Despite their ambiguous historical record, conservation/development interventions the world over have remained a popular environmental governance tool. One of the latest global ‘trends’ are interventions to establish so-called ‘Transfrontier Conservation Areas’ (TFCAs): large contiguous spaces that are principally aimed at conserving biological diversity across national boundaries. In line with...

Calophyllum brasiliense is a species native to Brazil and has potential for use in the timber industry, in the reforestation of degraded areas, besides having medicinal properties. Its propagation is mainly by seeds which, depending on their recalcitrant characteristics, leads to difficulty in conservation, due to changes in its physiological potential during storage. Aiming to contribute to th...

Carbon storage by ecosystems is valuable for climate protection. Biodiversity conservation may help increase carbon storage, but the value of this influence has been difficult to assess. We use plant, soil, and ecosystem carbon storage data from two grassland biodiversity experiments to show that greater species richness increases economic value: Increasing species richness from 1 to 10 had twi...

This is an evaluative study of the quality of vaccine storage and conservation in primary health care centers (PHC) in the mid-west region of the state of Minas Gerais. Dimensions, structures and processes were the criteria used to measure the level of quality in 261 vaccine storage and conservation units in over 55 municipalities in the area. Quality levels were defined by means of a scoring s...

one of the most common methods for conservation of plant genetic resources is their ex situ storage as seed gene banks. seeds that are stored in the gene banks must be regenerated due to exchange and seed deterioration; if they not be regenerated the potential benefits of infrastructure investments for germplasm ex situ conservation may not be attained. prediction of seed longevity is based on ...

Energy conservation has become a critical problem for real-time embedded storage systems. Although a variety of approaches to reducing energy consumption has been extensively studied, energy conservation for real-time embedded storage systems is still an open problem. In this paper, we propose an energy management strategy (IBEC) using I/O burstiness for real time embedded storage systems. Our ...

Resources for biodiversity conservation are severely limited, requiring strategic investment. Understanding both the economic benefits and costs of conserving ecosystems will help to allocate scarce dollars most efficiently. However, although cost-benefit analyses are common in many areas of policy, they are not typically used in conservation planning. We conducted a spatial evaluation of the c...

Results on isothermal stratification of ice particles in ice slurry storage tanks are presented. Furthermore in an extension the melting of ice particles by heat fluxes across the boundaries of storage vessels is also taken into consideration. A conservation equation for the ice particles, respectively the ice fraction, is then accompanied by a second basic differential equation, the energy con...