This paper details the motivations, design, and realization of Sustainable, a dynamic, robotic sound installation that employs a generative algorithm for music and sound creation. The piece is comprised of seven autonomous water gong nodes that are networked together by water tubes to distribute water throughout the system. A water resource allocation algorithm guides this distribution process ...

According to climate models, drier summers must be expected more frequently in 5 Central Europe during the next decades which may influence plant performance and 6 competition in grassland. The overall source-sink relations in plants, especially allocation of 7 solutes to aboveand below-ground parts, may be affected by drought. To investigate solute 8 export from a given leaf of broadleaf dock,...

According to climate models, drier summers must be expected more frequently in 5 Central Europe during the next decades which may influence plant performance and 6 competition in grassland. The overall source-sink relations in plants, especially allocation of 7 solutes to aboveand below-ground parts, may be affected by drought. To investigate solute 8 export from a given leaf of broadleaf dock,...

Global change is associated with fast and severe alterations of environmental conditions. Superimposed onto existing salinity variations in a semi-enclosed brackish water body such as the Baltic Sea, a decrease in salinity is predicted due to increased precipitation and freshwater inflow. Moreover, we predict that heavy precipitation events will accentuate salinity fluctuations near shore. Here...

Phenotypic differentiation in size and fecundity between native and invasive populations of a species has been suggested as a causal driver of invasion in plants. Local adaptation to novel environmental conditions through a micro-evolutionary response to natural selection may lead to phenotypic differentiation and fitness advantages in the invaded range. Local adaptation may occur along a stres...

Relatively concise executive summaries are provided for the scientific evidence supporting the parks field’s contribution to five elements of environmental sustainability: protecting drinking water, controlling flooding, cleaning air, reducing energy costs, and preserving biological diversity. Given the importance of economics in government resource allocation decisions, the discussion stresses...

The regeneration niche has been little investigated in studies of community assembly and plant distribution. We examined adaptive associations between seedling traits and habitat specialization. Two habitat contrasts were investigated across several evolutionary lineages of angiosperms: species specialized to forest vs. open habitats and to dry vs. wet habitats. We also tested whether effects o...

With the rapid growth of wireless access networks, various providers offer their services using different technologies such as Wi-Fi, Wimax, 3G, 4G and so on. These networks compete for the scarce wireless spectrum. The spectrum is considered to be a scarce resource moderated by the spectrum allocation regulatory (“regulatory” for short) which is the governance body aiming to maximize the socia...