Essays about: "Focal loss"

Showing result 16 - 19 of 19 essays containing the words Focal loss.

  1. 16. Ecological impacts of traffic noise - A national spatial assessment for Sweden.

    University essay from KTH/Miljöbedömning och -förvaltning

    Author : Marzieh Karimpour; [2012]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Increased utilization of terrestrial vehicles requires devotion of huge efforts to provide road infrastructure for increased accessibility. Meanwhile, there is no doubt that transportation infrastructure has major impacts on ecosystems, ecological processes and biodiversity at a landscape scale. READ MORE

  3. 17. Geostatistical techniques for predicting bird species occurrences

    University essay from KTH/Geodesi och geoinformatik

    Author : Mohammad Shahiruzzaman; Adnan Rauf; [2011]
    Keywords : ESDA; Kriging; Spline; OLS; SDM; Logistic regression;

    Abstract : Habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to biodiversity. Geostatistical methods, especially kriging, are widely used in ecology. Bird counts data often fail to show normal distribution over an area which is required for most of the kriging methods. READ MORE

  4. 18. Impacts of dams on lowland agriculture in the Mekong River catchment

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Fredrik Fredén; [2011]
    Keywords : physical geography; Mekong River catchment; dam building; floodplain agriculture; sediment delivery; floods; naturgeografi; Mekongflodens avrinningsområde; dammbygge; flodslättsjordbruk; sediment; översvämningar; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The Mekong River catchment on the Indochinese peninsula in Southeast Asia is currently one of the world’s most active regions in terms of hydropower planning and development. In recent decades China has launched a hydropower plan comprising eight large dams on the main stream river in the upper part of the catchment. READ MORE

  5. 19. The black-and-white colobus monkeys (Colobus angolensis palliatus) of Diani forest, Kenya : behavioural responses to habitat fragmentation

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

    Author : Robert O'Dwyer; [2011]
    Keywords : colobus angolensis palliatus; diani beach; behaviour; sex; age; foraging; home range overlap; path length; sex and age class;

    Abstract : The loss of habitat is one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity today. Consequences to a species inhabiting fragmented habitats include: group size changes, altered diets and altered foraging behaviours. READ MORE