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Wiley2024

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Well beyond the impact of climate change, anthropogenic modifications of the Vietnam Mekong Delta's ecosystems have resulted in environmental degradation and subsequent loss in ecosystems. The environmental impacts include but are not limited to accelerate ...

EPFL2023

Conception et dimensionnement durable : Étude comparative et conception multi-matériaux

Flavien Dumont

Les émissions de CO2 émises par le secteur de la construction représentent 11% des émissions globales de l’humanité (2019). En raison de l’urgence climatique, il est nécessaire de les réduire. Dans ce contexte et selon les conclusions données par la pré-é ...

2023

Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation

Devis Tuia, Alexander Mathis, Mackenzie Mathis, Benjamin Alexander Kellenberger

Inexpensive and accessible sensors are accelerating data acquisition in animal ecology. These technologies hold great potential for large-scale ecological understanding, but are limited by current processing approaches which inefficiently distill data into ...

2022

Exploration of socio-ecological continuity project in great Geneva, toward a convergence of the territorial project of biodiversity and ecological continuities

Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot, Marine Françoise Jeannine Villaret

A territorial project impelling biodiversity and socio-ecological transitions implies its renewal. The recognition of the landscape as a support of biodiversity led to the establishment of the tool of ecological continuities (ECs) within territorial planni ...

2022

Un vocabulaire architectural sensible et bio-inspiré. Démonstration dans un pavillon à la Jetée de la Compagnie

L’architecture prend souvent le parti élitiste de s’adresser à la mince frange de population ayant fait le choix de s’éduquer pour en saisir les subtils secrets, laissant les autres hors-circuit, alors qu’ils en seront pourtant les usagers majoritaires. Da ...

2020

Key rules of life and the fading cryosphere: impacts in alpine lakes and streams

Tom Ian Battin, Chenxi Wu, Jun Wen, Xiong Xiong

Alpine regions are changing rapidly due to loss of snow and ice in response to ongoing climate change. While studies have documented ecological responses in alpine lakes and streams to these changes, our ability to predict such outcomes is limited. We prop ...

2020

Earth and field observations underpin metapopulation dynamics in complex landscapes: Near-term study on carabids

Andrea Rinaldo, Damiano Pasetto, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Jonathan Giezendanner

Understanding risks to biodiversity requires predictions of the spatial distribution of species adapting to changing ecosystems and, to that end, Earth observations integrating field surveys prove essential as they provide key numbers for assessing landsca ...

2020

Towards simple tools to assess functional effects of contaminants on natural microbial and invertebrate sediment communities

Sophie Campiche

Surface sediments can accumulate contaminants that affect microorganisms and invertebrates and disturb benthic ecological functions. However, effects of contaminants on ecological functions supported by sediment communities are understudied. Here, we teste ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2020

Defining and spatially modelling cultural ecosystem services using crowdsourced data

Devis Tuia

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are some of the most valuable contributions of ecosystems to human well- being. Nevertheless, these services are often underrepresented in ecosystem service assessments. Defining CES for the purposes of spatial quantificat ...

2020

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