Ecologist in today’s world should know the terminology related to ecology areas. Thus, modern ecological education be accompanied with development of some nature interpretation skills within language. In many languages, there is a special category words – onomatopoeia (onomatopes), which conditionally reproduce various sounds that exist nature: bam, bom, bang, bul, boom, cap, ding, chik, smack,...

The Virtual Ecology Workbench (VEW) is a suite of utilities for creating, executing and analysing biological models of the ocean. At its core is a mathematical language allowing individual plankters to be modelled using equations from laboratory experiments. The language uses conventional mathematical assignments and seven plankton-specific functions. A model consists of a number of different p...

Forestry and forest ecology research potentially lags behind related fields such as ecology, biodiversity, conservation in the employment of open-source software solutions, specifically R programming language. A direct comparison last decade published literature from top 20 forestry journals shows that is utilized over 30% for yet less than 10% literature. Open-source computing environments, R,...

Abstract Since the concept of ecology was first applied to language over 50 years ago, field ecolinguistics has developed into a thriving branch linguistics that is more than ever closer pressing issues our time. This article aims trace historical development ecolinguistics, discusses main trends in current research, and provides brief projection potential future developments. The part includes...

Industrial Ecology aims to inform decision making about the environmental impacts of industrial production processes by tracking and analyzing resource use and flows of industrial products, consumer products and wastes. Quantifying the patterns of use of materials and energy in different societies is one area of research in Industrial Ecology. An extensive literature is devoted in particular to...

Abstract Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way? Here we compare how five Western deaf coordinate fully conventionalized forms with more richly improvised semiotics to identify talk about referents varying agency. The (based on a convenience sample) are Auslan, Irish Sign Language, Finnish Norwegian Swedish Language. Using ten retellings Frog, Whe...