Ecological Indicators
Making ecological indicators management ready: assessing the specificity, sensitivity, and threshold response of ecological indicators
... of indicators’ specificity and sensi- tivity and identifying robust responses of indicators to ...on ecological processes) and the different species and taxa represented in the different ecosystem ...
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Ants as ecological indicators of rainforest restoration: community convergence and the development of an Ant Forest Indicator Index in the Australian wet tropics
... faunal indicators of restoration success that more comprehensively reflect changes in biodiversity and ecosystem ...as ecological indicators and emphasize the importance of restoration methods that ...
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Diatoms as ecological indicators of water quality assessment in adihalli lake, Gandasi lake and halagenalli lakes of Arasikere Taluk, Hassan District, Karnataka, India
... Ecological indicators have pervasive appeal to scientists, environmental managers and general public at ...Currently, indicators are primarily used to assess condition of the environment, as ...
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Bacillariophyceae as Ecological Indicators of Water Quality in Manair Dam, Karimnagar, India
... relative importance of physico-chemical parameters on the growth of algae. The diatoms showed significant relation with water temperature, DO, silica, organic matter and chlorides. The temperature is significantly and ...
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Connectivity and Ecological Indicators Analysis of Tropical Forest Landscape in Batang Toru Watershed - Indonesia
... Abstract : Connectivity is one of the important issues in the context of natural resources due to its potential in preventing the impact of habitat fragmentation. Landscape forest connectivity facilitates organism ...
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ASSESSMENT OF MICROELEMENTS SOIL POLLUTION WITH ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
... The eroded soils of Moldova constitutes about 80% from total soil surfaces [1]. On the catena with eroded soils exists the soil pollution by erosion, by excess or defi ciency of plant nutrients, by soil compaction [2-7]. ...
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Mangrove vegetation and community structure of brachyuran crabs as ecological indicators of Pondicherry coast, South east coast of India
... view of commercially valuable species found there and others which affect the overall mangrove ecology (Tan and Ng 1994). Degradation of mangrove leaf litter by crabs, sesarmids in particular, plays a major link between ...
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Impact of missing data on the estimation of ecological indicators from satellite ocean-colour time-series
... missing data; Right panel: Bias after applying linear interpolation to fill missing data. 850[r] ...
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Bycatch and strandings programs as ecological indicators for data-limited cetaceans
... A major hurdle in using bycatch per unit effort as an ecologi- cal indicator for data-limited cetaceans is that gear selectivity can distort underlying ecological trends. Gear selectivity can also make it difficult ...
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Carabid beetles as biodiversity and ecological indicators
... Species-occurrence data for carabids and a range of Coleoptera collected by continuous year-long pitfall trapping at fifty-one sites in three biomes, dry sclerophyll forest, remnant nati[r] ...
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Social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs
... positive ecological conditions in the face of the commons ...Our ecological indicators— reef fish biomass and functional richness—are strong predictors of reef ecosystem ...
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The ecological boundaries of semi-arid wetland using a protocol enhanced by bird indicators: The international Alagol wetland of Iran
... of ecological indicators is necessary for boundary ...main indicators of wetland areas for connecting the sampling points in each transect around the wetland to define the ...
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Ecological Restoration Indicators apllied to Permanent Preservation Areas surrounding the springs
... in ecological restoration projects (Martins, 2014), mainly in Permanent Preservation Areas (PPA) surrounding the springs – riparian areas must be protected in a radius of 50 meters from spring water-eyed, as ...
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Ecological boundaries: a derivative of ecological entities
... One reason for why ecologists stop short of elaborating further on the concept of boundary is that they seem to as- sume that the boundaries are fairly obvious. But the practices of choosing boundaries are inconsistent ...
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Reflections on collectively working toward sustainability: indicators for indicators!
... (i) The use of WUE and $WUE as guides to management planning and performance review (system evaluation); (ii) The use of nutrient balance accounting and tactical adjustment in consideration of current soil status, ...
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Should researchers use single indicators, best indicators, or multiple indicators in structural equation models?
... single indicators to incorp- orate multiple-regression-like control for potentially confounded ...multiple indicators to locate a mechanism car- rying a postulated effect, to extend a theory’s reach, or ...
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Construction of Indicators on human resources Higher Education Indicators
... SOURCES: National Science Board, Science and Engineering Indicators 2004, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and Brazilian Ministry of Education, CAPES.... Brazil Canada Mexico [r] ...
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Ecological Kinds and Ecological Laws
... I offer three case studies in support of this conclusion. The first involves the species-area relations of organisms in different trophic levels. This case exemplifies what I claim is a typical practice, in which ...
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Trends in the performance of quality indicators for diabetes care in the community and in diabetes-related health status: an Israeli ecological study
... Table 1 presents the quality indicators in diabetes used in 2002-2010. These include both process and intermediate outcome measures. The diabetes preva- lence measure was based on the prescription of medi- cations ...
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Ecological Modelling
... The output of the SIENA model consists of a set of estimates of the parameters, along with their standard errors. This allows us to statistically test effects that are hypothesized to be among the driving forces of ...
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