Del postmodernismo a las nuevas geografías culturales (mesa redonda del XVIII Congreso de la AGE. Bellaterra, 26 de septiembre de 2003)

Els quatre textos que composen aquesta taula rodona tracten, des de diverses perspectives metodològiques les aportacions més recents en geografia humana de teoria i metodologia.Los cuatro textos que componen esta mesa redonda tratan, desde diversas perspectivas metodológicas las aportaciones más recientes en geografía humana de teoría y metodología.The four texts of this round table presents, from different methodological standpoints the most recent methodological and theoretical contributions in human geography

Working Group on Mackerel and Horse Mackerel Egg Surveys (WGMEGS). 2021

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Calculation of mackerel adult parameters for the application of the DEPM in the western spawning area

The ICES Working Group on Mackerel and Horse Mackerel Egg Surveys (WGMEGS) coordinates the mackerel and horse mackerel egg survey in the Northeast Atlantic (NEA) and the mackerel egg survey in the North Sea. The working group plans and reports on these surveys, with recent attention focused on the execution of the surveys given the increasing demands related to covering the expanding survey area as well as balanced fecundity sampling. WGMEGS also addresses data quality assurance in macke-rel fecundity and total annual egg production estimation.Currently, there are 3 surveys in place which are carried out triennially and deliver standing stock bio-mass (SSB) indices: (1) the survey for the western and southern stock components of the NEA mackerel stock, as well as for the western horse mackerel stock, (2) the survey for the NEA mackerel North Sea stock component, and (3) the survey for the southern horse mackerel stock.For the North Sea component, the egg survey in 2017 revealed an estimated egg production of 201*1012, resulting in an SSB of 287*103 tons. This is a strong increase of more than 100*103 tons com-pared to 2015 (SSB = 170*103 tons). While peak spawning in the North Sea was covered, the coverage of the complete spawning season and area was insufficient to produce a reliable estimate of survey in-dices.In 2019, the application of an alternate transect survey design made it possible to survey the persis-tently expanding mackerel spawning area and season. Northern and northwestern spawning bounda-ries for mackerel during survey periods 5 (weeks 19 – 22) and 6 (weeks 23 – 26) were not fully deline-ated. Peak spawning was observed in period 4 (weeks 16 – 18). Subsequent analyses of survey results in conjunction with results from exploratory surveys in the inter-survey-years showed that the mackerel core spawning area was covered and a reliable estimate of mackerel annual egg production was deliv-ered. The estimate of total mackerel egg production was 1.64*1015, which is a decrease of 7.6% com-pared to that of 2016 (rev. 1.77*1015).Realized fecundity was estimated at 1147 per g female, revealing the SSB for the NEA mackerel stock in 2019 at 3.09 million tons indicating at 12 % decrease since the 2016 survey (SSB = 3.52 million tons). At only 1.78*1014 , total annual egg production (TAEP) in western horse mackerel was found to be lowest production reported in the time series since 1992. The spawning maximum was detected in the last pe-riod 7 (weeks 27 – 29). It can, thus, not be concluded that peak spawning and the entire temporal ex-tent of horse mackerel spawning had been sufficiently covered.To further improve the quality of the index time series, WGMEGS will continue to dedicate much of its work to survey design and quality assurance in mackerel egg production and fecundity estimation

Adding constrained discontinuities to Gaussian process models of wind fields

Gaussian Processes provide good prior models for spatial data, but can be too smooth. In many physical situations there are discontinuities along bounding surfaces, for example fronts in near-surface wind fields. We describe a modelling method for such a constrained discontinuity and demonstrate how to infer the model parameters in wind fields with MCMC sampling

Alteration of the tree–soil microbial system triggers a feedback loop that boosts holm oak decline

In anthropic savanna ecosystems from the Iberian Peninsula (i.e. dehesa), complex interactions between climate change, pathogen outbreaks and human land use are presumed to be behind the observed increase in holm oak decline. These environmental disturbances alter the plant–soil microbial continuum, which can destabilize the ecological balance that sustains tree health. Yet, little is known about the underlying mechanisms, particularly the directions and nature of the causal–effect relationships between plants and soil microbial communities. In this study, we aimed to determine the role of plant–soil feedbacks in climate-induced holm oak decline in the Iberian dehesa. Using a gradient of holm oak health, we reconstructed key soil biogeochemical cycles mediated by soil microbial communities. We used quantitative microbial element cycling (QMEC), a functional gene-array-based high-throughput technique to assess microbial functional potential in carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur cycling. The onset of holm oak decline was positively related to the increase in relative abundance of soil microbial functional genes associated with denitrification and phosphorus mineralization (i.e. nirS3, ppx and pqqC; parameter value: 0.21, 0.23 and 0.4; p < 0.05). Structural equation model (χ2 = 32.26, p-value = 0.73), moreover, showed a negative association between these functional genes and soil nutrient availability (i.e. mainly mineral nitrogen and phosphate). Particularly, the holm oak crown health was mainly determined by the abundance of phosphate (parameter value = 0.27; p-value < 0.05) and organic phosphorus (parameter value = −0.37; p-value < 0.5). Hence, we propose a potential tree–soil feedback loop, in which the decline of holm oak promotes changes in the soil environment that triggers changes in key microbial-mediated metabolic pathways related to the net loss of soil nitrogen and phosphorus mineral forms. The shortage of essential nutrients, in turn, affects the ability of the trees to withstand the environmental stressors to which they are exposed. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. © 2023 The Authors. Functional Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society.This research has been mainly funded by the Spanish Government through the IBERYCA project (CGL2017‐84723‐P), its associated FPI scholarship BES‐2014‐067971 (ME‐V), the SMARTSOIL (PID2020‐113244GB‐C21) and SMARTHEALTH (PID2020‐113244GA‐C22) projects (both funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). It has been further supported by the BC3 María de Maeztu excellence accreditation (MDM‐2017‐0714; the Spanish Government), by the BERC 2018–2021 and by the UPV/EHU‐GV IT‐1648‐22 (from the Basque Government). Additionally, this research was further supported through the grant Holistic management practices, modelling and monitoring for European forest soils—HoliSoils (EU Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement No 101000289) and the ‘Juan de la Cierva programme’ (MV; IJCI‐2017‐34640; the Spanish Government). We acknowledge the Nutrilab‐URJC (Mostoles, Spain) laboratory services for the soil chemical analyses and SGIker of UPV/EHU (Leioa, Spain) for the technical and staff support for the high‐throughput quantitative‐PCR analysis. We also thank the private owners of the dehesas for facilitating our access to their properties. We are thankful to Celia López‐Carrasco Fernández and the ‘Consejería de Agricultura, Medioambiente y Desarrollo rural de la Junta de Castilla‐La Mancha’ for all the logistical support. The ‘Tree’ icon by Hey Rabbit illustrator, from thenounproject.com were used to design the Graphical abstract. Open Access funding provided by the Univer

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Photoprotective compounds as early markers to predict holm oak crown defoliation in declining Mediterranean savannahs

This research was mainly funded by the Spanish Government through the IBERYCA project (CGL2017-84723-P) and its associated FPI scholarship BES-2014-067971 (to M.E.-V.). It was further supported by the BC3 María de Maeztu excellence accreditation (MDM-2017-0714; the Spanish Government) and by the BERC 2018-2021 and the UPV/EHU-GV IT-1018-16 program (Basque Government). Additionally, this research was further supported through the ‘Juan de la Cierva program’ (the Spanish Government to M.V.; (IJCI-2017-34640).) and two projects funded by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research through UEFISCDI (NATIvE, PN-III-P1-1.1-PD- 2016-0583 and REASONING, PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-1099 to A.-M.H.)

Filosofia di Berlusconi: l'essere e il nulla nell'Italia del Cavaliere

La filosofia, diceva Hegel, \ue8 come la nottola di Minerva, che "spicca il volo sul far della sera", ossia inizia a prendere la parola sugli eventi solo quando sono compiuti e si avviano verso il declino. Lo scenario da basso impero del crepuscolo del berlusconismo \ue8 quindi il momento giusto per fare i conti con un fenomeno che \ue8 stato la cifra dominante dell'ultimo ventennio di storia italiana, ma la cui rilevanza va ben oltre il ristretto panorama delle vicende nostrane. Per comprendere ci\uf2 che all'apparenza risulta incomprensibile non bastano le analisi di tipo sociologico, semiologico o politologico, che pure in queste anni non sono mancate, ma sono necessari altri strumenti per individuare la logica, la narrativa, la fisica e la metafisica che hanno reso possibile la drammatica trasformazione della nostra quotidianit\ue0 in un perverso intreccio di menzogne, barzellette, millanterie e volgarit\ue0, sullo sfondo di una sistematica, sprezzante opera di demolizione e privatizzazione delle istituzioni

Cruise Report RV "Vizconde de Eza" Survey MEGS22 – CAREVA 13/03/2022-03/04/2022

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