Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Publications

• Changes in Human Population Structure: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation

  Published on March 6, 1999
  Human population size and growth have been recognized as important factors affecting biodiversity, but the impacts of population structural changes on biodiversity are not clear.

• A Global Programme in Interdisciplinary Forest Research: The CTFS Perspective

  Published on March 31, 1998
  A research aimed at furthering an understanding of tropical forests and at translating biological and socio-economic research into results relevant to forest management, economics and policy.

• FORMOSAIC: An Individual-Based Spatially Explicit Model for Simulating Forest Dynamics in Landscape Mosaics

  Published on March 7, 1998
  We developed a landscape model that explicitly considers not only the dynamics of a focal forest but also ecological impacts of adjacent areas on the focal forest.

• Individual-based simulation models for forest succession and management

  Published on September 28, 1994
  This paper attempts to review and compare two major types of individual-based forest models: growth-yield and gap models.

• Linking contemporary vegetation models and spatially explicit animal population models

  Published on April 18, 1994
  A study on linking contemporary vegetation models and spatially explicit animal population models.

• Usefulness of spatially explicit animal models in land management

  Published on March 22, 1994
  Nature resource managers today are faced with new challenges that differ from your previous ones in both their emphasis and scope

• Modeling animal populations in changing landscapes

  Published on January 1, 1994
  Models of Mobile Animal Populations (MAP models) simulate long-term land use changes, population trends and patterns of biological diversity on landscapes of lo3-lo5 ha

• Ecological and economic effects of forest landscape structure and rotation length: simulation studies using ECOLECON

  Published on September 18, 1993
  ECOLECON is a spatially-explicit, object-oriented computer simulation model that simulates animal population dynamics and economic yield from timber harvests based on forest landscape structure and timber management schemes.

• Discounting initial population sizes for predicting extinction probabilities in patchy environments

  Published on December 11, 1992
  Extinction is a major concern in conscrvation. A most urgent need is to predict the relationship of a population's initial size to its probability of extinction.

• ECOLECON: A spatially-explicit model for ECOLogical-ECONomics of species conservation in complex forest landscapes

  Published on December 3, 1992
  An ECOLogical-ECONomic model (ECOLECON) has been developed to simulate animal population dynamics and economic revenues in response to different forest landscape structure and timber management scenarios.

• Population dynamics in complex landscapes: a case study

  Published on August 12, 1991
  The abundance and distribution of natural populations can be strongly influences by the types and arrangements of habitat patches within a landscape.

• ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY - Unraveling human drivers behind complex interrelationships among sustainable development goals: a demonstration in Wolong Nature Reserve

  This research applies new methods to show how people's everyday lives can have significant global consequences when establishing policies to achieve sustainability.

• Spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood collection in Wolong Nature Reserve: Implications for panda conservation

  Understanding spatial and temporal patterns of fuelwood collection is fundamental to understanding human–environment interactions and designing effective conservation policies.

• SUSTAINABILITY -- Global marine fishing across space and time

  We use the metacoupling framework to illustrate how fisheries catches were locally, regionally, and globally interconnected in 1950–2014.