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The Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP) is a unique, community-based program initiated by Environment Canada in 1991 to help Atlantic Canadians restore and sustain watersheds and adjacent coastal areas. ACAP is the eastem-most Environment Canada Ecosystem Initiative. The ACAP family is currently made up of 14 ecosystem-based organizations in the four Atlantic provinces. Each one of these non-profit organizations operates independently, but is formally linked under the umbrella of ACAP to represent a force stronger than the individual parts. In Environment Canada's experience, the program consistently demonstrates the value of a community-based approach and produces results on an ecosystem basis. This paper will examine some of the impacts of ACAP in terms of economics, credible community science, and environmental results which most often align with Environment Canada's objectives. It will explore the influences of the community-based approach to environmental management on multiple scales (local, regional, etc.). Through examples, the paper will demonstrate the effectiveness of ACAP in influencing some of the policies, programs and attitudes of various levels of government and industry in the region, as well as describe how the community-based model has been exported internationally. The paper will conclude with a discussion on a planned path forward for ACAP. 相似文献
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Ana Širović Lauren N. Williams Sara M. Kerosky Sean M. Wiggins John A. Hildebrand 《Marine Biology》2013,160(1):47-57
Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) produce a variety of low-frequency, short-duration, frequency-modulated calls. The differences in temporal patterns between two fin whale call types are described from long-term passive acoustic data collected intermittently between 2005 and 2011 at three locations across the eastern North Pacific: the Bering Sea, off Southern California, and in Canal de Ballenas in the northern Gulf of California. Fin whale calls were detected at all sites year-round, during all periods with recordings. At all three locations, 40-Hz calls peaked in June, preceding a peak in 20-Hz calls by 3–5 months. Monitoring both call types may provide a more accurate insight into the seasonal presence of fin whales across the eastern North Pacific than can be obtained from a single call type. The 40-Hz call may be associated with a foraging function, and temporal separation between 40- and 20-Hz calls may indicate the separation between predominately feeding behavior and other social interactions. 相似文献
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A. Müller K. Knüttel E. Krickemeyer A. Hildebrand H. Bögge K. Schneider A. Armatage 《Die Naturwissenschaften》1991,78(10):460-462
Dedicated to Prof. E. Fluck on the occasion of his 60th birthday 相似文献
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The stated and revealed travel behavior of a sample of 60 rural drivers aged 54-92 years provided a basis to explore the potential effectiveness of two common driver's license restrictions aimed at older drivers: time of day and road class. The potential utility and impact of these restrictions have not been explored with revealed data for jurisdictions with a large population of rural older drivers where automobile dependence is high. Data were drawn from a multiday Global Positioning System-based travel diary survey of rural older drivers in New Brunswick, Canada. Revealed travel data showed that over 50 percent of the rural drivers in the sample did not drive after dark, and 40 percent drove less than 1 percent of their total surveyed kilometers on major highways, higher rates than from participant-stated responses. The proportion of participants taking night trips and traveling on major highways decreased with age. The majority of trips taken after dark by all participants had a rural destination. The average daily kilometers driven on major highways by men and women aged 75 years and older was nearly identical (1.79 km/day). These exposure considerations suggest that restricting night travel and major highway travel for the oldest rural drivers (75 years and older) may have limited utility given that the majority of participants did not drive in these situations, and for those who did, most of their trips were in rural areas where enforcement could be expected to be limited. A better approach may be to encourage increased self-regulation through training, age-friendly upgrades to transportation infrastructure to help rural older drivers stay driving safely as long as possible, and the development of appropriate rural alternatives to help a driver transition to nondriver. 相似文献
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Erin A. Falcone Gregory S. Schorr Annie B. Douglas John Calambokidis Elizabeth Henderson Megan F. McKenna John Hildebrand David Moretti 《Marine Biology》2009,156(12):2631-2640
The relationship between beaked whales and certain anthropogenic sounds remains poorly understood and of great interest. Although
Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) are widely distributed, little is known of their behavior and population structure throughout much of their range. We conducted
a series of five combined visual-acoustic marine mammal surveys from 2006 to 2008 in the southern San Nicolas Basin, a site
of frequent naval activity off the southern California coast, west of San Clemente Island. The study area was defined by a
1,800 km2 array of 88 bottom-mounted hydrophones at depths up to 1,850 m. The array was used to vector visual observers toward vocalizing
marine mammal species. Thirty-seven groups of Cuvier’s beaked whales were encountered during the study period. The overall
encounter rate was one group for every 21.0 h of survey effort, and was as high as one group per 10.2 h of effort during the
October 2007 survey. Whales were encountered in the deepest portion of the study area, at a mean bottom depth of 1,580 m (SD
138). The average group size was 3.8 individuals (SD 2.4), which was higher than has been reported from other studies of this
species. Twenty-four groups were observed over multiple surfacings (median = 4 surfacings, range 2–15). The mean encounter
duration of extended sightings was 104 min (SD 98, range 12–466 min) and the mean distance moved over the course of sightings
was 1.66 km (SD 1.56, range 0.08–6.65 km). Temporal surfacing patterns during extended encounters were similar to dive behavior
described from Cuvier’s beaked whales carrying time-depth recording tags. Seventy-eight photographic identifications were
made of 58 unique individuals, for an overall resighting rate of 0.26. Whales were sighted on up to 4 days, with duration
from first to last sighting spanning 2–79 days. For those whales sighted on subsequent days, the mean distance between subsequent
sightings was 8.6 km (SD 7.9). Individuals resighted over 2–3 days were usually in association with previous group members.
Approximately one-third of groups contained more than one adult male, and many of the repeated associations involved adult
males. These observations suggest the basin west of San Clemente Island may be an important region for Cuvier’s beaked whales,
and also one which affords an unusual opportunity to collect detailed data on this species. Given its status as an active
military range, it can also provide the ability to monitor the behavior of individuals in the presence of naval sonar, a critical
step in the management of this and other beaked whale populations worldwide. 相似文献
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Heike Hildebrand Dana Kühnel Katrin Mackenzie Kristin Schirmer 《Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)》2010,158(1):65-73
Palladium/magnetite nanoparticulate catalysts were developed for efficient elimination of halogenated organic pollutants from contaminated wastewater. Particle recovery from treated water can be ensured via magnetic separation. However, in worst-case scenarios, this catalyst removal step might fail, leading to particle release into the environment. Therefore, a toxicological study was conducted to investigate the impact of both pure magnetite and palladium/magnetite nanoparticle exposure upon human skin (HaCaT) and human colon (CaCo-2) cell lines and a cell line from rainbow trout gills (RTgill-W1). To quantify cell viability after particle exposure, three endpoints were examined for all tested cell lines. Additionally, the formation of reactive oxygen species was studied for the human cells. The results showed only minor effects of the particles on the tested cell systems and support the assumption that palladium/magnetite nano-catalysts can be implemented for a new wastewater treatment technology in which advantageous catalyst properties outweigh the risks. 相似文献