The Southern Africa Millennium Ecosystem Assessment developed an index for quantifying the state of biodiversity. The Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) operates at the species level, and is based on changes in species abundance, rather than changes in richness brought about by extinction. The BII uses spatial data on species richness and land use activities per ecosystem type to weight estima...

Computer scientists, biologists, and natural resource managers recently met to examine the prospects for advancing computer science and information technology research by focusing on the complex and often-unique challenges found in the biodiversity and ecosystem domain. The workshop and its final report reveal that the biodiversity and ecosystem sciences are fundamentally information sciences a...

L. Souza ([email protected]), Oklahoma Biological Survey and Dept of Microbiology and Plant Biology, 111 E. Chesapeake St., Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA. – T. J. Zelikova, Dept of Botany and Biodiversity Inst., Berry Center 231, 1000 E. University Ave., Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. – N. J. Sanders, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum o...

This report describes unique surveillance system on a section of I-80 freeway in the city of Emeryville. The system, called the Berkeley Highway Laboratory (BHL), consists of eight dual loop detector stations along the freeway section, and 12 video cameras. Advanced machine vision algorithms were developed to process the video data to generate vehicle trajectories. Efforts are underway to fuse ...

OBJECTIVE To identify and highlight the feasibility, challenges, and advantages of providing a cross-domain pipeline that can link relevant biodiversity information for phyto-therapeutic assessment. MATERIALS AND METHODS A public repository of clinical trials information (ClinicalTrials.gov) was explored to determine the state of plant-based interventions under investigation. RESULTS The re...

human activities due to implementation of projects has caused significant concerns on biodiversity in human societies. hence, assessing the environmental impacts of those projects has been considered as a tool to help environmental managers to prevent emergence of those adverse impacts in general and those impacts which are related to biodiversity, in particular. it is provided that all compone...

1. The Biosphere at Risk 2. Characterization of Biodiversity 3. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function 4. Global Change: Magnitude, Distribution, and Characteristics of Biodiversity Dynamics 5. The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Structure 6. The Biodiversity of Marine Ecosystems 7. Perspectives for Biodiversity Utilization, Protection, and Research Acknowledgments Glos...

Africa has high biodiversity and is rapidly urbanizing. However, there is limited understanding of how urban expansion in Africa is likely to affect its habitats and biodiversity. Little urban ecological research has been done in Africa. This study needs to think ahead as Africa move into the “urban age” it is critical to inform the public on the importance of urban environment...

The e-business ecosystem may be deviate from the equilibrium state in its development process. In this article the authors defined the e-business ecosystem health by combining ecological principles, and developed ecological indicators of e-business ecosystem health. The method of ecosystem health assessment (include biodiversity index method and index of biological integrity method) was introdu...

The breadth of biodiversity literature available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is potentially of great use to agricultural research. It provides access to literature drawn from across the world, and its archives document the Earth as it was one hundred years ago and more. However, this strength of BHL is also its weakness: the breadth of coverage of BHL can complicate finding ...