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Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

College/Unit

Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design

Department/Program/Center

Division of Forestry and Natural Resources

Abstract

In West Virginia, USA, there are 24 conservation easement program wetlands enrolled in the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). These wetlands are located on private agricultural land and are passively managed. Due to their location within fragmented agricultural areas, wetlands enrolled in ACEP in West Virginia have the potential to add wetland ecosystem services in areas that are lacking these features. We evaluated ACEP wetlands compared to reference wetlands on public land in West Virginia by using surrounding land cover, vegetative cover, and wetland features and stressors such as the presence or absence of erosion, upland inclusion, algal mats, and evidence of impacts from the surrounding landscape as surrogate measurements of wetland function on 13 ACEP wetlands and 10 reference wetlands. ACEP wetlands had higher percentages of tree coverage and a higher proportion of agricultural land in the areas immediately surrounding the wetland. Reference wetlands had higher percent coverage of emergent vegetation and had a higher proportion of forest in the immediate landscape. Our findings suggest that ACEP wetlands provide valuable early successional and forested wetland cover in a state that is largely forested. Because of this, it is important to maintain and even expand ACEP in West Virginia to continue providing a valuable source of early successional wetland habitat.

Digital Commons Citation

Lewis, Katherine E.; Rota, Christopher T.; and Anderson, James T., 'A comparison of wetland characteristics between Agricultural Conservation Easement Program and public lands wetlands in West Virginia, USA' (2020). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 2431.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/2431

Source Citation

Lewis, K. E., Rota, C. T., & Anderson, J. T. (2020). A comparison of wetland characteristics between Agricultural Conservation Easement Program and public lands wetlands in West Virginia, USA. Ecology and Evolution, 10(6), 3017–3031. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6118

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At RotaCloud I think it’s safe to say we are all self-confessed ‘Apple fanboys’. Okay, we don’t camp outside our local Apple Store the second we hear rumours about the latest iPhone (honest!), but we do own our fair share of Apple tech, much of which we rely on for our day-to-day business operation.

As an early adopter of Mac computers I am no stranger to the long-standing issue of software compatibility, something that has plagued both the consumer and professional markets since day one. Microsoft’s original dominance of the operating systems market made it easy for developers to push Mac compatibility to the side, or in many cases, forget about it altogether.

Nowadays, Apple’s iOS has a significant share of the mobile market, and Mac sales continue to chase PC's, and so a time has come where developers can no longer afford to neglect cross-platform compatibility.

Enter cloud computing and SaaS (software as a service)…

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing - a term you cannot avoid within the technology industry - is the delivery of computing as a service over a network (most often the internet), rather than as a product. In turn, SaaS is the delivery of software over a network, where the infrastructure and data is hosted by a Cloud provider and provided to the client on-demand.

This is the exact approach we’ve taken with RotaCloud, and I’ll briefly explain some of the key reasons why online rota software is a much more effective solution for staff schedule management.

Cross-Platform Online Rota Software

First and foremost, compatibility. RotaCloud runs in your browser, meaning all you need is an internet connection (fairly easy to find nowadays!), and an up-to-date web browser (comes installed on every new Mac and PC). That’s it! If you don’t believe me, give it a try.

Sign up for your free trial and within minutes you’ll be in. No installation, no CD’s to store, no “your version of Windows is too old, get with the times maaaannnn”, no trying to remember where you installed the software. None of that, just immediate access to the software regardless of which operating system you’re using.

Rota Master 4000

Oh, and it’s probably worth mentioning that you don’t need to worry about your data. Everything is stored securely by us. Log into RotaCloud on a different computer, and everything will be there, exactly how you left it; all your employee information, staff holidays, leave requests, everything!

Access Your Work Rota, Anywhere!

One of our core features, and something we get brilliant feedback on by our users, is the ability for employees to log in and track their shifts themselves, from work and from home! This simply wouldn’t be practical with installation-based software…

Traditionally, you installed software on a particular computer, and that was it. You either needed to purchase additional licenses for extra machines, or manage everything from one location. With RotaCloud you can log in from absolutely anywhere with an internet connection, and the same goes for your staff. Provide email addresses when setting up your employees and we’ll automatically send them an invite to log in and start viewing their rotas themselves. They’ll be emailed whenever there are changes or updates to their shifts, too!

Stay Up-To-Date with Immediate Updates

Rita Macomber

Windows Update. Two words which strike fear into the hearts of Windows users. Okay okay, us Mac people need to update too (just to prove I’m not one-sided). Anyway… updates are a nightmare for everyone… Will all my software still work afterwards? Will my computer even turn on afterwards?! Why has it been stuck on 99% for the last 30 minutes?!?! DAD, CAN’T NETFLIX WAIT I’M TRYING TO DOWNLOAD UPDATES?!?!?!

It doesn’t matter if you’re at home or at work, keeping things up-to-date is as annoying as it is important. We regularly update our rota software to bring you new features, and as soon as we release an update, it’s yours! RotaCloud is updated automatically, instantly, for you and your staff, with no input from you.

One less thing for you to think about!

Anyway, I think that’s quite enough tech talk for a Monday afternoon! If you’re not already a RotaCloud user, check out our 14 day free trial and save yourself valuable management time by moving your rotas online!