John Heydinger
University of Minnesota
12 Papers
25 Citations
John Heydinger is an academic researcher from University of Minnesota. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem services & Population. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 10 publications. Previous affiliations of John Heydinger include Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology & University of Cape Town.
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Papers
Desert-adapted lions on communal land: Surveying the costs incurred by, and perspectives of, communal-area livestock owners in northwest Namibia
TL;DR: The first-ever attempt to quantitatively and qualitatively examine local pastoralists' perceptions of the desert-adapted lions and the impacts of living with lions in northwest Namibia was made by.
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Reinforcing the Ecosystem Services Perspective: The Temporal Component
John Heydinger,John Heydinger +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, three arenas of inappropriate application of the economic valuation approach to ecosystem services are detailed, these are defined as ecological, social-natural, and socioeconomic problems, and each problematic arena suggests the primary shortcoming of the EGS approach: it lacks an incorporation of the temporal component.
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Defining cultural functional groups based on perceived traits assigned to birds
Kim C. Zoeller,Kim C. Zoeller,Georgina G. Gurney,John Heydinger,John Heydinger,Graeme S. Cumming,Graeme S. Cumming +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used cluster analysis to identify six major cultural functional groups based on scores assigned to bird species: Visual Traits, Negative Visual and Behavioural Traits; Movement and Ecological Traits.
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‘Vermin’: Predator Eradication as an Expression of White Supremacy in Colonial Namibia, 1921–1952
TL;DR: In the first half of the 20th century, the racialised policies of apartheid affected not only the people of South West Africa but the predator population as well as mentioned in this paper, and this article explores how South We...
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A More-Than-Human History of Apartheid-Era Planning in Etosha-Kaokoveld, Namibia, c.1960–1970s
TL;DR: Following the release and implementation of the ‘Report of the Commission of Enquiry into South West Africa Affairs’ (Odendaal Plan) in 1964, humans and non-humans in Etosha-Kaokoveld (northwest Nam...
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