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Most of the coral reefs of the American continent: the Brazilian waters, the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean are in Latin American countries, the subject of this book. For the first time, information on coral reefs of such a vast region is mined from reports, obscure journals, university thesis and scientific journals, summarized and presented in a way both accessible and informative for the interested reader as well as for the coral reef expert. The chapters of the book, divided by country and ocean, were written by either scientists from the countries or by those that know the
Coral reef ecology --- Coral reef organisms --- Coral reefs and islands --- Reef ecology --- Reef organisms --- Atolls --- Coral atolls --- Coral islands --- Reefs, Coral --- Islands --- Ecology
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This volume, compiling and updating the marine biodiversity information of Costa Rica, consists of species lists, and comments on the state-of-knowledge of most taxonomical groups. It contains information about collections and experts for each taxonomic group as well as information gaps, thus serving as a starting point and basic reference for future research. Although focusing on Costa Rica, the book provides an overview of marine species diversity of Central America. This full color book with over 100 color illustrations should stimulate marine research in the region, and will be an asset for students and researchers as well as decision makers and conservation managers dealing with the sustainable use of marine and coastal areas. From the foreword by the President of Costa Rica: Oscar Arias Sanchez: 'The work of Ingo Wehrtmann, Jorge Cortes and their colleagues, who have created the first-ever compilation of knowledge of our marine organisms, allows the rest of us to imagine underwater life a bit more clearly. Such imagining is crucial if our marine habitats are to be saved. This work also underscores the urgency of our task as conservationists.' The Species' List can be obtained from http://extras.springer.com.
Aquatic biology. --- Biodiversity. --- Ecology. --- Marine biodiversity -- Central America. --- Marine biodiversity -- Costa Rica. --- Marine biodiversity. --- Nature conservation. --- Zoology. --- Marine biodiversity --- Marine biology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Diversity, Marine biological --- Marine biological diversity --- Life sciences. --- Aquatic ecology. --- Life Sciences. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Nature Conservation. --- Aquatic biodiversity --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Hydrobiology --- Water biology --- Aquatic sciences --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Conservation --- Ecology . --- Aquatic ecology . --- Aquatic biology --- Central America. --- Costa Rica. --- Coose Berçhagh --- Cósta Ríce --- Dēmokratia tēs Kosta Rika --- Kosta-Rika --- Kosta-Rikæ --- Kosta Rrika --- Kosta-Ryka --- Ḳosṭah Riḳah --- Kostarika --- Kostarikmudin Orn --- Kostariko --- K'osŭt'arik'a --- Kustarika --- Pobblaght y Choose Verçhagh --- Poblacht Chósta Ríce --- Republic of Costa Rica --- República de Costa Rica --- Republiḳat Ḳosṭah Riḳah --- Respublika Kosta-Rika --- Rėspublika Kosta-Ryka --- Yn Coose Berçhagh --- Mercado Común Centroamericano countries
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This self-contained introduction to the distributed control of robotic networks offers a distinctive blend of computer science and control theory. The book presents a broad set of tools for understanding coordination algorithms, determining their correctness, and assessing their complexity; and it analyzes various cooperative strategies for tasks such as consensus, rendezvous, connectivity maintenance, deployment, and boundary estimation. The unifying theme is a formal model for robotic networks that explicitly incorporates their communication, sensing, control, and processing capabilities--a model that in turn leads to a common formal language to describe and analyze coordination algorithms. Written for first- and second-year graduate students in control and robotics, the book will also be useful to researchers in control theory, robotics, distributed algorithms, and automata theory. The book provides explanations of the basic concepts and main results, as well as numerous examples and exercises. Self-contained exposition of graph-theoretic concepts, distributed algorithms, and complexity measures for processor networks with fixed interconnection topology and for robotic networks with position-dependent interconnection topology Detailed treatment of averaging and consensus algorithms interpreted as linear iterations on synchronous networks Introduction of geometric notions such as partitions, proximity graphs, and multicenter functions Detailed treatment of motion coordination algorithms for deployment, rendezvous, connectivity maintenance, and boundary estimation
Robotics. --- Computer algorithms. --- Robots --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Robot control --- Robotics --- Algorithms --- Control systems. --- Computer algorithms --- Control systems --- 1-center problem. --- Adjacency matrix. --- Aggregate function. --- Algebraic connectivity. --- Algebraic topology (object). --- Algorithm. --- Analysis of algorithms. --- Approximation algorithm. --- Asynchronous system. --- Bellman–Ford algorithm. --- Bifurcation theory. --- Bounded set (topological vector space). --- Calculation. --- Cartesian product. --- Centroid. --- Chebyshev center. --- Circulant matrix. --- Circumscribed circle. --- Cluster analysis. --- Combinatorial optimization. --- Combinatorics. --- Communication complexity. --- Computation. --- Computational complexity theory. --- Computational geometry. --- Computational model. --- Computer simulation. --- Computer vision. --- Connected component (graph theory). --- Connectivity (graph theory). --- Consensus (computer science). --- Control function (econometrics). --- Differentiable function. --- Dijkstra's algorithm. --- Dimensional analysis. --- Directed acyclic graph. --- Directed graph. --- Discrete time and continuous time. --- Disk (mathematics). --- Distributed algorithm. --- Doubly stochastic matrix. --- Dynamical system. --- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. --- Estimation. --- Euclidean space. --- Function composition. --- Hybrid system. --- Information theory. --- Initial condition. --- Instance (computer science). --- Invariance principle (linguistics). --- Invertible matrix. --- Iteration. --- Iterative method. --- Kinematics. --- Laplacian matrix. --- Leader election. --- Linear dynamical system. --- Linear interpolation. --- Linear programming. --- Lipschitz continuity. --- Lyapunov function. --- Markov chain. --- Mathematical induction. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Mobile robot. --- Motion planning. --- Multi-agent system. --- Network model. --- Network topology. --- Norm (mathematics). --- Numerical integration. --- Optimal control. --- Optimization problem. --- Parameter (computer programming). --- Partition of a set. --- Percolation theory. --- Permutation matrix. --- Polytope. --- Proportionality (mathematics). --- Quantifier (logic). --- Quantization (signal processing). --- Robustness (computer science). --- Scientific notation. --- Sensor. --- Set (mathematics). --- Simply connected space. --- Simulation. --- Simultaneous equations. --- State space. --- State variable. --- Stochastic matrix. --- Stochastic. --- Strongly connected component. --- Synchronous network. --- Theorem. --- Time complexity. --- Topology. --- Variable (mathematics). --- Vector field.
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This volume, compiling and updating the marine biodiversity information of Costa Rica, consists of species lists, and comments on the state-of-knowledge of most taxonomical groups. It contains information about collections and experts for each taxonomic group as well as information gaps, thus serving as a starting point and basic reference for future research. Although focusing on Costa Rica, the book provides an overview of marine species diversity of Central America. This full color book with over 100 color illustrations should stimulate marine research in the region, and will be an asset for students and researchers as well as decision makers and conservation managers dealing with the sustainable use of marine and coastal areas. From the foreword by the President of Costa Rica: Oscar Arias Sanchez: 'The work of Ingo Wehrtmann, Jorge Cortes and their colleagues, who have created the first-ever compilation of knowledge of our marine organisms, allows the rest of us to imagine underwater life a bit more clearly. Such imagining is crucial if our marine habitats are to be saved. This work also underscores the urgency of our task as conservationists.' The Species' List can be obtained from http://extras.springer.com
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Nature protection --- General ecology and biosociology --- Zoology --- biodiversiteit --- ecologie --- natuurbescherming --- zoölogie --- Costa Rica
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This book provides information relevant for the conservation of biodiversity and the sound management of the coastal and forest ecosystems of the Yucatan Peninsula in the face of global change. Various aspects of the biodiversity of the Yucatan Peninsula are analyzed in an integrative manner, including phenological, ecophysiological, ecological and conservation aspects of plants and animals and their relationships with humans in coastal and forest ecosystems. .
Nature protection --- General ecology and biosociology --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- biodiversiteit --- ecologie --- natuurbescherming --- milieubescherming --- Biodiversity conservation --- Ecosystem management --- Mayas --- Human ecology --- Biodiversity --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Biological diversity conservation --- Conservation of biodiversity --- Diversity conservation, Biological --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Maintenance of biological diversity --- Preservation of biological diversity --- Conservation of natural resources --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Biotic communities --- Ecosystems management --- Applied ecology --- Environmental management --- Nature conservation --- Ethnobiology --- History. --- Conservation --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Management --- Ecology . --- Biodiversity. --- Conservation biology. --- Ecology. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- History --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology
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This book provides clear presentations of more than sixty important unsolved problems in mathematical systems and control theory. Each of the problems included here is proposed by a leading expert and set forth in an accessible manner. Covering a wide range of areas, the book will be an ideal reference for anyone interested in the latest developments in the field, including specialists in applied mathematics, engineering, and computer science. The book consists of ten parts representing various problem areas, and each chapter sets forth a different problem presented by a researcher in the particular area and in the same way: description of the problem, motivation and history, available results, and bibliography. It aims not only to encourage work on the included problems but also to suggest new ones and generate fresh research. The reader will be able to submit solutions for possible inclusion on an online version of the book to be updated quarterly on the Princeton University Press website, and thus also be able to access solutions, updated information, and partial solutions as they are developed.
System analysis. --- Control theory. --- Commande, Théorie de la. --- Network theory --- Systems analysis --- Dynamics --- Machine theory --- System theory --- Mathematical optimization --- Network analysis --- Network science --- System Analysis --- Control theory --- Commande, théorie de la --- Commande, Theorie de la.
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