A5024947051- Philosophy and History of Science
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Evolution and Science Education
- Philosophy, Science, and History
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Origins and Evolution of Life
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Plant and animal studies
- Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Malaria Research and Control
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Viral Infections and Vectors
The University of Texas at Austin
2015-2024
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2024
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2024
Liechtenstein Institute
2024
Middle East Institute
2024
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2019-2021
University of California, Berkeley
2016
Texas Department of State Health Services
2015
Boston University
1990-2003
Max Planck Society
1997-2003
▪ Abstract Species extinctions and the deterioration of other biodiversity features worldwide have led to adoption systematic conservation planning in many regions world. As a consequence, various software tools for been developed over past twenty years. These implement algorithms designed identify area networks representation persistence features. Budgetary, ethical, sociopolitical constraints dictate that prioritized sites represent with minimum impact on human interests. Planning are...
Climate change is increasingly being implicated in species' range shifts throughout the world, including those of important vector and reservoir species for infectious diseases. In North America (México, United States, Canada), leishmaniasis a vector-borne disease that autochthonous México Texas has begun to expand its northward. Further expansion north may be facilitated by climate as more habitat becomes suitable leishmaniasis.The analysis began with construction ecological niche models...
ABSTRACT We provide a review of multicriteria decision‐making (MCDM) methods that may potentially be used during systematic conservation planning for the design area networks (CANs). 26 and present core ideas 19 them. suggest computation non‐dominated set (NDS) first stage any such analysis. This process requires only alternatives qualitatively ordered by each criterion. If criteria can also similarly ordered, at next stage, Regime is most appropriate method to refine NDS. given quantitative...
A central theoretical goal of epidemiology is the construction spatial models disease prevalence and risk, including maps for potential spread infectious disease. We provide three continent-wide representing relative risk malaria in Africa based on ecological niche vector species analysis at a resolution 1 arc-minute (9 185 275 cells approximately 4 sq km). Using maximum entropy method we construct 10 occurrence records since 1980, 19 climatic variables, altitude, land cover data (in 14...
Background Chagas disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, remains a serious public health concern in many areas of Latin America, including México. It is also endemic Texas with an autochthonous canine cycle, abundant vectors (Triatoma species) counties, and established domestic peridomestic cycles which make competent reservoirs available throughout the state. Yet, disease not reportable Texas, blood donor screening mandatory, serological profiles human populations remain unknown. The purpose...
Journal Article Defining "Biodiversity"; Assessing Biodiversity Get access Sahotra Sarkar University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 85, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 131–155, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist20028515 Published: 16 December 2014
Abstract: Rapid biodiversity assessment and conservation planning require the use of easily quantified estimated surrogates for biodiversity. Using data sets from Québec Queensland, we applied four methods to assess extent which environmental can represent components: (1) surrogacy graphs; (2) marginal representation plots; (3) Hamming distance function; (4) Syrjala statistical test spatial congruence. For used 719 faunal floral species as components, Queensland 2348 plant species. We...
The Luria–Delbrück distribution arises in birth-and-mutation processes population genetics that have been systematically studied for the last fifty years. central result reported this paper is a new recursion relation computing which supersedes all past results simplicity and computational efficiency: p 0 = e –m ; where m expected number of mutations. A asymptotic behavior n (≈ c/n 2 ) also derived. This corresponds to probability finding very large mutants. formula z- transform reported.
Background Chagas disease kills approximately 45 thousand people annually and affects 10 million in Latin America the southern United States. The parasite that causes disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, can be transmitted by insects of family Reduviidae, subfamily Triatominae. Any study attempts to evaluate risk for must focus on ecology biogeography these vectors. Expected distributional shifts vector species due climate change are likely alter spatial patterns presumably through northward...