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Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Researchers in ecology and evolutionary biology are increasingly dependent on computational code to conduct research. Hence, the use of efficient methods to share, reproduce, and collaborate on code as well as document research is fundamental.
Pedro Henrique Pereira Braga   +16 more
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EcoDes-DK15: high-resolution ecological descriptors of vegetation and terrain derived from Denmark's national airborne laser scanning data set [PDF]

open access: yesEarth System Science Data, 2022
Biodiversity studies could strongly benefit from three-dimensional data on ecosystem structure derived from contemporary remote sensing technologies, such as light detection and ranging (lidar).
J. J. Assmann   +5 more
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A second horizon scan of biogeography: Golden Ages, Midas touches, and the Red Queen

open access: yesFrontiers of Biogeography, 2016
Are we entering a new ‘Golden Age’ of biogeography, with continued development of infrastructure and ideas? We highlight recent developments, and the challenges and opportunities they bring, in light of the snapshot provided by the 7th biennial meeting ...
Michael N Dawson   +19 more
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EVALUATION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF SAR AND SAR-OPTICAL FUSED DATASET FOR CROP DISCRIMINATION [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
Crop discrimination and acreage play a vital role in interpreting the cropping pattern, statistics of the produce and market value of each product. Sultan Battery is an area where a large amount of irrigated and rainfed paddy crops are grown along with ...
S. Mustak   +3 more
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Application and comparative performance of network modularity algorithms to ecological communities classification

open access: yesActa Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2014
Network modularity is a well-studied large-scale connectivity pattern in networks. The detection of modules in real networks constitutes a crucial step towards a description of the network building blocks and their evolutionary dynamics.
Thorsten Thiergart   +4 more
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Developing Next Generation Ecoinformatics Tools for Advancing Global Change Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Ecosystems are responding to a variety of human-induced, interlinked stressors that have emerged from changing climate, alteration to the global water cycle, sea-level rise, and land use and land cover change, among others.
Nwigboji, Ifeanyi Humphrey
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Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Characteristics in Southern Thailand

open access: yesWalailak Journal of Science and Technology, 2011
The climatic, vegetation and soil characteristics of several tropical montane cloud forests in southern Thailand were investigated. Automatic weather stations were installed at three study sites: Mt. Nom cloud forest, Dadfa cloud forest and Mt.
Mullica JAROENSUTASINEE   +3 more
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Impact of Global Warming on Coral Reefs

open access: yesWalailak Journal of Science and Technology, 2011
In this paper, we review coral reef responses to climate variability and discuss the possible mechanisms by which climate impacts the coral reef ecosystem. Effects of oceanographic variables such as sea temperature, turbulence, salinity, and nutrients on
Sirilak CHUMKIEW   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the quality of ecoinformatics data derived from commercial agriculture: a repeatability analysis of pest density estimates

open access: yes, 2021
Each year, consultants and field scouts working in commercial agriculture undertake a massive, decentralized data collection effort as they monitor insect populations to make real-time pest management decisions. These data, if integrated into a database,
Rosenheim, Jay
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The taxlist package: managing plant taxonomic lists in R

open access: yesBiodiversity Data Journal, 2018
Taxonomic lists are crucial elements of vegetation-plot databases and provide the links between original entries, reference taxon views and different taxon concepts.
Miguel Alvarez, Federico Luebert
doaj   +3 more sources

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