Metacommunity Spatio-Temporal Dynamics: Conservation and Management Implications
Author | : Pedro Giovâni Da Silva |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 2889667804 |
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Author | : Pedro Giovâni Da Silva |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 2889667804 |
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2001-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309072786 |
Since the dawn of medical science, people have recognized connections between a change in the weather and the appearance of epidemic disease. With today's technology, some hope that it will be possible to build models for predicting the emergence and spread of many infectious diseases based on climate and weather forecasts. However, separating the effects of climate from other effects presents a tremendous scientific challenge. Can we use climate and weather forecasts to predict infectious disease outbreaks? Can the field of public health advance from "surveillance and response" to "prediction and prevention?" And perhaps the most important question of all: Can we predict how global warming will affect the emergence and transmission of infectious disease agents around the world? Under the Weather evaluates our current understanding of the linkages among climate, ecosystems, and infectious disease; it then goes a step further and outlines the research needed to improve our understanding of these linkages. The book also examines the potential for using climate forecasts and ecological observations to help predict infectious disease outbreaks, identifies the necessary components for an epidemic early warning system, and reviews lessons learned from the use of climate forecasts in other realms of human activity.
Author | : James Thorson |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2024-02-27 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1003851835 |
Ecological dynamics are tremendously complicated and are studied at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Ecologists often simplify analysis by describing changes in density of individuals across a landscape, and statistical methods are advancing rapidly for studying spatio-temporal dynamics. However, spatio-temporal statistics is often presented using a set of principles that may seem very distant from ecological theory or practice. This book seeks to introduce a minimal set of principles and numerical techniques for spatio-temporal statistics that can be used to implement a wide range of real-world ecological analyses regarding animal movement, population dynamics, community composition, causal attribution, and spatial dynamics. We provide a step-by-step illustration of techniques that combine core spatial-analysis packages in R with low-level computation using Template Model Builder. Techniques are showcased using real-world data from varied ecological systems, providing a toolset for hierarchical modelling of spatio-temporal processes. Spatio-Temporal Models for Ecologists is meant for graduate level students, alongside applied and academic ecologists. Key Features: Foundational ecological principles and analyses Thoughtful and thorough ecological examples Analyses conducted using a minimal toolbox and fast computation Code using R and TMB included in the book and available online
Author | : Monica Montefalcone |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2023-08-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 2832532314 |
Landscape ecology has been a discrete, established discipline since at least 1980. Its marine counterpart, seascape ecology, is barely a decade old, its first applications dating from the early 2010s. Lack of perception of the marine environment hampers the adoption of many landscape ecology approaches to the sea. Seascape ecology relies on special technologies such as remote sensing (either acoustic or optical), robotics, and scuba diving. Both disciplines deal with the spatial configuration of ecosystems and consider environmental heterogeneity and dynamics as the main subjects of study and the key for ecosystem functioning and persistence. Seascape is here intended as the totality of natural and anthropogenic characters of a marine region. To the geologist, it is defined by sedimentology and underwater geomorphology, to the biologist by the nature of the living cover of the seafloor, to the ecologist by the relationships among functional processes and the spatial organization of ecosystems. The goal of this research topic is to encourage original research, case studies, reviews, and viewpoints to identify research priority gaps and possibly contribute to filling them in. We will appreciate, in particular, manuscripts dealing with recent advances such as high-resolution habitat mapping; underwater soundscape and biophony; development, application and validation of biotic indices to assess seafloor integrity (as requested, for instance, by recent European Directives). Papers of interest may discuss the multivarious facets of stability and describe resistance and resilience patterns, the role of stress and disturbance, regime shift and phase shift, or may take up the challenge of integrating coastal landscape and seascape analyses. Studies of long-term series are welcome, as well as methodological improvements, and macroecological approaches on the importance of species diversity and connectivity in seascape organization.
Author | : Diaraf Seck |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 410 |
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ISBN | : 3031526813 |
Author | : Roksana Majewska |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 283253080X |
Author | : Alida Bundy |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2021-11-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 2889717127 |
Author | : Rodolfo Silva |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2023-02-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 283251443X |
Author | : Athanassios C. Tsikliras |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2023-10-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 2832537758 |
Author | : Shubin Lan |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2024-08-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 2832553028 |
Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are widely distributed throughout the world, and cover approximately 12% of the terrestrial surface. Biocrusts are composed of cyanobacteria, algae, lichens, mosses, and a great diversity of other microorganisms, which bind soil particles together to form a layer of biological-soil matrix on the soil surface typically of several millimetres thickness. They are important sites of regional and global microbial diversity and perform multiple ecological functions (multifunctionality). During the evolution of terrestrial life on earth, biocrusts are regarded as the main colonising photosynthetic organisms before the advent of vascular vegetation. They not only represent the early stages of terrestrial ecosystems, but also facilitate the ecosystem’s development and succession. Therefore, biocrusts are recognised as ecological engineers in the natural development of ecosystems and for the restoration of degraded terrestrial ecosystems. The development of biocrusts is highly heterogeneous, which is reflected on both temporal and spatial scales, and this heterogeneity is still clearly visible even in a small scale. However, up to now, only limited knowledge is acquired on biocrust temporal and spatial organisation. In particular there still is a large knowledge gap regarding the various biocrust communities under different developmental states and their related physiological metabolisms and ecological functions. Therefore, in-depth studies of these issues will undoubtedly further promote our understanding of the heterogeneous development of biocrusts, as well as their ecological multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems. The relevant contributions are expected to provide a scientific basis for the management of biocrusts and technology development (e.g. cyanobacteria-induced biocrust technology) for ecological restoration and the promotion of soil health.