Building on a series of ground breaking reviews that first defined and drew attention to emerging infectious diseases (EID), the 'convergence model' was proposed to explain the multifactorial causality of disease emergence. The model broadly hypothesizes disease emergence is driven by the co-incidence of genetic, physical environmental, ecological, and social factors. We developed and tested a ...

Climate and weather have long been noted as playing key roles in wildfire activity, and global warming is expected to exacerbate fire impacts on natural and urban ecosystems. Predicting future fire regimes requires an understanding of how temperature and precipitation interact to control fire activity. Inevitably this requires historical analyses that relate annual burning to climate variation....

M any natural landscapes have undergone dramatic permanent alterations as a result of human activities, including conversion to cultural landscapes; such changes are readily observed and understood. However, extensive ecological change can also occur in regional landscapes that are maintained in a seminatural state, changes that go largely unrecognized because the regional landscape retains an ...

Towards understanding a complex borderscape in northern Sudan: the MUAFS project The conducts regional study of Middle Nile Northern Sudan between Attab and Ferka focusing on encounters humans landscapes marginal borderscape. archaeological considers all attested finds from Palaeolithic to Islamic times compares its results with data main urban centres region.

Urban soils provide an array of ecosystem services to inhabitants of cities and towns. Urbanization affects soils and their capacity to provide ecosystem services directly through disturbance and management (e.g., irrigation) and indirectly through changes in the environment (e.g., heat island effect and pollution). Both direct and indirect effects contribute to form a mosaic of soil conditions...

The contemporary American West is undergoing a round of rapid restructuring, which has been characterized as the shift from landscapes of production to landscapes of consumption. Here I propose that a more effective description of current changes, which allows us to retain focus on the relevant interand intra-classbased dynamics of an ongoing capitalist-Modernity, is as a result of the transiti...

We report results from an empirical study of the anisotropic structure of eroding landscapes. By constructing a novel correlation function, we show quantitatively that small-scale channel-like features of landscapes are coupled to the large-scale structure of drainage basins. We show additionally that this two-scale interaction is scale-dependent. The latter observation suggests that a commonly...

Foca Peninsula is an ecologically and culturally rich region, characterizing the Mediterranean landscape with its rural, urban, coastal areas islands. It contains forest landscapes, archeological heritages historical urban areas. This paper examines potentials of peninsula as a whole, for suitability eco-urban concept. The objectives approach are: providing clean efficient energy by using renew...

This paper discusses the process of compositing historical and modern photographs of an urban landscape into a novel view depicting structures from both time periods. Issues unique to this application of image compositing are addressed using techniques inspired by recent work in data-driven methods, and the use of these methods is demonstrated on an example scene. Finally, extensions of these t...

Coyotes (Canis latrans) have become common in many metropolitan areas across the United States. Recent research has focused on the urban ecology of coyotes to better our understanding of how they exist in urbanized landscapes. 1 summarize findings from a variety of ecological studies of coyotes in or near metropolitan areas, and focus on three areas of coyote ecology: survival rates, home range...