Modeling the Ecology and Evolution of Biodiversity: Introduction to the Special Issue

Introduction to special issue on biodiversity.

Cover Illustration: The study of biodiversity is fundamental to our understanding of life on Earth and to confronting some of the problems caused by our own species. Further, we increasingly count on biodiversity for a wide variety of ecosystem functions and services amidst a gauntlet of anthropogenic changes. In fact, biodiversity is disappearing at a rate even faster than the last mass extinc...

formation and evolution of regional organizations: the case study of the economic cooperation organization (eco)

abstract because of the many geopolitical, geo economical and geo strategically potentials and communicational capabilities of eco region, members can expand the convergence and the integration in base of this organization that have important impact on members development and expanding peace in international and regional level. based on quality analyzing of library findings and experts interv...

Introduction to the Special Issue on the Evolution of Cooperation

contribution of setting to the study of characters and the main idea in e. brontes: wuthering heights and t. hardys: return of the native.

this thesis aims to adduce an unmitigated and comprehensive explication concerning the relationship of three significant elements of fiction: setting, chracter and theme. my research is basically placed on two outstanding novels of the 19th century: emily brontes wuthering heights and thomas hardys return of the native. my endeavour lies in studying the correlation among the three above-mention...

Experiments in Digital Evolution (Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue)

Whether or not the field of artificial life has succeeded in doing what its name suggests, namely synthesizing life from non-living components, is a matter of contention. Clearly, this journal covers a broad range of topics related to the synthesis and simulation of living systems, but only a few articles go so far as to unabashedly study wholly artificial forms of life. The field of digital ev...