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Evolutionary legacies structure the geography of seagrass traits across the world's oceans

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Traits modulate species' ability to track shifts in climate, yet the extent to which traits have been shaped by the contemporary environment and/or historical processes remains poorly understood. Here, we fill this gap for the world's seagrasses, habitat‐forming species that provide critical ecosystem services.
Nestor E. Bosch, Matthew McLean, Fernando Tuya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Statistical inference methods for n‐dimensional hypervolumes: Applications to niches and functional diversity

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
The size and shape of niche spaces or trait spaces are often analysed using hypervolumes estimated from data. The hypervolume R package has previously supported such analyses via descriptive but not inferential statistics. This gap has limited the use of
Daniel Chen, Alex Laini, Benjamin Wong Blonder   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimisation of Temporary and Demountable Flood Protection for Infrastructure Resilience

Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Infrastructure systems provide crucial services to human settlements. Extreme weather events, especially flooding, can disrupt these vital services. Temporary and demountable flood protections (TDFPs) are increasingly used to protect infrastructure assets and provide resilience.
Fulvio D. Lopane, Richard J. Dawson
wiley   +1 more source

A Many-objective Ant Colony Optimization applied to the Traveling Salesman Problem

Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2016
Evolutionary algorithms present performance drawbacks when applied to Many-objective Optimization Problems (MaOPs). In this work, a novel approach based on Ant Colony Optimization theory (ACO), denominated ACO λ base-p algorithm, is proposed in order to ...
Francisco Riveros, Néstor Benítez, Julio Paciello, Benjamín Barán   +3 more
doaj  

Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers shape frugivore functional diversity within a tree population

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract In sessile organisms like plants, interactions with strong fitness implications, such as seed dispersal, are influenced by individual traits and the surrounding environmental context. Recent studies have revealed that individual variation in plant populations shapes mutualistic interactions, but the focus often remains on the taxonomic ...
Juliana H. Wolter, Maiara Vissoto, Andrés F. Ramírez‐Mejía, Jeferson Vizentin‐Bugoni, Rafael A. Dias   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biobjective Performance Assessment with the COCO Platform

, 2016
This document details the rationales behind assessing the performance of numerical black-box optimizers on multi-objective problems within the COCO platform and in particular on the biobjective test suite bbob-biobj.
Auger, Anne, Brockhoff, Dimo, Hansen, Nikolaus, Tušar, Dejan, Tušar, Tea, Wagner, Tobias   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Hybrid Evolutionary‐Exact Optimization Method for the Bi‐Objective Design‐For‐Control of Water Distribution Networks

Water Resources Research, Volume 62, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract This work considers the design‐for‐control of water distribution networks (WDN) for the joint optimization of performance and cost‐related objectives. In particular, we focus on the problem of optimizing the placement (design) and settings (control) of pressure reducing valves to minimize leakage at minimum cost.
Aly‐Joy Ulusoy, Ivan Stoianov
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-Objective Optimization of Meat Sheep Feed Formulation Based on an Improved Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm

Applied Sciences
Feed formulation is a typical multi-objective optimization problem that aims to minimize cost while satisfying multiple nutritional constraints. However, existing methods often suffer from limitations in handling nonlinear constraints, high-dimensional ...
Haifeng Zhang, Yuwei Gao, Xiang Li, Tao Bai   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cave depth and subterranean connectivity are drivers of intraspecific trait variability in two subterranean congeneric beetles

Ecological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 153-164, February 2026.
The abundance of cave beetles increases with depth, with Duvalius hartigi exhibiting maximum densities at greater depths in volcanic systems. Troglomorphic traits become more pronounced with increasing depth exclusively in the alpine species Duvalius carantii.
Giuseppe Nicolosi, Elena Piano, Marco Tolve, Pier Mauro Giachino, Paolo Magrini, Marco Isaia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiobjective Tactical Planning under Uncertainty for Air Traffic Flow and Capacity Management [PDF]

, 2013
We investigate a method to deal with congestion of sectors and delays in the tactical phase of air traffic flow and capacity management. It relies on temporal objectives given for every point of the flight plans and shared among the controllers in order ...
Marceau, Gaétan, Savéant, Pierre, Schoenauer, Marc   +2 more
core   +2 more sources