Tropical Sea 7416

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West African coastal areas including the Beninese coastal zones have undergone an intensification of socio-economic activity in the last few decades that has been strongly driven by the effects of rapid urbanization. This has led to land-use and land cover changes that represent threats to the sustainability of various ecosystem functions. Such dynamics of land use and land cover changes pose challenges to coastal zone management. Correct assessment is vital for policymakers and planners to ensure efficient and sustainable use of the coastal ecosystem services, and it remains crucial to achieving sustainable coastal zone management. This study examines changes in land-use and land cover (LULC) and their impacts on ecosystem services value (ESV) fluctuations in the tropical coastal region of Benin, West Africa. We employed Globe Land 30 image data for the years 2010 and 2020, and the ESV fluctuations during the study period were evaluated using the benefit transfer approach (BTA) with corresponding local coefficients values and the GIS techniques. The results reveal that (1) in the current urbanizing coastal area, the LULC types have changed significantly, with obvious reductions in forest land and waterbodies and a considerable increase in artificial surfaces; (2) the total ESV decreased by 8.51% from USD 7.1557 million in 2010 to USD 6.5941 million in 2020; (3) the intensity of LULC in the coastal region has increased over the last 10 years; (4) regions with high land-use intensity have a high rate of ESV change; and (5) provisioning services are the greatest contributors of ESV (51% in 2010; 41% in 2020), followed by supporting services (37% in 2010; 35% in 2020) and regulating services (25% in 2010; 30% in 2020). Uncontrolled changes in LULC from forest land and waterbodies are the main causes of the loss in total ESV, necessitating urgent measures to improve the coastal ecosystem sustainability through effective planning and policies.

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Tiando DS, Hu S, Fan X, Ali MR. Tropical Coastal Land-Use and Land Cover Changes Impact on Ecosystem Service Value during Rapid Urbanization of Benin, West Africa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(14):7416.

Tiando, Damien Sinonmatohou, Shougeng Hu, Xin Fan, and Muhammad Rashid Ali. 2021. "Tropical Coastal Land-Use and Land Cover Changes Impact on Ecosystem Service Value during Rapid Urbanization of Benin, West Africa" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 14: 7416.

The Venezuelan government has begun to send shipments of over 646 tons of much needed humanitarian aid to Cuba and Haiti after the both countries were hit by hurricane Sandy last week. The aid includes mostly non-perishable food items and water, as well as machinery to help remove debris.

The hurricane first struck the Caribbean last week before heading north to the US. So far Haiti has been the worst hit by the disaster, counting a death toll of 54 people, followed by 50 plus deaths in the US and 11 in Cuba. Both the Haitian and Cuban harvests were also seriously damaged as a result of the tropical storm.

On Tuesday evening, the Cuban government also confirmed that it had received its first aid shipment from Venezuela, which included 14 tons of milk, sugar, beans, rice, oil, tuna, sardines, lentils and pasta.

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Mammals possess diverse specializations, including morphological, physiological, and behavioural adaptations that reflect and influence their diel behaviours4. These adaptations, including eye forms5, sensorial systems, and endothermy (i.e., generation and regulation of body temperature) evolved in response to various needs and constraints (e.g., light, temperature, predation risk). Endothermy facilitates activity during cold periods6, and may have benefitted early mammals by permitting nocturnal activity to reduce predation by diurnal dinosaurs7. Furthermore, interactions between physiological characteristics, body size, and morphology may favour activity schedules that moderate exposure to thermal stress8. Large species may avoid overheating by limiting activity during warmer periods of the day9,10. By contrast, smaller species that can lose heat rapidly may favour activity in warmer periods of the day11,12. Moreover, activity patterns likely reflect a combination of processes and constraints. For example, small rodents may avoid diurnal predation through nocturnal behaviour, yet be active during daylight in response to food availability, temperature variation, or reduced competition or predation2,13,14.

Here, we study the diel activity patterns of ground-dwelling and scansorial (i.e., adapted to climb) mammals inhabiting protected tropical forests across the Neotropics, Afrotropics, and Indo-Malayan tropics. We examine patterns and test predictions associated with three alternative hypotheses (Fig. 1) for the main processes potentially driving them. First, if the energetic cost of thermoregulation constrains diel activity (H1), then (1) larger mammals should be more active during the night when it is colder and smaller mammals more active during the day when it is warmer, irrespective of the dietary functional group. If bottom-up processes regulate diel activity (H2), then activity patterns of predators (e.g., carnivores) should match that of prey species (e.g., herbivores, insectivores). Finally, if top-down processes regulate the diel activity of animals in a community (H3), (3a) prey species such as herbivores should exhibit diel activity patterns contrasting those of predators of a similar size, and (3b) small carnivores should exhibit diel activity patterns that avoid large carnivores (Fig. 1). Here, we examine the diel activity pattern of distinct forest mammal communities using standard data collected from multiple sites across multiple regions. We show that diel activity appears remarkably consistent in relation to trophic guilds and body mass, which implicates multiple factors. First, herbivore activity and insectivores in two regions appears to be determined by thermoregulation. Second, smaller prey species (i.e., insectivores, and omnivores) and small carnivores reflect some top-down avoidance of top predators. Third, top-predators show bottom-up regulation of their activity in response to herbivores prey.

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