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Patterns in nature arise from processes interacting across a continuum of spatial scales, where new relationships emerge at each level of investigation. These patterns are nested features encompassing fine-scale local patterns, such as topography and geolo ...
EPFL2024Collective motion in a sheet of microswimmers
Self-propelled particles such as bacteria or algae swimming through a fluid are non-equilibrium systems where particle motility breaks microscopic detailed balance, often resulting in large-scale collective motion. Previous theoretical work has identified ...
Berlin2024Combined Earth observations reveal the sequence of conditions leading to a large algal bloom in Lake Geneva
Damien Bouffard, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi, Oscar Rodrigo Sepúlveda Steiner, Rafael Sebastian Reiss, Marco Toffolon, Frédéric Charles Soulignac
Freshwater algae exhibit complex dynamics, particularly in meso-oligotrophic lakes with sudden and dramatic increases in algal biomass following long periods of low background concentration. While the fundamental prerequisites for algal blooms, namely ligh ...
Springernature2024Multivariate geometric anisotropic Cox processes
This paper introduces a new modeling and inference framework for multivariate and anisotropic point processes. Building on recent innovations in multivariate spatial statistics, we propose a new family of multivariate anisotropic random fields, and from th ...
WILEY2023Fulfilling Riverscape – a creative interdisciplinary approach
Giovanni De Cesare, Paolo Perona, Sylvie Tram Nguyen
Hydrological, water technological, managerial and human induced processes affect aquatic, amphibian and terrestrial organisms and their habitats, far beyond the main channel of a river. This Riverscape includes diverse riparian habitats which vary in space ...
2023Addressing chemical pollution in biodiversity research
Kristin Schirmer, Ahmed Tlili, Colette vom Berg
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and chemical pollution are planetary-scale emergencies requiring urgent mitigation actions. As these "triple crises" are deeply interlinked, they need to be tackled in an integrative manner. However, while climate change ...
WILEY2023Homogeneous Environmental Selection Structures the Bacterial Communities of Benthic Biofilms in Proglacial Floodplain Streams
Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Susheel Bhanu Busi, Grégoire Marie Octave Edouard Michoud, Leïla Ezzat, Massimo Bourquin, Tyler Joe Kohler, Jade Brandani, Stylianos Fodelianakis
Streams draining proglacial floodplains harbor benthic biofilms comprised of diverse microbial communities. These high-mountain ecosystems are rapidly changing with climate warming, and it is therefore critical to better understand the mechanisms underlyin ...
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY2023Territory Subject: Designing Human-Environment Interactions in Cities and Territories
Paola Viganò, Sylvie Tram Nguyen, Qinyi Zhang
A brief critique of the evolution of ecological perspectives surrounding the current environmental crises in the age of climate age and Anthropogenic impacts is highlighted across the inter-disciplinary fields of landscape, urbanism, and ecology. First, re ...
Springer Cham2023Biodiversity protection: who pays, who benefits?
Why is protecting biodiversity essential, how are first impressions most often wrong, what is the state of biodiversity protection in 2023, why Switzerland is doing a lot less than is commonly assumed? Paying for biodiversity is not a financial decision co ...
Business School Lausanne (BSL)2023Large-scale detection of marine debris in coastal areas with Sentinel-2
Devis Tuia, Marc Conrad Russwurm
Detecting and quantifying marine pollution and macroplastics is an increasingly pressing ecological issue that directly impacts ecology and human health. Here, remote sensing can provide reliable estimates of plastic pollution by regularly monitoring and d ...
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