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Medium-term and long-term priorities in ecological studies.
Ostroumov S.A., Dodson S.I., Hamilton D., Peterson S.A., Wetzel R.G.
Riv. Biol. 2003, 96(2):327-332.

List of research priorities for ecology and environmental science of 21st century. Executive summary that was developed by an international team of ecologists. A contribution to creating a basis for grant proposals, for evaluation of new results, for writing new reviews.

PMID: 14595906 [PubMed] [Priorities in ecology and environmental sciences]: http://www.scribd.com/doc/57124875/; http://www.scribd.com/doc/52655707/
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Ostroumov S.A., Dodson S., Hamilton D., Peterson S., WetzelR.G. Medium-term and long-term priorities in ecological studies // Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum. 2003 (May). 96: 327-332.
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Abstracts in Eng. and Italian (p. 332). Bibliogr. 20.
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Research priorities in ecology and environmental sciences for the future are formulated.The priorities for both fundamental and applied ecology are proposed. The list of priorities includes 50 items. The priorities are relevant to terrestrial, aquatic, and generalecology. The list of priorities is helpful when grant proposals are being prepared,evaluated, and selected for funding.

KEY WORDS: priorities, fundamentals, ecology, environmental sciences, biosphericsciences, life and biomedical sciences, geosciences, ecosystems, biosphere, organisms,levels of life systems, man-made impacts, anthropogenic effects, terrestrial and aquatic,research topics
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S.A. Ostroumov, S.I. Dodson, D. Hamilton, S.A. Peterson, and R.G. Wetzel. Medium-term and long-term priorities in ecological studies. - Rivista di biologia, 96(2):327–332, 2003.
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MEDIUM-TERM AND LONG-TERM PRIORITIES IN ECOLOGICALSTUDIES


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, S. Dodson
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, D. Hamilton
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, S. Peterson
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, R. G. Wetzel
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current address: Laboratory of Physico-Chemistry of Biomembranes, Faculty of Biology,Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation;
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Zoology-Birge Hall, University of Wisconsin, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706,USA;
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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105,Hamilton, New Zealand;
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US EPA, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, WesternEcology Division, 200 SW 35th Street, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA;
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Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Public Health,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Abstract:
Research priorities in ecology and environmental sciences for the future are formulated. The priorities for both fundamental and applied ecology are proposed. Thelist of priorities includes about 50 items. The priorities are relevant to terrestrial,aquatic, and general ecology. The list of priorities is helpful when grant proposals arebeing prepared, evaluated, and selected for funding.Keywords: ecology, environmental sciences, priorities, fundamental problems, topics forgrants, scientific policy

This paper proposes a formalization of the class of sentences quantified by most, which is also interpreted as proportion of or majority of depending on the domain of discourse. We consider sentences of the form "Most A are B ", where A and B are plural nouns and the interpretations of A and B are infinite subsets of N. There are two widely used semantics for Most A are B : (i) C(A ∩ B) > C(A \ B) and (ii) C(A ∩ B) > C(A) 2 , where C(X) denotes the cardinality of a given finite set X. Although (i) is more descriptive than (ii), it also produces a considerable amount of insensitivity for certain sets. Since the quantifier most has a solid cardinal behaviour under the interpretation majority and has a slightly more statistical behaviour under the interpretation proportional of, we consider an alternative approach in deciding quantity-related statements regarding infinite sets. For this we introduce a new semantics using natural density for sentences in which interpretations of their nouns are infinite subsets of N, along with a list of the axiomatization of the concept of natural density. In other words, we take the standard definition of the semantics of most but define it as applying to finite approximations of infinite sets computed to the limit.