Humanity’s diverse predatory niche and its ecological consequences [PDF]
Although humans have long been predators with enduring nutritive and cultural relationships with their prey, seldom have conservation ecologists considered the divergent predatory behavior of contemporary, industrialized humans.
Chris T. Darimont +11 more
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Quantifying the ecological consequences of climate change in coastal ecosystems [PDF]
Few coastal ecosystems remain untouched by direct human activities, and none are unimpacted by anthropogenic climate change. These drivers interact with and exacerbate each other in complex ways, yielding a mosaic of ecological consequences that range ...
David S. Schoeman +2 more
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Ecological Disasters and Mental Health: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions
Ecological disasters highlight the importance of understanding natural disasters as they relate to a changing global climate. Such disasters often have a predictable pattern of evolving over time and anticipated psychological and behavioral problems and ...
Joshua C. Morganstein, Robert J. Ursano
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Host manipulation in the face of environmental changes: Ecological consequences [PDF]
Several parasite species, particularly those having complex life-cycles, are known to induce phenotypic alterations in their hosts. Most often, such alterations appear to increase the fitness of the parasites at the expense of that of their hosts, a ...
Sophie Labaude +2 more
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Ecological consequences of shifting the timing of burning tallgrass prairie. [PDF]
In the Kansas Flint Hills, grassland burning is conducted during a relatively narrow window because management recommendations for the past 40 years have been to burn only in late spring.
E Gene Towne, Joseph M Craine
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Purpose is quantitative estimation of the mass of emissions of combustion products, chemical elements, the energy and power of acoustic and thermal radiation caused by the forests large tracts burning in the Northern Hemisphere. Methods.
L. F. Chernogor +3 more
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Analysis of ecological consequences and lessons of the Fukushima accident
The events that occurred at the nuclear power plant (NPP) Fukushima-Daiichi forced all the world nuclear community and government bodies of ecological safety regulation to return again, after Chernobyl accident, to the need of revaluating the safety of ...
Ігор Леонідович Козлов
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DEANIMALISATION PROCESSES IN THE POLISH CARPATHIANS – PRODUCTION, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS [PDF]
This paper addresses a current issue regarding the increasing problem of a decreasing cattle population in the Polish Carpathians. The problem exacerbated after 1990, as a result of changes in prices of the means of production and agricultural products ...
Wiesław Musiał, Kamila Musiał
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Problems of environmental protection as an aspect of military confrontation
One of the aspects of military conflicts is environmental. A specific and rather intense impact accompanies the conduct of hostilities and preparations for war on the environment.
R. P. Paranjak +3 more
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Assessment of ecological damage from the NATO bombing of the Republic of Serbia in 1999 [PDF]
In 1999, NATO bombed the Republic of Serbia, which inflicted irreparable environmental damage on ecosystems and habitats. The topic of this paper is the method of determining and analyzing the assessment of inflicted ecological damage. Its quantification
Bakrač Saša T. +2 more
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