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Woody plant communities of isolated Afromontane cloud forests in Taita Hills, Kenya [PDF]
, 2010 In the Taita Hills in southern Kenya, remnants of the original Afromontane forest vegetation are restricted to isolated mountain peaks. To assess the level of degradation and the need for forest restoration, we examined how forest plant communities and ...
Aerts, Raf +8 more
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Forest-PointNet: A Deep Learning Model for Vertical Structure Segmentation in Complex Forest Scenes
Remote Sensing, 2023 The vertical structure of forest ecosystems influences and reflects ecosystem functioning. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) enables the rapid acquisition of 3D forest information and subsequent reconstruction of the vertical structure, which provides new
Zhibin Ma +4 more
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2017 The genus Otraleus Günther, 1935 is recorded from the Philippines for the first time. Four new species, Otraleus bellemansae sp. nov., O. applai sp. nov., O. christianae sp. nov. and O. elizabethae sp.
Joachim Bresseel, Jérôme Constant
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A new Miconia (Melastomatacaeae) from Bolivia, with remarks on angular-branched species in the Andes [PDF]
, 2003 A new species of Melastomataceae frorm Bolivia is described, illustrated and placed in a phenetic context within Miconia, a genus of 1000 species and about 2000 published names.
Beck, Stephan G., Renner, Susanne S.
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ICESat: Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite [PDF]
, 2007 This brochure describes NASA's ICESat mission ((Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite), which was launched January 12, 2003. ICESat is the benchmark Earth Observing System mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as ...
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Noteworthy records of Myotis Kaup, 1829 species in northeastern Guatemala, including the first record of M. volans (H. Allen, 1866) (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from the country [PDF]
Check ListMyotis is the most diverse genus of bats in Central America, with 10 species currently reported for Guatemala. Here, we present the first record of M. volans (H. Allen, 1866), and third record of M.
Luis A. Trujillo +4 more
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Botanical Sciences, 2020 Background: Cloud forest in central Veracruz is highly fragmented. However, different arboreal elements are still present within the agricultural matrix, including small patches of secondary forest, isolated trees and forested riparian belts.
Omar Hernández-Dávila +4 more
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ICESat/GLAS Data as a Measurement Tool for Peatland Topography and Peat Swamp Forest Biomass in Kalimantan, Indonesia [PDF]
, 2011 Indonesian peatlands are one of the largest near-surface pools of terrestrial organic carbon. Persistent logging, drainage and recurrent fires lead to huge emission of carbon each year.
Anderson +18 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Tropical montane landscapes harbor diverse flora and fauna, and many species there are ecological specialists with narrow elevational distributions, limited geographic ranges, and small global populations.
Jill E. Jankowski +4 more
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Botanical Sciences, 2016 The first record of Telipogon helleri (Orchidaceae) in Mexico was in 2009. The relevance of this study is the finding and characterization of a second population of this taxon, in a new location, and the revaluation of the original population five years
Alfredo García-González +5 more
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