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Trees are resources that provide multiple benefits, such as the conservation of fauna, both terrestrial and marine, a source of food and raw material, and offering protection in storms, which makes it practical to understand their behavior against different phenomena. Such understanding may be possible through process modeling. Studies confirm that mangrove forests can store more carbon than other forests, influencing the fight against global warming. Thus, a critical and systematic review was carried out regarding studies focusing on mangroves to collect information on the models that have been applied and the most influential variables highlighted by other authors. Applying a systematic search for the most relevant topics related to mangroves (basic as well as recent information), it is possible to group models and methods carried out by other authors to respond to certain behaviors presented by mangroves. Moreover, possible structuring of a mathematical model applied to a species of interest thanks to the analyzed references could provide justified information to the authorities on the importance of these forests and the benefits of their preservation and regeneration-recovery.
Jefferson Brooks; Miguel Chen Austin; Dafni Mora; Nathalia Tejedor-Flores. A Critical Review on Mathematical Descriptions to Study Flux Processes and Environmental-Related Interactions of Mangroves. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6970 .
AMA StyleJefferson Brooks, Miguel Chen Austin, Dafni Mora, Nathalia Tejedor-Flores. A Critical Review on Mathematical Descriptions to Study Flux Processes and Environmental-Related Interactions of Mangroves. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6970.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJefferson Brooks; Miguel Chen Austin; Dafni Mora; Nathalia Tejedor-Flores. 2021. "A Critical Review on Mathematical Descriptions to Study Flux Processes and Environmental-Related Interactions of Mangroves." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6970.
Rapid economic growth, expanding populations and increasing prosperity are driving up demand for energy, water and food, especially in developing countries. To understand the energy consumption of a country, we used the Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) approach. The MuSIASEM is an innovative approach to accounting that integrates quantitative information generated by distinct types of conventional models based on different dimensions and scales of analysis. The main objective of this work is to enrich the MuSIASEM approach with information from multivariate methods in order to improve the efficiency of existing models of sustainability. The Biplot method permits the joint plotting, in a reduced dimension of the rows (individuals) and columns (variables) of a multivariate data matrix. We found, in the case study of Ecuador, that the highest values of the Exosomatic Metabolic Rate (EMR) per economic sector and Economic Labor Productivity (ELP) are located in the Productive Sector (PS). We conclude that the combination of the MuSIASEM variables with the HJ-Biplot allows us to easily know the detailed behavior of the labor productivity and energy consumption of a country.
Nathalia Tejedor-Flores; Purificación Vicente-Galindo; Purificación Galindo-Villardón. Sustainability Multivariate Analysis of the Energy Consumption of Ecuador Using MuSIASEM and BIPLOT Approach. Sustainability 2017, 9, 984 .
AMA StyleNathalia Tejedor-Flores, Purificación Vicente-Galindo, Purificación Galindo-Villardón. Sustainability Multivariate Analysis of the Energy Consumption of Ecuador Using MuSIASEM and BIPLOT Approach. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (6):984.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNathalia Tejedor-Flores; Purificación Vicente-Galindo; Purificación Galindo-Villardón. 2017. "Sustainability Multivariate Analysis of the Energy Consumption of Ecuador Using MuSIASEM and BIPLOT Approach." Sustainability 9, no. 6: 984.
N. Tejedor-Flores; Mª Purificación Galindo-Villardón; Purificación Vicente-Galindo. Sustainability Multivariate Analysis Based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework, Using as a Case Study: Brazil Compared to Spain and Portugal. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 2017, 12, 667 -677.
AMA StyleN. Tejedor-Flores, Mª Purificación Galindo-Villardón, Purificación Vicente-Galindo. Sustainability Multivariate Analysis Based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework, Using as a Case Study: Brazil Compared to Spain and Portugal. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning. 2017; 12 (4):667-677.
Chicago/Turabian StyleN. Tejedor-Flores; Mª Purificación Galindo-Villardón; Purificación Vicente-Galindo. 2017. "Sustainability Multivariate Analysis Based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework, Using as a Case Study: Brazil Compared to Spain and Portugal." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 12, no. 4: 667-677.