Wills continued, joking: "If this had been a suppression fire from Day 1, the firefighters would all be getting cash rewards — 'You saved Old Station, not a single structure was burned, no loss of life.' The biggest lesson here was not operational or ecological, it was sociopolitical: what we perceived versus what the public perceived.
The need to maximize the performance and operational reliability of ecological continuous conveyor systems is increasing nowadays and their requirements are difficult to fulfil.
However, little attention has been paid to making these graph-theoretic approaches operational within landscape ecological assessments, planning, and design.
Similar taxonomies can be used differently: undergraduates use taxonomy as a "stand-in for ideas about the likely distribution of biologically related properties," whereas "for the Itza' (and other knowledgeable groups), the taxonomy may constrain the likely operational range of ecological agents and causes" (p. 114).
The software implements the ecological network operational model, the required analysis activities, and the needed graphics capabilities.
The model provides a flexible framework that allows for landscape heterogeneity and a range of ecological and operational considerations and constraints.
Our operational planning protocol integrates ecological and socio-economic factors to identify the best spatial options for conserving and restoring biodiversity, inside and outside extant reserves, while minimising future land-use conflicts.
Ecological networks provide an operational methodology for the implementation of regional conservation strategy and planning that goes beyond protected area designation to integrate the spatial scale of ecological processes and social issues.
Developing operational guidelines to help to mitigate ecological damage to biodiversity should be based on cautionary principles and requires further large-scale and long-term research.
This procedure is analogous to the approach that is applied in ecology for estimating the number of species or OTU's (operational taxonomic units) in a given geographic area or ecological niche [55].
