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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…
Christopher Potter
Analysis of Landsat imagery was applied to classify burn severity within the 2013 Rim Fire area using the relative difference normalized burn ratio (RdNBR). Results showed 53,220 ha in the High Burn Severity (HBS) class and another 34,214 ha in the Moderate B…
Alexandra Grass, Karin Tremetsberger, Reinhard Hössinger, Karl-Georg Bernhardt
By dint of historical herbarium specimens, we show how changes in species and habitat diversity can be reviewed and correlated with historical events. Our work is based on a digital database of specimens of the BOKU herbarium (WHB), which can be assigned to t…
Geraldine Díaz-Ortega, Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado
Chronic eutrophication and turbidity are critical detrimental factors impacting coral reef ecosystems, adversely affecting their ecological functions, services, benefits, and resilience across multiple spatial scales and over prolonged periods of time. Inadeq…
Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado, Manoj Shivlani, Alberto M. Sabat
Ecosystem-based management and community-based participation in governance of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been identified as key elements to improve management success, local stakeholder support, and compliance with regulations. However, both are often…
Thomas J. Goreau
Increasing stress from global warming, sea level rise, acidification, sedimentation, pollution, and unsustainable practices have degraded the most critical coastal ecosystems including coral reefs, oyster reefs, and salt marshes. Conventional restoration meth…
Kenji Iwao, Naohisa Wada, Aki Ohdera, Makoto Omori
Coral reef restoration approaches have often utilized adult colonies as sources for fragments ( i.e . clones) to be transplanted. Although restoration through this method is fast and cheap, it has been pointed out that it may reduce genetic diversity of the r…
Wei Zhang
Considerable reserves of oil sands are located in northernAlberta. Exploitation of these reserves has been instrumental in the development of theAlbertaeconomy. Mining and processing techniques, including “ in situ ” processing and surface mining/aqueous trea…
Robert Uberman
The paper presents review s of fundamental issues regarding valuation methodologies of mineral deposits : 1) recommended by mineral industry standards ; 2) used for disclosures in financial statements and 3) adopted in national statistics. A discussion of his…
N. E. Savva, G. А. Palyanova, Е. Е. Kolova
This paper presents the brief geological and mineralogical characteristics of the Dorozhnoye mesothermal gold ore deposit (Magadan Region, Russia). The gold and silver minerals are re presented by electrum (530‰ - 700‰), freibergite, stephanite, pyrargyrite a…
Moses Makonjio Okello, Stephen J. Njumbi, John Warui Kiringe, James Isiiche
Few animals elicit such drastically different human emotions, so do elephants. Elephants capture the affection of people but also inspire animosity and fear at the same time. This is because there are conflicts with people over space, critical resources, cost…
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