Nowadays, where public projects are more and more committed to sustainable development, the user perception become a determinant factor for the decision-making process. This paper targets to evaluate the use of an immersive, multisensory and interactive method based on virtual reality (VR) system in order to study human behaviour and perception. Today, non-immersive, non-interactive and mono-se...

Female preferences for male mating signals are often evaluated on single parameters in isolation or small suites of characters. Most signals, however, are composites of many individual parameters. In this study we quantified multivariate traits in the advertisement call of the túngara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus. We represented the calls in multidimensional scaling space and chose nine test ca...

Risk perception is important in organizational and societal governance contexts. This article presents a high-level analysis of risk research using Web Science core collection databases, scientometrics methods visualization tools. The focus on trends outputs, geographical temporal trends, patterns the associated scientific categories. Thematic clusters dynamics topics are identified keyword ana...

This contribution investigates the idea of herbal landscape, associated with a personal perception of landscape as a source of materia medica. The herbal landscape can be divided into specific smaller units according to several natural and cultural boundaries. This explains why the original knowledge of plants gleaned by one set of inhabitants may be clearly distinguished from that of close nei...

Research on consumer, grower, and landscape manager perception of azalea lace bug, Stephanitis pyrioides (Scott), feeding and on plant productivity parameters, including gas exchange and growth, has increased our understanding of the nature of feeding injury. These studies made it possible to develop decision-making guidelines for cost-effective maintenance of aesthetically pleasing azaleas. Cr...

How is gradual landscape change perceived and dealt with at the community level? Based on a case study approach, this question is investigated with regards to agricultural abandonment and the subsequent expansion of forests in the Black Forest, Germany. In the case presented, local residents’ perception of incremental landscape change does not correspond with a survey on biophysical features of...