E. Munanura, Kenneth F. Backman, DeWayne D. Moore, Jeffrey C. Hallo, Robert B. Powell
This paper explores the perceived relationship between household poverty and forest dependence among the poorest residents neighboring Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Using the sustainable livelihoods framework, this paper examines the influence of househo…
Humberto Reyes, Blanca M. Vázquez, Carmen Jasso, Miguel Aguilar
Deforestation and fragmentation of tropical forest are the most serious threats to biodiversity. In the lowlands of the Huasteca Potosina region, Mexico, more than 95,000 ha of tropical forest have disappeared. This paper analyses tree species composition in…
Christian J. Rivera
The white-lipped peccary ( Tayassu pecari ) is facing range-wide declines throughout the Neotropics. It has been eliminated from about 89% of its historical range in Costa Rica. Corcovado National Park, in the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica, is the last remainin…
Marcela Portocarrero-Aya, Germán Corzo, Angélica Diaz-Pulido, María Fernanda González, Magnolia Longo, Lina Mesa, Andrea Paz, Wilson Ramírez, Olga Lucía Hernández-Manrique
Colombian ecosystems maintain key ecological processes that support thousands of species, including human beings. With the expansion of the country’s population, and the implementation of a government’s development plan based on an economy centred on extracti…
Ekena Rangel Pinagé, Eraldo A. T. Matricardi, Liliana Sayuri Osako, Alessandra Rodrigues Gomes
Gap fraction is a biophysical variable related to energy balance, forest fauna, micro-climate and regeneration, and is an important indicator of forest management quality. The objective of this study was to compare gap fraction estimates from undisturbed fore…
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