Seascape ecology is an emerging pattern-oriented and integrative science conceptually linked to landscape ecology. It aims quantify multidimensional spatial structure in the sea reveal its ecological consequences. The seascape approach has made important advances shallow coastal environments, increasing exploration mapping of deep seabed provides opportunities for application ocean. We argue th...

Many systems dealt with in environmental sciences such as ecology or environmental biology could be easily modelled and efficiently simulated on personal computers or on workstations. Thanks to their graphical capabilities such computers make it possible to model systems interactively, e.g. supported by graphical structure editors. or allow for interactive simulation featuring s0phisticated gra...

Anthropogenic land use changes drive a range of infectious disease outbreaks and emergence events and modify the transmission of endemic infections. These drivers include agricultural encroachment, deforestation, road construction, dam building, irrigation, wetland modification, mining, the concentration or expansion of urban environments, coastal zone degradation, and other activities. These c...

The service sector now accounts for more jobs globally than either manufacturing or agriculture. Continued growth of the service sector requires service innovations that raise service quality and productivity. Even large manufacturing firms are getting more and more of their revenue from offering services. Yet creating service innovations reliably is difficult, particularly for knowledge-intens...

D. Mueller-Dombois and H. J. Boehmer University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Botany, 3190 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA University of Bonn, Interdisciplinary Latin America Center (ILZ), Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany Technical University of Munich, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Emil-Ramann-Strasse 6, 853...

Fostering interdisciplinary learning in biology will require significant changes in the way we teach science to K–12 students. The perspective on interdisciplinary biology teaching and learning in this essay is based on my experiences as a former research cell biologist, high school science teacher, and developer of secondary science curricula and teacher professional development programs used ...

In this article, I examine the relationships between new concepts of human activity in the environment and several prevention strategies used to plot a course toward sustainable use. Natural capitalism and industrial ecology are relatively new concepts that provide a framework for environmental management. Although the precautionary principle puts into policy a determination to prevent environm...