User profiles for J. Byers

John W. Byers

- Verified email at cs.bu.edu - Cited by 17071

James E. (Jeb) Byers

- Verified email at uga.edu - Cited by 16964

Directing research to reduce the impacts of nonindigenous species

JE Byers, S Reichard, JM Randall… - Conservation …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Management of nonindigenous species is a crucial aspect of maintaining native biodiversity
and normal ecosystem functions. We attempt to guide researchers in developing projects …

A review of instruments measuring resilience

…, EM Kiehl, M Lou Sole, J Byers - Issues in comprehensive …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The objectives of the study were to evaluate the psychometric properties and appropriateness
of instruments for the study of resilience in adolescents. A search was completed using the …

Ecosystem engineering in space and time

A Hastings, JE Byers, JA Crooks, K Cuddington… - Ecology …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The ecosystem engineering concept focuses on how organisms physically change the
abiotic environment and how this feeds back to the biota. While the concept was formally …

Measuring the spin polarization of a metal with a superconducting point contact

RJ Soulen Jr, JM Byers, MS Osofsky, B Nadgorny… - science, 1998 - science.org
A superconducting point contact is used to determine the spin polarization at the Fermi energy
of several metals. Because the process of supercurrent conversion at a superconductor-…

The rise of the sharing economy: Estimating the impact of Airbnb on the hotel industry

…, D Proserpio, JW Byers - Journal of marketing …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Peer-to-peer markets, collectively known as the sharing economy, have emerged as alternative
suppliers of goods and services traditionally provided by long-established industries. …

Impact: toward a framework for understanding the ecological effects of invaders

…, MH Williamson, B Von Holle, PB Moyle, JE Byers… - Biological …, 1999 - Springer
Although ecologists commonly talk about the impacts of nonindigenous species, little formal
attention has been given to defining what we mean by impact, or connecting ecological …

Five potential consequences of climate change for invasive species

JJ Hellmann, JE Byers, BG Bierwagen… - Conservation …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Scientific and societal unknowns make it difficult to predict how global environmental changes
such as climate change and biological invasions will affect ecological systems. In the long …

A digital fountain approach to reliable distribution of bulk data

JW Byers, M Luby, M Mitzenmacher… - ACM SIGCOMM Computer …, 1998 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of applications that must reliably distribute bulk data to a large number of
autonomous clients motivates the design of new multicast and broadcast protocols. We …

BRITE: An approach to universal topology generation

…, A Lakhina, I Matta, J Byers - … 2001, Proceedings Ninth …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Effective engineering of the Internet is predicated upon a detailed understanding of issues
such as the large-scale structure of its underlying physical topology, the manner in which it …

Conditions for classroom technology innovations

…, K Pugh, S Sheldon, JL Byers - Teachers college …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
This article reports on a study of the complex and messy process of classroom technology
integration. The main purpose of the study was to empirically address the large question of “…