Efforts to preserve biological diversity must focus increasingly at the ecosystem level because of the immense number of species, the majority of which are currently unknown. An ecosystem approach is also the only way to conserve processes and habitats (such as forest canopies, belowground habitats, and hyporheic zones) that, with their constituent species, are poorly known. Continued concern w...

This paper describes two systems for picture taking with mobile phone cameras. The first system, MMM, is a platform for generating semantically rich metadata for mobile pictures at the time of image capture. The second system, MobShare, is a mobile picture sharing and discussing system that takes advantage of the temporal and social information in the camera phone. The paper also discusses comb...

Although nutrient supply often underlies long-term changes in aquatic primary production, other regulatory processes can be important. The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a complex of tidal waterways forming the landward portion of the San Francisco Estuary, has ample nutrient supplies, enabling us to examine alternate regulatory mechanisms over a 21-yr period. Delta-wide primary productivi...

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) plays a critical role in the carbon (C) cycle of forest soils, and has been recently connected with global increases in nitrogen (N) deposition. Most studies on effects of elevated N deposition on DOC have been carried out in N-limited temperate regions, with far fewer data available from N-rich ecosystems, especially in the context of chronically elevated N depos...

Abstract Duru et al. (Agron Sustain Dev 35:1259-1281, 2015) highlighted a missing tool for studying and improving the performance of cropping systems in transition to highly diversified agriculture. In response, this paper proposes concept designing, modeling, monitoring, auditing desired ecosystem services, intercropping agroforestry systems. We have labelled ESSU (Ecosystem Services functiona...

A small hydro-power plant designing in aspect of current legislation is an interdisciplinary problem because the fact that efficiency priority not so important as ecological one. In this article regulations concerning permissions for operation are discussed. The criteria presented a impact on river ecosystem.

Background. It cannot be denied that sport ecosystem consists of complex stakeholders. According to that, smart orchestration was needed to permit integration and promote active cross-sectoral. It required a suitable strategy to integrate and engage the entire system at any individual group, enterprise-level, and public sector. Therefore, the practical strategy will engage the entire system, so...