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Analysis of future hydropower development and operational scenarios on the zambezi river basin

Anton Schleiss, José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Théodora Cohen Liechti

The Zambezi River basin is the fourth largest in Africa. Covering an area of about 1 400 000 km2 that is shared among 8 countries, it is the home of over 30 million people. There are ample opportunities for development in the region, including on the hydro ...

2016

Multiple Assembly Rules Drive the Co-occurrence of Orthopteran and Plant Species in Grasslands: Combining Network, Functional and Phylogenetic Approaches

François Gillet, Bertrand Fournier

Understanding the factors underlying the co-occurrence of multiple species remains a challenge in ecology. Biotic interactions, environmental filtering and neutral processes are among the main mechanisms evoked to explain species co-occurrence. However, th ...

Frontiers Media Sa2016

Harmful effects of silver nanoparticles on a complex detrital model system

Ahmed Tlili, Renata Behra

The rapid proliferation of silver nanoparticles (AgNP) in industry and the environment requires realistic toxicity assessments based on approaches that consider the biological complexity of ecosystems. Here we assessed the acute toxicity of carbonate-coate ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

UNDERSTANDING THE EXTENT OF FOOD WEB ALTERATIONS ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION REQUIRES CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF SCALE

Janine Rüegg

Species declines due to changing environmental conditions or anthropogenic influences such as fisheries harvest as well as species introductions probably have consequences beyond the species by also altering their food webs. The scope of the effect on the ...

2016

AiiDA: automated interactive infrastructure and database for computational science

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Boris Kozinsky, Andrea Cepellotti, Riccardo Sabatini

Computational science has seen in the last decades a spectacular rise in the scope, breadth, and depth of its efforts. Notwithstanding this prevalence and impact, it is often still performed using the renaissance model of individual artisans gathered in a ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Modelling socio-ecological systems with MAIA: A biogas infrastructure simulation

Reinier Verhoog, Amineh Ghorbani

Similar to other renewable energy technologies, the development of a biogas infrastructure in the Netherlands is going through social, institutional and ecological evolution. To study this complex evolutionary process, we built a comprehensive agent-based ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Constructed wetland for the treatment of surface waters from combined sewer overflow (CSO) of La Chaux-de-Fonds

Blaise Adrien Devaud

The Doubs river is an ecosystem-rich river which is threatened by several anthropic activities. The three dams placed in the river as well as the discharge of pollutants contribute to the degradation of its natural habitats. The city of La Chaux-de-Fonds i ...

2016

Semantics-Driven Interoperability between Scala.js and JavaScript

Sébastien Jean R Doeraene, Nicolas Alexander Stucki, Tobias Schlatter

Hundreds of programming languages compile to JavaScript. Yet, most of them fail, at one level or another, to provide satisfactory interoperability with JavaScript APIs. This is limiting, as interoperability is at least required to manipulate web pages thro ...

Association for Computing Machinery2016

Coupling virtual watersheds with ecosystem services assessment: a 21st century platform to support river research and management

Tom Ian Battin

The demand for freshwater is projected to increase worldwide over the coming decades, resulting in severe water stress and threats to riverine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and services. A major societal challenge is to determine where environmental ...

2015

Services et collections [en] Environnement : rapport annuel 2014

Valérie Charbonnier

Ce rapport propose un aperçu des activités et services fournis par la Bibliothèque à la section Sciences et Ingénierie de l'Environnement en 2014, et des collections en Environnement accessibles à la Bibliothèque. Il présente également les principaux proje ...

Bibliothèque de l'EPFL2015

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