AIMC Topic: Conservation of Natural Resources

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The BioHub Knowledge Base: Ontology and Repository for Sustainable Biosourcing.

Journal of biomedical semantics
BACKGROUND: The motivation for the BioHub project is to create an Integrated Knowledge Management System (IKMS) that will enable chemists to source ingredients from bio-renewables, rather than from non-sustainable sources such as fossil oil and its d...

The Knowledge Base for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal Targets on Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene.

International journal of environmental research and public health
Safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are fundamental to an improved standard of living. Globally, 91% of households used improved drinking water sources in 2015, while for improved sanitation it is 68%. Wealth disparities are stark, wi...

Artificial neural network for multifunctional areas.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
The issues related to the appropriate planning of the territory are particularly pronounced in highly inhabited areas (urban areas), where in addition to protecting the environment, it is important to consider an anthropogenic (urban) development pla...

GIS Fuzzy Expert System for the assessment of ecosystems vulnerability to fire in managing Mediterranean natural protected areas.

Journal of environmental management
A significant threat to the natural and cultural heritage of Mediterranean natural protected areas (NPAs) is related to uncontrolled fires that can cause potential damages related to the loss or a reduction of ecosystems. The assessment and mapping o...

Applying the Back-Propagation Neural Network model and fuzzy classification to evaluate the trophic status of a reservoir system.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
The trophic state index, and in particular, the Carlson Trophic State Index (CTSI), is critical for evaluating reservoir water quality. Despite its common use in evaluating static water quality, the reliability of the CTSI may decrease when water tur...

Modeling land use and land cover changes in a vulnerable coastal region using artificial neural networks and cellular automata.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
As one of the most vulnerable coasts in the continental USA, the Lower Mississippi River Basin (LMRB) region has endured numerous hazards over the past decades. The sustainability of this region has drawn great attention from the international, natio...

Landscape ethnoecological knowledge base and management of ecosystem services in a Székely-Hungarian pre-capitalistic village system (Transylvania, Romania).

Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine
BACKGROUND: Previous studies showed an in-depth ecological understanding by traditional people of managing natural resources. We studied the landscape ethnoecological knowledge (LEEK) of Székelys on the basis of 16-19(th) century village laws. We ana...

Artificial neural network modelling of biological oxygen demand in rivers at the national level with input selection based on Monte Carlo simulations.

Environmental science and pollution research international
Biological oxygen demand (BOD) is the most significant water quality parameter and indicates water pollution with respect to the present biodegradable organic matter content. European countries are therefore obliged to report annual BOD values to Eur...

Identifying fish populations prone to abrupt shifts via dynamical footprint analysis.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Fish population biomass fluctuates through time in ways that may be either gradual or abrupt. While abrupt shifts in fish population productivity have been shown to be common, they are rarely integrated into stock assessment or fishery management, in...

Afforestation Surpasses Abandonment in the Recovery of Post-Agricultural Soil Organic Carbon in China as Estimated by Machine Learning Models.

Global change biology
The surface soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics typically follow a trend of initial loss followed by subsequent accumulation after cropland abandonment. However, the timing of SOC stock increase (referred to as the threshold in this study) remains ins...