• This Research Topic presents new research investigating the coupling between physical (fluid dynamics, mass transport, and light availability) and biological (nutrient cycling, particle transport, ecosystem structure, and biodiversity) processes in aquatic canopies. (mblwhoilibrary.org)
  • In these socio-ecological systems (SES), communities utilize diverse technologies, knowledge, and management structures to produce food, fodder, and fiber to support their livelihoods, steward ecosystems and local biodiversity. (yale.edu)
  • We applied a hierarchical model to camera- and live-trapping data from a region in Borneo, and estimated the relative abundance (controlling for imperfect detection) of 57 terrestrial mammal species, as a function of either categorical or continuous metrics of land-use change. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • LPJ-GUESS is a flexible framework for modelling the structure and dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems at landscape, regional and global scales. (lu.se)
  • A brief overview of the main technical features and processes behind wind energy planning will allow a more effective understanding of their potential impacts on World Heritage and catalyse more efficient dialogue between stakeholders to seek solutions. (unesco.org)
  • This part of the Guidance provides heritage and impact assessment practitioners, site managers and heritage institutions an overview of the process for assessing the impacts of wind energy projects associated with World Heritage properties. (unesco.org)
  • As a result, interest from both the scientific community and society at large has turned its attention to the functioning of cities and their impacts on larger regions, global resources, and human well-being. (frontiersin.org)
  • His research focuses on understanding the likely impacts of climate change on the Southern Ocean and how changes in the physical environment are likely to cause changes to the marine ecosystem of the region. (edu.au)
  • Stuart's teaching expertise covers climate and ocean modelling, weather and climate, numerical oceanography and impacts of environmental change on ecosystems and society. (edu.au)
  • BEPS uses principles of the Forest BioGeochemical Cycles (Forest-BGC) model [Running and Coughlan, 1988] for quantifying the biophysical processes governing ecosystem productivity. (ornl.gov)
  • I particularly enjoy collaborating with biogeochemical modellers, translating knowledge of ecology and physiology into mechanism-focussed models that help reduce uncertainty in our projections of how the ecological and biogeochemical functioning of the global will change in the future. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Output data from the model include current values of state variables, as well as biogeochemical fluxes of CO2 and H2O from ecosystems to the atmosphere or hydrosphere (Figure 1). (lu.se)
  • The potential output of the model include current values of the ecosystem state variables (e.g. biomass for different plant functional types, PFTs) as well as biogeochemical fluxes of CO2 and H2O from ecosystems to the atmosphere or hydrosphere. (lu.se)
  • Organisms (including humans) and resources compose ecosystems which, in turn, maintain biophysical feedback mechanisms that moderate processes acting on living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of the planet. (drustvo-celiakija.si)
  • This paper presents an open-source Decision Support System (DSS) able to quantify the economic value of forest ecosystem services and their dynamic trade-offs. (sisef.it)
  • The aim of this project is to develop methodologies for a landscape approach for forested areas, demonstrate how synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services can be analyzed using this approach and highlight the advantages compared to business as usual approaches. (lu.se)
  • This enables scientists to better track carbon cycle responses to environmental change and tune biochemical processes in vegetation models for an improved simulation of future change. (copernicus.org)
  • and (3) adjustments of biophysical and biochemical parameters for the main boreal land cover types. (ornl.gov)
  • 2) land cover information derived from satellite data is used to set biophysical and biochemical parameters [Cihlar et al. (ornl.gov)
  • nevertheless, urban ecosystems contain a broad range of distinct microenvironments and biological assemblages, from remnant natural ecosystems to almost completely human built and constructed environments. (frontiersin.org)
  • SOILSTATE (Proposal) EU HORIZON EUROPE (2022-2027): The approach of Soilstate combines physical, biological, chemical and land use/land management indicators to form a soil health index to establish the status and changes in soil health adapted to the different land use systems and pedoclimate zones in Europe. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • lt;p>IPBES is the scientific assessment process for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, equivalent to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (iefworld.org)
  • Knowledge and understanding · describe the structure and function of the Earth system, including its physical, chemical, and biological subsystems. (lu.se)
  • Precision medicine (PM) is personalized medicine that can develop targeted medical therapies for the individual patient, in which "omics" sciences lead to an integration of data that leads to highly predictive models of the functioning of the individual biological system. (cdc.gov)
  • Together these developments represent a sea change in the capitalization of nature, such that all natural processes that involve ecosystem services to the economy are now increasingly seen to be subject to exchange on the market for profit-all in the name of conservation and climate change. (monthlyreview.org)
  • 2006) in the social-ecological system (SES) reflect the inability of policy tools to adequately manage the complex social-ecological processes in the LCB, including multiple sources of nonpoint nutrient pollution on the surface, climate change-benthic phosphorus interactions, and the inability to effectively regulate agricultural land use on private lands (Koliba et al. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • Changes in relative abundance across nine functional effects groups based on diet were minimal from old-growth to logged forest, but in oil palm only the vertebrate predation function was maintained. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • To fix ideas, functional relations containing only few biophysical parameters of this assumption can never be fully guarantied and which role zocor online purchase different parts performing a simple fully-connected neural network for predicting drug-target interaction. (stpancraschurch.org)
  • Amyloidosis is the major cause of many neurodegenerative diseases, such as, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's where the misfolding and deposition of a previously functional protein make it inept for carrying out its function. (bvsalud.org)
  • a world where all that one has seems to come from economic activity and not from the ecological processes which underlie and sustain all living existence. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Including the cold-temperature limitation in an ecosystem model improved its ability to simulate spring photosynthesis. (copernicus.org)
  • We found that, after calibration, CLM was able to reasonably simulate the observed fluxes of energy and carbon, carbon stocks, carbon isotope ratios, and ecosystem response to water stress. (copernicus.org)
  • The model may be applied to simulate the potential ecosystem of a particular area or region, or across a grid made up of many adjacent areas (grid cells). (lu.se)
  • This process is called photosynthesis, and results in the phytoplankton converting naturally occurring carbon into protoplasm. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fast" process, such as photosynthesis, respiration and stomatal regulation are implemented on a time step of one day (or one month, interpolating between output values for adjacent months to obtain a value for each day). (lu.se)
  • Rivers hold, move, and address multiple urban challenges through their hydrological and ecological processes. (iwaponline.com)
  • In an in silico search for correlated gene loss with fungal peroxisomal uric acid oxidase (UOX), we identified PMP22-like proteins, some of which function as promiscuous channels in organellar membranes. (uoa.gr)
  • A Decision Support System for trade-off analysis and dynamic evaluation of forest ecosystem services. (sisef.it)
  • The main strengths and weaknesses of the DSS are discussed in light of its potential for application in the sector of Payment for Ecosystem Services. (sisef.it)
  • Different methodologies have been applied to determine the relative importance of single ecosystem services or the Total Economic Value (also defined as Total Value of Ecosystem Services - TVES). (sisef.it)
  • RECARE EU Framework VII (2014-18): Assessment of current soil threats and innovative measures to protect soil function and ecosystem services. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • qui en exempte l'application de la Loi sur les services en français. (ontario.ca)
  • Our quantitative imaging strategy will be of high value for characterizing the dynamics and function of MCSs between various organelles in living cells. (nature.com)
  • The "slow" processes of individual allocation and growth, population dynamics and disturbance are implemented once each simulation year (Figure 1). (lu.se)
  • IF WE DO NOT DRAW ATTENTION TO POTENTIAL RISKS already in the product development stage, we run the risk of releasing particles into our environment which, for many reasons, could be harmful both to humans and to ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • While urban ecology is poised to make new breakthroughs in the functioning of complex, human-dominated ecosystems, the potential to translate scientific advances to practical applications has never been greater. (frontiersin.org)
  • The challenge going forward will be to apply an increasingly advanced and nuanced understanding of urban ecology in the practice of planning, designing, and monitoring cities as dynamic ecosystems. (frontiersin.org)
  • Although the importance of social-ecological alignment on effective governance is increasingly clear, governance systems often evolve incrementally and in a manner that fails to adequately align resources and governance networks with biophysical structures, processes, and legacies. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • We also show that coordination in the system is largely a function of geographic proximity and shared issues of concern, demonstrating the importance of multidimensional, social-ecological perspectives in the collaborative governance of freshwater systems. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • River rehabilitation projects are socio-ecological governance processes. (iwaponline.com)
  • Geography is defined as the study of spatial phenomena and the interaction between society and nature consequently describing and explaining the spatial patterns and processes. (ukessays.com)
  • Therefore, a small village settlement likely constituted a social community and spatial subdivisions of cities and other large settlements may have formed communities. (drustvo-celiakija.si)
  • The framework is made up of a number of modules (or submodels), each containing formulations of a relatively well-defined, related subset of ecosystem processes with a distinct spatial and/or temporal signature (characteristic scale). (lu.se)
  • The above-mentioned activities are altering the nature-made morphology as well as natural functions of the river system by either narrowing the section of the river, straightening of the meanders, modifying the natural topography along the banks, clearing of vegetation, and increasing impervious surfaces. (counterview.in)
  • In more recent decades, however, mainstream neoclassical economics (sometimes with the help of ecological economists), together with corporate finance, have completely separated the concept of natural capital from its original use-value-based critique, the memory of which has long receded, conceiving natural capital instead entirely in exchange-value terms, as just another form of financialized capital. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The quantification and integrated evaluation of these functions are in fact considered a cornerstone for natural resources planning and scenario analysis ( [23] ). (sisef.it)
  • In TEEB ( [47] ), ES are defined as the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human wellbeing or, in economic terms, the "dividend" that society receives from natural capital. (sisef.it)
  • Yet, urban ecosystems are fundamentally different from their natural counterparts in the dominant influence of human actions, both intentional and unintentional, on ecosystem function. (frontiersin.org)
  • Unlike natural ecosystems, cities contain many ecosystem components that are almost entirely human-constructed. (frontiersin.org)
  • Considers trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants of natural and ecosystems human-made plant communities. (washington.edu)
  • First, the framework has led to a fragmented approach to the development process, where economic growth trumps natural and human capital. (greattransition.org)
  • This is followed by consideration of the evolution of life on earth, exploring the underlying processes of natural selection and ecological interactions. (trentu.ca)
  • To contribute to discussions of rural gentrification, this study present a case study in which agricultural landscape can act as a replacement of natural amenities and create a similar process of landscape- specific gentrification models in the countryside. (lu.se)
  • This, and many other copepod-driven processes, help transport carbon down into the deep sea, where it may be locked away from the atmosphere for hundreds, or even thousands of years - thereby helping to regulate global climate. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Utilizes plant characteristics of color, texture, and form in studio project design. (washington.edu)
  • A central objective is to continually repeat this monitoring process to determine which agents change in abundance over time, find undiscovered agents already present, and detect new viruses when they appear. (cdc.gov)
  • The objective of the Guidance is to provide easy-to-understand and user-friendly information on wind energy projects and World Heritage protection and management, and to highlight processes and tools for overcoming potential challenges that may arise. (unesco.org)
  • NTSG Director Kimball was interviewed for an article discussing a recent publication that suggests that carbon sinks are forming in permafrost regions due to warming temperatures. (umt.edu)
  • This paper employs a 'governmentality' framework to analyse the capacity development processes within three river rehabilitation projects in Durban, South Africa. (iwaponline.com)
  • 2/5 · demonstrate the ability to analyse the interconnected structure and function of the Earth system from the local to the global level. (lu.se)
  • The function of PM transporters is finely regulated at the cellular level, in response to physiological or stress signals that promote, via α-arrestin-assisted ubiquitination, their endocytosis and vacuolar/lysosomal degradation, and in some cases recycling to the PM. Importantly, transporter oligomerization and specific interactions with membrane lipids are emerging as important players in transporter expression, function and turnover. (uoa.gr)
  • These actions are modifying the soil structure, its interactions with water and other bio-geo-chemical processes along the riparian zones, and aggravates the threat of disasters such as floods and water logging. (counterview.in)
  • Though taking place in different forms between portfolio investments and foreign direct investment, a facilitative approach, in principle, shifts the responsibility of defining and understanding the interplay between investment and sustainability to market interactions: between the investor and the recipient. (lu.se)
  • Introduces urban ecological design issues for good site-planning processes, principles, and methods. (washington.edu)
  • The human animal may be, individually, capable of some subtlety, but collective action tends to be pushed along by broad-stroke principles functioning in the weeds of daily detail. (blogspot.com)
  • Processes modify the values of state variables such as the cumulative annual net primary production (NPP), soil water availability, or aspects of the vegetation composition and structure. (lu.se)
  • The Net Primary Productivity (NPP) results over the BOREAS region were estimated from a process model, the Boreal Ecosystems Productivity Simulator (BEPS), which is driven by satellite and surface data. (ornl.gov)
  • Our primary mission is to advance knowledge of ecosystem structure, function & resiliency through emerging technologies in remote sensing & computational modeling, grounded in the biophysical sciences. (umt.edu)
  • All forms of life in the sea have the potential to become food for another life form. (wikipedia.org)
  • We recently demonstrated that cryptic amyloidogenic regions (CARs) of polar nature have the potential to form amyloid fibrils in vitro. (bvsalud.org)
  • He has previously been the degree coordinator for the Bachelor of Marine and Antarctic Science (physical oceanography specialisation), that is available exclusively to students form our partner university Ocean University of China. (edu.au)
  • Here, we develop a new hypothesis regarding a possible physical mechanism for habitat connectivity - an intermittent "thermal corridor" - using remotely sensed oceanography and 6 juvenile loggerhead sea turtles that formed part of a 15 year tracking dataset of 231 individuals (1997-2013). (frontiersin.org)
  • Includes active exploration of processes through which artists discover and translate ideas, feelings, and concerns into various forms of objects. (washington.edu)
  • DESURVEY EU Framework VI (2005-10) 'Global change and ecosystems' Defining a compact set of integrated procedures of desertification assessment and forecasting. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • The course provides knowledge of the biophysical components and overall function of the Earth system in relation to global climate and environmental change. (lu.se)
  • Activities will allow us to examine the media production process to consider the relationship between the methods, techniques, and approaches to how media has been produced. (washington.edu)
  • Our focus should be on enhancing the quality of urbanisation - from urban space, infrastructure, form and function, to lifestyle, energy choices and efficiency,' said Dhakal. (chinadialogue.net)
  • To isolate it and form a market for it was perhaps the weirdest of all the undertakings of our ancestors. (monthlyreview.org)
  • These samples would be pooled and processed by using available technology to isolate virus particles en masse, recover viral nucleic acids, produce amplified shotgun libraries, carry out shotgun sequencing of the mixture of viral genomes, and reconstruct these genomes in silico with the techniques originally developed to sequence the entire human genome from random fragments. (cdc.gov)
  • He has extensive experience in developing and interpreting output of ocean and climate models, but also specialises in developing and using ecosystem models, particularly those that describe aspects of the Southern Ocean marine ecosystem. (edu.au)
  • Atmospheric oxygen, fresh water, fertile soils, consistencies of climate and weather and many other vital consistencies are the products of functioning ecosystems. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • 1 In the process, the entire human relation to nature was alienated and upended. (monthlyreview.org)
  • As the world rapidly urbanizes, human settlements constitute one of the few ecosystems on earth that are significantly increasing in their extent. (frontiersin.org)
  • The planetary boundary framework contributes to this new paradigm by delineating a safe operating space, in terms of the degree of human perturbation of environmental processes, consistent with maintaining the planet's stability. (greattransition.org)
  • 5 As human biophysical pressures rise, threatening the stability of the planet, our understanding of development must transcend the current paradigm. (greattransition.org)
  • Designed to provide a basic understanding of the function of the human body using a systems approach. (trentu.ca)
  • The traditional process of discovering previously unknown human viruses, or variants of known viruses, is neither rapid nor thoroughly systematic. (cdc.gov)
  • Schematic representation of a process for systematic discovery of human viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • In this way, phytoplankton functions as the foundation of the marine food web by supporting all other life in the ocean. (wikipedia.org)
  • The second central process in the marine food web is the microbial loop. (wikipedia.org)
  • Only by constant repair, extension, restructuring, and the dynamic recycling of resources has the present landscape been achieved and maintained … all available cultural and environmental evidence indicates that the contemporary form of land use in Ifugao was developed in small increments by the forebears of the present inhabitants, over a period of many centuries, within this and adjacent regions of northern Luzon. (yale.edu)
  • develop skills in academic writing, the independent use of academic libraries and resources, including bibliographic databases, to critically evaluate, process and compile scientific information and data. (lu.se)
  • The rate or mode of a process may also be affected by the current values of the state variables, as well as by the input data to the model. (lu.se)
  • An ecosystem cannot be understood without knowledge of how its food web determines the flow of materials and energy. (wikipedia.org)
  • demonstrate knowledge of the scientific research process, including problem formulation, analytical reasoning, experimental design, data collection and analysis. (lu.se)
  • While the outward appearance of the agricultural landscape in the broader central valleys has probably retained its general form throughout the historic period, any resemblance to a static and unchanging permanent sculpture or construction is misleading. (yale.edu)
  • Survey of the development of landscape architecture as an art form from Mesopotamia to the present. (washington.edu)
  • The landscape of luxury newly- built farmhouses, in particular, has caused concerns over processes of rural gentrification. (lu.se)
  • Asserting the right to participate in landscape production and thus to help steer landscape along desirable development pathways remains a core component of landscape politics and grows in importance as many societies experience widespread citizen withdrawal from engagement in political processes. (lu.se)
  • Thus it can be developed within geography as the two are related in terms of the biophysical aspects. (ukessays.com)
  • For that reason, shifting the responsibility to the consumer to fuse a more molecular bond between investment and sustainability seems destined to meet an inconclusive outcome as it saps away the essential motivation to shoulder that burden both materially in terms of resource allocation and substantively as a determination to form a meaningful investment and sustainability nexus. (lu.se)
  • Conceptual representation of LPJ-GUESS showing the main process, time steps, state variables, and input environmental data. (lu.se)
  • Such applications are a test of both the depth and breadth of our understanding of urban ecosystem processes. (frontiersin.org)
  • Utilizes trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants as space forms in urban contexts. (washington.edu)
  • While Geography has followed almost all 19th and 20th Century social and biophysical sciences along the reductionist route, we have, in my view, tried to keep an eye on the "big picture" better than most. (ukessays.com)
  • Further development of the academic writing process, critical thinking, and analytical reading skills taught in FCWR 101. (nyit.edu)
  • Before joining the faculty at IMAS Stuart was a long-time member of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (co-located with IMAS). (edu.au)
  • Recent applications have centred on the downscaling of the coarse scale application to target areas where finer resolution data exists and more detailed processes can be parameterised. (leeds.ac.uk)
  • We need to track materials from their point of extraction, through transport and refinement to processing and manufacture, and on to the distributor, seller, buyer/user, support and maintenance organisation, disposal, and full recycling. (clubofamsterdam.com)
  • 2016). In flowering plants, cells called sieve elements form the tubes that transport sugars and other molecules through the phloem. (cancer-ecosystem.com)
  • Utilizes tree canopy layers, shrub masses, and ground plane layers as space forms in studio project designs. (washington.edu)
  • Introduces photography as an art form and artistic medium. (washington.edu)
  • Best management forestry practices can be identified by optimizing specific objective functions, e.g. , maximizing the economic value or identifying the ideal rotation period. (sisef.it)
  • The BOREAS DSP-05 team generated an NPP image over the BOREAS region from a process-based ecosystem model, the Boreal Ecosystem Productivity Simulator (BEPS). (ornl.gov)
  • The centre is to function as an umbrella organisation for clinical consultancy companies and other small companies in the region. (lu.se)
  • Species abundances directly affect the functioning of an ecosystem and its conservation value. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Prey species sharing an enemy (predator or parasitoid) can be linked by apparent competition, but it is unknown whether this process is strong enough to be a community-wide structuring mechanism that could be used to predict future states of diverse food webs. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Recovery of species at risk is the process by which the decline of an endangered, threatened, or extirpated species is arrested or reversed, and threats are removed or reduced to improve the likelihood of a species' persistence in the wild. (ontario.ca)