Managing ecosystems and sustaining livelihoods

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Dynamics of Ecosystem Services during Forest Transitions in Reventazón, Costa Rica Abstract The forest transition framework describes the temporal changes of forest areas with economic development. A first phase of forest contraction is...

Tropical forests and climate change

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CLOSING A GAP IN TROPICAL FOREST BIOMASS ESTIMATION: ACCOUNTING FOR CROWN MASS VARIATION IN PANTROPICAL ALLOMETRIES Abstract Accurately monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks is an outstanding challenge. Allometric models that consider tree diameter,...

Learning the dynamics of the unobserved solar gains 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Internet of Things, source of data and of uncertainty The idea of resorting to the connected objects is justied by the fact that these objects are being increasingly ubiquitous in the society....

Admission control for QoS in Fog deployments

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Reference WSN deployments Depending on the use cases and applications, WSN deployments cover a broad spectrum of characteristics in terms of node density, number of nodes, typical topology, traffic patterns, etc. Given that...

FROM STORM PEAKS TO EXTREME UNIVARIATE EVENTS

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » A MULTI-DISTRIBUTION ADAPTATION OF THE EXISTING POT FRAMEWORK The works presented in section 1.4.1 lasted from 2007 to 2014. They began with a simple updating of a methodology for determining extreme wave heights...

How to make the Bitcoin network more environmentally friendly 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » An equilibrium model of the market for bitcoin mining We propose a model which uses the Bitcoin/US dollar exchange rate to predict the computing power of Bitcoin’s network. We show that free entry...

Local Meteorology and Urbanization Effects 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Emission inventory of air pollutants in Tehran Air pollutants are emitted into the atmosphere from stationary, area and mobile sources. Stationary sources include utility, industrial, institutional and commercial facilities. Examples are electric power...

Delocalization of environmental impacts on human health due to global value chains 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING METHODS: HOW THEY WORK We concentrate now on the characteristics of “how" EAMs work and how they meet expectations and challenges with the help of an archetypical EAM workflow covering all...

Climate Model Output Downscaling 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Conclusions One of the seven climate models downscaled for this study predicted a decrease in precipitation for the Occoquan watershed through the year 2100. The other six climate models projected increased precipitation, suggesting...

Relationships of Environmental Factors and Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Results Description of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblage It was first necessary to determine if all data from the study could be pooled for analysis, or if the spring data and summer data (April versus...