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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Ecological Network Analysis"”.
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Resilience Engineering via Bifurcation and Ecological Network Analysis: Demonstrated in an Electric Power Case Study
… of new technologies and actors into the network, enables reliable operation but introduces vulnerabilities to unexpected and varied disruptions and cascading failures, making resilience a critical concern. Traditional risk management and resilience assessment methods often struggle with …
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Leveraging Information Theory and Ecological Network Analysis to Monitor Communication Networks in a Student Aerospace Team
… and graph theory to analyze communication networks within a university’s multi-year, student-led cubesat design project (Project COMET). By utilizing Shannon Entropy as a measure of information flow, encoding communication patterns, and analyzing Ecological Network Analysis parameters, this …
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Valuing the ecosystem services provided by UK bats under climate change
… of agricultural pests populations, yet the ecological mechanisms linking bat biodiversity to potential pest suppression, and the economic value of this service, remain poorly understood. This thesis investigates how climate change may affect bat communities, their trophic interactions, and …
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The Influence of Changing Nutrients and Warming on Phytoplankton and its Interactions with Zooplankton in the North Sea
… a weak positive effect. Information-theoretic network analysis indicates that plankton interactions at Helgoland Roads are highly sensitive to environmental conditions. Hybrid interaction strengths increase under low nutrient and light availability. Bottom-up strength (from primary producers to …
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On the origins of buildings: A social-ecological network approach to contemporary bioregional architectures of American earth, Norwegian timber & Balinese bamboo
… this thesis examines the relevance of a social-ecological network (SEN) approach. Results indicate SENs are increasingly useful tools for representing and analysing compound relationships between ecological and social systems for the management of ecosystem services. Still, applications to …