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How urban impervious surface shapes bird foraging behavior in an arid city [PDF]

PeerJ
Wildlife behavior and interactions in urban ecosystems can vary across landscape types and species, with some birds dominating human-derived resources.
Simone Vega Rabelo, Jeffrey D. Haight, Heather L. Bateman   +2 more
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Who let the dog out? Dog owner attitudes and economics regulate the potential negative impact of domestic dogs on wildlife in a reserve network

Conservation Science and Practice
Many domestic animals have a profound impact on endangered species through complex interactions and spillover effects in and between coupled human and natural systems.
Yue Weng, William Joseph McShea, Hongbo Yang, Zhuojin Zhang, Weiming Lin, Fang Wang   +5 more
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Evacuation Plans and Simulations for Crowd Egress – A Review [PDF]

, 2018
Due to growing population density and increasing complexity and congestion of human habitat evacuation planning is essential to avoid major loss of life during a natural or un-natural disaster.
Goyal, P. (Purva), Saxena, A. (Akash)
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Modelling the Minsky triad: A framework to perform reflexive MandS studies [PDF]

, 2012
In this paper, we propose a general framework to evaluate models of systems that are ill defined, incompletely known, and furthermore, which cannot be experimented in real conditions, such as the economical systems at the country scale, epidemics (for ...
Bonte, Bruno, Duboz, Raphaël, Müller, Jean Pierre   +2 more
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Biophysical and socioeconomic drivers of oil palm expansion in Indonesia

Environmental Research Letters, 2021
Indonesia has been the largest supplier of palm oil since 2007, and now supplies around 56% of the global market. While the existing literature has paid serious attention to the diverse impacts of oil palm plantation on socioeconomic factors and the ...
Yu Xin, Laixiang Sun, Matthew C Hansen
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Environmental science applications with Rapid Integrated Mapping and analysis System (RIMS) [PDF]

, 2016
The Rapid Integrated Mapping and analysis System (RIMS) has been developed at the University of New Hampshire as an online instrument for multidisciplinary data visualization, analysis and manipulation with a focus on hydrological applications.
Gordov, E., Okladnikov, I., Prusevich, Alexander A., Shiklomanov, Alexander I., Titov, A.   +4 more
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Synchronicity From Synchronized Chaos [PDF]

, 2014
The synchronization of loosely coupled chaotic oscillators, a phenomenon investigated intensively for the last two decades, may realize the philosophical notion of synchronicity.
Duane, Gregory S.
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The benefits of Q + PPGIS for coupled human-natural systems research: A systematic review [PDF]

, 2022
Malcolm S. Johnson, Vanessa M. Adams, Jason Byrne, Rebecca M. B. Harris   +3 more
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A Solution to Treat Mixed-Type Human Datasets from Socio-Ecological Systems

Journal of Environmental Geography, 2020
Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) are frequently represented by large datasets with varied data including continuous, ordinal, and categorical variables. Conventional multivariate analyses cannot handle these mixed data types.
Clark Lisa B., González Eduardo, Henry Annie L., Sher Anna A.   +3 more
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A Practical Guide for Managing Interdisciplinary Teams: Lessons Learned from Coupled Natural and Human Systems Research

Social Sciences, 2020
Interdisciplinary team science is essential to address complex socio-environmental questions, but it also presents unique challenges. The scientific literature identifies best practices for high-level processes in team science, e.g., leadership and team ...
V. Reilly Henson, Kelly M. Cobourn, Kathleen C. Weathers, Cayelan C. Carey, Kaitlin J. Farrell, Jennifer L. Klug, Michael G. Sorice, Nicole K. Ward, Weizhe Weng   +8 more
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