Assessing the effects of spatial contingency and environmental ...

We developed an analytical framework to link niche properties based on trait and phylogenetics to environmental and spatial variation.

The establishment of spatial reserves always results in a reduction in potential profits (compared with traditional management), but results in higher diversity ...

Assessing the effects of spatial contingency and environmental ...

Exploring patterns of biodiversity across space is perhaps the best integrative method (in contrast to the scarcity of temporal data) to interpret the influence ...

Assessing the effects of spatial contingency and environmental ...

A heuristical framework to merge these two fields into “metacommunity phylogenetics” is described, to provide a way to think about how niche properties of ...

Disentangling environmental and spatial effects on phylogenetic ...

In this paper, we assess the relative importance of environmental heterogeneity and spatial contingency in driving phylogenetic structure of angiosperm tree ...

Environmental Predictability as a Cause and Consequence of ...

High constancy and low contingency occurs, for example, in quasihomogeneous resource patches (constancy in space) whose small spatial heterogeneities are ...

Historical contingency impacts on community assembly and ... - Nature

The effect of historical events was transient, dominated by environmental selection as, over time, species sorting was a more important driver ...

A Theory of Practice for Environmental Assessment - CLU-IN

The integration might be performed by simply estimating ecological, health, and economic effects for a common scenario and common spatial and temporal scales.

Assessing the accuracy of spatial simulation models - ScienceDirect

Citation Excerpt : The field of spatial simulation modeling critically needs comprehensive frameworks, standards, and methods to test and evaluate models.

Contrasting effects of historical contingency on phenotypic and ...

Our work suggests that historical contingency affects phenotypic adaptation to a new environment. This was however not reflected at the genomic level.

Historical contingency and spatial processes rather than ecological ...

This implies that the environmental variables were not randomly distributed throughout the studied region but spatially structured and that the ...

Spatial Extrapolation: The Science of Predicting Ecological Patterns ...

2001) and may thus fail to identify spatial contingencies or multiple causes. ... Effects of changing spatial scale on the analysis of landscape pattern.

Contingency Space Analysis: An Alternative Method for Identifying ...

Descriptive assessment methods have been used in applied settings to identify consequences for problem behavior, thereby aiding in the design of effective ...

Forefronting the Socio-Ecological in Savanna Landscapes through ...

The identification of these spatial thresholds provides a means to evaluate which agents of change are most influential at particular scales and inter-patch ...

Historical contingency via priority effects counteracts environmental ...

In this study, we applied the Bayesian inference scheme of Hierarchical Modeling of Species Communities together with information on functional ...

Ecological risk assessment guidance for Superfund

National Center for Environmental Assessment's Health Effects Assessment Summary Tables ... effects, their spatial and temporal patterns, and the likelihood of ...

Full article: Spatial information in ecosystem service assessment

Due to the heterogeneity of the spatial data, the regional characteristics should be considered in environmental decision-making through ethnographic research ...

Strategies for Dealing with Uncertainties in Strategic Environmental ...

In the SEA, scenarios or so-called impact tests can be used to assess whether possible impacts fit within the available environmental space. This was not ...

Ecological contingency in the effects of climatic warming on forest ...

At higher elevations we found qualitatively different and more modest changes, including increases in herbs of northern biogeographic affinity ...

Method 3 Environmental Risk Characterization, 310 CMR, § 40.0995

... impacts shall be judged at the spatial ... assessment shall characterize any actual and potential environmental exposures and associated ecological effects.