Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

• Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China

  Published on October 7, 2015
  This research applied the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model to illustrate and analyze the 30-year evolution of tourism in Wolong Nature Reserve.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Multiple telecouplings and their complex interrelationships

  Published on October 1, 2015
  Even a protected area like the Wolong Nature Reserve for giant pandas in southwest China has multiple telecoupling processes with the rest of the world.

• Meta-studies in land use science: Current coverage and prospects

  Published on September 28, 2015
  Meta-studies synthesize findings across case-study evidence to identify general patterns. In this paper, we provide a review of meta-studies in land use science.

• Pressure-specific and multiple pressure response of fish assemblages in European running waters

  Published on September 25, 2015
  Results contribute to the better understanding of fish assemblage response to human pressures at a pan-European scale.

• Cumulative effects of land use on fish metrics in different types of running waters in Austria

  Published on September 25, 2015
  Beyond correlative analysis, we investigated which land-use category had the strongest effect on fish, whether metrics of functional fish guilds reacted differently, whether there were cumulative effects of land-use categories.

• Multiple human pressures and their spatial patterns in European running waters

  Published on September 25, 2015
  This study represents the first high-resolution data analysis of human pressures at the European scale, where important pressure criteria for 9330 sampling sites in 14 European countries were analysed.

• Divergent reaction of fish metrics to human pressures in fish assemblage types in Europe

  Published on September 25, 2015
  It is of primary importance to understand the comparative sensitivity and efficiency of fish-based indicators of water quality for detecting human-induced degradation of river ecosystems.

• Predicting presence and absence of trout (Salmo trutta) in Iran

  Published on September 25, 2015
  This study explores the potential distribution of brown trout by a species distribution modelling approach for Iran.

• Comparison of human pressures and fish assemblages in the salmonid and cyprinid streams of the southern Caspian Sea basin

  Published on September 25, 2015
  Our analysis showed that the most dominating human pressure in both zones was land use followed by water quality and morphological pressures especially in salmonid streams and hydrological and morphological pressures in cyprinid streams.

• A new fish-based multi-metric assessment index for cyprinid streams in the Iranian Caspian Sea Basin

  Published on September 25, 2015
  The overall aim of this study is to develop a multi-metric fish index for the cyprinid streams of the Caspian Sea Basin (MMICS) in Iran.

• Spatiotemporal patterns of non-genetically modified crops in the era of expansion of genetically modified food

  Published on September 23, 2015
  Despite heated debates over the safety of genetically modified (GM) food, GM crops have been expanding rapidly.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY -- Synthesis of human-nature feedbacks

  Published on September 11, 2015
  In an introduction to the special feature, we provide an overview of CHANS feedbacks. In addition, we synthesize key CHANS feedbacks that emerged in the papers across agricultural, forest, and urban landscapes.

• Assessment of Coastal Ecosystem Services for Conservation Strategies in South Korea

  Published on August 13, 2015
  As cultural ecosystem services are evenly distributed throughout coastal areas of South Korea, decision makers may employ them to improve the conditions of coastal wetlands outside of protected areas.

• Inland capture fishery contributions to global food security and threats to their future

  Published on August 11, 2015
  This paper highlights the importance of inland fisheries to global food security, the challenges they face due to competing demands for freshwater, and possible solutions.

• Activity patterns of the giant panda

  Published on July 30, 2015
  Activity patterns of the elusive and endangered giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) are not well understood

• An integrated approach to understanding the linkages between ecosystem services and human well-being

  Published on July 22, 2015
  We examined how human dependence on ES and HWB might be affected by direct drivers, such as a natural disaster, and how human dependence on ES and direct and indirect drivers might affect HWB.

• Quantifying human well-being for sustainability research and policy

  Published on July 17, 2015
  To address human dependence on natural resources and anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health, understanding and management of the linkages between nature and human well-being (HWB) are urgently needed.

• Stock Structure of Rainbow Smelt in Western Lake Superior: Biochemical Genetics

  Published on July 6, 2015
  Serum transferrin (TFN) and glucosephosphate isomerase from white muscle were examined in rainbow smelt Osmerus mordax from Lake Superio

• Differences in sexual maturity and fall emigration between diploid and triploid brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in an Adirondack lake

  Published on July 6, 2015
  High levels of emigration coincident with maturity and spawning have been reported from brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations in Adirondack lakes.

• Heritage Brook Trout in Northeastern USA: Genetic Variability within and among Populations

  Published on July 6, 2015
  Brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis from 21 unstocked waters, 3 naturalized lakes, and 4 hatcheries in New York and Pennsylvania were analyzed electrophoretically for allozyme expression. Thirty-two of the 68 loci examined were polymorphic.