Ecological Taxonomy

Assessment of Watershed Catchment Ecological Power with Taxonomy Method for Watershed Comprehensive Management (Case Study: Watershed Zydasht, Taleghan)

Nowadays watershed catchments have been introduced as the main point of permanent development in many management discussions. Watershed catchments ecological power assessment and their rankings according to different Ethological criteria is one of the important factors in watershed catchments planning and management. Taxonomy method is one of the most comprehensive planned systems for assessing...

The Crotonia fauna of New Zealand revisited (Acari: Oribatida): taxonomy, phylogeny, ecological distribution and biogeography.

New Zealand contains 13 of the 69 species of Crotonia described globally and is the only place where all three genera of the Crotoniinae-Crotonia, Austronothrus and Holonothrus-have been recorded. Due to the pioneering work of Hammer (1966) and Luxton (1982) it also has the highest number of distribution records of Crotonia spp. anywhere. In the present study I build upon previous work to re-ex...

Content-based Retrieval from Unstructured Audio Databases Using an Ecological Acoustics Taxonomy

In this paper we describe a method to search for environmental sounds in unstructured databases with user-submitted material. The goal of the project is to facilitate the design of soundscapes in virtual environments. We analyze the use of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a learning algorithm to classify sounds according to a general sound events taxonomy based on ecological acoustics. In our ...

Merging taxonomy with ecological population prediction in a case study of Vibrionaceae.

We synthesized population structure data from three studies that assessed the fine-scale distribution of Vibrionaceae among temporally and spatially distinct environmental categories in coastal seawater and animals. All studies used a dynamic model (AdaptML) to identify phylogenetically cohesive and ecologically distinct bacterial populations and their predicted habitats without relying on a pr...

Species limits and integrated taxonomy of the Idaho ground squirrel (Urocitellus brunneus): genetic and ecological differentiation