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Cooperative Research Centre
About: Cooperative Research Centre is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Sea ice. The organization has 7633 authors who have published 8607 publications receiving 429721 citations.
Topics: Population, Sea ice, Autism, Climate change, Antarctic sea ice
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TL;DR: In this paper, a Bayesian belief network (BBN) was used to refine prior beliefs and investigate dependencies among a series of proxies that attempt to characterize potential drivers and responses: the remotely sensed environmental stress (sea surface temperature), the geographic setting; and topographic and ecological attributes of reef sites for which they had field data on bleaching impact.
Abstract: Ocean warming and coral bleaching are patchy phenomena over a wide range of scales. This paper is part of a larger study that aims to understand the relationship between heat stress and ecological impact caused by the 2002-bleaching event in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). We used a Bayesian belief network (BBN) as a framework to refine our prior beliefs and investigate dependencies among a series of proxies that attempt to characterize potential drivers and responses: the remotely sensed environmental stress (sea surface temperature — SST); the geographic setting; and topographic and ecological attributes of reef sites for which we had field data on bleaching impact. Sensitivity analyses helped us to refine and update our beliefs in a manner that improved our capacity to hindcast areas of high and low bleaching impact. Our best predictive capacity came by combining proxies for a site’s heat stress in 2002 (remotely sensed), acclimatization temperatures (remote sensed), the ease with which it could be cooled by tidal mixing (modeled), and type of coral community present at a sample of survey sites (field data). The potential for the outlined methodology to deliver a transparent decision support tool to aid in the process of identifying a series of locations whose inclusion in a network of protected areas would help to spread the risk of bleaching is discussed.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used NIR spectral data taken from solid wood to predict both physical and chemical wood properties of Eucalyptus, including extractives and acid-soluble lignin.
Abstract: Near infrared reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy can be used to reliably predict both the physical and chemical wood properties of Eucalyptus. However, studies have been based on ground wood, which is costly and time‐consuming to obtain. Predicting wood traits from NIR spectral data taken from solid wood would greatly increase the speed and cost‐effectiveness of this procedure. Existing ground wood calibrations were evaluated for the prediction of wood chemistry from NIR spectral data taken from solid wood. Extractives, acid‐soluble lignin, and Klason lignin contents were poorly predicted. Total lignin and cellulose contents showed moderate relationships between laboratory values and the NIR predicted values. NIR calibrations were further developed specifically for predicting wood chemistry from solid wood. All calibrations had high R2 values from 0.72 to 0.88, and standard errors of calibration were less than 1.37%. Calibration validation produced high correlation coefficients between predicted and ...
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TL;DR: This paper presents a critical review of the different sampling and analytical methods for the determination of the concentration of aluminium in natural waters, with particular focus on techniques successfully applied to shipboard analysis of seawater.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of fire frequency on the growth rate of trees in tropical savannas were investigated over a period of 10 years, with the highest observed frequencies of mild, moderate and severely fires (1.0, 0.8 and 0.4 fires yr1, respectively) reducing tree growth by 24, 40% and 66% respectively.
Abstract: Tropical savannas are typically highly productive yet fire-prone ecosystems, and it has
been suggested that reducing fire frequency in savannas could substantially increase the
size of the global carbon sink. However, the long-term demographic consequences of
modifying fire regimes in savannas are difficult to predict, with the effects of fire on
many parameters, such as tree growth rates, poorly understood. Over 10 years, we
examined the effects of fire frequency on the growth rates (annual increment of diameter
at breast height) of 3075 tagged trees, at 137 locations throughout the mesic savannas of
Kakadu, Nitmiluk and Litchfield National Parks, in northern Australia. Frequent fires
substantially reduced tree growth rates, with the magnitude of the effect markedly
increasing with fire severity. The highest observed frequencies of mild, moderate and
severe fires (1.0, 0.8 and 0.4 fires yr1, respectively) reduced tree growth by 24%, 40% and
66% respectively, relative to unburnt areas. These reductions in tree growth imply
reductions in the net primary productivity of trees by between 0.19 tCha1 yr1, in the
case of mild fires, and 0.51 tCha1 yr1, in the case of severe fires. Such reductions are
relatively large, given that net biome productivity (carbon sequestration potential) of
these savannas is estimated to be just 1–2 tCha1 yr1. Our results suggest that current
models of savanna tree demography, that do not account for a relationship between
severe fire frequency and tree growth rate, are likely to underestimate the long-term
negative effects of frequent severe fires on tree populations. Additionally, the negative
impact of frequent severe fires on carbon sequestration rates may have been underestimated;
reducing fire frequencies in savannas may increase carbon sequestration to a
greater extent than previously thought.
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TL;DR: In this article, a framework of societal needs is developed that allows a more encompassing and systematic description of societal systems and has an intrinsic facility to address matters like sustainability and liveability.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Eric N. Olson | 206 | 814 | 144586 |
Nicholas G. Martin | 192 | 1770 | 161952 |
Grant W. Montgomery | 157 | 926 | 108118 |
Paul Mitchell | 146 | 1378 | 95659 |
James Whelan | 128 | 786 | 89180 |
Shaobin Wang | 126 | 872 | 52463 |
Graham D. Farquhar | 124 | 368 | 75181 |
Jie Jin Wang | 120 | 719 | 54587 |
Christos Pantelis | 120 | 723 | 56374 |
John J. McGrath | 120 | 791 | 124804 |
David B. Lindenmayer | 119 | 954 | 59129 |
Ashley I. Bush | 116 | 560 | 57009 |
Yong-Guan Zhu | 115 | 684 | 46973 |
Ary A. Hoffmann | 113 | 907 | 55354 |
David A. Hume | 113 | 573 | 59932 |