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Knowledge Engineering Laboratory
The focus of KEL centers on integration, interpretation and the use of both qualitative and quantitative information for the purpose of environmental problem-solving and decision making.
Landscape ecology is at the heart of environmental decision making
The Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (KEL) is a facility of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University. The focus of KEL centers on integration, interpretation and the use of both qualitative and quantitative information for the purpose of environmental problem-solving and decision making.
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Basic Landscape Ecology
Kindle Edition now available
Second Edition coming soon
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What makes a KEL project?
- Studies of the environment at the landscape scale.
- Projects framed in an ecological context.
- An interdisciplinary format.
- The research protocol involves consideration of scientific, technical and social agendas.