Author: Marko NieminenPublisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9789291209859
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
International Moth Monitoring Scheme
Author: Marko NieminenPublisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9789291209859
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Shenandoah National Park Long-term Ecological Monitoring System User Manuals
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Category : Environmental monitoring
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Climate Change
Author: Juan A. BlancoPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9533074191
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
This book offers an interdisciplinary view of the biophysical issues related to climate change. Climate change is a phenomenon by which the long-term averages of weather events (i.e. temperature, precipitation, wind speed, etc.) that define the climate of a region are not constant but change over time. There have been a series of past periods of climatic change, registered in historical or paleoecological records. In the first section of this book, a series of state-of-the-art research projects explore the biophysical causes for climate change and the techniques currently being used and developed for its detection in several regions of the world. The second section of the book explores the effects that have been reported already on the flora and fauna in different ecosystems around the globe. Among them, the ecosystems and landscapes in arctic and alpine regions are expected to be among the most affected by the change in climate, as they will suffer the more intense changes. The final section of this book explores in detail those issues.
Program Earth
Author: Jennifer GabrysPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452950172
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Sensors are everywhere. Small, flexible, economical, and computationally powerful, they operate ubiquitously in environments. They compile massive amounts of data, including information about air, water, and climate. Never before has such a volume of environmental data been so broadly collected or so widely available. Grappling with the consequences of wiring our world, Program Earth examines how sensor technologies are programming our environments. As Jennifer Gabrys points out, sensors do not merely record information about an environment. Rather, they generate new environments and environmental relations. At the same time, they give a voice to the entities they monitor: to animals, plants, people, and inanimate objects. This book looks at the ways in which sensors converge with environments to map ecological processes, to track the migration of animals, to check pollutants, to facilitate citizen participation, and to program infrastructure. Through discussing particular instances where sensors are deployed for environmental study and citizen engagement across three areas of environmental sensing, from wild sensing to pollution sensing and urban sensing, Program Earth asks how sensor technologies specifically contribute to new environmental conditions. What are the implications for wiring up environments? How do sensor applications not only program environments, but also program the sorts of citizens and collectives we might become? Program Earth suggests that the sensor-based monitoring of Earth offers the prospect of making new environments not simply as an extension of the human but rather as new “technogeographies” that connect technology, nature, and people.
General Technical Report PNW-GTR
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Proceedings, North American Forest Insect Work Conference
Author: Douglas C. AllenPublisher:
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Category : Forest insects
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Ecological Impacts of Non-Native Invertebrates and Fungi on Terrestrial Ecosystems
Author: David LangorPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402096801
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Since the arrival of Europeans about 500 years ago, an estimated 50,000 non-native species have been introduced to North America (including Hawaii). Non-native species figure prominently in our lives, often as ornamentals, sources of food or pests. Although many introduced species are beneficial, there is increasing awareness of the enormous economic costs associated with non-native pests. In contrast, the ecological impacts of non-native species have received much less public and scientific attention, despite the fact that invasion by exotic species ranks second to habitat destruction as a cause of species loss. In particular, there is little information about the ecological impacts of hyper-diverse groups such as terrestrial fungi and invertebrates. A science symposium, Ecological impacts of non-native invertebrates and fungi on terrestrial ecosystems, held in 2006, brought together scientists from the USA and Canada to review the state of knowledge in this field of work. Additional reviews were solicited following the symposium. The resulting set of review/synthesis papers and case studies represents a cross-section of work on ecological impacts of non-native terrestrial invertebrates and fungi. Although there is a strong focus on Canadian work, there is also significant presentation of work in the northern USA and Europe.
Annotated List of Publications of the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station
Author: Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Portland, Or.).Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Proceedings, XIV U.S. Department of Agriculture Interagency Research Forum on Gypsy Moth and Other Invasive Species 2003
Author: Kurt William GottschalkPublisher:
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Category : Gypsy moth
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
"This meeting was the fourteenth in a series of annual USDA InterAgency Gypsy Moth Forums that are sponsored by the USDA Gypsy Moth Research and Development Coordinating Group"--Foreword.
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