Sentence examples for ecological representation from inspiring English sources

Researchers in the northwestern USA have suggested that thinning of young, regenerating clearcuts may increase the abundance and diversity of some forest-dependent small mammals by increasing rates of forest development and enhancing the ecological representation of mid-successional stands across managed landscapes.

In a first stage, models based on standardized structure-functional diagram are computed.[2] In a second stage, these diagrams as inputs are transformed through a model-driven engineering process, involving a library of ecological graphical representations and an interface background.

Here we propose four archetypical social-ecological system representations for European rangelands along the dimensions of socioeconomic aspirations (i.e., oriented toward conventional or sustainable production) and available financial capital (i.e., low or high) to employ farming technologies on rangelands.

Implementation of the NNL Program, a means to provide recognition to outstanding sites, and the National Park System Plan, a method to identify gaps in park ecological and geological representation, proceeded together.

In sum, these results suggest that over a quarter of a century protected areas have on average proven effective in the protection of plant production, a vital ecosystem function, in terms of the two key components of ecological effectiveness, their representation of this function and its persistence through time.

Muetzelfeldt's interest in dynamic representation of ecological relationships (e.g., Muetzelfeldt et al.,1989) led to the development of Simile, a visual modelling environment useful for modelling ecological and agricultural systems (Muetzelfeldt and Taylor, 1997; Muetzelfeldt and Massheder, 2003).

A component-based design for supporting the simulation of wildlife movements is presented in this paper in order to illustrate how component modeling can be used to support the spatial representation of ecological phenomena and processes.

This paper examines a number of climate-related issues that now confront agencies and organizations responsible for the protection of natural heritage areas, including the roles of protected areas, representation targets, ecological integrity, protected area design, management techniques, research and monitoring needs, and agency capacity to respond.

These binary food webs provide a tractable representation of ecological complexity, and their structure has important consequences for many aspects of ecosystem function, including the relationship between network complexity and system stability [3], their robustness and resilience to species extinctions [4] and their resilience in the face of environmental change [5].

Thus, even though we may have selected individuals that did not provide the most accurate representation of ecological fitness under metal stress, the molecular endpoints will be more closely related to specific copper-induced mechanisms.

GIS-based models constitute two-dimensional visual representations of ecological systems.