A5029387609- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant and animal studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Data Quality and Management
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Memorial University of Newfoundland
2016-2025
University of British Columbia
2008-2021
Nature Conservancy of Canada
2021
Environment and Climate Change Canada
2021
McGill University
2021
Université Laval
2021
Memorial
2019
Yukon University
2016
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2016
Miami University
2016
User-generated content (UGC) is becoming a valuable organizational resource, as it seen in many cases way to make more information available for analysis. To effective use of UGC, necessary understand quality (IQ) this setting. Traditional IQ research focuses on corporate data and views users consumers. However, with varying levels expertise contribute an open setting, current conceptualizations break down. In particular, the practice modeling requirements terms fixed classes, such...
Conservation and restoration programs usually involve nostalgic claims about the past, along with calls to return that past or recapture some aspect of it. Knowledge history is essential for such programs, but use fraught challenges. This essay examines emergence, development, “ecological baseline” concept three levels biological organization. We argue baseline problematic establishing targets. Yet historical knowledge—more broadly conceived include both social ecological processes—will...
Abstract High landscape diversity is assumed to increase the number and level of ecosystem services. However, interactions between service provision, disturbance composition are poorly understood. Here we present a novel approach include uncertainty in optimization land allocation for improving provision multiple We refer rehabilitation abandoned agricultural lands Ecuador including two types both afforestation pasture rehabilitation, together with succession option. Our results show that...
As crowdsourced user-generated content becomes an important source of data for organizations, a pressing question is how to ensure that contributed by ordinary people outside traditional organizational boundaries suitable quality be usefu
Landscape ecology is a discipline that explicitly considers the influence of time and space on environmental patterns we observe processes create them. Although many topics studied in landscape have public policy implications, three are particular concern: climate change; land use–land cover change (LULCC); type LULCC, urbanization. These interrelated, because LULCC driven by both human activities (e.g., agricultural expansion urban sprawl) desertification). Climate change, turn, will affect...
Abstract Human activities are altering the fundamental geography of biogeochemicals. Yet we lack an understanding how spatial patterns in organismal stoichiometry affect biogeochemical processes and tools to predict impacts global changes on processes. In this contribution develop stoichiometric distribution models (St DM s), which allow us map structure resource elemental composition across a landscape evaluate responses consumers. We parameterise St s for consumer‐resource (moose‐white...
Abstract: Design of protected areas has focused on setting targets for representation biodiversity, but often these do not include prescriptions as to how large should be or where they located. Principles island biogeography theory have been applied with some success, limitations. The so‐called SLOSS (single several small reserves) debate hinged applications was resolved only the point that parties agreed there might different approaches in situations. Although proponents both sides...
The amateur birding community has a long and proud tradition of contributing to bird surveys atlases.Coordinated activities such as Breeding Bird Atlases the Christmas Count are examples "citizen science" projects.With advent technology, Web 2.0 sites eBird have been developed facilitate online sharing data thus increase potential for real-time monitoring.However, recently articulated in an editorial this journal elsewhere, monitoring is best served when based on priori hypotheses.Harnessing...
Organizations' increasing reliance on externally produced information, such as online user-generated content (UGC) and crowdsourcing, challenges common assumptions about conceptual modeling in information systems (IS) development. We demonstrate UGC's societal importance, analyze its distinguishing characteristics, identify specific this setting, evaluate traditional recently proposed approaches to UGC, propose a set of guidelines for developing IS that harness structured how implement the...
Recent advances in the ability to quantify longitudinal connectivity of riverine systems is enabling a better understanding how affects fish assemblages. However, role relative other factors, such as land use, structuring biological assemblages just emerging. We assessed relevance structural index stream communities at relatively large scale (across five watersheds Lake Ontario) while controlling for confounding habitat variables, elevation, and topology. The results were determine whether...