FOOD SCIENCE: Edible Ecosystems

Edible Mushrooms: an Alternative Food Item

Nutrition is the main living reason for all of the societies of the world. Food supply should be both an economic and ecological subject. Health and nutrition involve balanced and sufficient functional food components. Sufficient daily calorie intake is the main problem of developing countries. The people cannot supply an adequate intake of essential food compounds such as proteins containing e...

Edible Oil: Food Security in the Gulf

Use of Ecosystems Science in Ecological Aquaculture

In the 21 century, aquaculture developers will need to spend as much time on technological advances coming to the field as they do in designing ecological approaches that clearly exhibit stewardship of the environment and coastal societies. The degraded state of aquatic ecosystems worldwide, combined with public concerns about adding new sources of pollution to already overburdened aquatic ecos...

Sustainable Software Ecosystems for Open Science

Mathematics is the core language of science, and for centuries it was necessary to show the mathematical underpinnings of new research as part of scientific explorations. This lingua franca provided an essential level of understandability and precision; providing for unambiguous communication and rigorous verification of scientific claims beyond the inaccuracies of spoken languages. However, th...

Digital Business Ecosystems: Natural Science Paradigms

A primary motivation for research in Digital Ecosystems is the desire to exploit the self-organising properties of natural ecosystems. Ecosystems arc thought to be robust, scalable architectures that can automatically solve complex, dynamic problems. However, the biological processes that contribute to these properties have not been made explicit in Digital Ecosystem research. Here, we introduc...