Contrasting Winter Moose Nutritional Carrying Capacity Models on a Dynamic Landscape

Estimating landscape carrying capacity through maximum clique analysis.

Habitat suitability (HS) maps are widely used tools in wildlife science and establish a link between wildlife populations and landscape pattern. Although HS maps spatially depict the distribution of optimal resources for a species, they do not reveal the population size a landscape is capable of supporting--information that is often crucial for decision makers and managers. We used a new approa...

Moose winter browsing patterns on clear-cuttings in northern Ontario.

Dynamic Load Carrying Capacity of Flexible Manipulators Using Finite Element Method and Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle

In this paper, finding Dynamic Load Carrying Capacity (DLCC) of flexible link manipulators in point to-point motion was formulated as an optimal control problem. The finite element method was employed for modelling and deriving the dynamic equations of the system. The study employed indirect solution of optimal control for system motion planning. Due to offline nature of the method, many diffic...

Dynamic Load Carrying Capacity of Mobile-Base Flexible-Link Manipulators: Feedback Linearization Control Approach

This paper focuses on the effects of closed- control on the calculation of the dynamic load carrying capacity (DLCC) for mobile-base flexible-link manipulators. In previously proposed methods in the literature of DLCC calculation in flexible robots, an open-loop control scheme is assumed, whereas in reality, robot control is achieved via closed loop approaches which could render the calculated ...

Landscape Evaluation and Carrying Capacity Calculation on the Mogi-Guaçu and Pardo Watershed

The lack of quantitative data of landscape use can affect in a negative form the elaboration of public policy related to land occupation for agricultural or urban purposes. Some tools can be used for this purpose, but only emergy approach is able to account all energy inputs (from nature and economy). In this sense, the Landscape Development Intensity Index (LDI) that uses emergy synthesis as b...