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Ariel E. Lugo and Heather E. Erickson
Tropical and subtropical dry forest life zones support forests with lower stature and species richness than do tropical and subtropical life zones with greater water availability. The number of naturalized species that can thrive and mix with native spec...
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Lei Xu, Takuji Kinkyo and Shigeyuki Hamori
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Yadong Li, Rujia Li, Rongbiao Ji, Yehui Wu, Jiaojiao Chen, Mengyao Wu and Jianping Yang
Grain legumes play a significant global role and are integral to agriculture and food production worldwide. Therefore, comprehending and analyzing the factors that influence grain legume yield are of paramount importance for guiding agricultural manageme...
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Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent, George Hoberg and Stephen R. J. Sheppard
To be successful, actions for mitigating climate change in the forest and forest sector will not only need to be informed by the best available science, but will also require strong public and/or political acceptability. This paper presents the results o...
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Zheng Fang, Hongyue Li, Yuanfei Ma, Mei Zhang, Siwei Gao, Bosheng Chen, Junfeng Shen and Dayu Zhang
Termites can cause severe economic damage in households, reservoirs, agriculture, and forests. Monitoring termite activity plays an important role in integrated termite management. A device for the automatic monitoring of termites with high accuracy and ...
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Yaniv Shmuel, Yaron Ziv and Baruch Rinkevich
Canopies of branching corals harbor a wide range of sessile- and mobile-dwelling species that benefit from the physical compartments and the micro-environments created by the complex three-dimensional structures. Although different compartments within ca...
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Tianyu Yu, Cuiwei Liu, Zhuo Yan and Xiangbin Shi
Predicting the categories of actions in partially observed videos is a challenging task in the computer vision field. The temporal progress of an ongoing action is of great importance for action prediction, since actions can present different characteris...
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M. Joseph Hughes, S. Douglas Kaylor and Daniel J. Hayes
In the species-rich and structurally complex forests of the Eastern United States, disturbance events are often partial and therefore difficult to detect using remote sensing methods. Here we present a set of new algorithms, collectively called Vegetatio...
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Mingyu Zhang, Wenqiang Ge, Ruichun Tang and Peishun Liu
As the most widely used storage device today, hard disks are efficient and convenient, but the damage incurred in the event of a failure can be very significant. Therefore, early warnings before hard disk failure, allowing the stored content to be backed...
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Faiza Anwar, Mudassar Abbas, Mumtaz Hasan Malik, Amna Aziz Cheema, Suniya Tariq, Warda Afzal and Asfandyar Khan
Military personnel are exposed to several harsh conditions and mosquitos in mountains and wild forests. Mosquito-repellent textiles can help them to cope with such conditions. The present research work established a sustainable approach for fabricating m...
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Norhafizi Mohamad, Anuar Ahmad, Mohd Faisal Abdul Khanan and Ami Hassan Md Din
Estimating surface elevation changes in mangrove forests requires a technique to filter the mangrove canopy and quantify the changes underneath. Hence, this study estimates surface elevation changes underneath the mangrove canopy through vegetation filte...
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Jestine Paul, Benjamin Hong Meng Tan, Bharadwaj Veeravalli and Khin Mi Mi Aung
Machine learning classification algorithms, such as decision trees and random forests, are commonly used in many applications. Clients who want to classify their data send them to a server that performs their inference using a trained model. The client m...
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Hua Peng, Jinghao Hu, Haitao Wang, Hui Ren, Cong Sun, Huosheng Hu and Jing Li
Imitation of human behaviors is one of the effective ways to develop artificial intelligence. Human dancers, standing in front of a mirror, always achieve autonomous aesthetics evaluation on their own dance motions, which are observed from the mirror. Me...
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Dragos Paul Mihai, Cosmin Trif, Gheorghe Stancov, Denise Radulescu and George Mihai Nitulescu
Transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) is a ligand-gated calcium channel activated by cold temperatures and by a plethora of electrophilic environmental irritants (allicin, acrolein, mustard-oil) and endogenously oxidized lipids (15-deoxy-?12, 14...
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Yuhan Zheng and Wataru Takeuchi
Mangrove ecosystems are valuable, yet vulnerable, and therefore they have been an important subject of protection and restoration in China. Reliable information on long-term China mangrove dynamics is lacking but vital to analyze the driving forces and e...
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Lei Ren, Jianming Miao, Yulong Li, Xiangxin Luo, Junxue Li and Michael Hartnett
In order to obtain forward states of coastal currents, numerical models are a commonly used approach. However, the accurate definition of initial conditions, boundary conditions and other model parameters are challenging. In this paper, a novel applicati...
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Noémie Bonnin, Alexander C. Van Andel, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Alex K. Piel, Lilian Pintea and Serge A. Wich
As with other species of great apes, chimpanzee numbers have declined over the past decades. Proper conservation of the remaining chimpanzees requires accurate and frequent data on their distribution and density. In Tanzania, 75% of the chimpanzees live ...
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Yangrui Han, Weifeng Wang, Weiyan Zhang, Jun Zhang and Dandan Shan
Standing biomass stocks represent a balance between a number of processes that lead to biomass accumulation or to biomass loss. The average time of biomass residence (ATr) of an ecosystem is the average period of time that carbon is locked up in the livi...
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Fernando Magdaleno,Roberto Martínez
Pág. 259 - 272
Aim of study: This paper presents a novel index, the Riparian Forest Evaluation (RFV) index, for assessing the ecological condition of riparian forests. The status of riparian ecosystems has global importance due to the ecological and social benefits and...
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Patricia Póvoa de Mattos,Suzana Maria Salis,Evaldo Muñoz Braz,Sandra Mara Araujo Crispim
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The Pantanal region in Brazil has an area of 140,000 km², with approximately 30 % of natural forests distributed as deciduous, semideciduous, and forested savannas. The subregion of Nhecolandia represents 19 % of this area. There is constant concern abou...
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