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Geography Colloquium: The Mad Dog Initiative – Identifying and Mitigating Invasive Species Threats in Madagascar
September 27, 2019
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Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro
January 30, 2019
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Park isolation in anthropogenic landscapes: land change and livelihoods at park boundaries in the African Albertine Rift
November 14, 2017
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Amazon Dams Network, Geography Department, TCD Program & UF Law School Awarded a Faculty Interdisciplinary Seed Grant from the University of Florida Biodiversity Institute
March 17, 2017
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Anderson Lecture: The IPBES Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Inter-governmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
March 10, 2017
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Forest conservation: Remember Gran Chaco
February 3, 2017
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Geography Colloquium: Biofuels, Land Use, and Biodiversity
November 9, 2016
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The hunt for sustainability in African rainforests: bushmeat and hunter-gatherers
November 1, 2016
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Disentangling the Influence of Urbanization and Invasion on Endemic Geckos in Tropical Biodiversity Hot Spots: A Case Study of Phyllodactylus martini (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) along an Urban Gradient in Curaçao
October 9, 2016
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Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
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Lippi
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African farmers contend with baboons when the big cats are gone
April 11, 2016
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Ryan
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Perceptions of risk in communities near parks in an African biodiversity hotspot
March 28, 2016
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Spatial Patterns of Frontier Settlement: Balancing Conservation and Development
March 15, 2016
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Journal of Latin American Geography
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Response to Corridors for people, corridors for nature
February 3, 2016
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Land-cover change within and around protected areas in a biodiversity hotspot
September 24, 2015
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Binford
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Effects of road infrastructure on forest value across a tri-national Amazonian frontier
August 24, 2015
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