Time to Invest in Biodiversity-Related Research

Identifying the Biodiversity Research Needs Related to Forest Fragmentation

Commodities for better health in Africa--time to invest locally.

Editorials 387 With a rapidly expanding consumer market , African countries have new opportunities to strengthen their manufacturing sectors. The current climate of rising foreign investment will boost national economies and has the potential to benefit the health sector too. African countries now have a historic opportunity to free themselves from a vicious cycle of poverty, disease and depend...

Optimal Time to Invest Energy Storage System under Uncertainty Conditions

This paper proposes a model to determine the optimal investment time for energy storage systems (ESSs) in a price arbitrage trade application under conditions of uncertainty over future profits. The adoption of ESSs can generate profits from price arbitrage trade, which are uncertain because the future marginal prices of electricity will change depending on supply and demand. In addition, since...

Research Directions in Biodiversity Informatics

This paper provides an introduction to the major research directions in biodiversity informatics. The biodiversity enterprise is a vast and complex information domain. I describe the need to build infrastructure for this domain, major research thrusts needed to improve its work practices, and areas of research that could contribute to the advancement of the field. I emphasize that the science o...

Phenotypes in insect biodiversity research

Phenotypes, here defined as the observable characteristics of organisms, including morphology, behavior, and physiological products (e.g., nests and galls)—the results of gene expression, in an environment—are the primary data for research on the evolution and taxonomy of insects (Deans et al., 2012a). The shapes, textures, colors, or simply the presence or absence of anatomical features or beh...