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Padula, Katherine M. "Re-Placing the Plantation Landscape at Yulee’s Margarita Plantation." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7072.
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U.S. Senator David Levy Yulee’s Margarita sugar plantation flourished from 1851 to 1864 in Homosassa, Citrus County, Florida. The plantation was abandoned in 1864 and memory of its precise location slowly faded, as the physical evidence of its existence deteriorated. Today, the only plantation structure known to be still standing is the sugar mill, preserved as part of the Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park (CI124B). The remainder of the plantation, including its boundaries, remains unknown. Perhaps at least partly owing to this absence, the mill’s interpretive signage provides an unfortunate univocal historical interpretation of the site and lacking in both acknowledgement and understanding of the experiences of the enslaved laborers who lived at Margarita.
This thesis research uses archaeological reconnaissance survey and historical research in an attempt to locate the slave quarters in order to shed light on the power structures that existed between planter and enslaved laborer at Margarita. Shovel tests on state, county, and private land surrounding the mill identified two new archaeological sites, including possible remnants of an additional plantation structure, and ruled out for several locations as the site of the former slave quarters. Historical research uncovered additional information about the names of the enslaved laborers and provided more insight into their experiences on the plantation. This work culminates with suggestions for updated State Park interpretive signage, and suggestions for future work.
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Brown, Lauren Adele. "Reading resistance on the plantation writing new strategies in francophone Caribbean fiction /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1568134621&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Ramírez, Bacca Renzo. "History of labour on a coffee plantation : La Aurora plantation, Tolima-Colombia, 1882-1982 /." Göteborg : University of Göteborg, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389558621.
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Norton, Kimberly C. "The interpretation of Comingtee Plantation." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1181252199/.
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Sky, Alwin. "Saproxylic invertebrates in plantation forests." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9338.
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The conversion of natural forests to production land uses has led to huge losses of biodiversity and continues to threaten remaining terrestrial flora and fauna throughout the world. The global demand for wood products and energy, which was partly responsible for the loss of primary native habitat, is now one of the leading drivers of afforestation with significant new areas of plantation replacing former agricultural lands. While plantations do not support the same biodiversity values as natural forests they do provide significant habitat for a range of species. Saproxylic invertebrates (species that are dependent on deadwood) are strongly affected by the temporal and spatial availability of different deadwood resources. Previous research on saproxylic invertebrates has largely been restricted to natural or managed natural forests predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere, where forest management practices have been modified to conserve these species This thesis fills a distinct research gap in New Zealand and is the first large scale study to quantify the effects of deadwood age, wood species, and landscape composition on saproxylic invertebrates in our plantation forests by direct rearing. In this thesis I show that thinning residues, which are currently retained in many plantation forests, provide significant habitat for a range of native invertebrate taxonomic groups, including diverse assemblages of Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. Deadwood age is an important attribute determining taxonomic richness of saproxylic invertebrates. Richness of invertebrate orders/classes and Coleoptera species all increased in older deadwood material, and a stepwise multidimensional analysis procedure indicated that the age of deadwood was the most important factor structuring saproxylic invertebrate community composition in Pinus radiata thinning residues. Deadwood age was a stronger predictor of community composition in thinning residue than measures of landscape composition, such as the proportion of remnant native forest cover. The change in saproxylic invertebrate composition that occurs with deadwood age was related to changes in the feeding guilds, with a transition from primary wood feeding species to predators/parasitoids and fungal feeders with increasing dead wood age. Because thinning’s are carried out at prescribed times throughout the stand rotation, stand age could be adopted as a proxy for deadwood age in these systems allowing forest managers a simple method for monitoring saproxylic beetle habitat availability . My research provides strong empirical evidence that supports the existing conservation paradigm that forest managers should seek to create a mosaic of habitats at the landscape scale to enhance biodiversity opportunities in plantations.
In addition to the habitat opportunities provided by P. radiata deadwood that is derived from silvicultural practices there are several sources of native wood in plantations. Native woody resources are found in either the embedded remnant areas of native forest or in the understory of stands as many native woody species colonise this habitat. As yet the importance of native understory deadwood resources for saproxylic species is unknown. In addition it is unclear how the importance of such understory resources is influenced by proximity to remnant native forest patches. I used experimental wood billets of four tree species (3 native and the exotic P. radiata) placed along replicated transects spanning native habitat and adjacent early stage regenerating plantation stands to assess the saproxylic invertebrate assemblages associated with different deadwood species as a function of proximity to native forest. I found that an interaction between wood host specificity (local scale) and proximity to interior native forest (landscape scale) was the most important factor regulating saproxylic invertebrate community structure. Deadwood of the native subcanopy trees Schefflera digitata, Melicytus ramiflorus, Aristotelia serrata and the exotic conifer P. radiata provided habitat for different subsets of the saproxylic fauna. The most pronounced differences in saproxylic community structure were between the native sub-canopy broadleaf species and the exotic P. radiata. Surprisingly the P. radiata supported a greater species richness and abundance of saproxylic Coleoptera in native remnants than the native wood species in the same habitat. In general, species richness was higher in native forest habitats and declined with increasing distance from native habitat. These results suggest that both the diversity of deadwood resources that are available and their proximity to native remnants are important for maintaining saproxylic communities in plantations. However, two of the native wood species (M. ramiflorus and A. serrata) exhibited steep declines in species richness at the plantation native forest boundary, suggesting that the contrasting stand types (native remnant and young regenerating plantation stands) with their different microclimate may have had a significant influence. Future research needs to compare the saproxylic fauna of dead wood in mature plantation stands with adjacent native remnants to ascertain if the effect of native habitat proximity is due to landscape composition or a reflection of microclimatic differences.
The large diversity of saproxylic species observed during this study highlights the importance of plantations as habitat for saproxylic species, particularly in heavily fragmented landscapes that retain little original native forest. My research findings provide forest managers with options for improving forest management to enhance opportunities for the conservation of saproxylic invertebrates. In addition my thesis provides one of the most comprehensive multi-taxon data sets of saproxylic species associated with a variety of deadwood resources. This information will be invaluable to future researchers that continue to work on New Zealand’s saproxylic fauna.
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Ladouceur, Joseph L. "Plantation establishment following chemical site preparation with triclopyr and plantation release with triclopyr-glyphosate herbicide mixtures." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/MQ33403.pdf.
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Sonner, Helen Jeanine. "Print, rhetoric, and 'plantation,' 1571-1641." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602797.
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This thesis offers a new model for understanding the rise of the word plantation as a keyword of anglophone hegemony in the early seventeenth century. Generally approached as a simple (and perhaps simplistic) synonym for colony in both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, plantation is missing from printed Elizabethan texts which promoted hegemonic settlement in Ireland and the Americas. Instead, in a colonial context, plantation rose to sudden prominence in promotional pamphlets published in 1609 and 1610, and James VUI was an active agent in this discursive shift. Tracing the word's rise to a unrecognized connection with Protestant pamphleteering from the sixteenth century, the thesis argues that plantation had taken on a distinctive association with religious reform and Protestant conceptions of divine providence by the time the word was adopted as the Jacobean name for colonial hegemony. In addition to an inherent ambiguity, the word plantation offered James a means for suggesting both classical and Christian authorities for the hegemonic enterprise - a duality that was not open to colony. More definitively than kingdom, colony, or commonwealth, the word plantation yoked the civil and the ecclesiastical, and therefore transformed the colonial promotional pamphlet into a space where monarch and subject could publicly, but indirectly, contest competing conceptions of the relationship between temporal and spiritual authority. Through rhetorical analysis which considers how the printed form itself was engaged in the making of meaning, the thesis provides a study of the colonial promotional pamphlet from 1571, when print was first used to promote a particular settlement, and 1641, when violence broke out on "plantation" lands in Ireland. It offers new readings of colonial texts by Waiter Ralegh, Francis Bacon, John Davies, John Donne, and John Cotton, as well as an examination of the rhetoric of "plantation" as it was deployed by James VI/I.
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Ladhams, John. "The formation of Portuguese plantation Creoles." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433717.
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Lappas, Jennifer. "A Plantation Family Wardrobe, 1825 - 1835." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2299.
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Carson, Karen Michelle. "The function and failure of plantation government: interpreting spaces of power and discipline in representations of slave plantations." FIU Digital Commons, 2000. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2060.
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This investigation focuses on representations of the physical construction and landscape of Southern slave plantations in order to explore the power relationships among inhabitants of those plantations and how those power relationships attempted to function and failed to establish a system of discipline and governance. While every plantation functioned violently in some form, many plantations appear to have attempted to instill a sense of place and permanence of status in slaves with more than just physical violence or obvious and overt forms of mental coercion and abuse. As a supplement to the strategic (and oftentimes random) physical violence inflicted on slaves in the attempts to control their behaviors, owners seem to have also attempted to discipline their slaves through strategic constructions of the plantation landscapes. While concluding that this strategy ultimately failed, this thesis examines attempts by owners to implement particular strategies in regulating and disciplining the behavior of slaves which can be compared with the strategies implemented in a panoptic system as described by Michel Foucault.
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Thaung, Tint Lwin. "Effect of nitrogen fertiliser additions on nitrogen fluxes and plantation productivity in young eucalyptus cloeziana (F. Muell) plantations /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16847.pdf.
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Baak, Paul Erik. "Plantation production and political power : plantation development in South-west India in a long-term historical perspective, 1743-1963." Delhi ; Calcutta ; Chennai [etc.] : Oxford university press, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375300224.
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Cuthbertson, Thomas John. "A Confluence of Cultures: Complicating The Interpretation of 17th Century Plantation Archaeology using Data from Rich Neck Plantation." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068099.
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Though there is no shortage of 17th century plantation sites in the Chesapeake archaeology enslaved African populations is incipient, but not yetflourishing. This may be a reflection of the result of those communities’ underrepresentation in the archaeological and documentary records from that time period. Detailed analysis of archaeological sites where Africans were present can reveal the material residues of their lives, even when this material culture is inundated by European materials. This thesis marshals archaeological, historiographic, and ethnohistorical data to use the excavations at the Rich Neck Plantation as a window into the diversity of the 17th century Atlantic world. An interpretation that highlights the composite nature of captive African communities is produced and juxtaposed against interpretations of the same archaeological artifacts and features through the landscape features and material culture of the English land owners. Tandem analysis of the archaeological record through the perspectives of these groups provides insight into the ways their perceptions of their surroundings overlapped and diverged.
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Nelson, Robert Nicholas. "Connecting Ireland and America: Early English Colonial Theory 1560-1620." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4756/.
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This work demonstrates the connections that exist in rhetoric and planning between the Irish plantation projects in the Ards, Munster , Ulster and the Jamestown colony in Virginia . The planners of these projects focused on the creation of internal stability rather than the mission to 'civilize' the natives. The continuity between these projects is examined on several points: the rhetoric the English used to describe the native peoples and the lands to be colonized, who initiated each project, funding and financial terms, the manner of establishing title, the manner of granting the lands to settlers, and the status the natives were expected to hold in the plantation. Comparison of these points highlights the early English colonial idea and the variance between rhetoric and planning.
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Lowther, Peter. "Self-thinning in five Australian plantation species /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19124.pdf.
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Ruf, François. "Stratification sociale en économie de plantation ivoirienne." Paris 10, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA100155.
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L'auteur propose une interprétation de l'économie de plantation ivoirienne depuis sa phase minière ou pionnière jusqu'à sa phase de raréfaction des facteurs de production : terre, foret, travail. Le problème de la reproduction ou de la disparition de l'économie de plantation est pose. L'économie de plantation ivoirienne s'est construite sur la rencontre de la terre et du travail, entre ceux qui détenaient initialement la terre, principalement les "autochtones" et ceux qui contrôlaient le travail, principalement les "allogènes". De cette rencontre, le capital est absent. Il y a bien un paradoxe. D'une part, l'arbre cacaoyer devient le capital d'exploitation, acquis à base de travail et de terre, et donc accessible au plus grand nombre. L'économie de plantation ivoirienne illustre un processus d'accumulation primitive du capital, relativement égalitaire puisqu'accessible a une majorité. Simultanément, l'arbre-cacaoyer est un capital crée et approprie individuellement, favorisant le processus d'éclatement des régulations sociales visant à limiter l'inégalité de richesse. Le capital cacaoyer ou caféier tend donc à induire une différenciation sociale qui est réelle mais limitée et partiellement réversible. Aujourd'hui, le capital est construit : 3 millions d'hectares de plantations de café et de cacao pour 500. 000 exploitations. Aujourd'hui, le renouvellement du capital plantation passe par un besoin nouveau en crédit, par de nouveaux itinéraires techniques, par une plus grande sécurité foncière, par des bouleversements dans l'organisation paysanne et ses rapports avec l'état. Par manque de trésorerie et de crédit, de grandes exploitations peuvent se morceler ou disparaitre au profit de plus petites. Dans le même temps, de nouvelles grandes exploitations peuvent se constituer à la faveur de l'introduction du capital d'exploitation dans le système de production. Le capitalisme agraire, jusque-là marginal ou inexistant en cacao culture ivoirienne aurait peut-être la une chance de développement, chance compromise par la crise cacaoyère des années 1980-90The author proposes an interpretation of the plantation economy in Ivory Coast from the "mining" or pioneer phase to the phase of scarcity of factors of production: land, forest and labor. The problem of the reproduction or disappearance of the plantation economy is described. The plantation economy in Ivory Coast grew from the encounter between land and labor, between those who initially held the land - mainly "autochthons" - and those - mainly foreign - who controlled the labor. Capital was not involved in this meeting. There is a paradox. Firstly, the cacao-tree has become exploitation capital, based on labor and land and thus accessible to a large number of people. The Ivory Coast plantation economy illustrates a primitive capital accumulation process which is relatively egalitarian since capital is available to the majority. At the same time, the cacao-tree is capital which is created and acquired individually, enhancing the process of breaking down the social regulations aimed at limiting inequality of wealth. Cacao or coffee capital thus tends to induce social differentiation which is real but limited and partially reversible. The capital has now been formed: 3 million hectares of coffee and cocoa plantations involving 500,000 holdings. Today, the renewal of plantation capital has new credit requirements, new technical procedures, greater landholding security and upheavals in peasant organization and its relations with the state. Because of lack of cash and credit, large holdings may be divided up or disappear to the profit of smaller holdings. At the same time, new large holdings may be created by the in the injection of operating capital into the farming system. Agrarian capital, hitherto marginal or nonexistent in cacao-growing in Ivory Coast, may thus perhaps have a chance of developing, but these opportunities are compromised by the 1980-90 cacao crisis
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Lourenço, Daniela de Freitas. "Wireless sensor network for Salicornia plantation monitoring." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/23847.
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mestrado em Engenharia Eletrónica e TelecomunicaçõesA Salicornia ramosissima é uma planta que cresce em ambientes salinos sendo famosa pelas suas características benéficas nas mais diversas áreas, tais como alimentação, medicina e biocombustíveis. Na Universidade de Aveiro, um grupo de investigadores na área da biologia contribuíram para uma melhor compreensão do crescimento e desenvolvimento da Salicornia na Ria de Aveiro no que diz respeito à salinidade, fases de crescimento e sobrevivência. No contexto da Internet das Coisas, as redes de sensores são um tema de estudo dado o vasto número de aplicações, pelo que, diversas tecnologias têm aparecido no mercado de modo a garantir qualidade de serviço aos seus clientes. Foi assim proposto o desenvolvimento de uma solução que monitorize os parâmetros desta planta no seu habitat natural. Uma vez que este ambiente é selvagem e propício a roubos, os requisitos principais são: consumos energéticos e custos de desenvolvimento e implementação baixos. Ao longo desta dissertação são apresentadas as tecnologias de redes de sensores actuais no mercado, bem como um estudo sobre os sensores necessários para a monitorização de uma plantação de Salicornia e o protocolo que favorece as necessidades da rede em questão.
The Salicornia ramosissima is a plant that grows in a salt-marsh environment and it has become famous because of their bene cial characteristics in several areas such as: human nutrition, biofuels and medicine. At University of Aveiro, a group of biology researches contributed to a better understanding of a Salicornia population biology in Ria de Aveiro, especially aspects related to salinity, plant growth, and survival. In the context of the Internet of Things, the wireless sensor networks is an emergent area of studies. Nowadays, there are several tecnologies in the market to answer the requirements and o er quality of service to the WSN's users. It was proprosed a solution to monitor the Salicornia parameters in their natural habitat. Once the habitat is considerer wild, it is conducive to theft. Because of that, the main requirements for this network are to create a low cost and low power consumption network. Along this dissertation, are presented and discussed some emergent wireless tecnologies in the market, as well a discussion about the sensors needed to monitor the Salicornia plantation and the communication protocol which answers the needs of the network.
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Ruf, François. "Stratification sociale en économie de plantation ivoirienne." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37618346n.
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Peña, Jennifer Lancaster. "Chinqua-Penn Plantation : a permanent, practical house /." Electronic version (PDF), 2005. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2005/penaj/jenniferpena.pdf.
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Gérard, Jean. "Contraintes de croissance, variations internes de densité et de module d'élasticité longitudinal, et déformations de sciage chez les eucalyptus de plantation." Bordeaux 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994BOR16002.
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Les fentes et les deformations dues a la liberation des contraintes de croissance limitent l'utilisation des eucalyptus sous forme de bois d'uvre. Suivant la direction longitudinale des fibres, ces contraintes resultent du blocage des deformations de maturation dans l'arbre en croissance. Leur intensite depend donc du module d'elasticite longitudinal du bois vert et de la deformation longitudinale de maturation mesurable a la surface des arbres sur pied. L'etude des variations de ces deux parametres montre notamment que: - les deformations de maturation dependent du genotype, et diminuent au dela d'un seuil d'age correspondant a un stade perte de vitalite, - le module d'elasticite et la densite varient avec l'etat de juvenilite primaire (hauteur dans le tronc) et secondaire (distance a la moelle) du bois. Un modele de distribution des contraintes de croissance est alors developpe ; il prend en compte les variations radiales du module d'elasticite longitudinal et generalise les formulations usuelles (modele de kubler) qui presupposent que la qualite du bois est homogene sur la section. Une validation du modele est entreprise a travers des essais de sciage en quartiers de billons d'eucalyptus. Les deformations des quartiers (courbures) mesurees directement sont comparees aux deformations modelisees a partir des distributions de contraintes
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Gérard, Jean. "Contraintes de croissance, variations internes de densité et de module d'élasticité longitudinal, et déformations de sciage chez les eucalyptus de plantation." Bordeaux 1, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994BOR10673.
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Les fentes et les deformations dues a la liberation des contraintes de croissance limitent l'utilisation des eucalyptus sous forme de bois d'uvre. Suivant la direction longitudinale des fibres, ces contraintes resultent du blocage des deformations de maturation dans l'arbre en croissance. Leur intensite depend donc du module d'elasticite longitudinal du bois vert et de la deformation longitudinale de maturation mesurable a la surface des arbres sur pied. L'etude des variations de ces deux parametres montre notamment que: - les deformations de maturation dependent du genotype, et diminuent au dela d'un seuil d'age correspondant a un stade perte de vitalite, - le module d'elasticite et la densite varient avec l'etat de juvenilite primaire (hauteur dans le tronc) et secondaire (distance a la moelle) du bois. Un modele de distribution des contraintes de croissance est alors developpe ; il prend en compte les variations radiales du module d'elasticite longitudinal et generalise les formulations usuelles (modele de kubler) qui presupposent que la qualite du bois est homogene sur la section. Une validation du modele est entreprise a travers des essais de sciage en quartiers de billons d'eucalyptus. Les deformations des quartiers (courbures) mesurees directement sont comparees aux deformations modelisees a partir des distributions de contraintes
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Willison, Toby W. "Mineral nitrogen dynamics of a lowland spruce plantation." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305755.
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Kershaw, David. "The biodiversity of plantation forestry in Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274560.
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Motaung, Tsholofelo. "Review of forest plantation funding in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97471.
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Thesis (MDF)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Developing sustainable forests has been acknowledged to be important, not just as a way of averting deforestation and land degradation, but as another opportunity to contribute positively towards rural development, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Forestry development has, however, not received the recognition it deserves. Its importance to economic development and its potential contribution have not been explicitly communicated and thus remain undervalued. The long rotations required for trees to mature, plus the associated risk from fires, pests and diseases has affected the sector’s ability to attract investment. In South Africa this reluctance is evident in both the public and private sectors alike. Access to finance for forestry remains a challenge, which negatively affects the supply to the processing part of the value chain. The objective of the study is to review current forestry funding mechanisms in South Africa, specifically plantations and their contributions to rural economic development. Using secondary data, the study reviewed the current sector funding from the state, development funding institutions and the private sector. The study also looked at alternative sources used in other countries and how they can be customised to the South African economy. In this study it was found that there are gaps between policies aimed at the development of the sector on the one hand, and the resources allocated to the sector on the other hand. The available schemes fail to support the sector policies’ objectives. These discrepancies can be attributed to the poor design of the current offering, the development of which failed to fully consider the dynamics of the sector. The conclusion of the study was that the government needs to play more of a leading role in developing the sector, especially with the small-scale growers who cannot be catered for by both commercial and development banks. The sector also stands to benefit significantly from better collaboration between the public and private sectors. Policies that create an enabling environment would also encourage the private sector to invest more. The study also suggested that, in view of the dynamics of the sector and its contribution to climate change risk mitigation, there is room to tap innovative funding such as that offered by environmental funding.
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Faverty, Brenda Lee. "Honor and Gender in the Antebellum Plantation South." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302278175.
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Weissman-Galler, Nancy. "Scarlett's Sisters: The Privileged Negotiations of Plantation Women." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1374238688.
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Coulson, Justine Anna. "Embodying development : a study of female flower workers in Ecuador." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313375.
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Sharma, Khemraj. "Socio-economic life of cinchona plantation workers in hill Darjeeling." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/142.
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Bustos, Cecilia. "Comportement à l'usinage du bois d'épinette blanche de plantation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0020/MQ55741.pdf.
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Khan, J. A. "Preservative treatment of plantation grown Eucalipta by cople diffusion." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/38068.
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Hicks, Katherine E. "An Examination of Landscape Analysis in Bahamas Plantation Archaeology." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1245083263.
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Dube, Patricia. "Restoration and ant diversity to post-plantation forestry grasslands." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31228.
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There has been a widespread assessment of the capacity of grasslands to restore after several forms of disturbance. In South Africa forestry is a significant habitat disturbance within the Eastern Highveld grasslands where this study was conducted. The study compared ant communities between disturbed grasslands that have been rehabilitated after pine forestry and undisturbed grasslands. Ant sampling was conducted using pitfall traps within rehabilitated sites of age 10 years to 40 years and undisturbed grassland sites. We expected that exposure to pine plantations would result in remarkable differences in ant species richness, assemblages and abundance. A total of 17 genera and 31 morphospecies were collected; 25 species within the rehabilitated and 22 species from the undisturbed grasslands. The sites did not show any significant differences in their species richness, although they had distinctive species assemblages. Ant diversity showed recovery with increasing age after pine with older sites (38 years and 40 years) showing higher diversity compared to the younger sites especially the 10 year old site. CopyrightDissertation (MSc (Environmental Ecology))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Silpa, Felicia Bianca. "Historical archaeology research designs for Gamble Plantation, Ellenton, Florida." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002684.
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Cowan, William Tynes. "The slave in the swamp: Disrupting the plantation narrative." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623375.
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In nineteenth-century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurrent "bogeyman" whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps, the runaway, or "maroon," gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open conflict. The chattel system was dependent upon an exercise of will upon the body of the enslaved, but slaves who asserted control over their bodies, by removing them to the swamps, claimed definition over the Self. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the maroon from its untouchable, abstract state to a form that could be possessed, understood, and controlled. In other words, writers defending slavery would often conjure forth the rebellious image in order to dispel it safely.;This project contextualizes some of the major works in the plantation genre by revealing the dialectical processes involved in their creation. For example, one section gives special attention to the cultural milieu of the 1850s surrounding Harriet Beecher Stowe's second anti-slavery novels, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Other primary works include Thomas Nelson Page's "No Haid Pawn" and John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn, arguably the first novel of the plantation genre. Contexts for these works are comprised of other "literary" works such as plantation romances and slave narratives. But the project also seeks to understand the signifying power of the maroon through the testimonies of former slaves, newspaper representations of African Americans, plantation rituals and daily interactions between black and white, and folklore of former slaves as it was collected (and conceived) by postbellum whites.;Despite the common occurrence of pillory scenes at the conclusion of maroon tales, this project shows that the final signifying power of the maroon was not of the law writ large upon his body; rather, the maroon survived as legend, as an invisible presence just beyond white control.
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Dickman, Michael. "Honor, Control, and Powerlessness: Plantation Whipping in the Antebellum South." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104219.
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Thesis advisor: Cynthia LyerlyThis thesis analyzes the practice of whipping during the antebellum South from the perspective of both masters and slaves in an attempt to better understand the brutal form of punishment that served as the physical manifestation of the oppressive nature of American slavery. It examines the distinctive culture of honor to reveal how a rigid divide came to be established and fortified along racial lines. Masters are men who desired to uphold the superior position they held in relation to their slaves, using the whip to enforce order and control. Meanwhile, slaves experienced a deep sense of powerlessness as a result of the practice but examples of aggressive resistance to their masters are present. This thesis seeks to shed light on one of the darkest chapters of American history
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Departmental Honors
Discipline: History
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Stubbs, Tristan Michael Cormac. "The plantation overseers of eighteenth-century Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608227.
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Ambrose, Fossoh Fonge. "Plantations and national development : a case study of plantation agriculture in the socio-economic and spatial development of the S.W. Province of Cameroon." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63334.
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Kempadoo, Roshini. "Creole in the archive : Imaginery, presence, and location of the plantation worker of two plantations, nearby villages and towns in Trinidad(1838-1938)." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498379.
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Fletcher, Donald George. "The viability of energy plantations in Thailand : an energy system approach using alternative conversion pathways." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236249.
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Britton, Richard John. "Effects of defoliation by Neodiprion sertifer (Geoff.) on the growth of young crops of Pinus contorta Dougl." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/16943.
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Blackburn, Paul. "Factors influencing wind damage to Sitka spruce trees." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1986. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU367741.
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Windthrow is a major influence on silvicultural practice in the UK. Profitability is reduced by the need to fell plantations prematurely. In recent years there has been much debate on the role of spacing and wide- spacing, or respacing has been advocated as a means of improving stability. This debate has lacked quantitative evidence. The purpose of this study was to assess the factors involved in tree stability and to use the results to. investigate the influence of spacing and stability. Using the approach of Petty and Worrell (1981) stability was first considered as a static model. The factors involved are the within canopy wind profile, the stem and crown weight distribution of the trees, the deflection curves assumed by the tree in response to wind loading and the maximum turning moment causing stem breakage or uprooting. Investigation of the influence of spacing on the resistance of Sitka spruce trees to stem breakage and uprooting showed that the maximum turning moment was positively related to the stem weight, dbh3 and dbh/wt. There was no evidence to suggest that the relationship between the maximum turning moment and the independent variables differed between spacings. Analysis of data from Forestry Commission tree pulling experiments revealed that on sites where stem breakage and uprooting occurred the turning moments causing stem breakage and uprooting were similar. The deflection curves of five Sitka spruce trees, growing on a brown earth site, were measured and compared with the theoretical deflection curves devised by Petty and Worrell (1981). The theoretical curves gave reasonable approximations to the actual curves for small deflections. Most of the experimental work was undertaken at the Forestry Commission's experimental area in Moffat Forest where equipment was installed for the monitoring of airflow above and within the forest canopy and of the tree response. Using Forestry Commission data the within canopy wind profile was obtained. Ten Sitka spruce trees were loaded until failure and the stem deflection curves, stem and crown weight distributions and the turning moments causing soil failure and uprooting were measured. The theoretical stem bending curves gave good approximations to the actual curves until soil breakage occurred. Following soil breakage two samples were released and repulled and, although the maximum resistance and the deflection at this point were unaltered, the initial force per unit deflection was halved. The critical wind speeds to cause uprooting were calculated using measured wind profiles and assuming static loading of the crown. Values obtained greatly exceeded the wind speeds recorded during a gale which caused damage. The damping ratios of the 3 trees bearing accelerometers were measured with and without crown contact. For the 2 dominants canopy contact had less effect on the damping ratio than the sway direction whereas for the subdominant the canopy treatment had the greater effect. Recalculation of the critical wind speeds of the ten tree pulling samples, using the damping ratios estimated for the accelerometer trees, and assuming a resonant response reduced the values to within the range of measured gusts recorded during a gale. Displacements of the 3 accelerometer trees, estimated from accelerometer data, were compared with simultaneous wind speed recordings. Perfect resonance was not observed but very large oscillations were noted to build up over a period of 2-3 cycles. The larger gusts (?10m m s-1) tended to produce a static response and to be responsible for the initial deflection whilst subsequent smaller gusts tended to cause the dynamic responses. In order to predict the critical wind speeds causing damage it is necessary to take this dynamic interaction into account. Theoretical stability calculations for unthinned plantations at spacings of 2.0m, 2.4m and 3.0m showed that for static loading the increase in the resistance to uprooting or breakage as a result of increasing mean tree size outweighed the greater drag force on the crown. The wide spaced stand retained its stability advantage even for resonant wind speeds. However, small changes in the within canopy wind profile and the resistance of the trees to uprooting/breakage removed the advantage gained by the wider spacing. More information is required on the influence of spacing on the dynamic response of trees to wind loading before increasing the spacing can be said to improve stability on wet soils.
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Kelley, Sean Michael. "Plantation frontiers : race, ethnicity, and family along the Brazos River of Texas, 1821-1886 /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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De, Swapan Kumar. "Productivity stagnation in Darjeeling Tea industry and its implications for the plantation labourers." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/252.
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Nanayakkara, Bernadette. "Chemical Characterisation of Compression Wood in Plantation Grown Pinus Radiata." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2343.
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The primary objective of this study was to find out if changes in chemistry could be used to quantify Pinus radiata compression wood severity or degree of compression wood development. Basic chemical composition and the lignin structure was assessed for a range of different compression wood samples sourced from juvenile wood, mature wood, earlywood, latewood, branches, knots, 2-year and 1-year old Pinus radiata. Fluorescence microscopy was used as the reference method to assess the degree of compression wood development. Lignin structure of compression wood was studied by thioacidolysis, size exclusion chromatography, and thioacidolysis/31P NMR spectroscopy. Variation in the basic chemical composition and lignin structure with compression wood severity was ascertained. Results showed that, as the severity of compression wood changed, progressively from normal through mild to severe, all chemical parameters commonly associated with compression wood changed concurrently. With increasing severity lignin and galactose levels increased while glucose and mannose levels decreased. Lignin structural changes were also associated with changing severity of compression wood. Levels of p-hydroxyphenyl (H) releasable β-ethers increased and guaiacyl (G) releasable β-ethers decreased. Similarly, levels of uncondensed p-hydroxyphenyl units increased, while uncondensed guaiacyl units decreased. Similar proportions of condensed guaiacyl units were present in compression wood and normal wood. Similar trends in chemical composition were observed between the compression wood and related opposite wood in branches, knots and young wood of Pinus radiata. A number of chemical parameters changed linearly with compression wood severity. They were: the amount of lignin and galactose, the galactose/glucose ratio and p-hydroxyphenyl content in lignin. Parameters based on the p-hydroxyphenyl unit content in lignin, the H/G releasable β-ether ratio, releasable p-hydroxyphenyl β-ether units and uncondensed p-hydroxyphenyl C9 units are most suitable indicators of compression wood severity as they spanned a larger range relative to the normal wood levels and were not influenced by the morphological origin of wood samples. Chemical methods for quantifying compression wood severity should focus on the detection and measurement of these parameters. Galactan present in Pinus radiata compression wood was isolated and characterised. Structural investigation by methylation analysis and NMR spectroscopy revealed that this galactan was largely composed of (1→4)-linked β-D-galactopyranose residues. No evidence was found to indicate the presence of any branches. Characterisation of lignin in cell wall fractions of Pinus radiata normal wood revealed that middle lamella lignin has a higher lignin content, a lower amount of releasable β-ethers and a more condensed lignin than the secondary wall lignin. Levels of releasable p-hydroxyphenyl units were not higher in middle lamella lignin. A new method based on thioacidolysis and 31P quantitative NMR spectroscopy for estimation of the degree of lignin condensation of the phenolic and etherified C9 units in in situ wood lignin is described. Using this method it was found that phenolic C9 units in in situ lignin were considerably less condensed than etherified C9 units in both compression wood and normal wood.
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Lteif, Arlette. "Biomass production and nitrogen transformations in a hybrid poplar plantation." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103028.
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Hybrid poplars are fast-growing trees, well-suited for the production of bioenergy and wood products. They are often planted on marginal agricultural lands where soil fertility is low. The application of nitrogen (N) fertilizers is expected to replenish soil N reserves and support hybrid poplar productivity throughout the short-rotation growth period. The objective of this thesis was to assess the effect of two organic N fertilizers, papermill biosolids and pig slurry, on tree growth, nutrient uptake and soil fertility in a Populus trichocarpa x Populus deltoides hybrid poplar plantation. I also evaluated how these organic amendments influenced N transformation rates and denitrification losses. Hybrid poplar growth was greater when trees were fertilized with mixed biosolids: pig slurry fertilizer treatments compared to biosolids or pig slurry alone. Assessment of foliar nutrition with the critical value approach (CVA) and compositional nutrient diagnosis (CND) methods revealed that foliar N and P concentrations were limiting to tree growth. Vector analysis (VA) reflected growth responses in fertilized trees, relative to an unfertilized control, but may not be useful as a diagnostic tool due to the indeterminate growth habit of hybrid poplars. Nevertheless, surface application of papermill biosolids and pig slurry had the potential to improve soil fertility by increasing soil pH and extractable nutrients in the hybrid poplar plantations. Nutrient use efficiency (NUE) was greater in plots receiving the mixed biosolids:pig slurry treatment than biosolids or pig slurry alone. Laboratory incubations and 15N isotope pool technique revealed that pig slurry was a source of readily-mineralizable N one month after fertilizer application, and stimulated the gross nitrification rate and immobilization, while papermill biosolids contributed to a larger mineral N pools at the end of the season. Our results suggest that denitrification will be greater in biosolids-treated soils, which have a higher extractable Ca concentration and soil pH, as well as more NO3-N and available C for denitrifiers. Further investigation under field conditions would help us to evaluate the N transformations and losses mediated by microbial activities following organic fertilizer application in a hybrid poplar plantation.
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余銘儀 and Ming-yee Yu. "Enriching native floristic diversity in exotic tree plantation in HongKong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39558113.
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Sung, Yik-hei, and 宋亦希. "Impacts of illegal trapping and plantation forestry on herpetofaunal populations." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48199308.
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Globally, as many as 30% of amphibians and 23% of reptile species are threatened and require urgent conservation action. The major threats are primarily caused by anthropogenic activities. This research aimed to investigate the impacts of two anthropogenic threats, over-exploitation and habitat changes on herpetofaunal populations in Hong Kong.
Platysternon megacephalum has been heavily depleted because of severe hunting pressure for the food and pet trades. Low densities of individuals and few remaining intact populations have limited our ability to study their ecology. I conducted mark-recapture and radio-telemetry studies on P.megacephalum populations in five streams in Hong Kong, one of which was free from trapping, over 34 months (2009–2011) to investigate the impacts of illegal trapping on populations of P.megacephalum and their spatial ecology and growth. Illegal trapping was associated with the absence of large adults, smaller body sizes of adults and skewed ratios of juveniles to adults. Home ranges were relatively small with a mean 100% minimum convex polygon 996m2. Males moved longer distances than females and both sexes moved longer distances in wet seasons. P.megacephalum was highly aquatic, preferring to stay in pools, and their microhabitat preferences were affected by stream width and depth, and substrate types. Juvenile P.megacephalum grew rapidly, with growth declining after attainment of sexual maturity. The average ages of sexual maturation were eight years for females. Illegal trapping remains the major threat to P.megacephalum populations and I recommend that regulatory personnel identify key streams and patrol regularly against illegal trapping to safeguard remaining populations.
In Hong Kong, large areas of primary forest have been replaced by secondary forests and plantations, and changes in tree species composition have often led to alteration of associated plant and animal communities. I examined the herpetofaunal assemblages in secondary forests and exotic Lophostemon confertus plantations. Amphibian abundances were higher in secondary forests while reptile abundance, species richness of amphibian and reptiles were similar. Secondary forests provided better habitats for amphibians and I recommend the planting of a mixture of native tree species and the thinning of exotic trees in future plantation management efforts in South China.
Our knowledge about the effectiveness of different herpetofaunal survey methods in Southeast Asia is limited. To fill the information gap, I examined the effectiveness of three survey methods, including transect surveys, pitfall traps and coverboards, for sampling terrestrial herpetofauna. Transect surveys were most effective at sampling species richness and pitfall traps were most efficient in capturing high numbers of reptiles. The results of this study will aid researchers in assessing the feasibility of and choosing herpetofaunal survey methods in Southeast Asia.
Despite the severe threats that herpetofauna are facing, our understanding of their ecology and conservation needs remains limited. More research and the initiation of monitoring programs for herpetofauna, strengthened enforcement of existing regulations, and proper habitat management are crucial for the conservation of herpetofauna in South China.published_or_final_version
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Ujang, Salmiah. "Basidiomycota in forest reserves and plantation forests in Peninsular Malaysia." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310471.
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Wise, Andre. "A spatial approach to edge effect modelling for plantation forestry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85876.
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Thesis (MScFor)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: One of the major objectives in plantation forestry is to achieve a high level of homogeneity of distribution and dimension of trees within the stand. Precise planting geometries, intensive silviculture and genetic selection are used to achieve this homogeneity. However, a natural variability is still introduced by micro-‐site conditions and disturbances. A substantial source of variation is caused by edge effects of neighbouring stands or other land use forms. The edge effect causes trees at the stand edge to develop differently from trees in the interior of the stand. The overarching objective of this study is to simulate the edge effect based on average stand interior variables as typically received from an enumeration and spatial information on the current and historic stand neighbourhood. With re-‐introducing this natural variance as well as its spatial pattern, we expect to derive improved planning information. A major aim is thus separating the effect of the edge interaction from the other factors contributing to stand variance and quantifying the result in terms of stand output. A methodology is introduced for quantifying interaction at stand edges between a given stand and its neighbouring stands over its lifetime. Transferring the edge interaction value from the edges to all the trees within the stand is then done by applying inverse distance weighting interpolation from the edges to the tree position within the stand. Once an edge interaction value has been calculated for each point, the extent of the edge effect is quantified. The spatial extent of the edge effect is derived empirically from an existing fully spatially mapped stand by means of breakpoint regression. The expected variance as a result of edge influence is then quantified by producing a set of models, which can reproduce the effect of the edge interaction on tree height, diameter and volume. The edge effect is treated as a dynamic interaction for which the temporal aspect needs to be considered, because the current spatial structure of a stand is influenced by its current neighbourhood, but also by the historic development of the neighbourhood in relation to the stand in question. Each stand therefore undergoes an edge effect which is completely unique to that stand, within a given time period. For this reason the presented methodology is a spatial-‐temporal one, aimed at providing a way in which growth and yield forest modelling can be augmented by the inclusion of the edge effect in a practical way. To explicitly quantify edge effects, the natural variance had to be separated into a component explained by edge effect and a second component introduced by other factors such as micro site conditions and disturbance. The second component is treated as an unexplained residual variance. In order to provide a realistic simulation of a stand output at a finer, tree level, this second stand variance needs nonetheless to be quantified. The variance attributable to factors other than the edge effect is mimicked by generating a random number by means of a parameterised stochastic process based on the variance of the inner stand region, which is beyond the reach of the edge effect. In this way, a realistic spatial pattern of a plantation forest stand, taking into account the edge effect and combining it with the natural stand variance is achieved. This study, within the field of plantation forest management, aspires to land use optimization both in terms of productive capacity estimation and for the provision of information for effective land use management planning. It makes use of open source software resources namely the R framework and QGIS and explores aerial stereophotogrammetry as an option for data collection.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Een van die hoofdoelwitte in plantasie bosbou praktyk is hoё vlakke van homogeniteit met betrekking tot die verspreiding en die dimensies van die bome in die plantasie opstand. Simetriese aanplantings, intensiewe bosboupraktyk en genetiese seleksie word gebruik om hierdie homogeniteit te verkry. Natuurlike verskille word egter nog steeds gevind as gevolg van groeiplek mikro toestande en ander versteurings in die opstand. Een van die hoofbronne van hierdie variasie is die randeffekte van buurplantasies en ander gebruike van grond. Hierdie randeffekte veroorsaak dat bome aan die rand van die opstand anders ontwikkel as die bome binne in die opstand. Die oorhoofse doelwit met hierdie navorsing is om die randeffekte te simuleer. Hierdie randeffekte is gegrond op die gemiddelde binneopstand boom veranderlikes soos afgelei uit die opmeting en uit ruimtelike inligting oor die huidige en geskiedkundige toestande in die omgewing. As hierdie natuurlike variasies asook die ruimtelike patrone weer in berekening gebring word, verwag ons om beter beplanningsinligting te bekom. ’n Belangrike doelwit tydens hierdie navorsing is dus om die effek van die rand-‐interaksie te skei van die effek van ander faktore wat bydra tot variasies binne-‐in die opstand en om die resultaat in terme van plantasie produksie te kwantifiseer. ’n Metodiek word voorgestel vir die kwantifisering van die interaksie op die rande tussen die opstand en die buuropstande tydens die leeftyd van die opstand. Die oorplasing van die rand interaksie waarde van die rand af na al die bome in die plantasie word dan gedoen deur om geweegde inverse afstand interpolasie vanaf die rand tot by die ligging van die boom, toe te pas. As die rand interaksie waarde vir elke punt bereken is, kan die omvang van die randeffek gekwantifiseer word. Die ruimtelike omvang van die rand effek is, met die gebruik van breekpunt regressie, empiries afgelei van ’n bestaande ten volle karteerde plantasie. Die verwagte variasie as gevolg van die randeffek word dan met die gebruik van ’n stel modelle gekwantifiseer, wat dan die effek van die rand interaksie op boomhoogte, deursnit en volume kan weergee. Die randeffek word as ’n dinamiese interaksie beskou waarvan die tydsaspek in ag geneem moet word, want die huidige ruimtelike struktuur van die plantasie word beïnvloed deur die huidige omgewing asook deur die historiese ontwikkeling van die omgewing met betrekking tot die opstand onder bespreking. Elke opstand ondergaan ’n randeffek wat uniek is aan daardie plantasie op die gegewe tydstip. Die doelwit is om ’n wyse te vind waarvolgens groei-‐en-‐opbrengs plantasie modellering deur die insluiting van randeffek op ’n praktiese wyse, aangevul kan word. Om hierdie rede is die aanbevole metodiek ruimtelik-‐tydelik en gerig daarop om ’n wyse te vind waarvolgens groei-‐en-‐opbrengs modellering deur die insluiting van die randeffek, op ’n praktiese wyse aangevul kan word. Om randeffek eksplisiet te kwantifiseer, moes die natuurlike afwyking gedeel word in die komponent wat die gevolg is van die randeffek, en ’n tweede komponent wat die gevolg is van ander faktore soos mikroligging toestande en versteurings. Die tweede komponent word behandel as ’n onverklaarde oorblywende afwyking. Hierdie tweede plantasie afwyking moet nogtans kwantifiseer word om sodoende ’n realistiese simulasie van plantasie opbrengs op ’n fyner boom vlak te verkry. Die afwyking wat toegeskryf kan word aan faktore buiten die randeffek, word nageboots deur om ’n lukrake nommer (wat gebaseer word op die afwyking van die binne-‐plantasie gebied wat buite die strekwydte van die randeffek is) deur middel van ‘n geparameteriseerde stogastiese proses te genereer. Sodoende word ’n realistiese ruimtelike patroon van ’n plantasie opstand verkry, wat die randeffek in ag neem en dit kombineer met die natuurlike plantasie afwyking.
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Clough, Edward. "Building Yoknapatawpha : reading space and the plantation in William Faulkner." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48770/.
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This thesis is about the Southern plantation in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha fiction: how it is represented and constructed, how it is narratively articulated and experienced as both space and symbol. But as its full title suggests, Building Yoknapatawpha is equally about narrative structures and spaces too: about how Yoknapatawpha textually fits together; about how this spreading oeuvre was constructed by Faulkner and how it may equally be reconstructed by the reader. It is about both the reading of space and the space of reading – about how the architectural spaces and social order of the Southern plantation and the narrative structures of the novel inform, complement, and challenge one another, and how their affinity may ultimately be used to generate a new “spatialized” model of literary reading. Foregrounding tensions between narrative “details” and “design” and conceptions of “ruin” and “restoration”, this thesis explores how Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha novels function simultaneously as “open” and “closed”. It considers how Absalom, Absalom! (1936) attempts to recuperate the repressed historical connections present in Flags in the Dust (1929), only to erase them once more through death, destruction, and narrative closure. It considers how Go Down, Moses (1942) offers models of black domesticity that resist the oppressions of segregation and lynching – but which are dispersed through black diaspora and narrative exclusion. It considers how The Mansion (1959) revises and integrates details from earlier Yoknapatawpha texts to create a richly layered textual space – but which is in constant tension with the process of the historical “whitening” of the Southern post-plantation landscape which it ultimately depicts. Building Yoknapatawpha concludes by attempting to resolve these tensions into a new model of literary reading: deconstructing Yoknapatawpha to reassemble it as a layered “mapping” of multiple parallel narrative paths and connective links, which resist the mastery – and erasure – imposed by linearity and closure.