The main concept behind this paper is that pattern and processes are linked in a mutual way. In the last decades landscape ecology was dominated by quantitative descriptions (landscape metrics ) of the landscape under concern and its components. Now there is a growing interest in the cause-effect-relationships between these environmental characteristics. Highresolution aerial photography hold a...

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA Correspondence Ana Sofía Guerra, Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Univers...

Environmental changes due to non-native species introductions and translocations are a global concern. Whilst understanding the causes of bioinvasions is important, there need for decision-support tools that facilitate effective communication potential risks invasive stakeholders. Decision-support have been developed mostly in English language only, which increases linguistic uncertainty associ...

In the context of digital transformation, discourse ecology is reshaped through reorganization and reconstruction course design, teaching implementation, evaluation effects by teachers, to better promote high-quality classroom reform. The paper proposes a construction strategy for in higher vocational foreign language classrooms analyzes how use tools build an efficient, lively, diverse specifi...

Although Switzerland is a plurilingual country, most early education and care (ECEC) institutions are monolingual. Yet, new have recently established English as second language of instruction, addressing economically advantaged families. Despite the growing body international research on policy practice in multilingual ECEC, only few addressed such ‘privileged’ institutions, role children play ...