There is increasing interest in spatio-temporal analysis of environmental and ecological response to changes in the climate due to the recent concerns about climate change. In this work we propose a spatio-temporal modeling framework for analyzing environmental and ecological data while accounting for spatial and temporal structure, as well as climate effects. As an example, we consider data on...

Resource allocation to multiple alternative conservation actions is a complex task. A common trade-off occurs between protection of smaller, expensive, high-quality areas versus larger, cheaper, partially degraded areas. We investigate optimal allocation into three actions in boreal forest: current standard forest management rules, setting aside of mature stands, or setting aside of clear-cuts....

The publication of the ‘System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA)’ by the United Nations marked a decisive advance in the discussion of environmental accounting and will have a great influence on the design of national environmental accounting systems. SEEA contains a great variety of definitions, methods and procedures. Before this important system will be adopted on a ...

Estuary Ecosystem, the second largest estuary in North America and home to hundreds of species of ecological, commercial, and recreational value. Unlike other estuaries in the Mid-Atlantic, the Delaware estuary’s tide range is greater than the ocean tide range, generally about 2 meters. Beaches account for 52 percent of the bay’s shore, with marsh and eroding peat accounting for most of the rem...

This note incorporates ecological interactions into the Noah's Ark problem. In doing so, we arrive at a general model for ranking in situ conservation projects accounting for species interrelations and provide an operational cost-effectiveness method for the selection of best preserving diversity projects under a limited budget constraint.

Over the last few decades, ecologists have come to appreciate that key ecological patterns, which describe ecological communities at relatively large spatial scales, are not only scale dependent, but also intimately intertwined. The relative abundance of species – which informs us about the commonness and rarity of species – changes its shape from small to large spatial scales. The average numb...

The genomic information of microbes is a major determinant of their phenotypic properties, yet it is largely unknown to what extent ecological associations between different species can be explained by their genome composition. To bridge this gap, this study introduces two new genome-wide pairwise measures of microbe-microbe interaction. The first (genome content similarity index) quantifies si...

sustainable ecotourism is a nature oriented tourism that maintains a sound relationship with the natu-ral environment, and contributes to its conservation. ecological understanding is a prerequisite of sus-tainable ecotourism. nature conservation and ecotourism are interdependent. there should be a sym-biotic relationship between the two, in which, both derive sustainable benefits in a lengthy ...

This article examines the concept of ecomasculinity--how masculinities and ecologies interact--through lens deep ecology, arguing (following Serpil Oppermann) that Pynchon's postmodernist boundary collapsing informs deep-ecological interconnections for male characters previously embroiled in negative cycles patriarchal dominance. Ecomasculinity is an important emerging within ecocriticism, reco...