Browsing by Subject "Urbanization"
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A comparative land Use-based analysis of noise pollution levels in selected urban centers of Nigeria
(MDPI, 2015)Growth in the commercialization, mobility and urbanization of human settlements across the globe has greatly exposed world urban population to potentially harmful noise levels. The situation is more disturbing in developing ... -
Contrasting impacts of cultivated exotics on the functional diversity of domestic gardens in three regions with different aridity
(Springer, 2020)Cultivated exotic plants are often introduced for their aesthetic value and today comprise a substantial fraction of the flora of urban domestic gardens. Yet, their relative contribution to the functional diversity of ... -
Coping with urbanization: a cardiometabolic risk? The THUSA study
(Elsevier, 2008)An assessment of specific coping styles in rural-urban Africans is done to evaluate its contribution as cardiometabolic risk factor. In total, 608 apparently healthy Africans were included in a cross-sectional comparative ... -
The effect of urbanization and agriculture on predacious arthropod diversity in the Highveld grasslands
(2015)Biodiversity provides vital ecosystem services and more diverse ecosystems are known to be more stable and resilient in the face of disturbance. Predacious arthropods provide a valuable ecosystem service to control pest ... -
Leveraging the urban-rural divide for epigenetic research
(Future Medicine, 2020)Urbanization coincides with a complex change in environmental exposure and a rapid increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Epigenetics, including DNA methylation (DNAm), is thought to mediate part of the association ... -
Socio-demographic and lifestyle factors predict 5-year changes in adiposity among a group of black South African adults
(MDPI, 2017)The rising prevalence of obesity and excessive adiposity are global public health concerns. Understanding determinants of changes in adiposity over time is critical for informing effective evidence-based prevention or ... -
The effect of airplane noise on frogs: a case study on the Critically Endangered Pickersgill's reed frog (Hyperolius pickersgilli)
(Springer, 2016)Species communicating acoustically may develop behavioral responses that aid them to transmit information and overcome signal masking in habitats disturbed by anthropogenic noise. Although many studies have concentrated ...