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Author : Arthur D. Chapman
Publisher : GBIF
ISBN 13 : 8792020046
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Principles and methods of data cleaning written by Arthur D. Chapman and published by GBIF. This book was released on 2005 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Kemp
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412913136
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science written by Karen Kemp and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographic information science (GIScience) is an emerging field that combines aspects of many different disciplines. Spatial literacy is rapidly becoming recognized as a new, essential pier of basic education, alongside grammatical, logical and mathematical literacy. By incorporating location as an essential but often overlooked characteristic of what we seek to understand in the natural and built environment, geographic information science (GIScience) and systems (GISystems) provide the conceptual foundation and tools to explore this new frontier. The Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science covers the essence of this exciting, new, and expanding field in an easily understood but richly detailed style. In addition to contributions from some of the best recognized scholars in GIScience, this volume contains contributions from experts in GIS' supporting disciplines who explore how their disciplinary perspectives are expanded within the context of GIScienceâ€"what changes when consideration of location is added, what complexities in analytical procedures are added when we consider objects in 2, 3 or even 4 dimensions, what can we gain by visualizing our analytical results on a map or 3D display? Key Features Brings together GIScience literature that is spread widely across the academic spectrum Offers details about the key foundations of GIScience, no matter what their disciplinary origins Elucidates vocabulary that is an amalgam of all of these fields Key Themes Conceptual Foundations Cartography and Visualization Design Aspects Data Manipulation Data Modeling Geocomputation Geospatial Data Societal Issues Spatial Analysis Organizational and Institutional Aspects The Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science is an important resource for academic and corporate libraries.
Author : Danny Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136538232
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Crop Wild Relatives written by Danny Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant species which are more or less closely related to crops. They are a vital resource by providing a pool of genetic variation that can be used in breeding new and better adapted varieties of crops that are resistant to stress, disease, drought and other factors. They will be increasingly important in allowing crops to adapt to the impacts of climate, thus safeguarding future agricultural production. Until recently, the main conservation strategy adopted for CWR has been ex situ - through the maintenance of samples as seed or vegetative material in various kinds of genebank or other facilities. Now the need to conserve CWR in their natural surroundings (in situ) is increasingly recognized. Recent research co-ordinated by Bioversity International has produced a wealth of information on good practices and lessons learned for their effective conservation. This book captures the important practical experiences of countries participating in this work and describes them for the wider conservation community. It includes case studies and examples from Armenia, Bolivia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan, which are important centres of diversity for crop wild relatives, and covers four geographical regions - the Caucasus, South America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific Region. It provides practical, relevant information and guidance for the scaling-up of actions targeting CWR conservation around the world.
Author : Samuel A. Cushman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431877711
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Spatial Complexity, Informatics, and Wildlife Conservation written by Samuel A. Cushman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Earth faces the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years, the present is a moment of tremendous foment and emergence in ecological science. With leaps in advances in ecological research and the technical tools available, scientists face the critical task of challenging policymakers and the public to recognize the urgency of our global crisis. This book focuses directly on the interplay between theory, data, and analytical methodology in the rapidly evolving fields of animal ecology, conservation, and management. The mixture of topics of particular current relevance includes landscape ecology, remote sensing, spatial modeling, geostatistics, genomics, and ecological informatics. The greatest interest to the practicing scientist and graduate student will be the synthesis and integration of these topics to provide a composite view of the emerging field of spatial ecological informatics and its applications in research and management.
Author : Robert Barbault
Publisher : IRD Editions
ISBN 13 : 9782856535905
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Biodiversity, Science and Governance written by Robert Barbault and published by IRD Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Maxted
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845938518
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Agrobiodiversity Conservation written by Nigel Maxted and published by CABI. This book was released on 2012 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the 2010 conference "Towards the establishment of genetic reserves for crop wild relatives and landraces in Europe", this book is the cutting edge discussion of agrobiodiversity conservation. By considering the benefits of understanding and preserving crop wild relatives and landraces, it encompasses issues as wide-ranging and topical as habitat protection, ecosystem health and food security. Focusing on Europe, but globally relevant, Agrobiodiversity Conservation is ideal for postgraduate students of conservation and environmental studies, conservation professionals, policy makers and researchers.
Author : C. Ashton Drew
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441973907
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology written by C. Ashton Drew and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most projects in Landscape Ecology, at some point, define a species-habitat association. These models are inherently spatial, dealing with landscapes and their configurations. Whether coding behavioral rules for dispersal of simulated organisms through simulated landscapes, or designing the sampling extent of field surveys and experiments in real landscapes, landscape ecologists must make assumptions about how organisms experience and utilize the landscape. These convenient working postulates allow modelers to project the model in time and space, yet rarely are they explicitly considered. The early years of landscape ecology necessarily focused on the evolution of effective data sources, metrics, and statistical approaches that could truly capture the spatial and temporal patterns and processes of interest. Now that these tools are well established, we reflect on the ecological theories that underpin the assumptions commonly made during species distribution modeling and mapping. This is crucial for applying models to questions of global sustainability. Due to the inherent use of GIS for much of this kind of research, and as several authors’ research involves the production of multicolored map figures, there would be an 8-page color insert. Additional color figures could be made available through a digital archive, or by cost contributions of the chapter authors. Where applicable, would be relevant chapters’ GIS data and model code available through a digital archive. The practice of data and code sharing is becoming standard in GIS studies, is an inherent method of this book, and will serve to add additional research value to the book for both academic and practitioner audiences.
Author : Jochen L. Leidner
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1581123841
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Toponym Resolution in Text written by Jochen L. Leidner and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as author's thesis: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 2007.
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Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Telopea written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Falk Huettmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431540059
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Protection of the Three Poles written by Falk Huettmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Hindu Kush-Himalayas form a trio of terrains sometimes called “the three poles”. Mainly composed of rock, snow, and ice, these precious regions, which are home to many unique species such as the polar bear, the emperor penguin, and the snow leopard, contain the primary water resource of this planet and directly shape our climate. This book presents a first-ever global assessment and progressive review of the three poles and demonstrates the urgent need for their protection. Sins of the past have irrevocably harmed and threatened many of the unique qualities of these regions, and the future looks bleak with the global population forecast to reach 9 billion by 2060, and with climate change on the rise. Presented here is a wide-reaching and coherent overview of the three poles’ biodiversity, habitats, and ongoing destruction. Failed protection and social targets set by the United Nations and other bodies are exposed while economic growth, unconstrained or inappropriate development, and urban sprawl are promoted unabated. Polar regions play a major role in the global agenda as they are rich in oil and other resources, marking them for contamination, overfishing, and further degradation. Tourism in the Antarctic has benefited from enlightened self-regulation, but there are signs that this is changing, too. The chapters of this book are written by experts in their fields, and their evidence leaves no doubt that we already live beyond our carrying capacity on a finite but decaying space. A global protection role model and several outlook scenarios are proposed to help set in motion polar protection priorities that are actually valid. Humanity has demonstrated through international treaties such as the Antarctic Treaty and the Madrid Protocol that we can put the interests of the planet as a whole first. This must become the norm, not the exception.
Author : Erik A. Beever
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420087223
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Ecological Consequences of Climate Change written by Erik A. Beever and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary climate change is a crucial management challenge for wildlife scientists, conservation biologists, and ecologists of the 21st century. Climate fingerprints are being detected and documented in the responses of hundreds of wildlife species and numerous ecosystems around the world. To mitigate and accommodate the influences of climate ch
Author : Alexander Gray
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 354070504X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Sharing Data, Information and Knowledge written by Alexander Gray and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1981, the British National Conferences on Databases (BNCOD) have p- vided a forum for database researchers to report the latest progress and explore new ideas. Over the last 28 years, BNCOD has evolved from a predominantly national conference into one that is truly international, attracting research c- tributions from all over the world. This volume contains the proceedings of BNCOD 2008. We received 45 s- missions from 22 countries. Each paper was reviewed by three referees, and 14 full papers and 7 posters were accepted. All the research papers and posters are included in this volume, and they are organized into ?ve sections: data mining and privacy, data integration, stream and event data processing, query proce- ing and optimization, and posters. The keynote was delivered by Monica Marinucci, EMEA Programme Dir- tor for Oracle in R&D. She has been involved in various advanced developments concerning Oracle, and participated in EC-funded projects as an expert, es- cially the CHALLENGERS special support action to propose the future of grid computing. In her keynote presentation,she addressedthe audience on the topic of the power of data, emphasizing that the ability to store, handle, manipulate, distribute and replicate data and information can provide a tremendous asset to organizations. She also explored some of the latest directions and developments in the database ?eld, and described how Oracle contributes to them partnering up with other leading organizations in di?erent sectors.
Author : Arthur D. Chapman
Publisher : GBIF
ISBN 13 : 8792020038
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Principles of Data Quality written by Arthur D. Chapman and published by GBIF. This book was released on 2005 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Smith
Publisher : PenSoft Publishers LTD
ISBN 13 : 9546426458
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (464 download)
Download or read book No specimen left behind: mass digitization of natural history collections written by Vincent Smith and published by PenSoft Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of this biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed across varied and distinct natural history collections worldwide. This makes the task of extracting and mobilising the information within these collections an immense challenge.ÿÿIn this special issue of ZooKeys, 18 papers by 81 authors examine progress and prospects for mass digitising entire natural history collections. These papers provide a snapshot of activity, in what is a fast moving field that is seeing ever-increasing degrees of collaboration across disciplines and between collection-based institutions. Examples of research covered by these articles include a description to efforts digitise 30 million plant, invertebrate and vertebrate specimens at NCB Naturalis in the Netherlands; new scanning and telemicroscopy solutions to digitise the millions of pinned insect specimens held in the Australian National Insect Collection and its European and North American counterparts; citizen science projects being used to crowdsource the transcription of thousands of specimen labels and field notebooks; and new data portals providing central access to millions of biological specimens across Europe.ÿÿMany of these projects deal with the unique challenges associated with major collections that have built up over several centuries, with different communities of practices and different user communities. Despite many differences, standards for collection acquisition, preservation and documentation are broadly consistent, meaning that there is sufficient common ground to bring together the enormous amounts of data that are being exposed through mass digitisation efforts. These data will become the new frontier for natural history collection management and research in the next decade.
Author : A. Townsend Peterson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840678
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49) written by A. Townsend Peterson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this integrative view. The book focuses on correlative approaches known as ecological niche modeling, species distribution modeling, or habitat suitability modeling, which use associations between known occurrences of species and environmental variables to identify environmental conditions under which populations can be maintained. The spatial distribution of environments suitable for the species can then be estimated: a potential distribution for the species. This approach has broad applicability to ecology, evolution, biogeography, and conservation biology, as well as to understanding the geographic potential of invasive species and infectious diseases, and the biological implications of climate change. The authors lay out conceptual foundations and general principles for understanding and interpreting species distributions with respect to geography and environment. Focus is on development of niche models. While serving as a guide for students and researchers, the book also provides a theoretical framework to support future progress in the field.
Author : Trevor R. Hodkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500473
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Climate Change, Ecology and Systematics written by Trevor R. Hodkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change has shaped life in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Understanding the interactions between climate and biodiversity is a complex challenge to science. With contributions from 60 key researchers, this book examines the ongoing impact of climate change on the ecology and diversity of life on earth. It discusses the latest research within the fields of ecology and systematics, highlighting the increasing integration of their approaches and methods. Topics covered include the influence of climate change on evolutionary and ecological processes such as adaptation, migration, speciation and extinction, and the role of these processes in determining the diversity and biogeographic distribution of species and their populations. This book ultimately illustrates the necessity for global conservation actions to mitigate the effects of climate change in a world that is already undergoing a biodiversity crisis of unprecedented scale.
Author : Penny F. Langhammer
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 283170992X
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Identification and Gap Analysis of Key Biodiversity Areas written by Penny F. Langhammer and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important Bird Areas and Important Plant Areas have already been identified in more than 170 countries. The Key Biodiversity Areas approach builds on the work done to date, in order to provide practical guidance to governments in identifying those sites which must be protected to ensure the future of both biodiversity and humanity.
