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Regional NPP and Carbon Stocks in Southwestern USA Rangelands: Land-use Impacts on the Grassland-Woodland Balance: Historical and on-going woody plant proliferation in the world’s extensive dryland ecosystems may have significant implications for the global carbon cycle. Factors contributing to these ecosystem transitions are ... |
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Disturbance Dynamics in Subalpine Forest: Ecological theory suggests that succession becomes increasingly unpredictable as disturbance intensity increases. If disturbances occur in rapid succession, regeneration patterns and mechanisms are much less predictable than after a single disturbance and novel successional pathways are possible. Increasingly, ecosystems are exposed to multiple disturbances as human land management practices fold into natural disturbance regimes, perhaps magnifying system-scale stresses. |
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World Deltas Network: A data, information, and research support service for deltas, to advance integrated science in the coastal zone, spanning physical, biological, and sociological disciplines. |
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Architecture for Modeling Ecological Functions: A "proof of concept" demonstration to map an invasive macro-algae problem in Hawaii and vegetation distribution in India. Ecological Niche Modeling is built on a standard ecological basis (reduction to the ideal Gaussian response). The basic ideas apply a theoretical decomposition mathematical equation into sub Gaussians (similar to a Fourier analysis). |
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Social-ecological Systems in Urban Environments: Urban ecosystems depart from the regional native ecosystems in which they reside. In a sense, they are new ecological systems, with complex and broad-ranging resource demands and socioeconomic forces absent in the original 'wild' environment. |
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