Aim The distribution of zooplankton functional traits is a key factor for regulating food web dynamics and carbon cycling in the oceans. Yet, we lack clear understanding how many groups (FGs) exist their are distributed on global scale. Here, model map environmental habitats copepod (i.e. main component marine zooplankton) FGs to identify regions sharing similar trait expression at community le...

Fatigue increases the tendency of poor train driving strategy decision. Decision making in cognitive overload and underload situation mostly outputs bad decisions. Accordingly, driver’s function is required to be sTable during travel so that they can give correct response at a given situation. This study constructs conceptual framework for workload management (CWM) driver by taking energy expen...

BACKGROUND As an empirical medical system independent of conventional Western medicine (CWM), over thousands of years, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has established its own unique method of diagnosis and treatment. The perspective of holism and system in TCM is essentially different from the view of Reductionism in CWM. With the development of modern science and technology, the restriction...

Plant functional traits underlie vegetation responses to environmental changes such as global warming, and consequently influence ecosystem processes. While most of the existing studies focus on the effect of warming only on species diversity and productivity, we further investigated (i) how the structure of community plant functional traits in temperate grasslands respond to experimental warmi...

The decision-making processses can be supported by many tools such as DW (Data Warehouse), OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) and GIS (Geographical Information System). Much research found in literature is aimed at integrating these technologies. However, the metamodeling of spatial and dimensional schemas for GDW (Geographical DW) is still an open question. In this context, this paper propos...

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function has increasingly been debated as the cornerstone of the processes behind ecosystem services delivery. Experimental and natural field-based studies have come up with nonconsistent patterns of biodiversity-ecosystem function, supporting either niche complementarity or selection effects hypothesis. Here, we used aboveground carbon (AGC) ...