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Genetic variation of endangered Jankowski’s Bunting (Emberiza jankowskii): High connectivity and a moderate history of demographic decline

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
IntroductionContinued discovery of “mismatch” patterns between population size and genetic diversity, involving wild species such as insects, amphibians, birds, mammals, and others, has raised issues about how population history, especially recent ...
Long Huang, Long Huang, Guochen Feng, Dan Li, Weiping Shang, Lishi Zhang, Rongfei Yan, Yunlei Jiang, Shi Li   +8 more
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Is Global Microbial Biodiversity Increasing, Decreasing, or Staying the Same?

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Animal and plant biodiversity is decreasing. In contrast, the global direction and the pace of change in microbial, including viral, biodiversity is unknown.
David S. Thaler, David S. Thaler
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RBDN: Residual Bottleneck Dense Network for Image Super-Resolution

IEEE Access, 2021
Recent studies have shown that a super-resolution generative adversarial network (SRGAN) can significantly improve the quality of single-image super-resolution.
Zeyu An, Junyuan Zhang, Ziyu Sheng, Xuanhe Er, Junjie Lv   +4 more
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Extracting the knowledge of networks in solving the innovative military bottlenecks of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the era of holy defense [PDF]

مدیریت راهبردی دانش سازمانی, 2023
Nowadays, the need to address the role of networks has become increasingly important for the armed forces due to the limited resources on the one hand and the frequency of missions on the other hand.
Ehsan Mollanouri Shamsi, Khalil Noruzi
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Informing conservation strategies with museum genomics: Long‐term effects of past anthropogenic persecution on the elusive European wildcat

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Like many carnivore species, European wildcats (Felis silvestris) have suffered severe anthropogenic population declines in the past, resulting in a strong population bottleneck at the beginning of the 20th century. In Germany, the species has managed to
Alina von Thaden, Berardino Cocchiararo, Sarah Ashley Mueller, Tobias Erik Reiners, Katharina Reinert, Iris Tuchscherer, Axel Janke, Carsten Nowak   +7 more
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Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō

Cell Genomics, 2021
Summary: The kākāpō is a flightless parrot endemic to New Zealand. Once common in the archipelago, only 201 individuals remain today, most of them descending from an isolated island population.
Nicolas Dussex, Tom van der Valk, Hernán E. Morales, Christopher W. Wheat, David Díez-del-Molino, Johanna von Seth, Yasmin Foster, Verena E. Kutschera, Katerina Guschanski, Arang Rhie, Adam M. Phillippy, Jonas Korlach, Kerstin Howe, William Chow, Sarah Pelan, Joanna D. Mendes Damas, Harris A. Lewin, Alex R. Hastie, Giulio Formenti, Olivier Fedrigo, Joseph Guhlin, Thomas W.R. Harrop, Marissa F. Le Lec, Peter K. Dearden, Leanne Haggerty, Fergal J. Martin, Vamsi Kodali, Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, David Iorns, Michael Knapp, Neil J. Gemmell, Fiona Robertson, Ron Moorhouse, Andrew Digby, Daryl Eason, Deidre Vercoe, Jason Howard, Erich D. Jarvis, Bruce C. Robertson, Love Dalén   +39 more
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Linkages among forest, water, and wildlife: a case study from Kalapani community forest in Lamahi bottleneck area in Terai Arc Landscape.

International Journal of the Commons, 2018
Forest and water are important entities for sustaining life on earth. In a terrestrial ecosystem, linkages between the entities creates a mosaic benefiting the wildlife by creating the suitable habitat.
Kanchan Thapa, Tara Prasad Gnyawali, Laxmi Chaudhary, Bhaskar Deo Chaudhary, Manoj Chaudhary, Gokarna Jung Thapa, Chiranjivi Khanal, Madhuri Karki Thapa, Tilak Dhakal, Dhan Prasad Rai, Shiv Raj Bhatta, Deepak Upadhya, Ananta Ram Bhandari, Dipesh Joshi   +13 more
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Influenza Virus—Host Co-evolution. A Predator-Prey Relationship?

Frontiers in Immunology, 2018
Influenza virus continues to cause yearly seasonal epidemics worldwide and periodically pandemics. Although influenza virus infection and its epidemiology have been extensively studied, a new pandemic is likely.
Konstantinos Voskarides, Eirini Christaki, Georgios K. Nikolopoulos   +2 more
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An integrated approach to historical population assessment of the great whales: case of the New Zealand southern right whale [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2016
Accurate estimation of historical abundance provides an essential baseline for judging the recovery of the great whales. This is particularly challenging for whales hunted prior to twentieth century modern whaling, as population-level catch records are ...
Jennifer A. Jackson, Emma L. Carroll, Tim D. Smith, Alexandre N. Zerbini, Nathalie J. Patenaude, C. Scott Baker   +5 more
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Pedestrian Arching Mechanism at Bottleneck in Subway Transit Hub

Information, 2021
Under the massive pedestrian flow, pedestrians arching phenomenon forms easily at bottleneck in subway hubs, which might stampede and crush. To explore pedestrian arching mechanism at bottleneck in subway transit hub, this paper conducts a series of ...
Wei Luo, Pengpeng Jiao, Yi Wang
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