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0000-0003-3690-8523
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University of Wollongong
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Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 22-10-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-02-2019
DOI: 10.1002/EVAN.21772
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2023
DOI: 10.1017/AAQ.2023.4
Abstract: The ubiquity and durability of lithic artifacts inform archaeologists about important dimensions of human behavioral variability. Despite their importance, lithic artifacts can be problematic to study because lithic analysts differ widely in their theoretical approaches and the data they collect. The extent to which differences in lithic data relate to prehistoric behavioral variability or differences between archaeologists today remains incompletely known. We address this issue with the most extensive lithic replicability study yet, involving 11 analysts, 100 unmodified flakes, and 38 ratio, discrete, and nominal attributes. We use mixture models to show strong inter-analyst replicability scores on several attributes, making them well suited to comparative lithic analyses. Based on our results, we highlight 17 attributes that we consider reliable for compiling datasets collected by different in iduals for comparative studies. Demonstrating this replicability is a crucial first step in tackling more general problems of data comparability in lithic analysis and lithic analyst's ability to conduct large-scale meta-analyses.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-07-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-01-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S10531-022-02357-1
Abstract: Protected area (PA) networks have in the past been constructed to include all major habitats, but have often been developed through consideration of only a few indicator taxa or across restricted areas, and rarely account for global climate change. Systematic conservation planning (SCP) aims to improve the efficiency of bio ersity conservation, particularly when addressing internationally agreed protection targets. We apply SCP in Great Britain (GB) using the widest taxonomic coverage to date (4,447 species), compare spatial prioritisation results across 18 taxa and use projected future (2080) distributions to assess the potential impact of climate change on PA network effectiveness. Priority conservation areas were similar among multiple taxa, despite considerable differences in spatial species richness patterns thus systematic prioritisations based on indicator taxa for which data are widely available are still useful for conservation planning. We found that increasing the number of protected hectads by 2% (to reach the 2020 17% Aichi target) could have a disproportionate positive effect on species protected, with an increase of up to 17% for some taxa. The PA network in GB currently under-represents priority species but, if the potential future distributions under climate change are realised, the proportion of species distributions protected by the current PA network may increase, because many PAs are in northern and higher altitude areas. Optimal locations for new PAs are particularly concentrated in southern and upland areas of GB. This application of SCP shows how a small addition to an existing PA network could have disproportionate benefits for species conservation.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2022
DOI: 10.1002/EVAN.21958
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-09-2014
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2371
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-07-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-12-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-04-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: Brill
Date: 17-12-2020
DOI: 10.1163/21915784-20200013
Abstract: Decisions related to the production of lithic technology involve landscape-scale patterns of resource acquisition and transport that are not observable in assemblages from any one single site. In this study, we describe the stone artifacts from a discrete cluster of stone artifacts assigned to the Robberg technocomplex (22-16 ka) at the open-air locality of Uitspankraal 9 ( UPK 9), which is located near two major sources of toolstone in the Doring River catchment of Western Cape, South Africa. OSL dating of the underlying sediment unit provides a terminus post quem age of 27.5 ± 2.1 ka for the assemblage. Comparison of near-source artifact reduction at UPK 9 with data from three rock shelter assemblages within the Doring watershed – Putslaagte 8 ( PL 8), Klipfonteinrand Rock Shelter ( KFR ), and Mertenhof Rock Shelter ( MRS ) – suggests that “gearing-up” with cores and blanks occurred along the river in anticipation of transport into the wider catchment area. The results reveal an integrated system of technological supply in which raw materials from different sources were acquired, reduced, and transported in different ways throughout the Doring River region.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-04-2014
DOI: 10.1111/ECOG.00575
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-04-2014
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-014-0271-5
Abstract: The implementation of adaptation actions in local conservation management is a new and complex task with multiple facets, influenced by factors differing from site to site. A transdisciplinary perspective is therefore required to identify and implement effective solutions. To address this, the International Conference on Managing Protected Areas under Climate Change brought together international scientists, conservation managers, and decision-makers to discuss current experiences with local adaptation of conservation management. This paper summarizes the main issues for implementing adaptation that emerged from the conference. These include a series of conclusions and recommendations on monitoring, sensitivity assessment, current and future management practices, and legal and policy aspects. A range of spatial and temporal scales must be considered in the implementation of climate-adapted management. The adaptation process must be area-specific and consider the ecosystem and the social and economic conditions within and beyond protected area boundaries. However, a strategic overview is also needed: management at each site should be informed by conservation priorities and likely impacts of climate change at regional or even wider scales. Acting across these levels will be a long and continuous process, requiring coordination with actors outside the "traditional" conservation sector. To achieve this, a range of research, communication, and policy/legal actions is required. We identify a series of important actions that need to be taken at different scales to enable managers of protected sites to adapt successfully to a changing climate.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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