Updated Teaching Guide to “Hands-On” Landscape Analysis
Author: Sarah Gergel Published by: Springer (April 23, 2017) URL: www.springer.com/us/book/9781493963720 Learning Landscape Ecology, 2nd Edition This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the […]
No time to lose – Green the cities now!
In this paper we review and evaluate existing knowledge on human health impacts of urban natural spaces, such as parks and open water elements, and make a case for increased investments in such.
Conservation value of Mountain habitats for birds
From an extensive literature-based survey, we found that one-third of bird species breeding in continental North America use mountain habitats for at least one critical period of their annual life cycle (breeding, migration or winter).
Watching wildlife: remote camera networks to support biodiversity conservation
Effective monitoring of global trends in biodiversity is an important component of international commitments to protect wildlife. Remote cameras (aka camera “traps”) are a rapidly growing technology with great potential to transform the way wildlife monitoring is done.
Who logs illegally and why? Evidence from the Ecuadorian Amazon
Using data from a household survey covering colonist and Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, we have analyzed the socioeconomic determinants of legal and illegal smallholder timber harvesting. The results of a multinomial probit model reveal that non-harvesting households are statistically likely to be poor, to receive nonfarm income, to have smaller areas in primary forest and to reside closer to population centers.
Sustainable Forest Management: From concept to practice
An up-to-date synthesis of the state of knowledge on sustainable forest management from a variety of environmental, economic, social, cultural, and governance perspectives.
An important role for carbonic anhydrase in photosynthesis and local adaptation
Carbonic anhydrase is the second most abundant protein in plants, and therefore is quite possibly the second most abundant protein on Earth.
Measuring ‘resilience’: the need for conceptual and operational considerations
In the face of global change, the concept of resilience is being increasingly valued and adopted in the management of socioecological systems.
Destruction of the Lenakel Church (Tanna, Vanuatu) by cyclone Pam
Phil Evans and colleagues have been doing detailed archaeological research on a prefabricated timber church on Tanna Island, Vanuatu. The church was destroyed due to the overwhelming destructive forces of tropical cyclone Pam, which passed through Vanuatu on 13th March 2015.
Modelling occurrences of lightning-induced fires in northern China
The occurrence of lightning-induced forest fires during a time period is count data featuring over-dispersion (i.e., variance is larger than mean) and a high frequency of zero counts. In this study, we used six generalized linear models to examine the relationship between the occurrence of lightning-induced forest fires and meteorological factors in the Northern Daxing’an Mountains of China.