Preface: Ostracoda: biostratigraphy and applied ecology

Applied Ecology

1. General Introduction: What is Applied Ecology? 2. Ecosystem Management and Conservation 2.

Preface: numerical and applied linear algebra

This special issue of Advances in Computational Mathematics is devoted to Numerical and Applied Linear Algebra, which is an important area of mathematics and a fundamental part of engineering and computational science problems. One of the main tools of this area is matrices, properties of which are studied and computations of them are performed, with different methods, in a variety of applicati...

Preface Substrate utilization tests in microbial ecology

Carbon source utilization tests based on the reducdefining a coloration threshold for positive controls tion of a tetrazolium dye were developed for the or a certain average absorption value improves identification of bacteria [1]. Since Garland and reproducibility, but which threshold gives the best Mills [2] first used such Biolog (Hayward, Ca., resolution? It was also proposed to determine ...

Meta-analysis in applied ecology.

This overview examines research synthesis in applied ecology and conservation. Vote counting and pooling unweighted averages are widespread despite the superiority of syntheses based on weighted combination of effects. Such analyses allow exploration of methodological uncertainty in addition to consistency of effects across species, space and time, but exploring heterogeneity remains controvers...

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