The overexploitation of fossil fuels as main energy source to support the global economy is identified as the most responsible of the current critical situation from an environmental viewpoint.The need to replace fossil fuels has posed the attention on alternative energy sources such as biofuels, in both developed and developing countries.Africa, f
Urbanization and agriculture are two of the most important threats to biodiversity worldwide.The intensities of these land-use phenomena, however, as well as levels of biodiversity itself, differ widely among regions.Thus, there is a need to develop a quick but rigorous method of identifying where high levels of human threats and biodiversity coinc
The current state of the art in supervised descriptive pattern mining is very good in automatically finding subsets of the dataset at hand that are exceptional Pouch in some sense.The most common form, subgroup discovery, generally finds subgroups where a single target variable has an unusual distribution.Exceptional model mining (EMM) typically fi
Kelp Bass (Paralabrax clathratus) and California Sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher) are economically and ecologically valuable rocky reef fishes in southern California, making them likely indicator species for evaluating resource management actions.Multiple spatial datasets, aerial and satellite photography, underwater observations and expert judgme