The idea of the garden began in the ancient Near East, in concert with the origins and development of agriculture, urbanism, and imperialism. From the start, exotic flora and fauna played vital roles in the world's earliest transformations of the natural environment, creating physical and metaphysical gardens of far-reaching significance. This paper examines selected aspects of exotica in Mesop...

Fire played an important role in maintaining and creating conditions suitable for native flora and fauna in the forests of western North America. Recent coarse filter conservation strategies have advocated creating future landscapes that incorporate historic or natural ranges of variability, including fire regimes. Historic fire regimes were variable across the West, and created quite unique co...

1 StatPlan Consulting Pty Ltd., Woodburn, NSW, Australia, 2 Marine Ecology Research Centre, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia, 3 Marine Ecosystems, Flora and Fauna Division, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Palmerston, NT, Australia, 4 Faculty of Engineering, Health, Science and the Environment, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Dar...

With the advancement in human technology the risk of natural and man induced catastrophes increased exponentially. One of most dangerous disaster is forest fire. The forest fire represents continuous threat to species of flora as well as fauna. This paper highlights the powerful feature of wireless sensors for forest fire detection. The sensor data is collected using Arduino development board a...

a CSERGE, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK b Fauna & Flora International, 14 Buckingham Street, London, WC2N 6DF, UK c Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EP, UK d Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK e Department of Biology, University of Copenha...

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo abordar, a importância de mostra riqueza do meio ambiente para nossas crianças. No âmbito educacional tudo que possa vir enriquecer e colaborar aprendizagem proporcionar um desenvolvimento satisfatório dos alunos deve ser utilizado forma adequada. Pensando, refletindo, buscando novas formas ensinar aprender uma maneira diferente, prazerosa com qualidade, o ...

The United Nations has declared the year 2002 as the «International Year of Mountains». This fact alone underlines the importance of mountain regions in various respects: ◆ Mountains make up 24% of the Earth’s total landmass ◆ All major rivers and 60–80% of the Earth’s freshwater resources originate in mountain regions ◆ Mountain forests account for 28% of the Earth’s total forested area ◆ Moun...