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Ecological Responses of Venezuelan Savannas to Global Climate Change: Workshop Report (open access)

Ecological Responses of Venezuelan Savannas to Global Climate Change: Workshop Report

Report from a workshop on ecological responses of Venezuelan savannas to global climate change.
Date: November 1, 1991
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Andressen, Rigoberto; Azocar, Aura; Canales, Josune; Coughenour, Michael B.; García, Carlos et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modelos de interacción humano-ambiental: el enfoque de la Biocomplejidad (open access)

Modelos de interacción humano-ambiental: el enfoque de la Biocomplejidad

Article discussing models of human-nature interactions and a biocomplexity approach.
Date: September 2007
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Rosales, Judith; Delgado, Luz A.; Ablan, Magdiel; Dávila, Jacinto; Callicott, J. Baird et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing potential impacts of CO2 - and deforestation - induced climate change on maize and black bean in Venezuela (open access)

Assessing potential impacts of CO2 - and deforestation - induced climate change on maize and black bean in Venezuela

Article on assessing potential impacts of CO2 and deforestation induced climate change on maize and black bean in Venezuela.
Date: 1995
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Jaimez, Ramón E.; Maytin, Carlos E.; Tonella, Giorgio & Harwell, Mark A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crecimiento diamétrico de especies arbóreas en un bosque estacional de los Llanos occidentales de Venezuela (open access)

Crecimiento diamétrico de especies arbóreas en un bosque estacional de los Llanos occidentales de Venezuela

Article discussing the diametric tree growth in functional groups species in a seasonal forest of the Venezuelan western plains.
Date: 2009
Creator: Angulo, Hirma Ramírez; Acevedo, Miguel F.; Ataroff, Michele & Torres-Lezama, Armando
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulación de la dinámica de grupos de especies vegetales en un bosque de los Llanos occidentales Venezolanos (open access)

Simulación de la dinámica de grupos de especies vegetales en un bosque de los Llanos occidentales Venezolanos

Article discussing the simulation of plant species groups dynamics in a Venezuelan western plains forest.
Date: January 1997
Creator: Angulo, Hirma Ramírez; Torres-Lezama, Armando & Acevedo, Miguel F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interdisciplinary progress in food production, food security and environment research (open access)

Interdisciplinary progress in food production, food security and environment research

Article discussing interdisciplinary progress in food production, food security and environment research.
Date: 2011
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate change and human infectious diseases: A synthesis of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives (open access)

Climate change and human infectious diseases: A synthesis of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives

This article shows that over the past few decades, the reported negative or uncertain responses of infectious diseases to climate change has been growing.
Date: March 23, 2017
Creator: Liang, Lu & Gong, Peng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growth dynamics of tropical savanna grasses: from individual shoots to plant models (open access)

Growth dynamics of tropical savanna grasses: from individual shoots to plant models

Paper presented at the First Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society in 2002. This paper discusses growth dynamics of tropical savanna grasses from individual shoots to plant models.
Date: 2002
Creator: Raventós, José; Acevedo, Miguel F. & Segarra, José
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis (open access)

Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis

This article discusses validation of the potential of an extraction and characterization approach via application to ancient bone proteins, as part of a larger method-development project for innovation and improvement of liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry analysis of protein residues from cooking pottery.
Date: September 4, 2015
Creator: Barker, Andrew; Dombrosky, Jonathan; Chaput, Dale; Venables, Barney J.; Wolverton, Steven J. & Stevens, Stanley M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region (open access)

Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region

This article applies an environmental justice lens to two archaeological research narratives, one centering on chemical analysis of biomolecular artifact residues and the other on paleohydrology and Pueblo farming.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.; Figueroa, Robert & Swentzell, Porter
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings (open access)

Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings

This article uses 9 years of annual meeting attendance data from the Ecological Society of American and the Association of American Geographers to assess the efficacy of two additional solutions: 1) alternate large national meetings that require significant air travel with smaller regional meetings that do not; and 2) incorporate geography into the meeting location selection process.
Date: October 29, 2011
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G. & Byrnes, Jarrett E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change (open access)

Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change

This article argues that ethnobiology is preadapted to be a scholarly umbrella for a number of disciplines that concern human-environment interactions, suggesting that two goals of Ethnobiology 5 are to bridge traditional academic boundaries in order to broaden the community of ethnobiologists, and to capitalize on and communicate the relevance of ethnobiological scholarship for solving problems related to contemporary environmental and cultural crises.
Date: January 21, 2013
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass burning drives atmospheric nutrient redistribution within forested peatlands in Borneo (open access)

Biomass burning drives atmospheric nutrient redistribution within forested peatlands in Borneo

This article quantifies the influence of fire on biogeochemical fluxes of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur in a 12 ha forested peatland in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Date: August 4, 2016
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Curran, Lisa M.; Pittman, Alice M.; Carlson, Kimberly M.; Steele, Bethel G.; Ratnasari, Dessy et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature (open access)

Book Review: The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

Book Review of "The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature" written by David George Haskell.
Date: August 16, 2016
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World (open access)

Book Review: The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World

Book Review of "The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World" written by Eugene N. Anderson.
Date: August 17, 2010
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review:Quantitative Paleozoology (open access)

Book Review:Quantitative Paleozoology

Book Review of "Quantitative Paleozoology" written by R. Lee Lyman.
Date: August 3, 2010
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating Individual Tree Height and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data at Plot Level (open access)

Estimating Individual Tree Height and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data at Plot Level

This article explores the methods of using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) technology to obtain point cloud data and estimate individual tree height and diameter at breast height (DBH) at plot level in regions with complex terrain.
Date: July 4, 2018
Creator: Liu, Guangjie; Wang, Jinliang; Dong, Pinliang; Chen, Yun & Liu, Zhiyuan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detecting Stems in Dense and Homogeneous Forest Using Single-Scan TLS (open access)

Detecting Stems in Dense and Homogeneous Forest Using Single-Scan TLS

This article presents a new method to automatically detect stems in dense and homogeneous forest using single-scan terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data.
Date: August 31, 2015
Creator: Xia, Shaobo; Wang, Cheng; Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan; Zeng, Hongcheng & Liu, He
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology (open access)

Book Review: Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology

Book Review of "Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology" written by Scott G. Ortman.
Date: November 13, 2014
Creator: Dombrosky, Jonathan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Industrial Geography of Toxic Chemical Generation, Release and Management in Texas (open access)

The Industrial Geography of Toxic Chemical Generation, Release and Management in Texas

This article examines overall trends in toxic chemical generation, releases and management in Texas from 1995 to 1999 within the broad context of sustainable industrial production.
Date: 2001
Creator: Lyons, Donald
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998 (open access)

Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998

Paper examines effects of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, genes and environment on breast cancer morbidity in Texas counties from 1980-1998.
Date: 2011
Creator: Barry, Djenabou
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Updating System for the Gridded Population Database of China Based on Remote Sensing, GIS and Spatial Database Technologies (open access)

An Updating System for the Gridded Population Database of China Based on Remote Sensing, GIS and Spatial Database Technologies

Describes the development of a Spatial Population Updating System (SPUS) for updating the gridded population database of China based on remote sensing, GIS and spatial database technologies, with a spatial resolution of 1 km by 1 km.
Date: February 20, 2009
Creator: Yang, Xiaohuan; Huang, Yaohuan; Dong, Pinliang; Jiang, Dong & Liu, Honghui
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instrument, System and Method for Automated Low Cost Atmospheric Measurements (open access)

Instrument, System and Method for Automated Low Cost Atmospheric Measurements

Patent relating to an instrument, system and method for automated low cost atmospheric measurements.
Date: May 11, 2006
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Waller, William T. & Nebgen, Gilbert B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dinámica y Control de Malezas Acuáticas en Algunas Islas de la Zona Protegida Delta del Río Orinoco (open access)

Dinámica y Control de Malezas Acuáticas en Algunas Islas de la Zona Protegida Delta del Río Orinoco

Report on the dynamics and control of aquatic weeds in some islands of the protected area of the Orinoco Delta.
Date: September 1983
Creator: Acevedo, Miguel F.; Díaz-Miranda, David & Elena Morros, María
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library