The authors evaluated the effects of planning-unit size on emergent patterns of species-richness hotspots across the Gulf of Maine-Georges Bank Large Marine Ecosystem. The authors used data on the distribution of fishes as information for this taxon is the most geographically and temporally comprehensive due to their economic value and requirements for active and ongoing management. They also investigated both how spatial scale affects geographic patterns of species richness as well as the effect of sample size per planning unit on such patterns. An effort-standardization approach based on a bootstrap procedure was used to address variation in sample effort across the geographic region. In order to understand the equivalence of hotspots in terms of conservation value, the authors also investigated patterns of species similarity among hotspots across the gradient of planning-unit size.

Variation in Planning Unit-Size and Patterns of Fish Diversity: Implications for Design of Marine Protected Areas

Science & Math

U.S. Department Of Commerce

Parent, Jason

Kuo, Chiu-Yen

Auster, Peter J.

Nature & Ecology

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

HELLNOTES raves: "Thrilling and chilling and nostalgic in all the right places...these stories are excellent across the board. Bad Apples is a welcome addition to the genre, and one that you can come back to year after year when autumnal darkness descends. Recommended."The five freshest voices in horror will make you reconsider leaving the house on October 31st with these all-new Halloween tales:* A brother and sister creep out of the darkness with bags full of deadly tricks in Gregor Xane's THE RIGGLE TWINS.* A boy with a misshapen skull just wants to be normal in Evans Light's PUMPKINHEAD TED.* A group of thrill seekers learn that looking for terror is a whole lot more fun than finding it in Adam Light's GHOST LIGHT ROAD.* Two bullies go looking for trouble but instead find a young boy and his imaginary friend in Jason Parent's EASY PICKINGS.* When a mysterious, Halloween-themed attraction comes to the town of Bay's End, everyone is dying to pay a visit in Edward Lorn's THE SCAREROWS.Buy the paperback and get special 99¢ matchbook pricing on the eBook from Amazon.(This book contains adult content and is suitable for mature readers only.)

Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror (Bad Apples Halloween Horror)

Literature & Fiction

Light, Evans

Light, Adam

Lorn, Edward

Xane, Gregor

Genre Fiction

The creators of the bestselling BAD APPLES: FIVE SLICES OF HALLOWEEN HORROR team up once again to bring you five dark tales of twisted love.  ELEANOR, by Jason Parent  When Father Stuart McKenzie finds a disfigured girl abandoned on the steps of his church, he decides the child is a blessing from God and raises her as his own. But the special needs of Eleanor demand more from Stuart than a father can give.  LOVE LIES IN EYES, by Evans Light Nathan falls for a beautiful girl from across a crowded room, but she disappears before he can muster his courage. Obsessed with getting a second chance, he's about to learn that true love isn't only hard to find...it can be hard to lose.  PANACEA, by Adam Light  Decades of marriage haven't tarnished Rob's affection towards his dear wife Molly one bit, and he's not about to let cancer snatch her away, no matter the cost. But every medication has its side effects, some more than others.  CINDER BLOCK, by Edward Lorn  Toby's dad may have hit the road long ago, but his mother still loves him - along with every other man in town, that is. But after the beautiful Lauren shines a light into his dreary world, he realizes just how crazy love can get.  LOVING THE GOAT, by Gregor Xane  Embattled comic book artist and notorious animal lover Bill Capra is willing to do anything (literally) to get his dirty paws on the fabled object of his desire, even if it means his own destruction.  (This book contains adult content and is suitable for mature readers only.)

Dead Roses: Five Dark Tales of Twisted Love

Some discoveries are better left unmade. Peter thought he was done with grave robbing, but when a former business partner lures him out to Dungarradh, a small Scottish island with a big secret, he finds himself waist deep in more than local folklore. Is the disappearance of his teammate truly the work of the legendary fae, or is a sinister force at play? A brand-new tale of dark fantasy and horror, from the bestselling author of WHAT HIDES WITHIN and SEEING EVIL.

Unseemly: A Novella of Horror

THE BEASTS WILL FEED. THE DENSE BAVARIAN FOREST outside the town of Rattenberg has long been rumored to harbor something sinister, something wild - mythical beasts that vanish into the shadowy woods after each attack, leaving carnage as the only evidence of their existence. Many villagers turn a blind eye to what is happening, but those who believe tremble at the mere whisper of the word: werewolf. There are those who stand and fight, however. Konrad is one such boy. Too poor to live in the village, he and his mother fend for themselves in their forest hovel alone for months at a time, his father preoccupied with mysterious business abroad. After a vicious assault on their homestead, Konrad finds himself buried beneath his mother's mutilated body, escaping death only due to his father's chance return. Alive, but taking no comfort in the presence of the man who had left him and his mother to face death on their own, Konrad soon discovers that his father's work has followed him home... ...and it's hungry.

Where Wolves Run: A Novella of Horror

 In a rapidly urbanizing world -- over half the world’s population lives in urban areas, including many millions in informal settlement -- the large cities of the developing world in particular are expanding. Yet there is little in the way of planning and preparation for this explosive growth in urban population. Making Room for a Planet of Cities is a comprehensive and original analysis of the quantitative dimensions of past, present, and future global urban land cover, culminating in a proposed new paradigm for preparing for explosive growth in cities the world over. Carefully selected metrics measured in four new data sets with ArcGIS software provide a comprehensive and consistent global and historical perspective on urban expansion. These data sets are:1. The built-up areas of a global sample of 120 cities with 100,000 people or more, 1990 and 2000, based on satellite images;2. Historic population density data in digital images for 20 U. S. cities, 1910–2000, based on census tracts;3. Built-up areas of a representative global sample of 30 cities, 1800–2000, from the set of 120 cities based on historic maps; and4. Urban land cover areas of the universe of 3,646 cities that had populations of 100,000 or more in 2000, based on satellite images.The key findings show that on average, densities in developing countries are double those in Europe and Japan, and densities in Europe and Japan are double those of the United States, Canada, and Australia; and that on average, the annual growth rate of urban land cover was twice that of the urban population between 1990 and 2000. Most of the cities studied expanded their built-up area more than 16-fold in the twentieth century. At present rates of density decline, the world’s urban population is expected to double in 43 years, while urban land cover will double in only 19 years. The urban population of the developing countries is expected to double between 2000 and 2030 while the built-up area of their cities can be expected to triple.The research suggests that preparation for the sustainable growth of cities in rapidly urbanizing countries should be grounded in four key components: the realistic projections of urban land needs; generous metropolitan limits; selective protection of open space; and an arterial grid of roads spaced one kilometer apart that can support transit.Making Room for a Planet of Cities provides both the conceptual framework and, for the first time, the basic empirical data and quantitative dimensions of past, present, and future urban expansion in cities around the world that are necessary for making minimal preparations for the massive urban growth expected in the coming decades.

Making Room for a Planet of Cities (Policy Focus Reports)

Politics & Social Sciences

Angel, Shlomo

Civco, Daniel L.

Blei, Alejandro M.

Social Sciences

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

A bestiary of elementals and elemental creatures. Earth, air, fire, and water. Sonic, cold, acid, and electricity. From elder elementals and powerful dragons to minor mephits and mysterious outsiders, creatures major and minor are tired to the powers of the elements. Some are friends. Some are foes. All are dangerous. Continuing the acclaimed Lore series, this book focuses on a single creature type as well as related sub-types, opening a portal from the elemental planes to your campaign. The original elementals themselves have been expanded to include proud nobles, determined guardians, and pesky haunts. Each creature is designed with a role in mind, from grudge monsters to chase monsters. With more than 30 new elementals, six new creatures with elemental sub-types, and four new prestige glasses, Elemental Lore provides dozens of options for unleashing the power of the elements upon your gaming group.

Legends & Lairs: Elemental Lore

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Kalvar, Shannon

Gomes, Nick

Muder, Shawn

Gaming

Fantasy Flight Games

The night uncovers all we wish not to see. A troubled man enters a dusky park before sunset. A young woman follows, hidden in shadow. Both have returned to the park to take back something the past has stolen from them, to make right six long years of suffering, and to find justice or perhaps redemption-or maybe they'll settle for some old-fashioned revenge. But something evil is alive and awake in those woods, creatures that care nothing for human motivations. They're driven by their own insatiable need: a ravenous, bottomless hunger. The campgrounds are full tonight, and the creatures are starving. Before the night is over, they will feed.

They Feed

Macabre Ink

Sebastian "Seb" McAlister has run out of luck in Vegas. Cornered by a trigger-happy gang and shot through the stomach, he makes a desperate escape in his supercharged Hellcat. Fate guides Seb safely out of Sin City and into the desert, but as his wheels fade into the horizon, he fades into darkness.He awakes among a tiny community in the middle of nowhere. A mountain range circles the hodgepodge of shacks like prison walls looming high. And the warden that resides in those mountains is big, ugly, and deadly-a creature straight out of a Lovecraftian nightmare.If Seb hopes to escape that wayward way station, he'll need enough cunning to outwit a force beyond comprehension? and a fast car. With a little luck and a ragtag group of would-be monster mashers racing alongside him, Seb just might have a shot of making it through the mountains alive.

Eight Cylinders

Crystal Lake Publishing

THIS BOOK DOES NOT INCLUDE A FREE SET OF STICKERS100 Word Horrors: Book 4 brings you over one hundred new drabbles from a wealth of horror authors. Some new, some old, but all great. Each and every one of us hope you have a blast with the final instalment in the series. Included between the pages:Adam Light - No Time Like the PresentAlanna Robertson-Webb - U R NextAmber M. Simpson - The Old ManAndrew Lennon - CinemaAndrew Lennon - MotivationAndrew Lennon - The WaveAnn Christine Tabaka - Water WorldAnn-Christine Tabaka - The Children of EarthBilly San Juan - My Sincerest Apologies to any Innocent VictimsCallum Pearce - CatsCecelia Hopkins-Drewer - Haunted HouseChad Lutzke - Shingles on a Graham-Cracker RoofChloe Lennon - Hunger PainsC.M. Saunders - Louie's RoomConstanze Scheib - SanatoriumDarren Tarditi - The HunterDavid Owain Hughes - Books-A-MillionDavid Owain Hughes - The Golden StickerDawn DeBraal - CannibalDawn DeBraal - RevivedDawn DeBraal - Road KillEddie D. Moore - Hide and SeekEllen A. Easton - Every Fifty Years the Roots Need BloodEric J. Guignard - Misadventures of an Aggrieved RecluseEvans Light - Getting Carried AwayEvans Light - Swing LowEvans Light - This Little PiggyGary McDonough - CuriosityGreg Bennett - Tiny TerrorsHarris Coverley - CoinsHoward Carlyle - The Theatre of ScreamsJ. C. Michael - Domestic BlissJ. C. Michael - SpectrumJacek Wilkos - LairJack Lothian - Diamond Lake KillerJack Lothian - The Guest RoomJackk N. Killington - ZombieJason Parent - Shape in the DarkJoe X Young - Believe in MeJoe X Young - Panto SeasonJoel R Hunt - Mister MushroomJoel R Hunt - The Transylvania BoxJohn Boden - MealJosh A. Murphy - SlitheringJulian J. Guignard - Molly's WeddingKevin Cathy - InescapableKevin Cathy - The CoffinKevin J. Kennedy - Missing HalloweenKevin J. Kennedy - Wrath of the Old OnesKevin Wetmore - Chiaroscuro MorningKevin Wetmore - Take the Long Way HomeLee Franklin - Feed the BeastLee Franklin - You Look Prettier When You SmileLee Mountford - ChokeLee Mountford - PredatorMark Cassell - New HomeMark Steensland - StopMatthew A Clarke - Worth ItMicah Castle - Inescapable EndN.M. Brown - Extra-Curricular CloneNerisha Kemraj - AsylumNerisha Kemraj - MineP.J. Blakey-Novis - A Friend for EllieP.J. Blakey-Novis - CaptivePaul D. Brazill - SwamplandsRegina Kenney - FantasyRJ Meldrum - LivestockRJ Meldrum - PhantomRJ Meldrum - Summer SnowRobin Braid - Blood in the MoonlightRobin Braid - Undead ChampionRon Davis - The Job InterviewRoss Baxter - Eternal LifeRoss Jeffery - Poached EggRussell Smeaton - Bus HomeRyan Colley - CattleRyan Colley - Memory StickRyan Colley - Ride-HailingSheldon Woodbury - A Prison Inside UsSheldon Woodbury - The Museum of HorrorsSimon Cluett - LanternsStacey Jaine McIntosh - Blood and BoneSteve Stred - Open CallSteve Stred - TerraTerry Miller – To Feed a MonsterTheresa Jacobs - ArmageddonTimothy Friesenhahn - HairTimothy Friesenhahn - ITina Piney - Awaken to DeathToneye Eyenot - Compelled to RiseToneye Eyenot - Dark LegionToneye Eyenot - FiddlestyxToneye Eyenot - Slaughter by the Full of the MoonTristan Drue Rogers - Long Limbs at the E.R.Tristan Drue Rogers - My Brother Gets Released todayValerie Lioudis - AdviceVeronica Smith - All AloneVeronica Smith - Too Little, Too LateVeronica Smith - VultureZoey Xolton - Better Off DeadZoey Xolton - Grave Concerns

100 Word Horrors: Book 4: An Anthology of Horror Drabbles (100 Word Horror Collection)

Lutzke, Chad

Mountford, Lee

Lennon, Andrew

Boden, John

Michael, J.C.

J. Kennedy, Kevin

J. Guignard, Eric

Independently published

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