Essays about: "rainforest"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 72 essays containing the word rainforest.

  1. 26. Groundwater Chemistry in the Amazon Rainforest

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Miljöförändring

    Author : Jennifer Leone; [2017]
    Keywords : Amazon; carbon flux; chemical analysis; groundwater; nutrients;

    Abstract : Groundwater chemistry is highly variable and dependent on environmental conditions, and it is not entirely understood how all these factors contribute to groundwater chemistry. This study aims to examine some of the factors that contribute to groundwater heterogeneity in the Amazon Rainforest. READ MORE

  3. 27. When money grows on trees-The case of beyond-compliance companies sourcing from the Amazon Rainforest

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Maximilian Engel; [2016]
    Keywords : Amazon Rainforest; sustainable business; beyond-compliance companies; Performance Framework; Balanced Scorecard; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The Amazon Rainforest is in grave danger of disappearing for good, due to a number of harmful economic activities, including land conversion for cattle ranching and monoculture, as well as unsustainable and illegal timber production. It has been shown, however, that the private sector has a crucial role in redressing socio-economic problems, causing deforestation and degradation. READ MORE

  4. 28. Deforestation patterns and hummingbird diversity in the Amazon rainforest

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi

    Author : Felicia Labor; [2016]
    Keywords : Landscape fragmentation; deforestation; extinction debt; hummingbirds; biodiversity database; spatial landscape analysis; the Amazon rainforest; land-cover change.;

    Abstract : In recent decades expanding land-use change has caused extensive deforestation of the tropical rainforestinducing large-scale transformation of the landscape patterns across the South American continent. Landscapechange is a modification process of the natural forest cover into fragments which generate various ecologicalimpacts. READ MORE

  5. 29. Shaping the role of water : an investigation of participation and stringency in third-party ecolabels for coffee

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Linn Snarset; [2016]
    Keywords : participation; standards; water resources; green coffee; stringency; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The global food system, population growth, increased wealth, shifting diets and an overall larger demand for processed food, meat and dairy, has led to increased pressure on land, water and energy. The environmental implications of this have taken part in the establishment of international institutions which aims to regulate agriculture production methods, and thereby reduce these adverse impacts. READ MORE

  6. 30. Degradation and restoration method interact to affect the performance of planted seedlings in tropical rainforest restoration : evidence from plant functional traits

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Julia Mellåker; [2016]
    Keywords : Dipterocarpaceae; enrichment planting; INIKEA; secondary rainforest; hjälpplantering; sekundär regnskog;

    Abstract : A common action to improve or save biodiversity in the tropics is restoration of degraded rainforest. To understand the complex ecological structures of the forest and adapt the restoration actions after them, studies have focused on characterizing species with functional traits. READ MORE