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1. Physically, physiologically and conceptually hidden: Improving the description and communication of seed persistence

Author:
Jaganathan, Ganesh K.; Boenisch, Gerhard; Kattge, Jens; Dalrymple, Sarah E.
Source:
Flora 2019 v.257 pp. 151413
ISSN:
0367-2530
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; climate; plant communities; prediction; seeds;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Seed persistence is a trait that is difficult to observe or measure and, consequently has remained conceptually obscure for 40 years since Grubb’s influential description of the regeneration niche. Seed persistence is the ability of seeds to persist in a viable state post-dispersal and is relevant to current research in plant community dynamics and conservation. However, categorisations of seed pe ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.flora.2019.05.012

2. Optimizing release strategies: a stepping‐stone approach to reintroduction

Author:
Lloyd, N. A.; Hostetter, N. J.; Jackson, C. L.; Converse, S. J.; Moehrenschlager, A.
Source:
Animal conservation 2019 v.22 no.2 pp. 105-115
ISSN:
1367-9430
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; Marmota; biotelemetry; models; probability; yearlings;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Evaluation of alternative management strategies enables informed decisions to accelerate species recovery. For reintroductions, post‐release survival to reproductive age is a key parameter influencing population growth. Here, we trial a ‘stepping‐stone’ method to maximize the success of captive‐bred animals when the availability of more suitable wild‐born release candidates is limited. Our approac ...
DOI:
10.1111/acv.12448

3. Rationalising the basis for utilization of compulsorily acquired property in Ghana: Issues arising

Author:
Dowuona-Hammond, Christine
Source:
Land use policy 2019 v.81 pp. 546-552
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; governance; land use; urbanization; Ghana;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper discusses the evolution, current status and future prospects of the governance framework on compulsory acquisition in Ghana with particular emphasis on the scope of the state’s prerogative to determine the purpose for which compulsorily acquired lands may be utilized. The paper examines how the concept of public interest has been interpreted and applied in assessing the utilization of c ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.11.020

4. When can competition and dispersal lead to checkerboard distributions?

Author:
Dallas, Tad; Melbourne, Brett A.; Hastings, Alan
Source:
The journal of animal ecology 2019 v.88 no.2 pp. 269-276
ISSN:
0021-8790
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; biodiversity; biogeography; interspecific competition; models;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Checkerboard distributions—mutually exclusive species co‐occurrences—are a common observation in community ecology and biogeography. While the underlying causes of checkerboard distributions have remained elusive, a long‐standing argument is that they are representative of strong competitive interactions and/or dispersal limitation. We explore this using a stochastic two‐patch metacommunity model ...
DOI:
10.1111/1365-2656.12913

5. Assessment of Sustainable Use of a Multipurpose Reservoir through the Multicriteria Approach: the Case of Corumbá IV Reservoir, Brazil

Author:
Ribas, José Roberto; Diaz, Juan Ignacio Perez
Source:
Water resources management 2019 v.33 no.2 pp. 591-602
ISSN:
0920-4741
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; interviews; models; stakeholders; Brazil;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... This study proposes a framework for assessing and ranking a set of sustainable alternatives for instream use of the Corumba IV reservoir, a multipurpose water resource located in the center-east of Brazil. The model is structured with six applicable sustainable benefits and five sustainable water uses, identified through in-depth interviews with four interest groups. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy p ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11269-018-2121-3

6. Variation between individuals fosters regional species coexistence

Author:
Uriarte, María; Menge, Duncan
Source:
Ecology letters 2018 v.21 no.10 pp. 1496-1504
ISSN:
1461-023X
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; habitats; theoretical models;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... Although individual‐level variation (IV) is ubiquitous in nature, it is not clear how it influences species coexistence. Theory predicts that IV will hinder coexistence but empirical studies have shown that it can facilitate, inhibit, or have a neutral effect. We use a theoretical model to explore the consequences of IV on local and regional species coexistence in the context of spatial environmen ...
DOI:
10.1111/ele.13130

7. Food waste: Challenges and opportunities for enhancing the emerging bio-economy

Author:
Morone, Piergiuseppe; Koutinas, Apostolis; Gathergood, Nicholas; Arshadi, Mehrdad; Matharu, Avtar
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2019 v.221 pp. 10-16
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; bioeconomics; collaborative management; computer software; food waste;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Around one third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted globally. This bears economic, social and environmental costs and calls for urgent and adequate measures. Such measures should target: (1) preventable food waste minimization; and (2) non-preventable food waste valorisation. This VSI addresses these two points by highlighting the need for improved connectivity between social sci ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.258

8. How population and energy price affect China's environmental pollution?

Author:
Li, Kunming; Fang, Liting; He, Lerong
Source:
Energy policy 2019 v.129 pp. 386-396
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; energy costs; pollution; stickiness; theoretical models; urbanization; China;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper examines the impact of population and energy price on China's environmental pollution through both industrial and residential channels. Our theoretical models reveal that the influences of population on environmental pollution are contingent on wage stickiness and wage elasticity. We also predict that environment pollution decreases with rising energy price, but downward energy price di ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2019.02.020

9. Changing patterns and determinants of transportation carbon emissions in Chinese cities

Author:
Li, Fangyi; Cai, Bofeng; Ye, Zhaoyang; Wang, Zheng; Zhang, Wei; Zhou, Pan; Chen, Jian
Source:
Energy 2019 v.174 pp. 562-575
ISSN:
0360-5442
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; aviation; carbon; cities; emissions; railroads; roads; China;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... Regional disparities in transportation emissions at the city level in China are of vital importance for future policymaking; however, such studies are insufficient. After estimating the carbon emissions of transportation in China's 341 cities, this study analyzed the spatial pattern evolution of transportation carbon emissions (TCEs) in China from 2005 to 2015. The results revealed that TCEs by ro ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.energy.2019.02.179

10. Assessing bottom trawling impacts based on the longevity of benthic invertebrates

Author:
Hiddink, Jan Geert; Jennings, Simon; Sciberras, Marija; Bolam, Stefan G.; Cambiè, Giulia; McConnaughey, Robert A.; Mazor, Tessa; Hilborn, Ray; Collie, Jeremy S.; Pitcher, C. Roland; Parma, Ana M.; Suuronen, Petri; Kaiser, Michel J.; Rijnsdorp, Adriaan D.
Source:
Journal of applied ecology 2019 v.56 no.5 pp. 1075-1084
ISSN:
0021-8901
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; anthropogenic activities; fisheries; habitats; invertebrates; longevity; mortality;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... Bottom trawling is the most widespread human activity directly affecting seabed habitats. Assessment and effective management of the effects of bottom trawling at the scale of fisheries requires an understanding of differences in sensitivity of biota to trawling. Responses to disturbance are expected to depend on the intrinsic rate of increase in populations (r), which is expected to be linearly r ...
DOI:
10.1111/1365-2664.13278

11. Mortality attributable to high temperatures over the 2021–2050 and 2051–2100 time horizons in Spain: Adaptation and economic estimate

Author:
Díaz, J.; Sáez, M.; Carmona, R.; Mirón, I.J.; Barceló, M.A.; Luna, M.Y.; Linares, C.
Source:
Environmental research 2019 v.172 pp. 475-485
ISSN:
0013-9351
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; climate; climate models; heat; mortality; risk; temperature; Spain;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... In recent years, a number of studies have been conducted with the aim of analysing the impact that high temperatures will have on mortality over different time horizons under different climate scenarios. Very few of these studies take into account the fact that the threshold temperature used to define a heat wave will vary over time, and there are practically none which calculate this threshold te ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.envres.2019.02.041

12. The long-run effects of government spending on structural change: Evidence from Second World War defense contracts

Author:
Li, Zhimin; Koustas, Dmitri
Source:
Economics letters 2019 v.178 pp. 66-69
ISSN:
0165-1765
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; data collection; labor; manufacturing; United States;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper studies the long-run effects of the largest government spending program in U.S. history – Second World War defense spending – on structural change in local economies. We link a dataset of war supply contracts with economic data at the county level spanning from 1930 to 2000. Using counties that received no defense spending as a comparison group and controlling for prewar characteristics ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.econlet.2019.02.012

13. Dynamic Management of a Water Resources-Socioeconomic-Environmental System Based on Feedbacks Using System Dynamics

Author:
Dong, Qianjin; Zhang, Xu; Chen, Yalin; Fang, Debin
Source:
Water resources management 2019 v.33 no.6 pp. 2093-2108
ISSN:
0920-4741
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; industry; pollution; water management; water resources; China;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... System dynamics (SD) have been used in water resources management for many years. However, water resources management using SD is usually in one direction, up to down or down to up, and does not consider internal and external system feedbacks, which may mislead managers and reduce the adaptability of water resources systems. Therefore, dynamic management of a water resources-socioeconomic-environm ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11269-019-02233-8

14. Survival and Growth in vitro of Paramoeba perurans Populations Cultured Under Different Salinities and Temperatures

Author:
Collins, Catherine; Hall, Malcolm; Fordyce, Mark J.; White, Patricia
Source:
Protist 2019 v.170 no.2 pp. 153-167
ISSN:
1434-4610
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; Paramoeba perurans; exposure duration; salinity; temperature;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Growth rates of Paramoeba perurans cultures under different temperature and salinity conditions were investigated in vitro over a 15day period. Optimal population growth, under the experimental conditions, was observed at 15°C and a salinity of 35‰, with amoebae populations doubling every 14h. Positive P. perurans populations growth was observed at 15°C between salinities of above 20‰ and 50‰, and ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.protis.2018.11.003

15. Equivalence and dissimilarity of ecosystem states

Author:
Boit, Alice; Spencer, Matthew
Source:
Ecological modelling 2019 v.396 pp. 12-22
ISSN:
0304-3800
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; data collection; ecosystems; natural selection; plankton; Lake Constance;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Measuring (dis)similarity between ecosystem states is a key theme in ecology. Much of community and ecosystem ecology is devoted to searching for patterns in ecosystem similarity from an external observer's viewpoint, using variables such as species abundances, measures of diversity and complexity. However, from the point of view of organisms in the ecosystem, proportional population growth rates ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.01.009

16. Assessing the effect of density on population growth when modeling individual encounter data

Author:
Tenan, Simone; Tavecchia, Giacomo; Oro, Daniel; Pradel, Roger
Source:
Ecology 2019 v.100 no.3 pp. e02595
ISSN:
0012-9658
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; models; population size; variance; wildlife management;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... The relative role of density‐dependent and density‐independent variation in vital rates and population size remains largely unsolved. Despite its importance to the theory and application of population ecology, and to conservation biology, quantifying the role and strength of density dependence is particularly challenging. We present a hierarchical formulation of the temporal symmetry approach, als ...
DOI:
10.1002/ecy.2595

17. The diversity of population responses to environmental change

Author:
Colchero, Fernando; Jones, Owen R.; Conde, Dalia A.; Hodgson, David; Zajitschek, Felix; Schmidt, Benedikt R.; Malo, Aurelio F.; Alberts, Susan C.; Becker, Peter H.; Bouwhuis, Sandra; Bronikowski, Anne M.; De Vleeschouwer, Kristel M.; Delahay, Richard J.; Dummermuth, Stefan; Fernández‐Duque, Eduardo; Frisenvænge, John; Hesselsøe, Martin; Larson, Sam; Lemaître, Jean‐François; McDonald, Jennifer; Miller, David A.W.; O'Donnell, Colin; Packer, Craig; Raboy, Becky E.; Reading, Chris J.; Wapstra, Erik; Weimerskirch, Henri; While, Geoffrey M.; Baudisch, Annette; Flatt, Thomas; Coulson, Tim; Gaillard, Jean‐Michel
Source:
Ecology letters 2019 v.22 no.2 pp. 342-353
ISSN:
1461-023X
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; climate change; extinction; fecundity; models; prediction; variance;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... The current extinction and climate change crises pressure us to predict population dynamics with ever‐greater accuracy. Although predictions rest on the well‐advanced theory of age‐structured populations, two key issues remain poorly explored. Specifically, how the age‐dependency in demographic rates and the year‐to‐year interactions between survival and fecundity affect stochastic population grow ...
DOI:
10.1111/ele.13195

18. Key beliefs underlying public feeding of free-roaming cats in Malaysia and management suggestions

Author:
Davey, Gareth; Khor, Mei Mei; Zhao, Xiang
Source:
Human dimensions of wildlife 2019 v.24 no.1 pp. 1-13
ISSN:
1533-158X
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; cats; ecosystems; education; pet ownership; predation; wildlife; Malaysia;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... Public feeding of free-roaming cats subsidizes their population growth, and has consequences in highly interconnected ecosystems including predation of native wildlife and alteration of their behavior and populations. Research is needed to explain, predict, and possibly curb public feeding. We conducted a theoretically informed analysis of key beliefs underlying intentions to feed free-roaming cat ...
DOI:
10.1080/10871209.2018.1522679

19. Density‐dependence mediates coral assemblage structure

Author:
Edmunds, Peter J.; Nelson, Hannah R.; Bramanti, Lorenzo
Source:
Ecology 2018 v.99 no.11 pp. 2605-2613
ISSN:
0012-9658
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; corals; mortality; reefs; French Polynesia;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Density dependence (DD) controls community recovery following widespread mortality, yet this principle rarely has been applied to coral assemblages. The reefs of Mo'orea, French Polynesia, provide the opportunity to study DD of coral population growth, because coral assemblages in this location responded to declines in abundance with high recruitment and an increase in cover during which recruitme ...
DOI:
10.1002/ecy.2511

20. Effects of income and population growth on fish price and welfare

Author:
Nguyen, Ly; Kinnucan, Henry W.
Source:
Aquaculture economics & management 2018 v.22 no.2 pp. 244-263
ISSN:
1551-8663
Subject:
population growth,   etc   ; aquaculture; fish; income; models; prices;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... An excess supply-demand model is used to determine the effects of income and population growth on the international price of fish and on welfare in net-exporting and importing regions. Stochastic simulations of the model suggest that fish price increases by between 0.25 and 1.07% for each 1% increase in world income, and by between 0.30 and 1.20% for each 1% increase in world population. Combining ...
DOI:
10.1080/13657305.2017.1356397