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Prioritizing bat roosts for conservation with a global multicriteria bat roost priority index based on community science

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Prioritization in conservation is crucial for the development of efficient and effective decision‐making policies. For many decades, the importance of some species and their habitats has been assessed and applied in conservation legislation, but bats and their diurnal roosts have ofbeen overlooked.
David López‐Bosch, Krizler Tanalgo, Xavier Puig‐Montserrat, Ferran Páramo, Eric Marín, Carles Flaquer, Adrià López‐Baucells   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive framework for assessing and optimizing existing research networks

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation, monitoring, and research networks, or collections of ecological research sites unified under a common mission of data collection or a research mission, are essential infrastructure for understanding large landscapes. However, most networks developed opportunistically over decades rather than through systematic design, creating ...
Alyson East, Jitendra Kumar, William Hargrove   +2 more
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Geographic risks to functional groups of mammals and birds from habitat loss in Mexico

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a need to quantify the impact of habitat loss due to anthropogenic factors on different aspects of biodiversity, such as functional trait diversity represented by functional groups (FGs). We developed a metric to assess the weighted risk of loss of habitat for 33 FGs of mammals and 36 FGs of birds in Mexico based on potential ...
Fernando Mayani‐Parás, Francisco Botello, Claudia E. Moreno, Griselda Escalona‐Segura, Víctor Sánchez‐Cordero   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Constructed value of information with iterative scoring and parametric uncertainty to identify management‐relevant research priorities for a declining raptor species

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Constructed value of information (CVoI) is an expert elicitation decision‐analytic tool used to prioritize sources of uncertainty based on their potential to improve decision outcomes if resolved. Despite increased application of CVoI, the robustness of CVoI prioritization of sources of uncertainty relative to differences in expert elicitation
Kristin P. Davis, Mitchell J. Eaton, Emily R. Bjerre, Hillary M. White, Clint W. Boal, Jennifer H. Herner‐Thogmartin, Orin J. Robinson, Abigail J. Lawson   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiversity‐driven spatial conservation planning to delineate temporally stable regions

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The accelerating loss of biodiversity underscores the critical need for effective conservation strategies, particularly in the face of climate change and anthropogenic pressures. We devised a conservation planning framework that adopts a temporal stacking approach to species distribution models and landscape connectivity analyses. These models
Mattia Iannella, Viviana Cittadino, Ilaria Bernabò, Antonio Romano, Maurizio Biondi, Davide Serva   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining and identifying relevant stakeholders to advance effective conservation

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
The challenge of defining stakeholders in environmental science and an approach for refining existing definitions. Abstract Stakeholder is a contested term that has spawned a multitude of ad hoc definitions. The ambiguity of these definitions has oftentimes impeded transdisciplinary research in environmental governance and conservation science because ...
Milan Büscher, Felix Przesdzink, Christian Wilhelmy, Laura Herzog, Johannes Halbe, Florian Fiebelkorn   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scenarios and strategies for future‐proofing ecosystem management under climatic novelty

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Climate change is driving unprecedented declines in dominant, habitat‐forming foundation species across marine and terrestrial ecosystems globally. As climatic novelty becomes the norm, ecosystem reassembly will become increasingly common. Predicting and understanding these transitions, and their implications for future ecosystem functioning ...
Lauren T. Toth, Elizabeth T. Borer, Deron E. Burkepile, Joan Dudney, Nathan P. Lemoine, Julianna J. Renzi, Kathryn E. L. Smith, Travis A. Courtney, Sara A. Goeking, William M. Hammond, David L. Hoover, Sandra MacFadyen, Michael J. Osland, Joseph E. Townsend, Robert Y. Fidler   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accountability in Government Use of AI: Citizen Concerns and Preferences

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government adoption of AI opens the “pandora's box” of accountability, a core aspect of public value. Despite the centrality of governmental AI accountability, citizens' concerns and preferences in holding governments accountable for AI usage remain poorly understood.
Naikang Feng, Yanto Chandra
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogeneous information integration method for scheme decision making of industrial design

Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 2022
为有效融合工业设计方案决策中的异构信息, 引入云模型处理定性语言评价, 基于黄金分割方法将语言信息量化为云模型的数字特征, 分别构建语言值、区间数和实数相对优势矩阵。考虑决策过程的模糊性与不确定性, 将决策属性判断的自然语言采用区间标度量化, 构建非线性优化模型求解最优决策属性权重, 以最大似然估计实现群体决策的区间标度集结, 通过综合效用函数计算工业设计方案优劣。以某型指挥用控制台工业设计方案决策为例, 验证了所提方法能够有效融合异构决策信息, 辅助工业设计师和决策者准确把控意见并进行方案优选。
YANG Yanpu, AN Weilan, YANG Qinxia, GONG Zheng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

connection optimization of joint source and channel coding based on protograph LDPC codes [PDF]

, 2016
香农的经典分离定理已证明，信源和信道编码分别达到最优时，整个系统的性能仍能保持最优。然而分离系统适用于码长无限长的点对点传输系统，并不适用于实际的传输系统中，联合信源信道编译码系统因为其良好的传输性能和低功耗的特点吸引了更多的关注。 目前存在很多联合信源信道编译码系统的设计方案，其中低密度奇偶校验码（LDPC码）由于其良好的逼近香农限的特点且较低的译码复杂度，被引入到信源和信道的编译码联合系统（JSCC）中，称之为D-LDPC的JSCC系统，为了更好的改进联合系统的性能和降低译码复杂度 ...
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