Riparian zones are of utmost importance in providing a wide range of ecological and societal services. Among these, their role in maintaining landscape connectivity through ecological corridors for animals and plants is of major interest from a conservation and management perspective. This paper describes a methodology to identify European regions as providers of structural riparian corridors, ...

We present a model that simulates the growth of a metropolitan area on a 2D lattice. The model is dynamic and based on microeconomics. Households show preferences for nearby open-spaces and neighbourhood density. They compete on the land market. They travel along a road network to access the CBD. A planner ensures the connectedness and maintenance of the road network. The spatial pattern of hou...

Lanzhou New District is the first and largest national-level new district in the Loess Plateau region of China. Large-scale land creation and rapid utilization of the land surface for construction has induced various magnitudes of land subsidence in the region, which is posing an increasing threat to the built environment and quality of life. In this study, the spatial and temporal evolution of...

This article reviews methods for quantifying the abundance of histological features in thin tissue sections of brain such as neurons, glia, blood vessels, and pathological lesions. The sampling methods by which quantitative measures can be obtained are described. In addition, methods are described for determining the spatial pattern of an object and for measuring the degree of spatial correlati...

Gaze contingent displays were used to simulate visual field loss during performance of visual search tasks. Comparison of human saccadic strategies with those of a Bayesian ideal searcher show that humans rapidly adapt their saccadic strategies, but that this learning is limited and depends on the spatial pattern of vision loss.

Partially-recurrent networks have advantages over strictly feed-forward networks for certain spatiotemporal pattern classification or prediction tasks. However networks involving recurrent links are generally more difficult to train than their nonrecurrent counterparts. In this paper we demonstrate that the costs of training a recurrent network can be greatly reduced by initialising the network...

The spatial pattern of initial introductions of marine alien species in the European Seas (including the entire Mediterranean) was investigated. Marked geographic patterns depending on the pathway of introduction were revealed, with specific countries acting as gateways to alien invasions. France and Italy were the countries mostly responsible for introductions by aquaculture, while Lessepsian ...

Clark Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, 01610, USA; Département de Géographie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, USA; Department of Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada; Geography and Urban Studies Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, 19122, USA; Department of International Development, Co...

This paper presents the addition to the Stanley’s habituation model of a previous stage based on spectrogram to detect temporal patterns in a signal and to obtain a measure of habituation to these patterns. With this addition we achieve a habituation scheme that saturates as the temporal pattern is perceived by the system and drops when the pattern changes. The detection of these temporal patte...

Fernando T. Maestre*, Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy, Matthew A. Bowker and Raúl Ochoa-Hueso Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Biologı́a y Geologı́a, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnologı́a, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Móstoles, Spain; Southwest Biological Science Center, US Geological Survey, PO Box 5614, ARD Building, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff...