Impacts of forest loss on inland waters: Identifying critical research zones based on deforestation rates, aquatic ecosystem services, and past research effort

2016 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 277-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Fugère ◽  
Elizabeth A. Nyboer ◽  
Johanna C. Bleecker ◽  
Lauren J. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystem ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Inland Waters ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Deforestation Rates

Are microplastics destabilizing the global network of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem services?

2021 ◽  
pp. 111243
Author(s):  
Srinidhi Sridharan ◽  
Manish Kumar ◽  
Nanthi S. Bolan ◽  
Lal Singh ◽  
Sunil Kumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystem ◽  
Global Network

scholarly journals Methods for prioritizing protected areas using individual and aggregate rankings

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Carvalho ◽  
Kerry A Brown ◽  
Adam D Gordon ◽  
Gabriel U Yesuf ◽  
Marie Jeanne Raherilalao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Standardized Residuals

AbstractDespite their legal protection status, protected areas (PAs) can benefit from priority ranks when ongoing threats to their biodiversity and habitats outpace the financial resources available for their conservation. It is essential to develop methods to prioritize PAs that are not computationally demanding in order to suit stakeholders in developing countries where technical and financial resources are limited. We used expert knowledge-derived biodiversity measures to generate individual and aggregate priority ranks of 98 mostly terrestrial PAs on Madagascar. The five variables used were state of knowledge (SoK), forest loss, forest loss acceleration, PA size and relative species diversity, estimated by using standardized residuals from negative binomial models of SoK regressed onto species diversity. We compared our aggregate ranks generated using unweighted averages and principal component analysis (PCA) applied to each individual variable with those generated via Markov chain (MC) and PageRank algorithms. SoK significantly affected the measure of species diversity and highlighted areas where more research effort was needed. The unweighted- and PCA-derived ranks were strongly correlated, as were the MC and PageRank ranks. However, the former two were weakly correlated with the latter two. We recommend using these methods simultaneously in order to provide decision-makers with the flexibility to prioritize those PAs in need of additional research and conservation efforts.

scholarly journals Prospects for forest-based ecosystem services in forest-coffee mosaics as forest loss continues in southwestern Ethiopia

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 144-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Getachew Tadesse ◽  
Erika Zavaleta ◽  
Carol Shennan ◽  
Margaret FitzSimmons
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Southwestern Ethiopia

scholarly journals Introduction: The trouble with forest: definitions, values and boundaries

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muriel Côte ◽  
Flurina Wartmann ◽  
Ross Purves
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Geographic Information Science ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Forest Loss ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Forest Change ◽  
Deforestation Rates ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Resources Assessment

Abstract. Forest is in trouble. The most recent (2015) FAO Forest Resources Assessment shows an encouraging trend towards a decrease in deforestation rates, but it also points out that since 1990 total forest loss corresponds to an area the size of South Africa. Efforts to curtail deforestation require reliable assessments, yet current definitions for what a forest exactly is differ significantly across countries, institutions and epistemic communities. Those differences have implications for forest management efforts: they entail different understandings about where exactly a forest starts and ends, and therefore also engender misunderstandings about where a forest should start and end, and about how forests should be managed. This special issue brings together different perspectives from practitioners and academic disciplines – including linguistics, geographic information science and human geography – around the problem of understanding and characterizing forest. By bringing together different disciplinary viewpoints, we hope to contribute to ongoing interdisciplinary efforts to analyse forest change. In this introduction, we propose that interrogating the relationship between forest definitions, boundaries and ways of valuing forests constitutes a productive way to critically conceptualize the trouble that forest is in.

Risk Management Instruments, Strategies and Their Impact on Project Success

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vittal Anantatmula ◽  
Yang Fan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Project Success ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Risk Management Plan ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Risk Research ◽  
Individual Project

Risk is an inseparable event or occurrence to any project and it is a consequence of uncertainties and unknowns associated with the project and its execution. Past research studies generally focused on types of risks and risk management processes. This research effort, using a survey questionnaire, is an attempt to understand types of specific risk mitigation approaches that are commonly employed and their dependency with the type of an organization. This research effort also addressed relation between risk mitigation strategy of an organization and individual project manager’s propensity to risk. Research results show that project risk management plan and it development is likely to be influenced by cost and time aspects of a project but not on the project scope. Further, results revealed that many organizations depend on contingency budget rather than a formalized risk management plan.

Deceptive Communication in E-Collaboration

2011 ◽  
pp. 297-307
Author(s):  
Joey George ◽  
Kent Marett
Keyword(s):  
Research Effort ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Current Effort ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Impact

Much research within the field of MIS has been devoted to the use of collaborative technology by decision makers and the impact computer-mediated communication (CMC) has on collaborative work. Yet, there may be some unintended consequences for users of CMC, if someone involved in the joint effort decides to take the opportunity to deceive the others involved. In this chapter, we posit that CMC offers would-be deceivers advantages that otherwise do not exist with more traditional, richer media, using past research and established theories to help explain why. We review some of the findings from our ongoing research effort in this area and explain how difficult it is for computer users to detect deception, when it occurs. Finally, we discuss how the art of deception in computer-mediated collaboration potentially can affect both the current effort and future efforts of those involved, and we offer our thoughts on some of the factors CMC practitioners should consider when trying to combat computer-mediated deception.

Deceptive Communication in E-Collaboration

2011 ◽  
pp. 290-304
Author(s):  
Joey F. George ◽  
Kent Marett
Keyword(s):  
Research Effort ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Current Effort ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Impact

Much research within the field of MIS has been devoted to the use of collaborative technology by decision makers and the impact computer-mediated communication (CMC) has on collaborative work. Yet, there may be some unintended consequences for users of CMC, if someone involved in the joint effort decides to take the opportunity to deceive the others involved. In this chapter, we posit that CMC offers would-be deceivers advantages that otherwise do not exist with more traditional, richer media, using past research and established theories to help explain why. We review some of the findings from our ongoing research effort in this area and explain how difficult it is for computer users to detect deception, when it occurs. Finally, we discuss how the art of deception in computer-mediated collaboration potentially can affect both the current effort and future efforts of those involved, and we offer our thoughts on some of the factors CMC practitioners should consider when trying to combat computer-mediated deception.

Indices of biotic integrity in stated preference valuation of aquatic ecosystem services

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (11) ◽  
pp. 1946-1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Johnston ◽  
Kathleen Segerson ◽  
Eric T. Schultz ◽  
Elena Y. Besedin ◽  
Mahesh Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystem ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Biotic Integrity ◽  
Stated Preference Valuation
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