Publications by authors named "Helen Waters"
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- The expansion of oil palm plantations is harming wildlife and changing how ecosystems work in tropical areas by destroying diverse habitats.
- One way to help protect biodiversity is by keeping areas with trees (called buffers) around oil palm plantations or using old oil palms to create mature palm buffers.
- A study checked how these mature palm buffers affect the environment and insects over 8 years, and found that buffers can change local conditions and insect populations but the effects vary during the life cycle of the oil palm.
How we manage farming and food systems to meet rising demand is pivotal to the future of biodiversity. Extensive field data suggest impacts on wild populations would be greatly reduced through boosting yields on existing farmland so as to spare remaining natural habitats. High-yield farming raises other concerns because expressed per unit area it can generate high levels of externalities such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and nutrient losses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParticipants switched frequently between high/low and odd/even classification of a digit. The interval between a task cue and the next digit varied between blocks. In Experiment 1, the task switched predictably every two, four, or eight trials.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study examined whether alcohol abuse patients are characterized either by enhanced schematic processing of alcohol related cues or by an attentional bias towards the processing of alcohol cues.
Method: Abstinent alcohol abusers (N = 25) and non-clinical control participants (N = 24) performed a dual task paradigm in which they had to make an odd/even decision to a centrally presented number while performing a peripherally presented lexical decision task. Stimuli on the lexical decision task comprised alcohol words, neutral words and non-words.