ECOSYSTEM SERVICES JOURNAL, Special Issue "Putting ES into Practice", call for papers is STILL open. Interested?

Dear all, Our Special Issue in Ecosystem Services Journal (ELSEVIER) is growing very nicely, with interesting contributions from a broad scope of disciplines. We believe that it will be a nice...

04 May 2016 5,120 2 View

Do you want to join a session on urban planning in the next WMCAUS Conference in June Prague?

I am writing to kindly invite you to join our ELI (European Land-Use Intitute) special session on urban planning in the next WMCAUS conference, to be held in Prague between 13-17 June 2016. Here...

02 March 2016 8,608 6 View

SYMPOSIUM: Urban ecosystem services and biological diversity. Dresden Nexus Conference

08 September 2014 8,920 2 View

What are the most effective methods to detect air pollutants concentrations with remote sensing techniques?

I am searching for feasible methods, techniques, available images and their possibilities to estimate concentration of PM in urban areas.

31 December 2013 4,679 8 View

PCA to estimate urban vulnerability. What is the best way to include direct and inverse variables in a Principal Component Analysis?

There are variables increasing vulnerability while others decrease it. What are the best pre-processing methods to account for this relationship to ensure adequate results? Is it always...

31 December 2013 2,659 5 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

I'm having a problem with my bloxplot with Shannon's and Simpson's indexs. The value of Shannon for my Community 1 indicating higher diversity (in relation of the Community 2), but have lower...

26 February 2021 3,033 9 View

What should a smart water system look like?

Our team is designing a smart water C&C dashboard for a smart city initiative. As we look into the current smart water system landscape, we couldn't reconcile to a definitive solution that...

16 February 2021 1,094 3 View

Any recommendations for methods to analyze elephant space-use (using GPS) and correlating this with changes in NDVI?

For my Masters I am looking into elephant space-use and its effect on vegetation change. I have elephant GPS collar data and was going to use Google Earth Engine to obtain NDVI values. I would...

16 February 2021 7,097 3 View

How to consider effects of rapid warm adaptation in modeling of ecological impacts of warming?

I would highly appreciate it if my fellow ecologists (biologists) provide their opinion on the thoughts below [esp., shortly tell us which path may be more effective, if they know another way, if...

15 February 2021 3,642 6 View

What is the magnitude of yearly rhizopdeposition in tropical forests?

Hi all, I am trying to find reference values on annual soil rhizodeposition rates for different kinds of forests, with a particular interest for tropical rainforests. Do we have an idea of the...

26 January 2021 4,278 4 View

Can you recommend a good book on analytical chemistry for non-chemists?

Dear colleagues, I am asking for you recommendation: I need a book on analytical chemistry in environmental sciences. As a non-chemist (a biologist) I have some basic chemistry knowledge but not...

25 January 2021 8,486 8 View

Why are my Maxent SDM projections coming up almost entirely blue?

Hello Maxent Community, I have been generating SDM models and projections in Maxent. I have had some success with one set of variables (some Hydroshed variables mixed with World CLIM variables);...

19 January 2021 3,994 7 View

How deep into the sediment do marine/riverine oligochaetes live?

I am working with intertidal muddy sediments. In one of my sites the sediment was extremely muddy (high % of silt), oxic layer was shallow, and there were a lot of oligochaetes. I would like to...

14 January 2021 7,269 4 View

How to make open-top chambers?

Hi, I wonder if someone would share experience with building open-top chambers for surface heating of soil. My main question is what material can be used to build them? I found researchers using...

05 January 2021 5,396 6 View