Biospheric relationships between production and consumption of biomass have been
resilient to changes in the Earth system over billions of years. This relationship has …

This paper examines the role of the classroom environment in promoting student well-being
and, more specifically, a sense of responsibility towards nature in the city. The study …

Ecosystem modeling is a complex and multidisciplinary modeling problem which emerged
in the 1950s. It takes advantage of the computational turn in sciences to better understand …

This paper demonstrates the utility of the Qualitative Reasoning approach for hypothesis
testing in the domain of ecology regarding the functioning of 'black box'systems. As a test …

In this chapter, the main kind of Model-driven methods that can be used in Intelligent
Decision Support Systems are described: Agent-based Simulation Models, Expert-based …

Learning by conceptual modeling is seeing uptake in secondary and higher education.
However, assessment of conceptual models is underdeveloped. This paper proposes an …

This work aims to link data about wood plant communities obtained from scientific studies
about the Brazilian Cerrado biome, meteorological and environmental data, geographical …

After a series of successful conferences in France, Australia, Italy, Korea, United States and
Mexico, the 7th edition of the Ecological Informatics conferences was organized in Ghent …

Qualitative reasoning is a very efficient method that people often use to solve problems.
Recently, the literature about qualitative reasoning as a causal analysis and decision …

Scientific research produces a vast volume of information and knowledge about natural
phenomena, typically published in papers. This is particularly striking for the enzymatic …