Humans are composite organisms — ecosystems made up of human cells together with about 3 pounds of bacteria, our forgotten organ.
This will require significant improvement in the communication and collaboration with the disciplines and sectors of society currently responsible for managing various land uses, in order to appreciate the composite value of ecosystem services provided by rangelands (Herrick et al. 2012).
They are designed to maximize a certain biodiversity dimension such as coverage of species in the case of hotspots and complementarity, or composite properties of ecosystems in the case of wilderness.
The final output of the vulnerability assessment was expressed as a composite index, composed of ecosystem exposure, sensitivity and resilience to climate thermal change, and including biological, ecological and spatial traits of vegetation types in the assessment.
For describing the recycling systems in nature, an articulated design science research (DSR) framework is necessary for which we have constructed data models for composite lithosphere-atmosphere-biosphere-hydrosphere ecosystem (LABHE).
The monument provides a unique opportunity for scientific study of the dynamics of an active composite volcano and for research on how ecosystems respond to cataclysmic disturbances.
We created a composite service index as a linear combination of the ecosystem service metrics, each weighted by one or more preference weights (Equation 1).
Since we launched two and half years ago, we've been getting our own house in order, minimising our operational impact and driving innovative research in a number of areas, from ecosystem restoration to reuse and recyclability of composite materials.
In this study, composite measures for environmental perception and preferences for specific ecosystem components and landscape design were integrated in an 18-item questionnaire (questionnaire items 8 25 in Table 1).
Sustainability is a dynamic, complex and composite data relationship among geographically distributed human and environment ecosystems.
