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Harsh but fair: «For this reason, and as reported in other islands worldwide (Campbell & Donlan, 2005; Capizzi, 2020), complete eradication of feral goats represents the only option to preserve the natural plant communities in microinsular ecosystems over the long term.»
https://zenodo.org/records/10924962

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠
Holopedium spp. is a strange cladoceran #zooplankton in lakes. They create a large gelatinous polysaccharide mantle ~2x their body length, which helps with buoyancy and…

Calcium loss turning lakes to 'jelly'
New research on a number of Canadian lakes show that historical acid deposits as a result of industry have greatly reduced calcium levels in the water - dramatically impacting populations of calcium-rich plankton such as Daphnia water fleas that dominate these ecosystems.

👽 Ill-judged tree planting in Africa threatens ecosystems, scientists warn
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/15/ill-judged-tree-planting-africa-threatens-ecosystems-scientists-warn…

"Lately I’ve started to argue that we should never refer to single projects as mutual aid. After all, mutual aid describes a relationship, it is a pattern that stretches across entire ecosystems. And it’s one of the most revolutionary concepts and practices at the heart of anarchism, and of stateless societies throughout history. With the explosion of “mutual aid projects” in the wake of the pandemic, it’s only healthy to worry about leftists1 and NGOs stealing the word from us and watering it down into a hip new form of charity, the way they systematically try to steal subversive concepts from us and pacify them, stabilize them, as they’re doing with transformative justice and abolition, intersectional and queer, as they did a long time ago with socialism (which referred to all currents of anticapitalism, until 1876 when a certain academic broke solidarity and destroyed a growing tool of internationalist organizing to keep from losing control over it...)
[...]
Scarcity and lack of care make us afraid in a way that roots deeply in our bodies and hearts. If we find something free, we take it, maybe we take a whole lot of it so we can stockpile, and we don’t look back. And we’ll take it again and again and again—whether it’s food or love or medical supplies or respect—before we notice the expectation that there isn’t going to be any tomorrow, the deep-seated belief that we don’t deserve this thing… before we’re able to stop, and turn around, and notice the person taking care of us, and give back."

Reflections on #MayDay, #MutualAid and #DisabilityJustice by @….
https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/may-day

Reduced Snow Cover and Shifting Vegetation Are Disrupting Alpine Ecosystems, Study Finds - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20042024/snow-cover-shifting-vegetation-alpine-ecosystems-study/

Reduced Snow Cover and Shifting Vegetation Are Disrupting Alpine Ecosystems, Study Finds - Inside Climate News
Climate change is disrupting the nitrogen cycle between some plants and soil microbes, bringing “false springs” during the day that leave plants more vulnerable to frigid nights.

The myth of self-regulating systems
#AdamCurtis

Analysis Facilities White Paper
D. Ciangottini, A. Forti, L. Heinrich, N. Skidmore, C. Alpigiani, D. Benjamin, B. Bockelman, L. Bryant, J. Catmore, M. D'Alfonso, C. Doglioni, G. Duckeck, P. Elmer, J. Eschle, M. Feickert, J. Frost, R. Gardner, V. Garonne, M. Giffels, J. Gooding, E. Gramstad, L. Gray, B. Hegner, A. Held, J. Hern\'andez, B. Holzman, F. Hu, B. K. Jashal, D. Kondratyev, E. Kourlitis, L. Kreczko, I. Krommydas, T. Kuhr, E. Lancon, C. Lange, D. Lange, J. Lange, P. Lenz…

Analysis Facilities White Paper
This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views have been collected through the High Energy Physics (HEP) Software Foundation's (HSF) Analysis Facilities forum, established in March 2022, the Analysis Ecosystems II workshop, that took place in May 2022, and the WLCG/HSF pre-CHEP workshop, that took place in May 2023. The paper attempts to cover all the aspects of an…

Reevaluating coexistence and stability in ecosystem networks to address ecological transients: methods and implications
Sarah A. Vollert, Christopher Drovandi, Matthew P. Adams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00333

Reevaluating coexistence and stability in ecosystem networks to address ecological transients: methods and implications
Representing ecosystems at equilibrium has been foundational for building ecological theories, forecasting species populations and planning conservation actions. The equilibrium "balance of nature" ideal suggests that populations will eventually stabilise to a coexisting balance of species. However, a growing body of literature argues that the equilibrium ideal is inappropriate for ecosystems. Here, we develop and demonstrate a new framework for representing ecosystems without considering equil…

"One of Colombia’s largest estuary ecosystems is drying up, communities warn"
#Colombia #Environment

One of Colombia’s largest estuary ecosystems is drying up, communities warn
NUEVA VENECIA, Colombia — Sandra Milena Manjarez puts two plates of bright yellow rice topped with liza — a finger-sized mullet fish similar to a sardine — on the white plastic table on her porch. In Nueva Venecia, where homes sit on stilts in the middle of an expansive lagoon in the northern department of […]

Please will the press stop giving air time to the idiot tech-bros. I beg you! 🙏 This is the height of ridiculousness. Just stop burning carbon! 🙄
To be clear, this *will not* prevent the melting of the polar ice. It will however burn more carbon... #ClimateChange
Posting for the information (but suggest people take calming breaths while reading this garbage).

"Lately I’ve started to argue that we should never refer to single projects as mutual aid. After all, mutual aid describes a relationship, it is a pattern that stretches across entire ecosystems. And it’s one of the most revolutionary concepts and practices at the heart of anarchism, and of stateless societies throughout history. With the explosion of “mutual aid projects” in the wake of the pandemic, it’s only healthy to worry about leftists1 and NGOs stealing the word from us and watering it down into a hip new form of charity, the way they systematically try to steal subversive concepts from us and pacify them, stabilize them, as they’re doing with transformative justice and abolition, intersectional and queer, as they did a long time ago with socialism (which referred to all currents of anticapitalism, until 1876 when a certain academic broke solidarity and destroyed a growing tool of internationalist organizing to keep from losing control over it...)
[...]
Scarcity and lack of care make us afraid in a way that roots deeply in our bodies and hearts. If we find something free, we take it, maybe we take a whole lot of it so we can stockpile, and we don’t look back. And we’ll take it again and again and again—whether it’s food or love or medical supplies or respect—before we notice the expectation that there isn’t going to be any tomorrow, the deep-seated belief that we don’t deserve this thing… before we’re able to stop, and turn around, and notice the person taking care of us, and give back."

Reflections on #MayDay, #MutualAid and #DisabilityJustice by @….
https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/may-day

The brief and rather peculiar history of the rise of the idea of the "self-organising network".
A very powerful ideology of our time is the idea of the "self-organising network".
It says that human beings can organise themselves into systems where they are linked, but where there is no #hierarchy, no #leaders

🌳 First-of-its-kind integrated dataset enables genes-to-ecosystems research
#trees

First-of-its-kind integrated dataset enables genes-to-ecosystems research
A team of Department of Energy scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has released the first-ever dataset bridging molecular information about the poplar tree microbiome to ecosystem-level processes. The project aims to inform research regarding how natural systems function, their vulnerability to a changing climate, and, ultimately, how plants might be engineered for better performance as sources of bioenergy and natural carbon storage.

A Large-scale Fine-grained Analysis of Packages in Open-Source Software Ecosystems
Xiaoyan Zhou, Feiran Liang, Zhaojie Xie, Yang Lan, Wenjia Niu, Jiqiang Liu, Haining Wang, Qiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11467

A Large-scale Fine-grained Analysis of Packages in Open-Source Software Ecosystems
Package managers such as NPM, Maven, and PyPI play a pivotal role in open-source software (OSS) ecosystems, streamlining the distribution and management of various freely available packages. The fine-grained details within software packages can unveil potential risks within existing OSS ecosystems, offering valuable insights for detecting malicious packages. In this study, we undertake a large-scale empirical analysis focusing on fine-grained information (FGI): the metadata, static, and dynamic…

I think the rationalist obsession with general artificial intelligence as an existential threat is baffling, but I find it baffling because I come from a Green philosophical background. I'm horrified by AI systems as they are today because they are destroying ecosystems (both literal, our climate, and more abstract — art, economy, authorship).
From a relational point of view, they are a disaster. A few mega-corporations are steering our information ecology, in an instrumentalist way. They cannot even see the bonds they are destroying. We are far poorer for it.
We already have paperclip maximizers: billionaires. Corporations. Profit motive. Money is just paperclips with power attached.
These ways of thinking can only see a system so far as to instrumentalize it. After that they switch to modes of control that eliminate any need for understanding.

Review Ecosystems to access Educational XR Experiences: a Scoping Review
Shaun Bangay, Adam P. A. Cardilini, Sophie McKenzie, Maria Nicholas, Manjeet Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17243

Review Ecosystems to access Educational XR Experiences: a Scoping Review
Educators, developers, and other stakeholders face challenges when creating, adapting, and utilizing virtual and augmented reality (XR) experiences for teaching curriculum topics. User created reviews of these applications provide important information about their relevance and effectiveness in supporting achievement of educational outcomes. To make these reviews accessible, relevant, and useful, they must be readily available and presented in a format that supports decision-making by educators…

a deadly #BirdFlu outbreak has skipped species impact and been affecting seal and #SeaLion colonies...
#SouthAmerica has been particularly hard hit with over 20,000

Bird flu is killing thousands of seals
Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a clear way to slow the devastating virus. The worldwide bird flu outbreak that began in 2020 has led to the deaths of millions of domesticated birds and spread to wildlife all over the globe. This virus isn’t thought to be a major threat to humans, but its spread in farming operations and ecosystems has caused widespread econom…

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Phase transition to chaos in complex ecosystems with non-reciprocal species-resource interactions
Non-reciprocal interactions between microscopic constituents can profoundly shape the large-scale properties of complex systems. Here, we investigate the effects of non-reciprocity in the context of theoretical ecology by analyzing a generalization of MacArthur's consumer-resource model with asymmetric interactions between species and resources. Using a mixture of analytic cavity calculations and numerical simulations, we show that such ecosystems generically undergo a phase transition to chaot…

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Monitoring the Venice Lagoon: an IoT Cloud-Based Sensor Nerwork Approach
Monitoring the coastal area of the Venice Lagoon is of significant importance. While the impact of global warming is felt worldwide, coastal and littoral regions bear the brunt more prominently. These areas not only face the threat of rising sea levels but also contend with the escalating occurrence of seaquakes and floods. Additionally, the intricate ecosystems of rivers, seas, and lakes undergo profound transformations due to climate change and pollutants. Employing devices like the SENSWIC…

Integrating Blockchain technology within an Information Ecosystem
Francesco Salzano, Lodovica Marchesi, Remo Pareschi, Roberto Tonelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13191

Integrating Blockchain technology within an Information Ecosystem
Context: Blockchain-based Information Ecosystems (BBIEs) are a type of information ecosystem in which blockchain technology is used to provide a trust mechanism among parties and to manage shared business logic, breaking the traditional scheme of Information Ecosystems dominated by a leading company and leveraging the decentralization of data management, information flow, and business logic. Objective: In this paper, we propose architecture and technical aspects concerning the creation of a BBI…

R2SNet: Scalable Domain Adaptation for Object Detection in Cloud-Based Robots Ecosystems via Proposal Refinement
Michele Antonazzi, Matteo Luperto, N. Alberto Borghese, Nicola Basilico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11567

R2SNet: Scalable Domain Adaptation for Object Detection in Cloud-Based Robots Ecosystems via Proposal Refinement
We introduce a novel approach for scalable domain adaptation in cloud robotics scenarios where robots rely on third-party AI inference services powered by large pre-trained deep neural networks. Our method is based on a downstream proposal-refinement stage running locally on the robots, exploiting a new lightweight DNN architecture, R2SNet. This architecture aims to mitigate performance degradation from domain shifts by adapting the object detection process to the target environment, focusing o…

The topic of biomass is complex, so it's easy to bafflegab a green screen for #climate and #ecosystem damaging practices. #LandUseChange, especially destruction of intact forest ecosystems, is one of t…

The topic of biomass is complex, so it's easy to bafflegab a green screen for #climate and #ecosystem damaging practices. #LandUseChange, especially destruction of intact forest ecosystems, is one of t…

"Australia must lead the world on nature restoration through ambitious interpretation of international law"
#Australia #Nature #Environment

Australia must lead the world on nature restoration through ambitious interpretation of international law
Australia committed to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030 when we signed the global biodiversity framework. But what does that really mean? It’s open to interpretation. So let’s be ambitious.

Analyzing Games in Maker Protocol Part One: A Multi-Agent Influence Diagram Approach Towards Coordination
Abhimanyu Nag, Samrat Gupta, Sudipan Sinha, Arka Datta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15037

Analyzing Games in Maker Protocol Part One: A Multi-Agent Influence Diagram Approach Towards Coordination
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystems, exemplified by the Maker Protocol, rely on intricate games to maintain stability and security. Understanding the dynamics of these games is crucial for ensuring the robustness of the system. This motivating research proposes a novel methodology leveraging Multi-Agent Influence Diagrams (MAID), originally proposed by Koller and Milch, to dissect and analyze the games within the Maker stablecoin protocol. By representing users and governance of the Maker p…

Digital Twin Evolution for Sustainable Smart Ecosystems
Istvan David, Judith Michael, Dominik Bork
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07162 https://

Digital Twin Evolution for Sustainable Smart Ecosystems
Smart ecosystems are the drivers of modern society. They control critical infrastructures, ensuring their stable and sustainable operation. Smart ecosystems are governed by digital twins -- real-time virtual representations of physical infrastructure. To support the open-ended and reactive traits of smart ecosystems, digital twins need to be able to evolve in reaction to changing conditions. However, digital twin evolution is particularly challenging due to the intertwined nature of physical an…

Nature-Guided Cognitive Evolution for Predicting Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations in North Temperate Lakes
Runlong Yu, Robert Ladwig, Xiang Xu, Peijun Zhu, Paul C. Hanson, Yiqun Xie, Xiaowei Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18923

Nature-Guided Cognitive Evolution for Predicting Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations in North Temperate Lakes
Predicting dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations in north temperate lakes requires a comprehensive study of phenological patterns across various ecosystems, which highlights the significance of selecting phenological features and feature interactions. Process-based models are limited by partial process knowledge or oversimplified feature representations, while machine learning models face challenges in efficiently selecting relevant feature interactions for different lake types and tasks, especi…

🌊 All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae007/7629946?login=false

All tidal wetlands are blue carbon ecosystems
Abstract. Managing coastal wetlands is one of the most promising activities to reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases, and it also contributes to meeting the Unite

NELA-PS: A Dataset of Pink Slime News Articles for the Study of Local News Ecosystems
Benjamin D. Horne, Maur\'icio Gruppi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13657

NELA-PS: A Dataset of Pink Slime News Articles for the Study of Local News Ecosystems
Pink slime news outlets automatically produce low-quality, often partisan content that is framed as authentic local news. Given that local news is trusted by Americans and is increasingly shutting down due to financial distress, pink slime news outlets have the potential to exploit local information voids. Yet, there are gaps in understanding of pink slime production practices and tactics, particularly over time. Hence, to support future research in this area, we built a dataset of over 7.9M ar…

Hybrid Radiation Hydrodynamics scheme with gravity tree-based adaptive optimization algorithm
Cheryl S. C. Lau, Maya A. Petkova, Ian A. Bonnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17084

Hybrid Radiation Hydrodynamics scheme with gravity tree-based adaptive optimization algorithm
Modelling the interaction between ionizing photons emitted from massive stars and their environment is essential to further our understanding of galactic ecosystems. We present a hybrid Radiation-Hydrodynamics (RHD) scheme that couples an SPH code to a grid-based Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer code. The coupling is achieved by using the particle positions as generating sites for a Voronoi grid, and applying a precise mapping of particle-interpolated densities onto the grid cells that ensures ma…

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠
A new paper on #mixotrophs. These protists are both plants or animals. Some algae, often

Ransomware: Analysis and Evaluation of Live Forensic Techniques and the Impact on Linux based IoT Systems
Salko Korac, Leandros Maglaras, Naghmeh Moradpoor, Bill Buchanan, Berk Canberk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17571

Ransomware: Analysis and Evaluation of Live Forensic Techniques and the Impact on Linux based IoT Systems
Ransomware has been predominantly a threat to Windows systems. But, Linux systems became interesting for cybercriminals and this trend is expected to continue. This endangers IoT ecosystems, whereas many IoT systems are based on Linux (e.g. cloud infrastructure and gateways). This paper researches how currently employed forensic techniques can be applied to Linux ransomware and evaluates the maturity as well as the impact on the system. While Windows-based ransomware predominantly uses RSA and …

DeepSee: Multidimensional Visualizations of Seabed Ecosystems
Adam Coscia, Haley M. Sapers, Noah Deutsch, Malika Khurana, John S. Magyar, Sergio A. Parra, Daniel R. Utter, Rebecca L. Wipfler, David W. Caress, Eric J. Martin, Jennifer B. Paduan, Maggie Hendrie, Santiago Lombeyda, Hillary Mushkin, Alex Endert, Scott Davidoff, Victoria J. Orphan
https:/…

DeepSee: Multidimensional Visualizations of Seabed Ecosystems
Scientists studying deep ocean microbial ecosystems use limited numbers of sediment samples collected from the seafloor to characterize important life-sustaining biogeochemical cycles in the environment. Yet conducting fieldwork to sample these extreme remote environments is both expensive and time consuming, requiring tools that enable scientists to explore the sampling history of field sites and predict where taking new samples is likely to maximize scientific return. We conducted a collabora…

I’m still struggling to understand #rustlang module naming scheme. My brain sees folders but I know those really don't mean anything (or do they). It's pretty confusing coming from other ecosystems.

#Pflanzen reagieren unterschiedlich auf seltener, aber stärker werdende #Regenfälle, abhängig vom #Ökosystem. In trockenen Gebieten fördern große Regengüsse oft das

Plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and intensity - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Rainfall events are becoming less frequent but more intense with anthropogenic warming. This Review explores the consequences of these changes on plants and investigates how and why plant responses appear to broadly differ between dry and wet ecosystems.

The third PhD presentation is by Katharina Scheller: “Visualizing Urban Tree Ecosystems: New Design Approaches for Cartographic Knowledge Transfer in Biodiversity Conservation.”
#DigitalHumanities #DHCH

The third PhD presentation is by Katharina Scheller: “Visualizing Urban Tree Ecosystems: New Design Approaches for Cartographic Knowledge Transfer in Biodiversity Conservation.”
#DigitalHumanities #DHCH

The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives
Living on the banks of the Bobonaza River, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Indigenous communities in Sarayaku have always lived in harmony with nature.
The rainforest, says Patricia Gualinga, is a sacred, conscious being.
So when an Argentinian company was allowed to place a huge amount of #high

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Phase transition to chaos in complex ecosystems with non-reciprocal species-resource interactions
Non-reciprocal interactions between microscopic constituents can profoundly shape the large-scale properties of complex systems. Here, we investigate the effects of non-reciprocity in the context of theoretical ecology by analyzing a generalization of MacArthur's consumer-resource model with asymmetric interactions between species and resources. Using a mixture of analytic cavity calculations and numerical simulations, we show that such ecosystems generically undergo a phase transition to chaot…

🐻 Animals deserve to be included in global carbon cycle models as well, say researchers
#animals

Animals deserve to be included in global carbon cycle models as well, say researchers
Models of the global carbon cycle typically include plants, microbes, soil, and the atmosphere. But they may be leaving out an important variable: Animals, from earthworms to elephants, can have a significant, though heretofore little-studied, influence on how carbon is captured and stored in ecosystems.

An Adaptive Hydropower Management Approach for Downstream Ecosystem Preservation
C. Coelho, M. Jing, M. Fernanda P. Costa, L. L. Ferr\'as
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02821

An Adaptive Hydropower Management Approach for Downstream Ecosystem Preservation
Hydropower plants play a pivotal role in advancing clean and sustainable energy production, contributing significantly to the global transition towards renewable energy sources. However, hydropower plants are currently perceived both positively as sources of renewable energy and negatively as disruptors of ecosystems. In this work, we highlight the overlooked potential of using hydropower plant as protectors of ecosystems by using adaptive ecological discharges. To advocate for this perspective…

Microsoft announces AI partnerships with the Craig Newmark School of Journalism, the Online News Association, the GroundTruth Project, and Nota (Noreen Gillespie/Microsoft On the Issues)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue…

Here’s how we’re working with journalists to create the newsrooms of the future with AI - Microsoft On the Issues
Today, Microsoft is launching several collaborations with news organizations to adopt generative AI. In a year where billions of people will vote in democratic elections worldwide, journalism is critical to creating healthy information ecosystems, and it is our mission to ensure that newsrooms can innovate to serve this year and in the future.

R2SNet: Scalable Domain Adaptation for Object Detection in Cloud-Based Robots Ecosystems via Proposal Refinement
Michele Antonazzi, Matteo Luperto, N. Alberto Borghese, Nicola Basilico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11567

R2SNet: Scalable Domain Adaptation for Object Detection in Cloud-Based Robots Ecosystems via Proposal Refinement
We introduce a novel approach for scalable domain adaptation in cloud robotics scenarios where robots rely on third-party AI inference services powered by large pre-trained deep neural networks. Our method is based on a downstream proposal-refinement stage running locally on the robots, exploiting a new lightweight DNN architecture, R2SNet. This architecture aims to mitigate performance degradation from domain shifts by adapting the object detection process to the target environment, focusing o…

Great Lakes Food Webs Science Advice Clients : #1 FFHPP
“Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread” Austin O’Malley
The final in this series of clients that our lab at Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) provides science advice to is another part of DFO. The Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Program (FFHPP) is part of the Aquatic Ecosystems policy and regulatory arm of DFO. Their primary role is to administer and ensure compliance around s…

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Intraspecific predator interference promotes biodiversity in ecosystems
Explaining biodiversity is a fundamental issue in ecology. A long-standing puzzle lies in the paradox of the plankton: many species of plankton feeding on a limited variety of resources coexist, apparently flouting the competitive exclusion principle (CEP), which holds that the number of predator (consumer) species cannot exceed that of the resources at a steady state. Here, we present a mechanistic model and demonstrate that intraspecific interference among the consumers enables a plethora of …

Human vs. Generative AI in Content Creation Competition: Symbiosis or Conflict?
Fan Yao, Chuanhao Li, Denis Nekipelov, Hongning Wang, Haifeng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15467 <…

Human vs. Generative AI in Content Creation Competition: Symbiosis or Conflict?
The advent of generative AI (GenAI) technology produces transformative impact on the content creation landscape, offering alternative approaches to produce diverse, high-quality content across media, thereby reshaping online ecosystems but also raising concerns about market over-saturation and the potential marginalization of human creativity. Our work introduces a competition model generalized from the Tullock contest to analyze the tension between human creators and GenAI. Our theory and simu…

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Floating active carpets drive transport and aggregation in aquatic ecosystems
Communities of swimming microorganisms often thrive near liquid-air interfaces. We study how such `active carpets' shape their aquatic environment by driving biogenic transport in the water column beneath them. The hydrodynamic stirring that active carpets generate leads to diffusive upward fluxes of nutrients from deeper water layers, and downward fluxes of oxygen and carbon. Combining analytical theory and simulations, we examine the biogenic transport by studying fundamental metrics, includi…

"Global Warming Will Enable Tropical Species From the Atlantic to Colonize the Mediterranean Sea"
#Atlantic #Oceans #Biodiversity

Global Warming Will Enable Tropical Species From the Atlantic to Colonize the Mediterranean Sea - Inside Climate News
A new study documents large-scale ocean system changes that threaten the stability of marine ecosystems in the sea between Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Researchers Uncover Hundreds of New Marine Species in the Underwater Mountain Ecosystems of the Pacific Ocean — Colossal
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/schmidt-ocean-institute/

"Project for the #restoration of #mangroves in #Fiji
The ecosystems and communities of the #PacificIslands

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Nested Skills in Labor Ecosystems: A Hidden Dimension of Human Capital
Modern economies, characterized by their vast output of goods and services, operate through globally interconnected networks. As economies become more complex, so do these networks, coordinating increasingly diverse portfolios of specialized efforts and knowledge. In this study, we analyze U.S. survey data (2005--2019) to infer an underlying interdependency tree within the fabric of skill portfolios. Hierarchically constructed, this skill tree starts from widely needed, foundational abilities, …

From parcels to people: development of a spatially explicit risk indicator to monitor residential pesticide exposure in agricultural areas
Francesco GalimbertiEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Stephanie BoppEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Alessandro CarlettiEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Rui CatarinoEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Martin ClaverieEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Pietro FlorioEuropean Commission, Joint Research Ce…

From parcels to people: development of a spatially explicit risk indicator to monitor residential pesticide exposure in agricultural areas
The increase in global pesticide use has mirrored the rising demand for food over the last decades, resulting in a boost in crop yields. However, concerns about the impact of pesticides on biodiversity, ecosystems, and human health, especially for populations residing close to cultivated areas, are growing. This study investigates how exposure and possible risks to residents can be estimated at high spatial granularity based on plant protection product data. The complexities of such analysis we…

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Developing and Deploying Industry Standards for Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED): Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions
The adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) holds the promise of revolutionizing educational practices by offering personalized learning experiences, automating administrative and pedagogical tasks, and reducing the cost of content creation. However, the lack of standardized practices in the development and deployment of AIED solutions has led to fragmented ecosystems, which presents challenges in interoperability, scalability, and ethical governance. This article aims to addres…

A Paradigm For Collaborative Pervasive Fog Computing Ecosystems at the Network Edge
Abderrahmen Mtibaa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09354 https://

A Paradigm For Collaborative Pervasive Fog Computing Ecosystems at the Network Edge
While the success of edge and fog computing increased with the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, such novel computing paradigm, that moves compute resources closer to the source of data and services, must address many challenges such as reducing communication overhead to/from datacenters, the latency to compute and receive results, as well as energy consumption at the mobile and IoT devices. fog-to-fog (f2f) cooperation has recently been proposed to increase the computati…

PalmProbNet: A Probabilistic Approach to Understanding Palm Distributions in Ecuadorian Tropical Forest via Transfer Learning
Kangning Cui, Zishan Shao, Gregory Larsen, Victor Pauca, Sarra Alqahtani, David Segurado, Jo\~ao Pinheiro, Manqi Wang, David Lutz, Robert Plemmons, Miles Silman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03161

PalmProbNet: A Probabilistic Approach to Understanding Palm Distributions in Ecuadorian Tropical Forest via Transfer Learning
Palms play an outsized role in tropical forests and are important resources for humans and wildlife. A central question in tropical ecosystems is understanding palm distribution and abundance. However, accurately identifying and localizing palms in geospatial imagery presents significant challenges due to dense vegetation, overlapping canopies, and variable lighting conditions in mixed-forest landscapes. Addressing this, we introduce PalmProbNet, a probabilistic approach utilizing transfer lear…

"Global Warming Will Enable Tropical Species From the Atlantic to Colonize the Mediterranean Sea"
#Atlantic #Oceans #Biodiversity

Global Warming Will Enable Tropical Species From the Atlantic to Colonize the Mediterranean Sea - Inside Climate News
A new study documents large-scale ocean system changes that threaten the stability of marine ecosystems in the sea between Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

#Richard #Spinrad, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( #NOAA ), said the government-backed body was estimating the effects of some of the likely techniques for

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zk-IoT: Securing the Internet of Things with Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Blockchain Platforms
This paper introduces the zk-IoT framework, a novel approach to enhancing the security of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems through the use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) on blockchain platforms. Our framework ensures the integrity of firmware execution and data processing in potentially compromised IoT devices. By leveraging the concept of ZKP, we establish a trust layer that facilitates secure, autonomous communication between IoT devices in environments where devices may not inherently tr…

Designing Trustful Cooperation Ecosystems is Key to the New Space Exploration Era
Renan Lima BaimaFINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-Organisational Digital Transformations, Lo\"ick ChovetSpaceR - Space Robotics, SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Johannes SedlmeirFINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-Organisational Digital Transformations, Gilbert FridgenFINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cros…

Designing Trustful Cooperation Ecosystems is Key to the New Space Exploration Era
In the emerging space economy, autonomous robotic missions with specialized goals such as mapping and mining are gaining traction, with agencies and enterprises increasingly investing resources. Multirobot systems (MRS) research has provided many approaches to establish control and communication layers to facilitate collaboration from a technical perspective, such as granting more autonomy to heterogeneous robotic groups through auction-based interactions in mesh networks. However, stakeholders…

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Echopype: A Python library for interoperable and scalable processing of water column sonar data for biological information
High-frequency sonar systems deployed on a wide array of ocean observing platforms are creating a deluge of water column sonar data at an unprecedented speed from all corners of the ocean. Efficient and integrative analysis of these data, either across different sonar instruments or with other oceanographic datasets, holds the key to monitoring and understanding the response of marine ecosystems to the rapidly changing climate. In this paper we present Echopype, an open-source Python software l…

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Performance Analysis of Support Vector Machine (SVM) on Challenging Datasets for Forest Fire Detection
This article delves into the analysis of performance and utilization of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for the critical task of forest fire detection using image datasets. With the increasing threat of forest fires to ecosystems and human settlements, the need for rapid and accurate detection systems is of utmost importance. SVMs, renowned for their strong classification capabilities, exhibit proficiency in recognizing patterns associated with fire within images. By training on labeled data, SV…

Toward Humanity-Centered Design without Hubris
Tim Gorichanaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11576 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11576

Toward Humanity-Centered Design without Hubris
Humanity-centered design is a concept of emerging interest in HCI, one motivated by the limitations of human-centered design. As discussed to date, humanity-centered design is compatible with but goes beyond human-centered design in that it considers entire ecosystems and populations over the long term and centers participatory design. Though the intentions of humanity-centered design are laudable, current articulations of humanity-centered design are incoherent in a number of ways, leading to …

"On a climate rollercoaster: how Australia’s environment fared in the world’s hottest year"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

On a climate rollercoaster: how Australia’s environment fared in the world’s hottest year
Conditions deteriorated in 2023 but were stlil relatively good for ecosystems and agriculture. Unfortunately, the alarming decline of threatened species continued.

Mining higher-order triadic interactions
Anthony Baptista, Marta Niedostatek, Jun Yamamoto, Ben MacArthur, Jurgen Kurths, Ruben Sanchez Garcia, Ginestra Bianconi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14997

Mining higher-order triadic interactions
Complex systems often present higher-order interactions which require us to go beyond their description in terms of pairwise networks. Triadic interactions are a fundamental type of higher-order interaction that occurs when one node regulates the interaction between two other nodes. Triadic interactions are a fundamental type of higher-order networks, found in a large variety of biological systems, from neuron-glia interactions to gene-regulation and ecosystems. However, triadic interactions ha…

Public Goods Games in Disease Evolution and Spread
Christo Morison, Ma{\l}gorzata Fic, Thomas Marcou, Javad Mohamadichamgavi, Javier Redondo Ant\'on, Golsa Sayyar, Alexander Stein, Frank Bastian, Hana Krakovsk\'a, Nandakishor Krishnan, Diogo L. Pires, Mohammadreza Satouri, Frederik J. Thomsen, Kausutua Tjikundi, Wajid Ali
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Public Goods Games in Disease Evolution and Spread
Cooperation arises in nature at every scale, from within cells to entire ecosystems. In the framework of evolutionary game theory, public goods games (PGGs) are used to analyse scenarios where individuals can cooperate or defect, and can predict when and how these behaviours emerge. However, too few examples motivate the transferal of knowledge from one application of PGGs to another. Here, we focus on PGGs arising in disease modelling of cancer evolution and the spread of infectious diseases. …

Optimization hardness constrains ecological transients
William Gilpin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19186 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.191…

Optimization hardness constrains ecological transients
Living systems operate far from equilibrium, yet few general frameworks provide global bounds on biological transients. Here, we frame equilibration in complex ecosystems as the process of solving an analogue optimization problem. We show that functional redundancies among species in a complex foodweb lead to harder ill-conditioned problems, manifesting as slow modes on a nearly-degenerate solution landscape. Common dimensionality reduction methods precondition ecological dynamics, by isolating…

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Anomaly detection in cross-country money transfer temporal networks
This paper explores anomaly detection through temporal network analysis. Unlike many conventional methods, relying on rule-based algorithms or general machine learning approaches, our methodology leverages the evolving structure and relationships within temporal networks, that can be used to model financial transactions. Focusing on minimal changes in stable ecosystems, such as those found in large international financial institutions, our approach utilizes network centrality measures to gain i…

Ups and downs: Copepods reverse the near-body flow to cruise in the water column
Nils B. Tack, Sara Oliveira Santos, Brad J. Gemmell, Monica M. Wilhelmus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04413

Ups and downs: Copepods reverse the near-body flow to cruise in the water column
Copepods participate in large-scale diel vertical migrations (DVM) as primary consumers in marine ecosystems. Given that they are negatively buoyant, gravity facilitates their downward cruising but impedes their upward relocation. In principle, overcoming this retarding force using drag-based propulsion during upward swimming incurs extra energy costs that neutrally buoyant or gravity-assisted downward swimmers fundamentally avoid. This added power requirement seemingly renders upward swimming …

Die #Klimakrise bedroht #Wintersport: Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass #SkiGebiete weltweit mit weniger Schneetagen rechnen müssen.
Bis 2100 könnten 13% der

Global reduction of snow cover in ski areas under climate change
Ongoing climate change substantially alters snowfall patterns with severe but diverging consequences for global ski areas. A global assessment as well as the investigation of potential implications for mountain ecosystems is currently lacking. We quantify future trends in natural snow cover days under different climate change scenarios until 2100 in seven major global skiing regions and discuss implications for mountainous biodiversity by analysing how natural snow cover days relate to regional…

Developing and Deploying Industry Standards for Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED): Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions
Richard Tong, Haoyang Li, Joleen Liang, Qingsong Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14689

Developing and Deploying Industry Standards for Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED): Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions
The adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) holds the promise of revolutionizing educational practices by offering personalized learning experiences, automating administrative and pedagogical tasks, and reducing the cost of content creation. However, the lack of standardized practices in the development and deployment of AIED solutions has led to fragmented ecosystems, which presents challenges in interoperability, scalability, and ethical governance. This article aims to addres…

"World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts"
#Nature #Environment

From parcels to people: development of a spatially explicit risk indicator to monitor residential pesticide exposure in agricultural areas
Francesco GalimbertiEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Stephanie BoppEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Alessandro CarlettiEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Rui CatarinoEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Martin ClaverieEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Pietro FlorioEuropean Commission, Joint Research Ce…

From parcels to people: development of a spatially explicit risk indicator to monitor residential pesticide exposure in agricultural areas
The increase in global pesticide use has mirrored the rising demand for food over the last decades, resulting in a boost in crop yields. However, concerns about the impact of pesticides on biodiversity, ecosystems, and human health, especially for populations residing close to cultivated areas, are growing. This study investigates how exposure and possible risks to residents can be estimated at high spatial granularity based on plant protection product data. The complexities of such analysis we…

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R2SNet: Scalable Domain Adaptation for Object Detection in Cloud-Based Robots Ecosystems via Proposal Refinement
We introduce a novel approach for scalable domain adaptation in cloud robotics scenarios where robots rely on third-party AI inference services powered by large pre-trained deep neural networks. Our method is based on a downstream proposal-refinement stage running locally on the robots, exploiting a new lightweight DNN architecture, R2SNet. This architecture aims to mitigate performance degradation from domain shifts by adapting the object detection process to the target environment, focusing o…

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Nested Skills in Labor Ecosystems: A Hidden Dimension of Human Capital
Modern economies, characterized by their vast output of goods and services, operate through globally interconnected networks. As economies become more complex, so do these networks, coordinating increasingly diverse portfolios of specialized efforts and knowledge. In this study, we analyze U.S. survey data (2005--2019) to infer an underlying interdependency tree within the fabric of skill portfolios. Hierarchically constructed, this skill tree starts from widely needed, foundational abilities, …

"Effects of geoengineering must be urgently investigated, experts say"
#Geoengineering #Climate #ClimateChange

"Pilotless drones being tested in #Antarctica for use in scientific research
If tests are successful, #Windracers Ultra #UAV will be used for research such as surveying marine

Mechanisms promoting biodiversity in ecosystems
Ju Kang, Yiyuan Niu, Xin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14859 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Mechanisms promoting biodiversity in ecosystems
Explaining biodiversity is a central focus in theoretical ecology. A significant obstacle arises from the Competitive Exclusion Principle (CEP), which states that two species competing for the same type of resources cannot coexist at constant population densities, or more generally, the number of consumer species cannot exceed that of resource species at steady states. The conflict between CEP and biodiversity is exemplified by the paradox of the plankton, where a few types of limiting resource…

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Analysis Facilities White Paper
This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views have been collected through the High Energy Physics (HEP) Software Foundation's (HSF) Analysis Facilities forum, established in March 2022, the Analysis Ecosystems II workshop, that took place in May 2022, and the WLCG/HSF pre-CHEP workshop, that took place in May 2023. The paper attempts to cover all the aspects of an…

Energy Conserved Failure Detection for NS-IoT Systems
Guojin Liu, Jianhong Zhou, Hang Su, Biaohong Xiong, Xianhua Niu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12713 http…

Energy Conserved Failure Detection for NS-IoT Systems
Nowadays, network slicing (NS) technology has gained widespread adoption within Internet of Things (IoT) systems to meet diverse customized requirements. In the NS based IoT systems, the detection of equipment failures necessitates comprehensive equipment monitoring, which leads to significant resource utilization, particularly within large-scale IoT ecosystems. Thus, the imperative task of reducing failure rates while optimizing monitoring costs has emerged. In this paper, we propose a monitor…

Automating SBOM Generation with Zero-Shot Semantic Similarity
Devin Pereira, Christopher Molloy, Sudipta Acharya, Steven H. H. Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08799

Automating SBOM Generation with Zero-Shot Semantic Similarity
It is becoming increasingly important in the software industry, especially with the growing complexity of software ecosystems and the emphasis on security and compliance for manufacturers to inventory software used on their systems. A Software-Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) is a comprehensive inventory detailing a software application's components and dependencies. Current approaches rely on case-based reasoning to inconsistently identify the software components embedded in binary files. We propose a…

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Echopype: A Python library for interoperable and scalable processing of water column sonar data for biological information
High-frequency sonar systems deployed on a wide array of ocean observing platforms are creating a deluge of water column sonar data at an unprecedented speed from all corners of the ocean. Efficient and integrative analysis of these data, either across different sonar instruments or with other oceanographic datasets, holds the key to monitoring and understanding the response of marine ecosystems to the rapidly changing climate. In this paper we present Echopype, an open-source Python software l…

zk-IoT: Securing the Internet of Things with Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Blockchain Platforms
Gholamreza Ramezan, Ehsan Meamari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08322

zk-IoT: Securing the Internet of Things with Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Blockchain Platforms
This paper introduces the zk-IoT framework, a novel approach to enhancing the security of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems through the use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) on blockchain platforms. Our framework ensures the integrity of firmware execution and data processing in potentially compromised IoT devices. By leveraging the concept of ZKP, we establish a trust layer that facilitates secure, autonomous communication between IoT devices in environments where devices may not inherently tr…

The generic temperature response of large biochemical networks
Julian B. Voits (Heidelberg University), Ulrich S. Schwarz (Heidelberg University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17202 …

The generic temperature response of large biochemical networks
Biological systems are remarkably susceptible to relatively small temperature changes. The most obvious example is fever, when a modest rise in body temperature of only few Kelvin has strong effects on our immune system and how it fights pathogens. Another very important example is climate change, when even smaller temperature changes lead to dramatic shifts in ecosystems. Although it is generally accepted that the main effect of an increase in temperature is the acceleration of biochemical rea…

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Nested Skills in Labor Ecosystems: A Hidden Dimension of Human Capital
Modern economies, characterized by their vast output of goods and services, operate through globally interconnected networks. As economies become more complex, so do these networks, coordinating increasingly diverse portfolios of specialized efforts and knowledge. In this study, we analyze U.S. survey data (2005--2019) to infer an underlying interdependency tree within the fabric of skill portfolios. Hierarchically constructed, this skill tree starts from widely needed, foundational abilities, …

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A Paradigm For Collaborative Pervasive Fog Computing Ecosystems at the Network Edge
While the success of edge and fog computing increased with the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, such novel computing paradigm, that moves compute resources closer to the source of data and services, must address many challenges such as reducing communication overhead to/from datacenters, the latency to compute and receive results, as well as energy consumption at the mobile and IoT devices. fog-to-fog (f2f) cooperation has recently been proposed to increase the computati…

An Extensible Framework for Architecture-Based Data Flow Analysis for Information Security
Nicolas Boltz, Sebastian Hahner, Christopher Gerking, Robert Heinrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09402

An Extensible Framework for Architecture-Based Data Flow Analysis for Information Security
The growing interconnection between software systems increases the need for security already at design time. Security-related properties like confidentiality are often analyzed based on data flow diagrams (DFDs). However, manually analyzing DFDs of large software systems is bothersome and error-prone, and adjusting an already deployed software is costly. Additionally, closed analysis ecosystems limit the reuse of modeled information and impede comprehensive statements about a system's security.…

DONAPI: Malicious NPM Packages Detector using Behavior Sequence Knowledge Mapping
Cheng Huang (Sichuan University), Nannan Wang (Sichuan University), Ziyan Wang (Sichuan University), Siqi Sun (Sichuan University), Lingzi Li (Sichuan University), Junren Chen (Sichuan University), Qianchong Zhao (Sichuan University), Jiaxuan Han (Sichuan University), Zhen Yang (Sichuan University), Lei Shi (Huawei Technologies)

DONAPI: Malicious NPM Packages Detector using Behavior Sequence Knowledge Mapping
With the growing popularity of modularity in software development comes the rise of package managers and language ecosystems. Among them, npm stands out as the most extensive package manager, hosting more than 2 million third-party open-source packages that greatly simplify the process of building code. However, this openness also brings security risks, as evidenced by numerous package poisoning incidents. In this paper, we synchronize a local package cache containing more than 3.4 million pa…

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Enhancing Automatic Modulation Recognition for IoT Applications Using Transformers
Automatic modulation recognition (AMR) is vital for accurately identifying modulation types within incoming signals, a critical task for optimizing operations within edge devices in IoT ecosystems. This paper presents an innovative approach that leverages Transformer networks, initially designed for natural language processing, to address the challenges of efficient AMR. Our transformer network architecture is designed with the mindset of real-time edge computing on IoT devices. Four tokenizati…

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Potentials of the Metaverse for Robotized Applications in Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0
As a digital environment of interconnected virtual ecosystems driven by measured and synthesized data, the Metaverse has so far been mostly considered from its gaming perspective that closely aligns with online edutainment. Although it is still in its infancy and more research as well as standardization efforts remain to be done, the Metaverse could provide considerable advantages for smart robotized applications in the industry.Workflow efficiency, collective decision enrichment even for execu…

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SeMA: Extending and Analyzing Storyboards to Develop Secure Android Apps
Mobile apps provide various critical services, such as banking, communication, and healthcare. To this end, they have access to our personal information and have the ability to perform actions on our behalf. Hence, securing mobile apps is crucial to ensuring the privacy and safety of its users. Recent research efforts have focused on developing solutions to secure mobile ecosystems (i.e., app platforms, apps, and app stores), specifically in the context of detecting vulnerabilities in Android…

Random Evolutionary Dynamics in Predator-Prey Systems Yields Large, Clustered Ecosystems
Christian Hamster, Jorik Schaap, Peter van Heijster, Joshua Dijksman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04506

Random Evolutionary Dynamics in Predator-Prey Systems Yields Large, Clustered Ecosystems
We study the effect of speciation, i.e. the introduction of new species through evolution into communities, in the setting of predator-prey systems. Predator-prey dynamics is classically well modeled by Lotka-Volterra equations, also when multiple predator and prey species co-exist. The consequences of the emergence of new species in such systems are much less well understood. We find that introducing random evolving species leads to robust ecosystems in which large numbers of species coexist. …

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Echopype: A Python library for interoperable and scalable processing of water column sonar data for biological information
High-frequency sonar systems deployed on a wide array of ocean observing platforms are creating a deluge of water column sonar data at an unprecedented speed from all corners of the ocean. Efficient and integrative analysis of these data, either across different sonar instruments or with other oceanographic datasets, holds the key to monitoring and understanding the response of marine ecosystems to the rapidly changing climate. In this paper we present Echopype, an open-source Python software l…

SecGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Systems
Yuhao Wu, Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, Ning Zhang, Umar Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04960

SecGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Systems
Large language models (LLMs) extended as systems, such as ChatGPT, have begun supporting third-party applications. These LLM apps leverage the de facto natural language-based automated execution paradigm of LLMs: that is, apps and their interactions are defined in natural language, provided access to user data, and allowed to freely interact with each other and the system. These LLM app ecosystems resemble the settings of earlier computing platforms, where there was insufficient isolation betwe…

Cross-ecosystem categorization: A manual-curation protocol for the categorization of Java Maven libraries along Python PyPI Topics
Ranindya Paramitha, Yuan Feng, Fabio Massacci, Carlos E. Budde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06300

Cross-ecosystem categorization: A manual-curation protocol for the categorization of Java Maven libraries along Python PyPI Topics
Context: Software of different functional categories, such as text processing vs. networking, has different profiles in terms of metrics like security and updates. Using popularity to compare e.g. Java vs. Python libraries might give a skewed perspective, as the categories of the most popular software vary from one ecosystem to the next. How can one compare libraries datasets across software ecosystems, when not even the category names are uniform among them? Objective: We study how to generate…

SecGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Systems
Yuhao Wu, Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, Ning Zhang, Umar Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04960

SecGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Systems
Large language models (LLMs) extended as systems, such as ChatGPT, have begun supporting third-party applications. These LLM apps leverage the de facto natural language-based automated execution paradigm of LLMs: that is, apps and their interactions are defined in natural language, provided access to user data, and allowed to freely interact with each other and the system. These LLM app ecosystems resemble the settings of earlier computing platforms, where there was insufficient isolation betwe…

Monitoring the Venice Lagoon: an IoT Cloud-Based Sensor Nerwork Approach
Filippo Campagnaro, Matin Ghalkhani, Riccardo Tumiati, Federico Marin, Matteo Del Grande, Alessandro Pozzebon, Davide De Battisti, Roberto Francescon, Michele Zorzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06915

Monitoring the Venice Lagoon: an IoT Cloud-Based Sensor Nerwork Approach
Monitoring the coastal area of the Venice Lagoon is of significant importance. While the impact of global warming is felt worldwide, coastal and littoral regions bear the brunt more prominently. These areas not only face the threat of rising sea levels but also contend with the escalating occurrence of seaquakes and floods. Additionally, the intricate ecosystems of rivers, seas, and lakes undergo profound transformations due to climate change and pollutants. Employing devices like the SENSWIC…

Self-enhanced mobility enables vortex pattern formation in living matter
Haoran Xu, Yilin Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09068 https://

Self-enhanced mobility enables vortex pattern formation in living matter
Emergence of regular spatial patterns is a hallmark in living matter ranging from subcellular organelles to developing embryos and to ecosystems. Mechanisms for the formation of ordered spatial patterns in biology often require chemical signaling that coordinates cellular behavior and differentiation. Here we discovered a novel route to large-scale regular pattern formation in living matter mediated by purely physical interactions. We found that dense bacterial living matter spontaneously devel…

Here Comes The AI Worm: Unleashing Zero-click Worms that Target GenAI-Powered Applications
Stav Cohen, Ron Bitton, Ben Nassi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02817

Here Comes The AI Worm: Unleashing Zero-click Worms that Target GenAI-Powered Applications
In the past year, numerous companies have incorporated Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities into new and existing applications, forming interconnected Generative AI (GenAI) ecosystems consisting of semi/fully autonomous agents powered by GenAI services. While ongoing research highlighted risks associated with the GenAI layer of agents (e.g., dialog poisoning, membership inference, prompt leaking, jailbreaking), a critical question emerges: Can attackers develop malware to exploit the GenAI compon…

Les Houches Lectures on Community Ecology: From Niche Theory to Statistical Mechanics
Wenping Cui, Robert Marsland III, Pankaj Mehta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05497

Les Houches Lectures on Community Ecology: From Niche Theory to Statistical Mechanics
Ecosystems are among the most interesting and well-studied examples of self-organized complex systems. Community ecology, the study of how species interact with each other and the environment, has a rich tradition. Over the last few years, there has been a growing theoretical and experimental interest in these problems from the physics and quantitative biology communities. Here, we give an overview of community ecology, highlighting the deep connections between ecology and statistical physics. …