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It is a current challenge to better understand the relative importance of species in ecosystems, and the network perspective is able to offer quantitative tools for this. It is plausible to assume, in general, that well-linked species, being key interactors, are also more important for the community. Recently a number of methods have been suggested for quantifying the network position of species in ecological networks (like the topological importance metric, TI). Most of them are based on node centrality indices and it may happen that the two most important species in a food web have very similar interaction structure and they can essentially replace each other if one becomes extinct. For conservation considerations it is a challenge to identify species that are richly connected and, at the same time, have a relatively unique and irreplaceable interaction pattern. We present a new method and illustrate our approach by using the Kuosheng Bay trophic network in Taiwan. The new method is based on the interaction matrix, where the strength of the interaction between nodes i and j depends only on topology. By defining a threshold separating weak and strong interactors, we define the effective range of interactions for each graph node. If the overlaps between pairs of these ranges are quantified, we gain a metric expressing how unique is the interaction pattern of a focal node (TO). The combination of centrality (TI) and uniqueness (TO) is called topological functionality (TF). We compare the nodal importance rank provided by this metric to others based on a variety of centrality measures. The main conclusion is that shrimps seem to have the most unique interaction pattern despite that their structural importance has been underestimated by all conventional centrality indices. Also, our network analysis suggests that fisheries disturb the ecosystem in a more critical network position than the impingement by the local power plant. 相似文献
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Jordão CP Nascentes CC Cecon PR Fontes RL Pereira JL 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2006,112(1-3):309-326
A study was performed to evaluate the pH and the availability of Zn, Cu, Mn, Pb, and Ni in soil amended with increasing doses
of composted solid wastes, collected in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State and in Coimbra, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The
influence of the time elapsed between compost application to the soil and the sampling of the plant growth substrate (soil
+ compost) for pH and metal availability analyses was also examined. The availability of heavy metals in the soil, in the
compost and in the substrate was evaluated using DTPA solution for metal extraction. The increase of the compost doses added
to the soil resulted in the increase of the pH in the substrate. The addition of the compost from the bigger city, Rio de
Janeiro, resulted in higher increase in soil pH and available Zn, Cu, Pb, and Ni levels as compared to the addition of the
compost from the smaller city, Coimbra. Increasing the time elapsed between the compost application to the soil and the sampling
of the mixture resulted in higher available Zn, Cu, Mn, and Pb levels. The addition of the compost from Rio de Janeiro resulted
in substrate metal concentrations in the order Zn > Pb > Ni > Cu > Mn and for the Coimbra compost the metal concentrations
in the substrate was Zn > Pb > Cu > Ni > Mn. The higher values of pH and available metals obtained for the bigger city were
attributed to the greatest metal contamination of its compost. 相似文献
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Ferenc L. Tóth 《Integrated Assessment》2000,1(2):127-136
A standard framework is presented as an underlying model for the discounting debate. Views and proposals for the techniques
and rates of discounting are assessed. Alternative modeling frameworks for studying intergenerational equity issues are evaluated
with the result that the basic insights they provide do not differ very much. Results from model experiments involving different
discount rate proposals show that fudging the discount rate does not lead to efficient climate policy. Three major clusters
of opinions are identified regarding the applicability of cost-benefit analysis to the climate change problem and the appropriate
discount rate to use. It is concluded that under some very special circumstances the cost-benefit rule should be abandoned
and cost-effective strategies implying standard discount rates should be sought to reach clearly defined and justified environmental
targets.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Ishikawa Toshiharu Matsumoto Akio Szidarovszky Ferenc 《Environmental Economics and Policy Studies》2019,21(4):579-597
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - This study demonstrates the conditions under which an increase in the ambient charge positively or negatively affects the total level of non-point... 相似文献
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In order to upgrade polymer waste during recycling, separation should take place at high purity. The present research was aimed to develop a novel, alternative separation opportunity, where the polymer fractions were separated by centrifugal force in melted state. The efficiency of the constructed separation equipment was verified by two immiscible plastics (polyethylene terephthalate, PET; low density polyethylene, LDPE), which have a high difference of density, and of which large quantities can also be found in the municipal solid waste. The results show that the developed equipment is suitable not only for separating dry blended mixtures of PET/LDPE into pure components again, but also for separating prefabricated polymer blends. By this process it becomes possible to recover pure polymer substances from multi-component products during the recycling process. The adequacy of results was verified by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurement as well as optical microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. 相似文献
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Jordán Manuel Miguel Montero María Adriana Pardo-Fabregat Francisco 《Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management》2021,23(2):707-716
Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management - The substitution of standard clays to residues, in this case copper smelter slag and fly ashes coming from the incineration process of MSW in... 相似文献
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Benjamin S Magbanua J Chris Stanfill Steven M Fehniger Barth F Smets Ferenc Farkas C P Leslie Grady 《Water environment research》2004,76(3):256-267
The utility of intrinsic and extant kinetic parameters for simulating the dynamic behavior of a biotreatment system coupled with a distributed, unstructured, balanced microbial growth model were evaluated against the observed response of test reactors to transient loads of synthetic organic compounds (SOCs). Biomass from a completely mixed activated-sludge (CMAS) system was tested in fed-batch reactors, while a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was tested by measuring SOC concentrations during the fill and react period. Both the CMAS system and the SBR were acclimated to a feed containing biogenic substrates and several SOCs, and the transient loading tests were conducted with biogenic substrates along with one or more SOCs. Extant parameters more closely reflect the steady-state degradative capacity of activated-sludge biomass than intrinsic parameters and, hence, were expected to be better predictors of system performance. However, neither extant nor intrinsic parameters accurately predicted system response and neither parameter set was consistently superior to the other. Factors that may have contributed to the inability of the model to predict system response were identified and discussed. These factors included the role of abiotic processes in SOC removal, disparity in the bases used to evaluate parameter estimates (substrate mineralization) and reactor performance (substrate disappearance), inhibitory substrate interactions under the severe loading conditions of the SBR, changes in the physiological state of the biomass during the transient loading tests, and the presumed correlation between the competent biomass concentration and the influent SOC concentration. 相似文献
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Application of game theory for a groundwater conflict in Mexico 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Exploitation of scarce water resources, particularly in areas of high demand, inevitably produces conflict among disparate stakeholders, each of whom may have their own set of priorities. In order to arrive at a socially acceptable compromise, the decision-makers should seek an optimal trade-off between conflicting objectives that reflect the priorities of the various stakeholders. In this study, game theory was applied to a multiobjective conflict problem for the Alto Rio Lerma Irrigation District, located in the state of Guanajuato in Mexico, where economic benefits from agricultural production should be balanced with associated negative environmental impacts. The short period of rainfall in this area, combined with high groundwater withdrawals from irrigation wells, has produced severe aquifer overdraft. In addition, current agricultural practices of applying high loads of fertilizers and pesticides have contaminated regions of the aquifer. The net economic benefit to this agricultural region in the short-term lies with increasing crop yields, which requires large pumping extractions for irrigation as well as high chemical loading. In the longer term, this can produce economic loss due to higher pumping costs (i.e., higher lift requirements), or even loss of the aquifer as a viable source of water. Negative environmental impacts include continued diminishment of groundwater quality, and declining groundwater levels in the basin, which can damage surface water systems that support environmental habitats. The two primary stakeholders or players, the farmers in the irrigation district and the community at large, must find an optimal balance between positive economic benefits and negative environmental impacts. In this paper, game theory was applied to find the optimal solution between the two conflicting objectives among 12 alternative groundwater extraction scenarios. Different attributes were used to quantify the benefits and costs of the two objectives, and, following generation of the Pareto frontier or trade-off curve, four conflict resolution methods were then applied. 相似文献
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Farkas Attila Bidló András Bolodár-Varga Bernadett Jánoska Ferenc 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2021,28(47):66724-66735
Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study examined the concentrations of Al, Ca, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni, Pb, and Zn in the liver and kidney samples of golden jackals (n =... 相似文献
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Jorge E. Rabinovich Martín Torres Jordá C. Bernstein 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2000,48(4):308-315
Telenomus fariai is a gregarious endoparasitoid of the eggs of several species of Triatominae (Hemiptera) with a high degree of sibmating:
males fertilize their sisters inside the host egg before emergence or emerge first and copulate with their sisters as these
emerge. Our results show that, when laying alone, T. fariai behaves adaptively, minimizing offspring mortality and conforming to the prediction of local mate competition (LMC) theory
by laying a single male, which is sufficient to fertilize all the sisters. When more than one wasp was placed with one host,
sex ratios still conformed to LMC predictions but, despite the decreasing number of eggs laid per wasp, clutch size could
not be completely adjusted to avoid mortality. This is not surprising, as superparasitism is rare in the field. Offspring
production was independent of the contacts between conspecifics but was affected by the number of mothers laying on a single
host egg. The sex of the progeny was precisely determined: a female produced one male per clutch when laying on both unparasitized
or previously parasitized hosts. On the other hand, a mother produced less daughters when superparasitizing. Under crowded
conditions, the number of eggs laid per female wasp and per host decreased as the number of mothers increased. Developmental
mortality also increased with the number of T. fariai eggs per host, determining a maximum of approximately 14 emerged adults. Host resources per individual affected male and
female adult size with similar intensity, and male adult mortality was slightly higher than that for females. These results,
and previous findings, suggest that T. fariai attains Hamiltonian sex ratios by laying one male and a variable number of females, and that the detection of chemical marks
left by conspecifics provides information on the number of foundresses sharing a patch.
Received: 4 February 2000 / Received in revised form: 19 April 2000 / Accepted: 20 May 2000 相似文献