Ecosystem Informatics brings together mathematical and computational tools to address scientific and policy challenges in the ecosystem sciences. These challenges include novel sensors for collecting data, algorithms for automated data cleaning, learning methods for building statistical models from data and for fitting mechanistic models to data, and algorithms for designing optimal policies fo...

FOREST is a software environment for designing, implementing, and evaluating ecosystem simulations. Written in Java, it encourages modelers to use an object-oriented design to promote extensibility and model reuse. The paper introduces a new design pattern, called the Event Handler Pattern, that allows modelers to extend an existing class hierarchy without modifying existing code.

Fens represent a large array of ecosystem services, including the highest biodiversity found among wetlands, hydrological services, water purification and carbon sequestration. Land-use change and drainage has severely damaged or annihilated these services in many parts of North America and Europe; restoration plans are urgently needed at the landscape level. We review the major constraints on ...

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Resource-based couplings occur at the local scale between different habitat types. The meta [5_TD$DIFF]-ecosystem framework demonstrates the significance of among-ecosystem spatial flows for ecosystem dynamics and has fostered a rich body of theory. The high level of abstraction of the models, however, impedes applications to empirical systems. We argue that further understanding of spatial dyn...

The technological revolution in blockchain achieved the healthcare sector and offered a significant opportunity to lead this digital transformation. A problem is that various organizations keep numerous fragmented patient medical records. proposed platform solves by integrating electronic reports private permissioned create distributed health record (EHR) ecosystem. In context, information proc...

Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) in high volcanic islands can be an important source of freshwater and nutrients to coral reefs. High inorganic nutrient content is generally thought augment primary production coastal systems but when this delivered via a vector as the case with SGD study, effects on productivity are unclear. In current literature, there limited evidence for direct associat...