Environmental Noise Makes a Sensor More Sensitive

Temperature variation makes ectotherms more sensitive to climate change

Ectotherms are considered to be particularly vulnerable to climate warming. Descriptions of habitat temperatures and predicted changes in climate usually consider mean monthly, seasonal or annual conditions. Ectotherms, however, do not simply experience mean conditions, but are exposed to daily fluctuations in habitat temperatures. Here, we highlight how temperature fluctuation can generate 're...

Stimulating the Brain Makes the Fingers More Sensitive

Background: Introductions of non-native species can significantly alter the selective environment for populations of native species, which can respond through phenotypic plasticity or genetic adaptation. We examined phenotypic and genetic responses of Daphnia populations to recent introductions of non-native fish to assess the relative roles of phenotypic plasticity versus genetic change in cau...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Noise Monitoring

While environmental issues keep gaining increasing attention from the public opinion and policy makers, several experiments demonstrated the feasibility of wireless sensor networks to be used in a large variety of environmental monitoring applications. Focusing on the assessment of environmental noise pollution in urban areas, we provide qualitative considerations and preliminary experimental r...

Environmental monitoring aware routing: making environmental sensor networks more robust

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have a broad application range in the area of monitoring and surveillance tasks. Among these tasks, disaster detection or prevention in environmental scenarios is one typical application for WSN. Disasters may for example be forest fires, volcano outbreaks or flood disasters. Here, the monitored events have the potential to destroy the sensor devices themselves. ...