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Aedes albopictus and Aedes japonicus - two invasive mosquito species with different temperature niches in Europe

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2016
Background Aedes albopictus and Ae. japonicus are two of the most widespread invasive mosquito species that have recently become established in western Europe.
Sarah Cunze   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Incompletely observed: niche estimation for six frequent European horsefly species (Diptera, Tabanoidea, Tabanidae)

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2020
Background More than 170 species of tabanids are known in Europe, with many occurring only in limited areas or having become very rare in the last decades.
Dorian D. Dörge   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing

open access: yesNature Methods, 2012
High-throughput sequencing has revolutionized microbial ecology, but read quality remains a considerable barrier to accurate taxonomy assignment and α-diversity assessment for microbial communities.
Nicholas A. Bokulich   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Much effort, little success: causes for the low ecological efficacy of restoration measures in German surface waters

open access: yesEnvironmental Sciences Europe, 2023
Background For more than 20 years, restoration measures have been conducted on watercourses in Germany to increase habitat diversity and thus promote biodiversity. However, their ecological efficacy often proved to be limited.
Denise Jasmin Brettschneider   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
Language technologies contribute to promoting multilingualism and linguistic diversity around the world. However, only a very small number of the over 7000 languages of the world are represented in the rapidly evolving language technologies and ...
Pratik M. Joshi   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Improving Transferability of Adversarial Examples With Input Diversity [PDF]

open access: yesComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2018
Though CNNs have achieved the state-of-the-art performance on various vision tasks, they are vulnerable to adversarial examples --- crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbations to clean images.
Cihang Xie   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An Adaptive Management Model for Brown Bears in Hokkaido: Based on Total Population and the Number of Nuisance Bears

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
Bear management changes management actions according to the horizontal axis of the population size and the vertical axis of the number of nuisance bears. Aiming for the target population size of Ntar, Actions I and II protect the bears, and Action IV reduces the population.
Hiroyuki Matsuda   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Host defence peptide LEAP2 contributes to antimicrobial activity in a mustache toad (Leptobrachium liui)

open access: yesBMC Veterinary Research, 2023
Background The liver-expressed antimicrobial peptide 2 (LEAP2) is essential in host immunity against harmful pathogens and is only known to act as an extracellular modulator to regulate embryonic development in amphibians.
Jie Chen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Speciation Through the Lens of Population Dynamics: A Theoretical Primer on How Small and Large Populations Diverge

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
Population size and dynamics fundamentally shape speciation by influencing genetic drift, founder events, and adaptive potential. Small populations may speciate rapidly due to stronger drift, whereas large populations harbor more genetic diversity, which can alter divergence trajectories. We highlight theoretical models that incorporate population size
Ryo Yamaguchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity, Mechanisms, and Significance of Macrophage Plasticity.

open access: yesAnnual Review of Pathology, 2020
Macrophages are a diverse set of cells present in all body compartments. This diversity is imprinted by their ontogenetic origin (embryonal versus adult bone marrow-derived cells); the organ context; the activation or deactivation of various signals in ...
M. Locati, G. Curtale, A. Mantovani
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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