Ecological Factors in the Selection of Representative Species for Thermal Effluent Demonstrations

2009 ◽  
pp. 49-49-19
Author(s):  
RB Bogardus
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Thermal Effluent ◽  
Representative Species ◽  
Selection Of

scholarly journals Evaluation of Sustainable Development Indicators With Fuzzy TOPSIS Based on Subjective and Objective Weights

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nang Idayu Nik Zahari ◽  
Mohd Lazim Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Quality Factor ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Fuzzy Topsis ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Ecological Protection ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT: Sustainable development aims at improving and maintaining the well-being of people and the ecology. However, this paper focuses only on the ecological aspects. The selection of the proper ecological protection determinant plays a very important role in improving the environment of Malaysia. This paper will propose a method from Wang and Lee (2009), and Yong (2006) which applies a fuzzy TOPSIS method -- based on subjective and objective weights – to make the required selection. Four alternatives will be tested which are: prevent pollution (A1), conservation (A2), well-manage (A3), and public awareness (A4). Along with these, four criteria need to be considered: water quality factor (C1), land integrity factor (C2), air quality factor (C3), and biodiversity factor (C4). Finally, a numerical example of ecological protection determinant selection is used to illustrate the proposed method. ABSTRAK: Pembangunan lestari bermatlamat memperbaiki dan mengekalkan kesejahteraan rakyat serta ekologi. Walau bagaimanapun, kertas kajian ini hanya memberi tumpuan kepada aspek-aspek ekologi. Pemilihan penentu perlindungan serta keselamatan bagi aspek ekologi memainkan peranan yang amat penting dalam meningkatkan kualiti alam sekitar di Malaysia. Kertas kajian ini telah menggunakan kaedah Wang dan Lee (2009) dan Yong (2006) yang mengaplikasikan kaedah TOPSIS kabur berdasarkan pemberat subjektif dan objektif. Terdapat empat alternatif yang akan diuji iaitu: pencegahan pencemaran (A1), pemuliharaan (A2), pengurusan yang baik (A3), kesedaran orang awam (A4). Selain itu, terdapat empat kriteria yang perlu dipertimbangkan: faktor kualiti air (C1), faktor kualiti tanah (C2), faktor kualiti udara (C3), faktor kepelbagaian biologi (C4). Kesimpulannya, contoh pengiraan untuk memperoleh penentu pemilihan perlindungan ekologi telah digunakan bagi menunjukkan kaedah yang dicadangkan.KEYWORDS: sustainable development; ecological factors; subjective and objective weight; fuzzy TOPSIS

scholarly journals Global mismatches between crop distributions and climate suitability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Mahaut ◽  
Samuel Pironon ◽  
Jean Yves Barnagaud ◽  
François Bretagnolle ◽  
Colin Khoury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Climatic Suitability ◽  
New Crops ◽  
The Social ◽  
Climate Suitability ◽  
Climatic Range ◽  
Wild Progenitors ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The selection of new crops and the migration of crop areas are two key strategies for agriculture to cope with climate change and ensure food security in the coming years. However, both rely on the assumption that climate is a major factor determining crop distributions worldwide. Here, we show that the current global distributions of nine of twelve major crops strongly diverge from their modelled climatic suitability for yields, after controlling for technology, agricultural management and soil conditions. Comparing the climatic niches of crops and their wild progenitors reveals that climate suitability is higher outside the native climatic range for six of these nine crops while all of them are farmed predominantly in their native ranges. These results show that agricultural strategies coping with climate change will be unsuccessful unless they fully consider the social, cultural, and ecological factors underpinning crop distributions.

The Influence of Rainfall on the Densities of Adult Chlortoicetes Terminifera (Walker) in Central Western New South Wales, 1965-73.

1974 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 365 ◽  
Author(s):  
DP Clark
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Food Plants ◽  
Permanent Plots ◽  
Outbreak Area ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Qualitative Changes

The densities of adults of the Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera (Wlk.) were estimated in a network of permanent plots in part of the Bogan-Macquarie outbreak area from 1965 until early 1973. In that area, 2-3 generations are produced between September and April-May, depending on rainfall. C. terminifera is able to maintain a high rate of reproduction in this area. The numbers of adults produced in one generation are directly related to the total rainfall during a period of three weeks at the time of hatching and can be predicted by a linear regression of adult numbers on rainfall. The evidence suggests that rain favours the survival of nymphs immediately after hatching by influencing the growth of food-plants. The ecological factors that cause discrepanices between the observed numbers and those predicted by regression are discussed. Among these are immigration, qualitative changes such as the development of hopper bands and the build-up of natural enemies, combined with errors in the selection of suitable oviposition sites by the locusts themselves. Despite intermittent droughts, the range of fluctuation of numbers of C. terminifera is limited in this region, and in the long term average numbers are high.

scholarly journals Ecological factors influencing the selection of sett location by the Asian badger Meles leucurus

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ho-Kyoung Bae ◽  
Jae-Kang Lee ◽  
Tae-Kyung Eom ◽  
Dong-Ho Lee ◽  
Shin-Jae Rhim
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Selection Of

Human lifespan: what determines the intrinsic length of human lives?

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
David JM Crosse
Keyword(s):  
Human Ecology ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Cellular Damage ◽  
Human Lifespan ◽  
Large Brain ◽  
Intrinsic Length ◽  
Deleterious Genes ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Species Ecology ◽  
Worthwhile Investment

SummaryHumans have an intrinsic lifespan of approximately 120 years. Classic evolutionary theories of ageing explain the limit as a response to inevitable cellular damage. The theories share the notion that natural selection acts less strongly to purge deleterious genes that are expressed after reproduction. Reproduction schedules are influenced by a species' ecology and so it is ecological factors which explain interspecies variation in lifespan. Human ecology has favoured the selection of an unusually large brain that both confers advantages that promote longevity and requires longevity to make it a worthwhile investment. The relatively long human lifespan therefore co-evolved with the large human brain.

scholarly journals Challenges of Regulatory Environmental Risk Assessment for Human Pharmaceuticals with Focus on Antibiotics

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Arno Wess ◽  
Thomas Schmidt ◽  
Stefan Höger
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Environmental Risk Assessment ◽  
Threshold Effect ◽  
Species Selection ◽  
European Medicines Agency ◽  
Draft Guideline ◽  
Representative Species ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Eu

Just recently the problem of pharmaceutical residues in the environment has been emphasized by OECD. Especially antibiotics are of concern due to their widespread use and diverse modes of actions including ones that can affect the photosynthetic activity of primary producers and subsequently primary biomass production and carbon dioxide fixation. The EU regulatory authority, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), has therefore proposed to implement a new tailored environmental risk assessment scheme, published in a new draft guideline 2018. Threshold effect levels to three fixed representative species of green algae and cyanobacteria will be required. This article reviews and compares the contamination of waters with antibiotics in Switzerland and Germany and also presents an overview of published effect data on eukaryotic algae and prokaryotic cyanobacteria in order to discuss the representativeness of the selected species. Since no full datasets as demanded by the EMA were publically available yet, the gaps for four antibiotics have been experimentally completed. In summary the results support the species selection of the EMA published in the revised draft guideline, however it remains unclear whether diatoms should also be considered.

scholarly journals Global mismatches between crop distributions and climate suitability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Mahaut ◽  
Samuel Pironon ◽  
Jean Yves Barnagaud ◽  
Francois Bretagnolle ◽  
Colin K Khoury ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Climatic Suitability ◽  
New Crops ◽  
The Social ◽  
Climate Suitability ◽  
Climatic Range ◽  
Wild Progenitors ◽  
Selection Of

The selection of new crops and the migration of crop areas are two key strategies for agriculture to cope with climate change and ensure food security in the coming years. However, both rely on the assumption that climate is a major factor determining crop distributions worldwide. Here, we show that the current global distributions of nine of twelve major crops strongly diverge from their modelled climatic suitability for yields, after controlling for technology, agricultural management and soil conditions. Comparing the climatic niches of crops and their wild progenitors reveals that climate suitability is higher outside the native climatic range for six of these nine crops while all of them are farmed predominantly in their native ranges. These results show that agricultural strategies coping with climate change will be unsuccessful unless they fully consider the social, cultural, and ecological factors underpinning crop distributions.

Cognitive gadgets and cognitive priors

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Domenico Iannetti ◽  
Giorgio Vallortigara
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Some of the foundations of Heyes’ radical reasoning seem to be based on a fractional selection of available evidence. Using an ethological perspective, we argue against Heyes’ rapid dismissal of innate cognitive instincts. Heyes’ use of fMRI studies of literacy to claim that culture assembles pieces of mental technology seems an example of incorrect reverse inferences and overlap theories pervasive in cognitive neuroscience.

Note on Selection of Coordinate Systems for Geodynamics

1975 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
S. Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Mean Sea Level ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The One ◽  
Static Systems ◽  
Selection Of

The first question to be answered, in seeking coordinate systems for geodynamics, is: what is geodynamics? The answer is, of course, that geodynamics is that part of geophysics which is concerned with movements of the Earth, as opposed to geostatics which is the physics of the stationary Earth. But as far as we know, there is no stationary Earth – epur sic monere. So geodynamics is actually coextensive with geophysics, and coordinate systems suitable for the one should be suitable for the other. At the present time, there are not many coordinate systems, if any, that can be identified with a static Earth. Certainly the only coordinate of aeronomic (atmospheric) interest is the height, and this is usually either as geodynamic height or as pressure. In oceanology, the most important coordinate is depth, and this, like heights in the atmosphere, is expressed as metric depth from mean sea level, as geodynamic depth, or as pressure. Only for the earth do we find “static” systems in use, ana even here there is real question as to whether the systems are dynamic or static. So it would seem that our answer to the question, of what kind, of coordinate systems are we seeking, must be that we are looking for the same systems as are used in geophysics, and these systems are dynamic in nature already – that is, their definition involvestime.

Measurements of the Cape Astrometric Survey of the Southern Hemisphere

1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 515-521
Author(s):  
W. Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Automatic Measuring ◽  
Measuring Machine ◽  
Final Selection ◽  
Selection Of

SummaryA routine has been developed for the processing of the 5820 plates of the survey. The plates are measured on the automatic measuring machine, GALAXY, and the measures are subsequently processed by computer, to edit and then refer them to the SAO catalogue. A start has been made on measuring the plates, but the final selection of stars to be made is still a matter for discussion.

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