Craig A. Miller

TL;DR: It is demonstrated how three complex system methods, agent-based modelling, dynamical systems modelling and network analysis, can be applied to agricultural value chains as a means of gaining insights into system dynamics under different and dynamic conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relative influence of patch area and connectivity on bird species richness and abundance within urban revegetation patches in Brisbane, Australia, and found that greater connectivity enhances the habitat area that colonists can arrive from (resulting in greater species richness).

TL;DR: The Laguna del Maule Volcanic Field, Chile, is a large, potentially hazardous, rhyolitic system, where an alarming rate of surface uplift for the past seven years and concentrated swarms of shallow earthquakes prompted Observatorio Volcanologico de los Andes del Sur (OVDAS) to declare in March 2013 a yellow alert, signaling a potential eruption within months or years as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: It is suggested that, to effectively conserve native biodiversity in rural land-scapes, it needs to consider four key issues: what might be realistic goals for native bio-diversity conservation, how might the authors better arrange different land uses to meet both native biodiversity and production goals, and how native biodiversity conservation can improve productive returns to land man-agers.

TL;DR: The population dynamics, morphological characteristics, and diet of rodents on Rangitoto Island (Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand) were quantified to provide information for the future development of an eradication strategy.