Human Dimensions: Vegetation Ecology

Human Ecology: Industrial Ecology

Industrial Ecology aims to inform decision making about the environmental impacts of industrial production processes by tracking and analyzing resource use and flows of industrial products, consumer products and wastes. Quantifying the patterns of use of materials and energy in different societies is one area of research in Industrial Ecology. An extensive literature is devoted in particular to...

Human dimensions from Quranic perspective

Ever since the creation of mankind, there have been different and variable viewpoints about the aspects of the human being. Words such as "Body", "Psyche", "Soul" and "Spirit" have usually been employed regarding human by philosophers, religious scholars, physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists. Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Rhazes, Avicenna, Engle, and World Health Organization ha...

Society for Human Ecology Human Ecology Review

Ponderosa Pine Seedlings and Competing Vegetation: Ecology, Growth, and Cost

Foresten oftm need information on the cost effedivenessofmanual and chemical release treatments for individual and combined species in young mixed-shrub communities. A studvin northern Califomia evaluated fivemanual and chemical treatmcnts and their effect an several shmbs and grasses. Treatments were grubbing at age 1 to 2-and 441 (0.6-and 1.2-m) radii, regrubbing and expanding the 2-ft radii ...

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology.

Dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) are powerful tools to project past, current and future vegetation patterns and associated biogeochemical cycles. However, most models are limited by how they define vegetation and by their simplistic representation of competition. We discuss how concepts from community assembly theory and coexistence theory can help to improve vegetation models. We furth...