Kaschner, K., Tittensor, D. P., Ready, J., Gerrodette, T. & Worm, B. Current and future patterns of global marine mammal biodiversity.
Kaschner, K., Tittensor, D. P., Ready, J., Gerrodette, T. & Worm, B.. Current and future patterns of global marine mammal biodiversity.
The selected papers exemplify the use of observational and experimental approaches to identify mechanisms of ecological change in forests, and the use of indicators to predict current and future patterns of biodiversity.
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used socioeconomic surveys, high-resolution satellite imagery and carbon mapping to plot past and future patterns of land conversion for a representative region in Indonesia, the Ketapang district of West Kalimantan Province in Borneo.
Darwin's manufactory hypothesis can therefore be extended to examine the link between past and future patterns of diversity.
Several consequences resulting from the use of these substitutes for fossil fuels, and from their transportation, may place considerable pressures on the environment, and there is also some concern regarding the sustainability of present and future patterns of energy consumption.
Indeed the crisis in the Crimea could well have significant longer term implications: for Nato; for the European Union; for Washington's relationship with Europe; and for the future pattern of energy supplies.
The spatially modeled relationship between I. scapularis presence and large-scale environmental data provides a robust suitability model that reveals essential environmental determinants of habitat suitability, predicts emerging areas of Lyme disease risk, and generates the future pattern of I. scapularis across the United States.
In the interest of sustainability, it is important to explore present and future patterns and implications of Asian emerging special economic zones.
There is therefore need for further assessment of how the workforce capacity can be improved in terms of the numbers, skills and competencies for improved disaster response, in light of uncertainties surrounding future pattern of disasters.
