Connecting MPAs - eight challenges for science and management

Native invaders – challenges for science, management, policy, and society

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org B invasions, which join synergistically with habitat loss and fragmentation, climate change, natural resource overexploitation, pollution, and a multitude of other anthropogenic factors, are recognized as a leading threat to freshwater, marine, and terrestrial systems. The common notion of an invasive species is one that has become ...

Eight personal rules for doing science.

Connecting Big Scholarly Data With Science of Science Policy: An Ontology-Based-Data- Management (Obdm) Approach

The OBDM approach in a nutshell The key idea of OBDM is to resort to a three-level architecture, constituted by the ontology, the sources, and the mapping between the two. The ontology is a conceptual, formal description of the domain of interest to a given organization (or, a community of users), expressed in terms of relevant concepts, attributes of concepts, relationships between concepts, a...

Eight challenges for network epidemic models.

Networks offer a fertile framework for studying the spread of infection in human and animal populations. However, owing to the inherent high-dimensionality of networks themselves, modelling transmission through networks is mathematically and computationally challenging. Even the simplest network epidemic models present unanswered questions. Attempts to improve the practical usefulness of networ...

MPA News Poll: The Coming Challenges for MPAs, and How to Address Them

This month’s First International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC1), to be held 23-28 October in Geelong, Australia, is one of the first global conferences devoted solely to the subject of MPAs. Hopefully many more will follow. Unanswered questions still abound on aspects of MPA science (e.g. the effects of reserves on neighboring fisheries) and on best practices in planning and managemen...