Construction of coastal ports makes port area and nearby sea area become high risk region of ecological emergency and environmental pollution. It is helpful for providing references to protect ecological environment of port by quantifying port ecological carrying capacity. This paper will transfer resources and energy consumed in port production and operation to four ecological productive lands...

Two of the key objectives of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) are: 1) to protect and enhance the status of aquatic ecosystems (and terrestrial ecosystems and wetlands directly dependent on aquatic ecosystems) and 2) to provide for sufficient supply of good quality surface water and groundwater as needed for sustainable, balanced and equitable water use. These requirements, together ...

The marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) is a declining seabird that is well-known for nesting in coastal old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. Most studies of habitat selection have focused on modeling terrestrial nesting habitat even though marine habitat is believed to be a major contributor to population declines in some regions. To address this information gap, we conducted a...

Because recent heterogeneous telecom networks have developed into complex distributed systems, the management of these systems is more elaborated and resource consuming. Self-organization of network resource colonies based on semantic associations with logical relations can provide a solution. This paper presents a method for resource management in telecom distributed testing environments with ...

—Electronic resources are becoming an integral part of the modern life and of the educational scene, especially the high education scene. In this research we wanted to verify what influences first degree university students' use of electronic resources and their opinions regarding this use. Collecting data from 202 students and analyzing it using SPSS, we found that more than one half of the pa...

We show that every henselian valued field L of residue characteristic 0 admits a proper subfield K which is dense in L. We present conditions under which this can be taken such that L|K is transcendental and K is henselian. These results are of interest for the investigation of integer parts of ordered fields. We present examples of real closed fields which are larger than the quotient fields o...

It is difficult to predict and manage the ecological consequences of multiple water quality stressors on our freshwater systems. This due dynamism source-stressor-response relationships factors including lack data, complex impact pathways risks, uncertainties that are parameterise. We present a risk-based probability modelling approach using Bayesian network (BN), at spatial scales. illustrate ...

Competition between individuals for resources which are limited and diverse in composition is the ultimate driving force of evolution. Classical studies of this event contend that the outcome is a deterministic process predicted by the growth rate of the competing types-a tenet called the Malthusian selection principle. Recent studies of competition indicate that the dynamics of selection is a ...

It is the best of times for biofilm research. Systems biology approaches are providing new insights into the genetic regulation of microbial functions, and sophisticated modelling techniques are enabling the prediction of microbial community structures. Yet it is also clear that there is a need for ecological theory to contribute to our understanding of biofilms. Here, we suggest a concept for ...

Resource selection is a multi-staged process of behavioral responses to various resource cues or stimuli. Previous research suggests some aspects of resource selection may be inherent (i.e., genetic predisposition) or based on early experience and that individuals respond to certain resource cues but not to others. In other words, resource selection may be based on a template that specifies whi...