The Polar Frontal Zone, although predominantly a surface feature, forms a natural northernmost boundary for defining the Southern Ocean, and relatively few benthic organisms have distributions which cross this boundary. Many Antarctic benthic plants and animals have circumpolar distributions but some broad geographical subdivisions may be made. Detailed studies of community distribution are few...

In managed landscapes, conservation planning requires effective methods to identify high-biodiversity areas. The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential of airborne laser scanning (ALS) and forest estimates derived from satellite images extracted at two spatial scales for predicting the stand-scale abundance and species richness of birds and beetles in a managed boreal forest land...

Many infectious diseases that are emerging or transmitted by arthropod vectors have a strong link to landscape features. Depending on the source of infection or ecology of the transmitting vector, micro-habitat characteristics at the spatial scale of square meters or less may be important. Recently, satellite images have been used to classify habitats in an attempt to understand associations wi...

 Amount of grassland and CRP combined was significantly associated with lek density at multiple spatial scales. This association, however, was not in the predicted direction. Low -density lek points had more surrounding grassland and CRP than did high-density lek points or no lek points. Thus, amount of grassland and CRP alone may not be enough to conserve lesser prairie-chickens; condition of...

A volume change index is suggested that is derived from growth components that can be estimated from remeasured plots. The new index incorporates more information than the traditional growth over removals ratio. The new index directly indicates whether the standing volume will be increasing or decreasing if current conditions persist, whereas the ratio of growth over removals obscures the impac...

Engaging with emerging technology and harnessing its potential benefits requires a well functioning innovation system. The increasing complexities of emerging technology in conjunction with their convergence demands a systemic interaction of various actors in the innovation system and a greater need for S&T collaboration at various spatial scale. Also, emerging technology throws entrepreneurial...

N. P. Danz ([email protected]), Dept of Natural Sciences, Univ. of Wisconsin-Superior, Belknap and Catlin, Superior, WI 54880, USA, and Graduate Program in Natural Resources Science and Management, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. P. B. Reich and L. E. Frelich, Dept of Forest Resources, Univ. of Minnesota, 115 Green Hall, 1530 Cleveland Ave. N., St. Paul, MN 55108 6112, USA. G. J. N...

The outcome of the British General Election to be held in just over one week’s time (May 7th, 2015) is widely regarded as the most difficult in living memory to predict. Current polls suggest that the two main parties (Conservative and Labour) are neck and neck but that there will be a landslide to the Scottish Nationalist Party with that party taking most of the constituencies in Scotland (som...

The Cauvery basin of Karnataka State encompasses a range of land cover types, from dense forest areas and plantations in the Western Ghats hills, to fertile agricultural lands in the river valley. Recent demographic changes, rapid economic development and urbanization have led to the conversion of vast stretches of forested land into plantations and permanent agriculture. We examine the human d...

Climate varies, both temporally and spatially, and the focus of the body of palaeoclimatic research has been to characterize and explain this variation. What has emerged is a view of climate as a multi-component system that varies across a range of temporal and spatial scales. Imbedded in these variations are some characteristic features such as trends, abrupt changes, periodicities, and the fo...