New genetic and linguistic analyses show ancient human influence on baobab evolution and distribution in Australia.

Autor: Haripriya Rangan, Karen L Bell, David A Baum, Rachael Fowler, Patrick McConvell, Thomas Saunders, Stef Spronck, Christian A Kull, Daniel J Murphy

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 4, p e0119758 (2015)

This study investigates the role of human agency in the gene flow and geographical distribution of the Australian baobab, Adansonia gregorii. The genus Adansonia is a charismatic tree endemic to Africa, Madagascar, and northwest Australia that has lo

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Refining historical burned area data from satellite observations

Autor: Víctor Fernández-García, Christian A. Kull

Publikováno v: International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, Vol 120, Iss , Pp 103350- (2023)

Sentinel-2 imagery has revealed a substantial underestimation of burned area (BA) compared with earlier satellite products with coarser spatial resolution. In this context, we investigate the predictability of biases between the reference Sentinel-2

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Materializing the blue economy: tuna fisheries and the theory of access in the Western Indian Ocean

Autor: Mialy Andriamahefazafy, Christian A. Kull

Publikováno v: Journal of Political Ecology, Vol 26, Iss 1, Pp 403-424 (2019)

Many African countries are progressively embracing the blue economy. African islands of the western Indian Ocean, however, have been involved in it for more than twenty years through the exploitation of their 'blue gold': tuna. In this article, we us

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Madagascar's fire regimes challenge global assumptions about landscape degradation

Autor: Leanne N. Phelps, Niels Andela, Mathieu Gravey, Dylan S. Davis, Christian A. Kull, Kristina Douglass, Caroline E. R. Lehmann

Publikováno v: Global Change Biology, vol. 28, no. 23, pp. 6944-6960
Phelps, L, Andela, N, Gravey, M, Davis, D S, Kull, C A, Douglass, K & Lehmann, C 2022, ' Madagascar's fire regimes challenge global assumptions about landscape degradation ', Global Change Biology . https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16206

Narratives of landscape degradation are often linked to unsustainable fire use by local communities. Madagascar is a case in point: the island is considered globally exceptional, with its remarkable endemic biodiversity viewed as threatened by unsust

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https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16206

Chance long-distance or human-mediated dispersal? How Acacia s.l. farnesiana attained its pan-tropical distribution

Autor: Karen L. Bell, Haripriya Rangan, Manuel M. Fernandes, Christian A. Kull, Daniel J. Murphy

Publikováno v: Royal Society Open Science, Vol 4, Iss 4 (2017)

Acacia s.l. farnesiana, which originates from Mesoamerica, is the most widely distributed Acacia s.l. species across the tropics. It is assumed that the plant was transferred across the Atlantic to southern Europe by Spanish explorers, and then sprea

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