Πλοήγηση ανά Θέμα "Ecosystems"
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An analytical framework to assess SDG targets within the context of WEFE nexus in the Mediterranean region
(2021)Understanding the complex relationships amongst Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystems (WEFE nexus) together with the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is critical for the development of a sustainable and ... -
Assessing values, attitudes and threats towards marine biodiversity in a Greek coastal port city and their interrelationships
(2019)The global marine environment degradation is strongly related to the unsustainable use of the marine living resources and the ineffective conservation policies. Assessing individual's general perceptions of marine biodiversity ... -
Blame it on the metabolite: 3,5-dichloroaniline rather than the parent compound is responsible for the decreasing diversity and function of soil microorganisms
(2018)Pesticides are key stressors of soil microorganisms with reciprocal effects on ecosystem functioning. These effects have been mainly attributed to the parent compounds, while the impact of their transformation products ... -
Blockchain State Channels: A State of the Art
(2021)Blockchain technology has been quite popular during recent years and it finally seems to present a significant rise with respect to its use for real-world applications. This advancement has brought up a critical challenge ... -
A catastrophic change in a european protected wetland: From harmful phytoplankton blooms to fish and bird kill
(2022)Understanding the processes that underlay an ecological disaster represents a major scientific challenge. Here, we investigated phytoplankton and zooplankton community changes before and during a fauna mass kill in a ... -
Creation of a remote sensing unmanned aerial system (UAS) for precision agriculture and related mapping applications
(2013)Our goal is to create a fully autonomous airborne remote sensing platform, for the production of various vegetation indices to determine growth, development, yield crop and provide considerable information in real time and ... -
D2D Task Offloading: A Dataset-Based Q&A
(2019)D2D interactions are promoted both in the context of traffic and computation offloading. Applications with functionalities that are executed in parallel in more than one mobile device have been proposed while the idea of ... -
A Deep Learning Model for Data Synopses Management in Pervasive Computing Applications
(2021)Pervasive computing involves the placement of processing units and services close to end users to support intelligent applications that will facilitate their activities. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and ... -
Development of a waterfront regeneration tool to support local decision making in the context of integrated coastal zone management
(2019)Increasing pressures from coastal urbanization have created the need for an integrated approach to address the interactions among human activities, taking into account the significance of protecting coastal ecosystems. In ... -
Drought Assessment in Nestos River Basin (N. Greece) for the Period 1955-2018
(2022)Drought is a significant meteorological phenomenon that can seriously impact natural ecosystems. Drought assessment and monitoring should be continuous in regions of high ecological importance, for the conservation of ... -
An eco-efficient and economical optimum evaluation technique for the forest road networks: the case of the mountainous forest of Metsovo, Greece
(2018)The sustainable forest management can be achieved only through environmentally sound and economically efficient and feasible forest road networks and transportation systems that can potentially improve the multi-functional ... -
Ecosystem modeling of sediment dynamics in the constructed wetland carla in central Greece
(2008)Constructed wetlands are complex dynamic ecosystems. Ecosystem-level modeling of the processes that take place in a constructed wetland is a useful tool for understanding wetland function and structure and for making ... -
Effects of satellite spatial resolution on gross primary productivity estimation through light use efficiency modeling
(2018)Terrestrial Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) describes the total amount of CO2 assimilated by plants in an ecosystem during photosynthesis and is considered the largest flux component of the global carbon cycle. One of the ... -
Environmental planning in Magnesia prefecture, Greece
(2003)The environmental planning of Magnesia Prefecture is studied in this work, aiming at the assessment of the environmental quality and the determination of the most appropriate objectives and priorities, for the achievement ... -
Evaluation and cross-comparison of vegetation indices for crop monitoring from sentinel-2 and worldview-2 images
(2017)Farmers throughout the world are constantly searching for ways to maximize their returns. Remote Sensing applications are designed to provide farmers with timely crop monitoring and production information. Such information ... -
Forming Smart Governance under a City Digital Transformation Strategy-findings from Greece and ICC
(2022)Digital transformation (DT) is a complex process for cities, which demands both the dedicated role of the local government and the engagement, but also the commitment of the local ecosystem to a commonly agreed strategy. ... -
A gamified community for fostering learning engagement towards preventing Early school leaving
(2016)Early school leaving is a complex phenomenon that may adversely affect on a learner’s future development. ESL is the result of a combination of factors, such as insufficient school curricula understanding, low value placed ... -
Hazards that threaten Greek wetlands: The case of Lake Koronia
(2008)Wetlands all over the world have been recognized as some of the most productive, multifunctional and dynamic ecosystems and they are under protection according to European Union legislation. However, they are under imminent ... -
Intelligent tasks allocation at the edge based on machine learning and bio-inspired algorithms
(2022)Current advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud involve the presence of an additional layer between them acting as mediator for data transfer and processing in close distance to end users. This mediator is the ... -
Land spreading of wastewaters from the fruit-packaging industry and potential effects on soil microbes: Effects of the antioxidant ethoxyquin and its metabolites on ammonia oxidizers
(2016)Thiabendazole (TBZ), imazalil (IMZ), ortho-phenylphenol (OPP), diphenylamine (DPA), and ethoxyquin (EQ) are used in fruitpackaging plants (FPP) with the stipulation that wastewaters produced by their application would be ...