Divergent selection pressures induced by different environmental conditions typically lead to variation in life history, behavior, and morphology. When populations are locally adapted to their current environment, selection may limit movement into novel sites, leading to neutral and adaptive genetic divergence in allopatric populations. Subsequently, divergence can be reinforced by development ...

Freshwater ecosystems provide vital resources for humans and support high levels of biodiversity, yet are severely threatened throughout the world. The expansion of human land uses, such as urban and crop cover, typically degrades water quality and reduces freshwater biodiversity, thereby jeopardizing both biodiversity and ecosystem services. Identifying and mitigating future threats to freshwa...

Emerging applications such as large-scale distributed data processing, machine learning, and Internet of Things, are fueled by the computational resources provided by large scale distributed computing platforms. Cloud computing has emerged as a popular platform to run these emerging workloads. While early cloud platforms were used to mainly run web workloads, today it has become commonplace to ...

Cloud Computing has changed the way in which people use the IT resources today. Now, instead of buying their own IT resources, they can use the services offered by Cloud Computing with reasonable costs based on a “pay-per-use” model. However, with the wide adoption of Cloud Computing, the costs for maintaining the Cloud infrastructure have become a vital issue for the vendors, especially with t...

volcanic landform can be as terrain legacies from the past to the present era be considered. these heritage of land in terms of their unique characteristics can be considered as geomorphosite in the scientific community and the public. the evaluation of resources is one of the most important tasks of geotourism research.and thereby become profitable and thriving tourism industry in their own di...

The prudent management of water resources is essential for human and ecosystem well-being. As a result of ever escalating and competing demands, compounded by pollution and climate change-driven impacts, available freshwater resources are becoming increasingly stressed. This is further compounded by poor management practices and the unsustainable extraction of water. Consequently, many parts of...

Life cycle assessment is applied to assess the environmental benefits and trade-offs of a solar-assisted heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system installed in the CIESOL building in Almeria (southeastern Spain). The environmental performance of this system is compared to that of a conventional HVAC system using a heat pump. The study evaluates these systems from cradle to grave,...

The inland fish fauna of El Salvador and its distribution was originally described in 1925 by Samuel Hildebrand. That work has been the main source of information for freshwater fishes of El Salvador up to today. Based on the combination of an intensive literature review, electronic database searches, re-identification of museum specimens, and fieldwork, we hereby provide an updated checklist o...