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Resilience of Transitions - Introducing seven Theses

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Thorsten Schilling

Within the sustainability discourse, resilience has been taken up more and more as a central boundary object. Resilience in principle has both static and dynamic elements to it, allowing a system to stay in an equilibrium without endangering its long-term ...

2017

Resilience of transitions - Seven theses to frame sustainability transitions from a resilience perspective

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Thorsten Schilling

2017

Covariations in ecological scaling laws fostered by community dynamics

Andrea Rinaldo, Andrea Giometto, Silvia Zaoli, Amos Maritan

Scaling laws in ecology, intended both as functional relationships among ecologically relevant quantities and the probability distributions that characterize their occurrence, have long attracted the interest of empiricists and theoreticians. Empirical evi ...

2017

Mechanical characterization of a prefabricated orthotropic slab made out of OSB Panels using wood-wood connections

Thanks to the rise of new technologies and constant progress in fields such as robotics, new ways of designing timber structural building elements can be imag-ined and implemented on an industrial scale. Complex methods and sequences of assembly can be set ...

2017

Geomorphic controls on elevational gradients of species richness

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Francesco Carrara, Florian Altermatt

Elevational gradients of biodiversity have been widely investigated, and yet a clear interpretation of the biotic and abiotic factors that determine how species richness varies with elevation is still elusive. In mountainous landscapes, habitats at differe ...

Natl Acad Sciences2016

Integrating Information Sources for Inland Waters - A New Global Framework for Lakes Modelling and Monitoring

Theo Baracchini

Like islands, lakes are not only unique geographical features, but also ecological concepts on their own. Their exceptional variability has been studied numerous times, yet no unique framework capable of reproducing the wide range of lake dynamics observed ...

2016

Sensitivity and resistance of soil fertility indicators to land-use changes: New concept and examples from conversion of Indonesian rainforest to plantations

Thomas Guillaume

Tropical forest conversion to agricultural land leads to a strong decrease of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks. While the decrease of the soil C sequestration function is easy to measure, the impacts of SOC losses on soil fertility remain unclear. Especial ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Recent changes in mountain grasslands: a vegetation resampling study

François Gillet

Understanding how land-use changes affect different facets of plant biodiversity in seminatural European grasslands is of particular importance for biodiversity conservation. As conclusions of previous experimental or synchronic observational studies did n ...

2016

Stability Analysis of Discontinuous Galerkin Approximations to the Elastodynamics Problem

Alfio Quarteroni

We consider semi-discrete discontinuous Galerkin approximations of both displacement and displacement-stress formulations of the elastodynamics problem. We prove the stability analysis in the natural energy norm and derive optimal a-priori error estimates. ...

Springer Verlag2016

Can trans-generational experiments be used to enhance species resilience to ocean warming and acidification?

Emma Mary Gibbin, Félix Christen

Human-assisted, trans-generational exposure to ocean warming and acidification has been proposed as a conservation and/or restoration tool to produce resilient offspring. To improve our understanding of the need for and the efficacy of this approach, we ch ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

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