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Can AI Help to Avert the Environmental Great Filter? [PDF]
, 2021 AbstractWhile the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our lives is still evident on a daily basis, there is a much larger disaster looming in our future. We are faced with massive evidence that civilization is threatened by a climate disaster, and drastic measures are needed to avoid a point of no return. Will humankind succeed in adopting the necessary
Postma, Eric, Postma, Marie
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Phylogenetic clustering of fungal communities in human‐disturbed streams
Ecosphere, 2016 Phylogenetic community structure is increasingly used to examine community assembly, but the influence of anthropogenic disturbance on phylogenetic community structure remains little explored.
H. Mykrä +4 more
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Geographic trends in range sizes explain patterns in bird responses to urbanization in Europe
European Journal of Ecology, 2019 The probability of occurrence of bird species in towns/cities increases with their range sizes, and Rapoport’s rule states that range sizes increase with latitude.
Michal Ferenc +4 more
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Progress and Prospects of Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity in Orchids
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Orchids form mycorrhizal symbioses with fungi in natural habitats that affect their seed germination, protocorm growth, and adult nutrition. An increasing number of studies indicates how orchids gain mineral nutrients and sometime even organic compounds ...
Taiqiang Li +11 more
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Vegetative filters for improving environmental quality
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports, 1999 Nonpoint source pollution from agricultural areas has been recognized as a major contributor of surface and groundwater quality problems. Sediments, pesticide and nutrient runoffs, and microbial pathogens from farmlands may severely affect quality of water resources.
P.K. Kalita, Joseph P. Harner
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Aims Amidst the Campos de Altitude (Highland Grasslands) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, woody communities grow either clustered in tree islands or interspersed within the herbaceous matrix.
Tina Christmann +7 more
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A BSDE-based approach for the optimal reinsurance problem under partial information
, 2020 We investigate the optimal reinsurance problem under the criterion of maximizing the expected utility of terminal wealth when the insurance company has restricted information on the loss process.
Brachetta, Matteo, Ceci, Claudia
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Diversity, 2023 Most studies on island biogeography have focused on the terrestrial taxa; however, there are few studies on the drivers of diversity and community structure of intertidal organisms on islands. We evaluated the effect of landscape and marine environmental
Min-Ki Lee, Yong-Ju Lee, Chang-Bae Lee
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Micro-sized tunable liquid crystal optical filters
, 2017 Liquid Crystal Arrayed Microcavities (LCAM) is a new technology for ultra-narrow optical filtering (FWHM ~ 0.1 nm) that uses pico-liter volume Fabry-Perot type optical cavities filled with liquid crystal for tuning.
Atherton, David +3 more
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Airborne LiDAR for DEM generation: some critical issues [PDF]
, 2008 Airborne LiDAR is one of the most effective and reliable means of terrain data collection. Using LiDAR data for DEM generation is becoming a standard practice in spatial related areas.
Liu, Xiaoye
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