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HAROLD C. COCHRANE 《Natural resources forum》1981,5(1):31-67
This article reviews the current state of the art of flood loss simulation and applies these techniques to a flood in Thailand. An assessment of the benefits and costs of flood control methods is developed, followed by an examination of methods for representation of floods and flood damage, together with an analysis of flood-related land use management. The ways in which these and other factors can be related by numerical analysis are described, with special attention to the dynamic nature of the successive implementation of flood control measures. The article then examines the potential for application of these methods in developing countries in the light of reduced computational capacity and the possible lack of highly trained personnel. The case study indicates that considerable data resources may be available in some developing countries and that inexpensive and potentially useful flood loss simulation and prediction can be undertaken to assist in development planning. Cet article passe en revue les connaissances acquises jusqu'à nos jours en matiêre de simulation de dégâts provoqués par les inondations et applique ces méthodes à une inondation en Thaïlande. Une évaluation du coût de ces méthodes et du bénéfice que l'on peut en retirer est présentée, suivi d'un examen des méthodes utilisées pour représenter les inondations et leurs dégâts ainsi qu'une analyse de l'utilisation des terrains inondés. La façon dont ces facteurs peuvent être liés à d'autres par l'analyse numérique est décrite. De plus, la nature dynamique de l'application des mesures de contrôle des inondations est étudiée plus particulièrement. L'article examine ensuite les possibilités d'application de ces méthodes dans les pays en développement en tenant compte d'une capacité de calcul réduite et d'une insuffisance éventuelle de personnel hautement qualifié. Le cas étudié montre qu'une information importante est parfois disponible dans certains pays en développement et qu'une simulation et une prédiction peu coûteuses peuvent être entreprises afin d'aider le programme de développement de ces pays. En este artículo se revisa el estado actual de las técnicas de simulación de pérdidas por inundaciones y se aplican estas técnicas a un caso de inundación en Tailandia. Se hace una evaluación de los beneficios y costos de los métodos de control de inundaciones, se examinan los métodos de representación de inundaciones y los daños causados por ésta y luego se analizan la gestión de tierras inundables. Se describen las técnicas que relacionan estos y otros factores al análisis numérico con especial atención a la naturaleza dinámica de las implementaciónes sucesivas de medidas de control de inundaciones. El artículo examina el potencial para la aplicación de estas medidas en los países en desarrollo teniendo en cuenta la reducida capacidad computacional y la posible carencia de personal capacitado. El caso estudiado indica que hay disponible en algunos países en desarrollo una cantidad considerable de datos y que pueden Ilevarse a cabo en forma económica simulaciones que pueden resultar útiles como apoyo a la planificación del desarrollo. 相似文献
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THOMAS BROQUET SONIA ANGELONE JULIE JAQUIERY PIERRE JOLY JEAN‐PAUL LENA THIERRY LENGAGNE SANDRINE PLENET EMILIEN LUQUET NICOLAS PERRIN 《Conservation biology》2010,24(6):1596-1605
Abstract: Connectivity among populations plays a crucial role in maintaining genetic variation at a local scale, especially in small populations affected strongly by genetic drift. The negative consequences of population disconnection on allelic richness and gene diversity (heterozygosity) are well recognized and empirically established. It is not well recognized, however, that a sudden drop in local effective population size induced by such disconnection produces a temporary disequilibrium in allelic frequency distributions that is akin to the genetic signature of a demographic bottleneck. To document this effect, we used individual‐based simulations and empirical data on allelic richness and gene diversity in six pairs of isolated versus well‐connected (core) populations of European tree frogs. In our simulations, population disconnection depressed allelic richness more than heterozygosity and thus resulted in a temporary excess in gene diversity relative to mutation drift equilibrium (i.e., signature of a genetic bottleneck). We observed a similar excess in gene diversity in isolated populations of tree frogs. Our results show that population disconnection can create a genetic bottleneck in the absence of demographic collapse. 相似文献
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Estudios realizados sobre el Halcón Caracolero de Florida, un ave en peligro de extinción que habita areas pantanosas y se alimenta de caracoles, ilustra los problemas asociados con la protección de hábitats de especies migratorias y nómadas que requieren de habitats disyuntos. Anteriomente a una sequía en el año 1985, la muyoría de halcones caracoleros se observaban en las areas extensas de la región pantanosa de los Everglades a donde nidificaban Sin embargo, durante la sequía el 60% de los halcones observados se localizaron en areas pantanosas más pequeñas ubicadas, en su mayoria eta la región de Palm Beach y et condados vecinos A pesar de que estas pequeñas areas sirven como importantes refugios de emergencia para los hálcones durante epocas de sequia, estas no estan designadas como "hábitat critico" y estan siendo rápidamente transformadas por las presiones de desarrollo. Se discuten problemas de incertidumbre, de efectosa cumulativos, y de transigencia en la evaluación de propuestas para el desarrollo y en la protección de pequeños hábitats aislados Hemos identificado areas de refugio, usadas por los hálcones durante la epoca de sequia y sugerimos maneras para conservar esta especie en Florida mitigando las grandes disminuciones de la población causadas por las sequias. Tambien se evalua la utilidad de una red de comunicación para el reporte de observaciones que sirva para la evaluación de datos de dispersión 相似文献
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MURRAY A. RUDD KAREN F. BEAZLEY STEVEN J. COOKE ERICA FLEISHMAN DANIEL E. LANE MICHAEL B. MASCIA ROBIN ROTH GARY TABOR JISELLE A. BAKKER TERESA BELLEFONTAINE DOMINIQUE BERTEAUX BERNARD CANTIN KEITH G. CHAULK KATHRYN CUNNINGHAM ROD DOBELL ELEANOR FAST NADIA FERRARA C. SCOTT FINDLAY LARS K. HALLSTROM THOMAS HAMMOND LUISE HERMANUTZ JEFFREY A. HUTCHINGS KATHRYN E. LINDSAY TIM J. MARTA VIVIAN M. NGUYEN GREG NORTHEY KENT PRIOR SAUDIEL RAMIREZ‐SANCHEZ JAKE RICE DARREN J. H. SLEEP NORA D. SZABO GENEVIÈVE TROTTIER JEAN‐PATRICK TOUSSAINT JEAN‐PHILIPPE VEILLEUX 《Conservation biology》2011,25(3):476-484
Abstract: Integrating knowledge from across the natural and social sciences is necessary to effectively address societal tradeoffs between human use of biological diversity and its preservation. Collaborative processes can change the ways decision makers think about scientific evidence, enhance levels of mutual trust and credibility, and advance the conservation policy discourse. Canada has responsibility for a large fraction of some major ecosystems, such as boreal forests, Arctic tundra, wetlands, and temperate and Arctic oceans. Stressors to biological diversity within these ecosystems arise from activities of the country's resource‐based economy, as well as external drivers of environmental change. Effective management is complicated by incongruence between ecological and political boundaries and conflicting perspectives on social and economic goals. Many knowledge gaps about stressors and their management might be reduced through targeted, timely research. We identify 40 questions that, if addressed or answered, would advance research that has a high probability of supporting development of effective policies and management strategies for species, ecosystems, and ecological processes in Canada. A total of 396 candidate questions drawn from natural and social science disciplines were contributed by individuals with diverse organizational affiliations. These were collaboratively winnowed to 40 by our team of collaborators. The questions emphasize understanding ecosystems, the effects and mitigation of climate change, coordinating governance and management efforts across multiple jurisdictions, and examining relations between conservation policy and the social and economic well‐being of Aboriginal peoples. The questions we identified provide potential links between evidence from the conservation sciences and formulation of policies for conservation and resource management. Our collaborative process of communication and engagement between scientists and decision makers for generating and prioritizing research questions at a national level could be a model for similar efforts beyond Canada. 相似文献
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CATERINA PENONE ISABELLE LE VIOL VINCENT PELLISSIER JEAN‐FRANÇOIS JULIEN YVES BAS CHRISTIAN KERBIRIOU 《Conservation biology》2013,27(5):979-987
Biodiversity monitoring at large spatial and temporal scales is greatly needed in the context of global changes. Although insects are a species‐rich group and are important for ecosystem functioning, they have been largely neglected in conservation studies and policies, mainly due to technical and methodological constraints. Sound detection, a nondestructive method, is easily applied within a citizen‐science framework and could be an interesting solution for insect monitoring. However, it has not yet been tested at a large scale. We assessed the value of a citizen‐science program in which Orthoptera species (Tettigoniidae) were monitored acoustically along roads. We used Bayesian model‐averaging analyses to test whether we could detect widely known patterns of anthropogenic effects on insects, such as the negative effects of urbanization or intensive agriculture on Orthoptera populations and communities. We also examined site‐abundance correlations between years and estimated the biases in species detection to evaluate and improve the protocol. Urbanization and intensive agricultural landscapes negatively affected Orthoptera species richness, diversity, and abundance. This finding is consistent with results of previous studies of Orthoptera, vertebrates, carabids, and butterflies. The average mass of communities decreased as urbanization increased. The dispersal ability of communities increased as the percentage of agricultural land and, to a lesser extent, urban area increased. Despite changes in abundances over time, we found significant correlations between yearly abundances. We identified biases linked to the protocol (e.g., car speed or temperature) that can be accounted for ease in analyses. We argue that acoustic monitoring of Orthoptera along roads offers several advantages for assessing Orthoptera biodiversity at large spatial and temporal extents, particularly in a citizen science framework. El Uso de Monitoreos Acústicos a Gran Escala para Estudiar las Presiones Antropogénicas sobre Comunidades de Orthoptera 相似文献
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TRACEY J. REGAN BARBARA L. TAYLOR GRANT G. THOMPSON JEAN FITTS COCHRANE KATHERINE RALLS MICHAEL C. RUNGE RICHARD MERRICK 《Conservation biology》2013,27(4):821-831
Lack of guidance for interpreting the definitions of endangered and threatened in the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) has resulted in case‐by‐case decision making leaving the process vulnerable to being considered arbitrary or capricious. Adopting quantitative decision rules would remedy this but requires the agency to specify the relative urgency concerning extinction events over time, cutoff risk values corresponding to different levels of protection, and the importance given to different types of listing errors. We tested the performance of 3 sets of decision rules that use alternative functions for weighting the relative urgency of future extinction events: a threshold rule set, which uses a decision rule of x% probability of extinction over y years; a concave rule set, where the relative importance of future extinction events declines exponentially over time; and a shoulder rule set that uses a sigmoid shape function, where relative importance declines slowly at first and then more rapidly. We obtained decision cutoffs by interviewing several biologists and then emulated the listing process with simulations that covered a range of extinction risks typical of ESA listing decisions. We evaluated performance of the decision rules under different data quantities and qualities on the basis of the relative importance of misclassification errors. Although there was little difference between the performance of alternative decision rules for correct listings, the distribution of misclassifications differed depending on the function used. Misclassifications for the threshold and concave listing criteria resulted in more overprotection errors, particularly as uncertainty increased, whereas errors for the shoulder listing criteria were more symmetrical. We developed and tested the framework for quantitative decision rules for listing species under the U.S. ESA. If policy values can be agreed on, use of this framework would improve the implementation of the ESA by increasing transparency and consistency. Evaluando Reglas de Decisión para Categorizar el Riesgo de Extinción de Especies con el Fin de Desarrollar de Criterios Cuantitativos de Alistamiento en el Acta de Especies en Peligro de los EE. UU. 相似文献