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Data from: The role of fish life histories in allometrically scaled food-web dynamics
2019
1. Body size determines key ecological and evolutionary processes of organisms. Therefore, organisms undergo extensive shifts in resources, competitors and predators as they grow in body size. While empirical and theoretical evidence show that these size-dependent ontogenetic shifts vastly influence the structure and dynamics of populations, theory on how those ontogenetic shifts affect the structure and dynamics of ecological networks is still virtually absent. 2. Here, we expand the Allometric Trophic Network (ATN) theory in the context of aquatic food webs to incorporate size-structure in the population dynamics of fish species. We do this by modifying a food web generating algorithm, th…
Data from: Functional responses of multi-taxa communities to disturbance and stress gradients in a restored floodplain
2015
1. Trait-based approaches can reveal the mechanisms through which disturbances or stress impact communities, allowing comparisons of the role of different mechanisms in shaping communities among taxonomic groups. Such information can lead to higher comparability, transferability and predictability of the outcome of restoration projects. However, multitaxa trait-based approaches were rarely used in the context of ecosystem restoration. 2. We investigated the responses to environmental gradients of seven taxa (vascular plants, staphylinid and carabid beetles, spiders, isopods, diplopods and earthworms) in a restored floodplain using a species traits approach. We assessed the impact of flood d…
Data from: The relevance of ecological status to ecosystem functions and services in a large boreal lake
2015
1. Environmental conventions aim to protect ecosystem structures and functions to provide goods and services for mankind. The degree of aquatic ecosystem naturalness, or ecological status as it is defined in the Water Framework Directive (WFD) of the European Union, is notionally linked to supplies of ecosystem services. In practice these links have rarely been documented or even investigated and, to justify conservation and management objectives based on the status indicators, it is essential to demonstrate their relationships to ecosystem functions and services. 2. The WFD requires member states to classify their surface waters aiming to achieve good ecological status of water bodies. How…
Supplementary material 1 from: Barone G, Cirlincione F, Di Gristina E, Domina G, Gianguzzi L, Mirabile G, Naselli-Flores L, Raimondo FM, Venturella G…
2022
List of data references on botanical studies of higher plants in Italian wetlands
"Front Matter: Volume 9637", Proc. SPIE 9637, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XVI
2015
This proceedings volume includes papers presented during the conference on Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology. The conference was part of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing sponsored by SPIE. The symposium was held at the Centre de Congrès Pierre Baudis, Toulouse, France, 21- 24 September 2015. The conference is dedicated to providing rapid dissemination of scientific and technical information, and attracts scientists and professionals from throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Approximately 34 oral and 25 poster presentations were given this year, covering a broad range of topics in the field of remote sensing applications in environmental sci…
Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XII
2010
Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XIV
2012
Introduction - This proceedings volume contains papers presented during the conference on Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XIV. The conference was part of the 19th International Symposium on Remote Sensing sponsored by SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. The symposium was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, from 24th to 26th of September 2012. The conference is dedicated to providing rapid dissemination of scientific and technical information, and attracted scientists and professionals from throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. More than 30 oral and 30 poster presentations were given, c…
A stochastic reaction-diffusion-taxis model for two picophytoplankton populations
2012
In this work, the stationary distributions of two populations of picophytoplankton, i.e. picoeukaryotes and Prochlorococcus, are studied. This two groups account on average for 60% of the total chlorophyll a (chl a) and divinil chlorophyll a (divinil chl a) concentration in Mediterranean Sea. The interaction of these populations with the environment occurs through two factors that limit the growth of the aquatic microorganisms: light intensity and nutrient, i.e. phosphorus. The dynamics of the two picophytoplanktonic groups, distributed at different depth along a water column (one-dimensional spatial domain), is analyzed starting from a deterministic reaction-diffusion-taxis model. This con…
Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XX
2018
This proceedings volume contains papers presented during the Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology Conference. The Conference was part of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing sponsored by SPIE—The International Society for Optics and Photonics. The Symposium was held at the ESTREL Congress Centre, Berlin, Germany, from 10th to 13th of September 2018. Approximately 40+ oral and 20 poster papers were presented during this year’s conference, covering a broad range of topics in the field of remote sensing applications for environmental science.