Ecological systems
Vector-borne disease and climate change adaptation in African dryland social-ecological systems
... social-ecological systems par- ticularly in light of increasing threats associated with cli- mate change [ 84 ...grazing systems function to maintain resilience [ 75 ...
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Social-ecological systems in the Anthropocene : the need for integrating social and biophysical records at regional scales
... social-ecological systems, choosing rather to examine and highlight the important role for empirical ...common. Systems dynamic, agent-based and cellular automaton-type modelling approaches are all ...
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The resilience of social and ecological systems: taking account of uncertainty for development
... and ecological system through the prism of resilience also implies recognising that resilience may be a problem and that the system may therefore need to ...and ecological systems concerned will ...
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Using a view of livestock farms as social-ecological systems to study the local variety in their trajectories of change
... family-farm systems, social-ecological systems, sustainability Introduction The aim of the present study was to develop a comprehensive assessment of the diversity of individual trajectories of ...
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Integrated modelling of social-ecological systems: The MAELIA high-resolution multi-agent platform to deal with water scarcity problems
... social-ecological systems: The MAELIA high-resolution multi-agent platform to deal with water scarcity problems between each water delivery in a given field) is represented according to the annual area to ...
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Edges between agriculture and forest viewed as interfaces between social and ecological systems
... This is an author’s version published in: http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/16310 To cite this version: Deconchat, Marc and Ouin, Annie and Alignier, Audrey and Roume, Anthony and Giffard, Brice and Ladet, Sylvie and ...
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Sociotechnical system analysis of weeding, key step for designing agro-ecological systems at the watershed scale
... 1 University of Bonn, Inst. Crop Sci. and Res. Conserv. (INRES), Germany 2 University of Bonn, Dept. of Geography, Germany 3 University of Bonn, Steinmann-Institute, Germany While flooding periods curtail cultivation, ...
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Consideration of decision-making processes in agent-based models of social-ecological systems
... 4 CONCLUSION Environmental sciences are much more familiar with the modeling of natural processes than with the modeling of human and social activities. For instance, the growth of plant is a well-defined process that ...
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Edges between agriculture and forest viewed as interfaces between social and ecological systems
... Marc Deconchat, Annie Ouin, Audrey Alignier, Anthony Roume, Brice Giffard, Sylvie Ladet, Anne Sourdril. To cite this version:[r] ...
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Crossing sociological, ecological and nutritional perspectives on agrifood systems transitions: towards a transdisciplinary territorial approach
... of ecological systems. This article has focused on ecological and social processes, but health processes should also be tackled in future ...social, ecological, and health processes be ...
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Learning about social-ecological trade-offs
... Although the model was introduced as a thinking tool to support the collective process, some participants held to the idea of the model as a tool for prediction. Perhaps due to perceptions of scientific expertise, a ...
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SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL THEORIES AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH. COMPARING SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SCHOOLS OF THOUGHTS IN ACTION
... to ecological stability ...in ecological systems illustrated the existence of multiple stability domains or multiple basins of attraction in natural systems and how they relate to ...
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The changing landscape of ecological networks
... the ecological network model has a different meaning in the scientific community, where it is used to test hypotheses relative to the functioning of populations in a land- scape, compared to in a local society, ...
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Realized ecological forecast through an interactive Ecological Platform for Assimilating Data (EcoPAD, v1.0) into models
... for ecological fore- casting is particularly urgent in this rapidly changing world, which is experiencing unprecedented natural resource deple- tion, increasing food demand, serious biodiversity crisis, ac- ...
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Ecological Restoration of Ultramafic Soils
... Vegetation on ultramafic disturbed areas: - 50% of bare soil on ultramafic rocky tailings. - Dominant vegetation grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae). Shallow root systems (less than 30 cm depth). - ...
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Ecological intensification for crop protection
... abuse. Ecological intensifi cation emerged only a few years ...compare ecological intensifi cation and IPM, from the point of view of crop ...Neither ecological intensifi cation nor IPM have ...
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Diatoms and Their Ecological Importance
... Johann.Lavaud@bio.ulaval.ca Definition Diatoms are unicellular or colonial photoautotrophic microalgae, eukaryotic organisms classified as protists of the group of the Bacillariophyta. They are characterized by the ...
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Guide for implementing ecological intensification of aquaculture systems
... 83. ECOLOGICAL INTENSIFICATION OF INTEGRATED FISH FARMING: PRODUCTION OF PIGS/FISH IN CHAPÉCO (BRAZIL) ...having systems that integrated fish production (tilapia, common carp, bighead carp) with pig ...
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CSR ecological strategies and plant mating systems: outcrossing increases with competitiveness but stress-tolerance is related to mixed mating
... and ecological disturbance such as pollinator losses or plant density variation (Knight et ...other ecological properties determine establishment and survival of pioneer ...of ecological strategies ...
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Stable isotopes as descriptors of ecological niches
... The isotopic niche is a proxy ! It is influenced by both resource and habitat use. Relative importance of those two drivers is case-dependent. Know your system. The isotopic niche is a proxy ! Its resolution is limited. ...
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