Search Results - "Zurlini, G."

Tourist perception of recreational environment and management in a marine protected area by Petrosillo, I., Zurlini, G., Corlianò, M.E., Zaccarelli, N., Dadamo, M.

“…A person's socio-economic status, cultural ties, and past experiences influence how people perceive environmental quality. In the case of tourism, people using…”
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The important role of ecological engineers in providing ecosystem services at landscape level by Petrosillo, I., Zurlini, G.

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Modelling socio-ecological tourism-based systems for sustainability by Lacitignola, D., Petrosillo, I., Cataldi, M., Zurlini, G.

“…The analysis of socio-ecological systems requires new, qualitatively distinct, evaluation schemes and appropriate investigation tools that enable an integrated…”
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Chemical footprints of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on recent soil C : N ratios in Europe by Mulder, C, Hettelingh, J.-P, Montanarella, L, Pasimeni, M. R, Posch, M, Voigt, W, Zurlini, G

“…Long-term human interactions with the natural landscape have produced a plethora of trends and patterns of environmental disturbances across time and space…”
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Indicating fragility of socio-ecological tourism-based systems by Petrosillo, I., Zurlini, G., Grato, E., Zaccarelli, N.

“…The analysis of socio-ecological systems requires new, qualitatively different evaluation schemes that enable an integrated assessment of ecological, social,…”
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Time-dependent regimes of a tourism-based social–ecological system: Period-doubling route to chaos by Lacitignola, D., Petrosillo, I., Zurlini, G.

“…The period-doubling route to chaos has occupied a prominent position and it is still object of great interest among the different complex phenomena observed in…”
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Indicating disturbance content and context for preserved areas by Zaccarelli, N., Riitters, K.H., Petrosillo, I., Zurlini, G.

“…An accepted goal of conservation is to build a conservation network that is resilient to environmental change. The conceptual patch-corridor-matrix model views…”
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Disturbance patterns in a socio-ecological system at multiple scales by Zurlini, G., Riitters, K., Zaccarelli, N., Petrosillo, I., Jones, K.B., Rossi, L.

“…Ecological systems with hierarchical organization and non-equilibrium dynamics require multiple-scale analyses to comprehend how a system is structured and to…”
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Indicating retrospective resilience of multi-scale patterns of real habitats in a landscape by Zurlini, G., Zaccarelli, N., Petrosillo, I.

“…Vegetation or habitat types are ecological phases, which can assume multiple states, and transformations from one type of phase to another are ecological phase…”
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Statistical detection of multiscale landscape patterns by Grossi, L, Zurlini, G, Rossi, O

“…Detection of discontinuities in landscape patterns is a crucial problem both in ecology and in environmental sciences since they may indicate substantial scale…”
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The effectiveness of different conservation policies on the security of natural capital by Petrosillo, Irene, Zaccarelli, Nicola, Semeraro, Teodoro, Zurlini, Giovanni

“…The maintenance of ecosystem goods and services, i.e. natural capital, is the basic guarantee of environmental security that aims to evaluate the level of…”
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Managing tourist harbors: Are managers aware of the real environmental risks? by Petrosillo, Irene, Valente, Donatella, Zaccarelli, Nicola, Zurlini, Giovanni

“…The management of tourist harbors has traditionally been analyzed with little attention to managers’ awareness of the effects of their decisions on the…”
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Detecting the ‘conservation effect’ on the maintenance of natural capital flow in different natural parks by Petrosillo, Irene, Semeraro, Teodoro, Zurlini, Giovanni

“…The identification of areas worthy of protection and their subsequent institution as natural parks are instruments that society uses to preserve biodiversity…”
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Source/Sink Patterns of Disturbance and Cross-Scale Mismatches in a Panarchy of Social-Ecological Landscapes by Zaccarelli, Nicola, Petrosillo, Irene, Zurlini, Giovanni, Riitters, Kurt Hans

“…Land-use change is one of the major factors affecting global environmental change and represents a primary human effect on natural systems. Taking into account…”
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Spatial-Accumulation Pattern and Extinction Rates of Mediterranean Flora as Related to Species Confinement to Habitats in Preserves and Larger Areas by Zurlini, Giovanni, Grossi, Luigi, Rossi, Orazio

“…Species-area relationships (SARs) are still the main basis for all projections of extinction rates of species following habitat loss. To investigate…”
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Reproduction and growth of Euterpina acutifrons (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) under experimental conditions by Zurlini, G., Ferrari, I., Nassogne, A.

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Multiparametric classification of trophic conditions. The OECD methodology extended: combined probabilities and uncertainties — application to the North Adriatic Sea by Zurlini, Giovanni

“…A new approach to trophic classification of water bodies, based on combining the exact probabilities from the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and…”
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Mapping litter decomposition by remote-detected indicators by L. Sabetta, N. Zaccarelli, G. Mancinelli, S. Mandrone, R. Salvatori, M. L. Costantini, G. Zurlini, L. Rossi

“…Leaf litter decomposition is a key process for the functioning of natural ecosystems. An important limiting factor for this process is detritus availability,…”
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The spatial scan statistic: A new method for spatial aggregation of categorical raster maps by Coulston, J. W, Zaccarelli, N, Riitters, K. H, Koch, F. H, Zurlini, G

“…Multiple-scale and broad-scale assessments often require rescaling the original data to a consistent grain size for analysis. Rescaling categorical raster data…”
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Results of an ecological research on the coastal marine system of Apulia by Damiani, V, Bianchi, C N, Ferretti, O, Bedulli, D, Morri, C, Viel, M, Zurlini, G

“…The environmental investigations carried out by ENEA on the mainland, coasts and seas of Apulia (South-East Italy) allowed an "ecotypological" classification…”
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