Resource acquisition

G. M. Bernston, Modelling root architecture are there tradeoffs between efficiency and potential of resource acquisition New Phyiol. /27 483 (1994). 

Starr, J. A. C MacMillan, I. C. 1990. Resource cooptation and social contracting resource acquisition strategies for new ventures. Strategic Management Journal, 11 79-92. 

Doussan, C., Pages, L., and Pierret, A. (2003). Soil exploration and resource acquisition by plant roots An architectural and modelling point of view. Agronomie 23,419 431. 

The finite resources available to organisms must be allocated to several life processes including growth, reproduction, maintenance, defense, and further resource acquisition. It is often assumed that a resource allocated to one process incurs a cost to the remaining processes because the resource is diverted away from them.7 8 It is also assumed that natural selection acts to optimize the allocation of resources to best suit the life history and environment for a particular organism, of course, within evolutionary and ecological constraints. 

Important life processes that require energy and material resources include growth, maintenance, reproduction, further resource acquisition, and dealing with natural enemies. It is important to... 

FIGURE 9.2 Different allocation patterns predicted to be adaptive along environmental gradients of abiotic stresses, competition, and predation pressures, which should select for high resource allocation to maintenance, resource acquisition, and defense, respectively. This model predicts allocation patterns for Grime s plant strategies13 and draws predictions from various chemical defense theories. Allocation to reproduction and growth are not shown for clarity. 

The competition between diatoms and coccolithophorids can be easily modeled by a resource acquisition model based on nutrient uptake (Equation (9)). In such a model, diatoms dominate under highly turbulent conditions, when their nutrient storage capacity is maximally advantageous, while coccolithophorids dominate under relatively quiescent conditions (Tozzi et al., 2003). 

Safari A, Hance T, Leroy PD, Frere I, Haubmge E, Destain J, Compde P, Thonart P. Placenta-like stmcture of the aphid endoparasitic Aphidius ervi a strategy of optimal resources acquisition. PLoS One. 2011 6(4) el8847. doi 10.1371/journal. pone.0018847. 

Donnelly, D.P. and Boddy, L. (1997). Resource acquisition by the myceUal-cord-foimer Stropharia caerulea effect of resource quantity and quality. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 23, 195-205. 

This leaves us with the less than satisfactory conclusion that there is an organismal level of integration of photosynthesis and other processes which determines growth and responses to environmental factors, about which we still no very little. It does, however, lead us to the realization that the control and integration of resource acquisition and allocation in plants deserves serious attention in the future. 

The implications for FC developers are (i) the consideration of complementary technologies in competence development and (ii) the consideration of resource acquisition through regulatory support. 

The example above describes the application of these methods to the development of strategies for managing regulatory limits on resource acquisition similar approaches could be used for regulating emissions. As demands continue to increase for both water resources and the assimilative capacity these resources provide, the need for creative, interdisciplinary solutions will also increase. 

This chapter examines how and why states forcibty remove citizens from specific spaces and places in the name of national development and modernization, citing historical and contemporary examples. It looks at the nature, scope, and scale of development-induced population displacement, as well as the responses of (Merent actors, including civil society networks and the international community, to processes of internal displacement and involuntary resettlement It also highlights weaknesses in the governance ofland and resource acquisition, involuntary resettlement compensation, and population relocation at the national and interrmtiorral level by states, corporations, international financing irrstitutions, and international organizations such as the United Natiorrs, and their impacts on the individuals and communities which are most disempowered in the development process. 

De Wever, S., Martens, R., Vandenbempt, K. (2005). The impact of trust on strategic resource acquisition through interorganizational networks Towards a conceptual model. Human Relations, 5S(12), 1523-1543. 

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