Rehabilitation treatment specification system: identifying barriers, facilitators, and strategies for implementation in research, education, and clinical care

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American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research

McDonald D, Hyde E, Debelius JW, et al. American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research. mSystems. 2018;3(3):e00031-18

Jarrad Holmes, Deborah Bisa, Audrey Hill, Beth Crase

Made available by the Northern Territory Library via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).Introduction -- 1. The Litchfield Shire -- 2. Identifying plants using this book -- 3. Plant descriptions -- 4. Management issues within the Litchfield Shire -- 4.1 Land clearing for horticulture, rural and urban development -- 4.2 Mining -- 4.3 Introduction of weeds and feral animals 4.4 Changing fire regimes -- 4.5 Changing groundwater resources -- 5. Community involvement -- 6. How conservation status is assigned to a species -- 7. Collecting and preserving plant specimens -- Glossary -- Habitat photos -- Botanical terms -- Illustrations of botanical terms -- References.Logos on cover: Threatened Species Network ; WWF ; Natural Heritage Trust ; Top End Native Plant Society. Includes bibliographical references and index

Incentivizing sustainable fire management in Australia's northern arid spinifex grasslands

Fire management across Australia's fire-prone 1.2 M km2 northern savannas region has been transformed over the past decade supported by the inception of Australia's national regulated emissions reduction market in 2012. Today, incentivised fire management is undertaken over a quarter of that entire region, providing a range of socio-cultural, environmental, and economic benefits, including for remote Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) communities and enterprises. Building on those advances, here we explore the emissions abatement potential for expanding incentivised fire management opportunities to include a contiguous fire-prone region, extending to monsoonal but annually lower (&lt;600 mm) and more variable rainfall conditions, supporting predominantly shrubby spinifex (Triodia) hummock grasslands characteristic of much of Australia's deserts and semi-arid rangelands. Adapting a standard methodological approach applied previously for assessing savanna emissions parameters, we first describe fire regime and associated climatic attributes for a proposed ∼850,000 km2 lower rainfall (600–350 mm MAR) focal region. Second, based on regional field assessments of seasonal fuel accumulation, combustion, burnt area patchiness, and accountable methane and nitrous oxide Emission Factor parameters, we find that significant emissions abatement is feasible for regional hummock grasslands. This applies specifically for more frequently burnt sites under higher rainfall conditions if substantial early dry season prescribed fire management is undertaken resulting in marked reduction in late dry season wildfires. The proposed Northern Arid Zone (NAZ) focal envelope is substantially under Indigenous land ownership and management, and in addition to reducing emissions impacts associated with recurrent extensive wildfires, development of commercial landscape-scale fire management opportunities would significantly support social, cultural and biodiversity management aspirations as promoted by Indigenous landowners. Combined with existing regulated savanna fire management regions, inclusion of the NAZ under existing legislated abatement methodologies would effectively provide incentivised fire management covering a quarter of Australia's landmass. This could complement an allied (non-carbon) accredited method valuing combined social, cultural and biodiversity outcomes from enhanced fire management of hummock grasslands. Although the management approach has potential application to other international fire-prone savanna grasslands, caution is required to ensure that such practice does not result in irreversible woody encroachment and undesirable habitat change.</p

Проблемы обеспечения учебного процесса при профессионально ориентированном обучении иностранцев русскому язык

Секция 7 «Применение информационных компьютерных технологий в обучении иностранным языкам

Report to the Threatened Species Network on the completion of the Community Grant (Round 7)

The Sir Edward Pellew Group of islands, in the south-west of the Gulf of Carpentaria, is an important area for mammal conservation in the NT. Five mammal species listed (or proposed for listing) as threatened in the NT are recorded from the island group; brush-tailed tree-rat, northern phascogale, canefield rat, Carpentarian antechinus and northern quoll. These species were recorded on the islands in early fauna surveys in 1966-67 and 1988, but surveys in 2003 recorded only two of the species, in very small numbers. This collaborative study aimed to survey the islands for four of the five threatened species to confirm their continued presence and to determine the feasibility of monitoring programs for the species on the islands. - SummarySummary -- Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- ReferencesLogos: Lanthawittiyarra Sea Ranger Unit, Northern Territory Government. Report to the Threatened Species Network with assistance from NT Department of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts, Lianthawirriyarra Sea Ranger Unit: Mabunji Aboriginal Resource Association, Parks and Wildlife Office Borroloola, Threatened Species Network and Victorian Department of Natural Resources and Environment.Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT

Value of long-term ecological studies

Long-term ecological studies are critical for providing key insights in ecology, environmental change, natural resource management and biodiversity conservation. In this paper, we briefly discuss five key values of such studies. These are: (1) quantifying ecological responses to drivers of ecosystem change; (2) understanding complex ecosystem processes that occur over prolonged periods; (3) providing core ecological data that may be used to develop theoretical ecological models and to parameterize and validate simulation models; (4) acting as platforms for collaborative studies, thus promoting multidisciplinary research; and (5) providing data and understanding at scales relevant to management, and hence critically supporting evidence-based policy, decision making and the management of ecosystems. We suggest that the ecological research community needs to put higher priority on communicating the benefits of long-term ecological studies to resource managers, policy makers and the general public. Long-term research will be especially important for tackling large-scale emerging problems confronting humanity such as resource management for a rapidly increasing human population, mass species extinction, and climate change detection, mitigation and adaptation. While some ecologically relevant, long-term data sets are now becoming more generally available, these are exceptions. This deficiency occurs because ecological studies can be difficult to maintain for long periods as they exceed the length of government administrations and funding cycles. We argue that the ecological research community will need to coordinate ongoing efforts in an open and collaborative way, to ensure that discoverable long-term ecological studies do not become a long-term deficiency. It is important to maintain publishing outlets for empirical field-based ecology, while simultaneously developing new systems of recognition that reward ecologists for the use and collaborative sharing of their long-term data sets. Funding schemes must be re-crafted to emphasize collaborative partnerships between field-based ecologists, theoreticians and modellers, and to provide financial support that is committed over commensurate time frames.David B. Lindenmayer, Gene E. Likens, Alan Andersen, David Bowman, C. Michael Bull, Emma Burns, Chris R. Dickman, Ary A. Hoffmann, David A. Keith, Michael J. Liddell, Andrew J. Lowe, Daniel J. Metcalfe, Stuart R. Phinn, Jeremy Russell-Smith, Nikki Thurgate And Glenda M. Wardl