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Tag Archives: PNAS
Mapping Science
A nice 2008 PNAS paper Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure (PNAS 105, 1118) [pdf] by Martin Rosvall and Carl T Bergstrom creates beautiful and informative visualizations of citation networks in science (from 2004 ISI data) … Continue reading
Posted in Networks, Visualization
Tagged Carl T Bergstrom, ciations, ISI, Martin Rosvall, PNAS, Science
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Brazilian agriculture
1)The Economist writes about the success of large scale Brazil agriculture in Brazilian agriculture: The miracle of the cerrado. The article concludes: The bigger question for them is: can the miracle of the cerrado be exported, especially to Africa, where … Continue reading
Avoiding regime shifts is difficult
Conservation magazine’s Journal Watch Online returns from a long hiatus to report on an interesting new paper on the problems of detecting regime shifts by resilience researchers Oonsie Biggs, Steve Carpenter, and W.A. “Buz” Brock (2009. Turning back from the … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts
Tagged detection, fishing, Oonsie Biggs, PNAS, Steve Carpenter, W.A. Brock
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Are ecosystem service trade-offs relatively common?
A recent paper by Heather Tallis et al. reports the finding that win-win conservation projects — those that aim to achieve both conservation objectives and economic gains — are relatively rare. In this paper (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S … Continue reading