The objective of this study was to explore the ideas and reasoning students use to make a collaborative environmental management decision. Eight groups of 8th-grade students (n ˆ 24) considered ecological and economic information about an invasive aquatic species to make a management recommendation. In addition to discussing the exact information they were given, the groups made a variety of in...

38 Ecological context, sensory inputs, and the internal physiological state are all factors 39 that need to be integrated for an animal to make appropriate behavioral decisions. 40 However, these factors have rarely been studied in the same system. In the African 41 cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni, males alternate between two phenotypes based on 42 position in a social hierarchy. When domina...

Key-words: Artificial neural networks, random forests, native fish, species richness, Mediterranean rivers Machine learning (ML) techniques have become important to support decision making in management and conservation of freshwater aquatic ecosystems. Given the large number of ML techniques and to improve the understanding of ML utility in ecology, it is necessary to perform comparative studi...

Wetlands are important to the survival of the earth environment and ecosystems, along with the extent of the ecological study of regional governance continues to accelerate, the regulators have implemented various ecological management project management process kinds of data and information related to the increasing range. The traditional data management model is difficult to meet the current ...

Humans live in close relationship to the environment, which they directly and indirectly use and depend on for food resources, building materials, protection, relaxation, to mention but a few examples. Recent years have seen depletion of the health of many natural environments leading to a stronger focus on natural resource based management approaches. While in earlier decades management was dr...

A lean approach to the planning of the construction process is a strategic challenge to analyse and manage organisational and technical factors that characterise decisions. Towards a non-schematic, non-repetitive, shared planning, construction managers need a flexible technique, tailored to the organisational process and able to represent an articulated semantic of the construction process. The...

The strategies to perform the transportation of agricultural commodities by truck in Brazil are a challenge to decision making. This paper brings together widely held theories that are vertical coordination and decision analysis, to present a discussion of decision making in organizations. From a model capable to process main objectives, multiple criteria and variables found in transport vertic...

In this study, we investigate the general parameters to evaluate the performance of soccer players and develop a database for performance evaluation of soccer players and a relevant decision support system (DSS) to help people such as technical director. In the proposed DSS, the data is collected by Data Collectors by using a proposed database. It helps the technical director to realize the per...

Interdependencies of ecologic, hydrologic, and social systems challenge traditional approaches to natural resource management in semi-arid regions. As a complex social-ecological system, water demands in the Sonoran Desert from agricultural and urban users often conflicts with water needs for its ecologically-significant riparian corridors. To explore this system, we developed an agent-based mo...