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Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution
Passive acoustic monitoring of bats is used in a growing number of studies in applied and basic research, from local to global scales. Despite the publication of good‐practice recommendations, several unsettled debates persist about the possibilities and
Charlotte Roemer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anticipatory Behavior of the Clonal Plant Fragaria vesca

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2018
Active foraging for patchy resources is a crucial feature of many clonal plant species. It has been recently shown that plants’ foraging for resources can be facilitated by anticipatory behavior via association of resource position with other ...
Vít Latzel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Waved albatrosses can navigate with strong magnets attached to their head [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The foraging excursions of waved albatrosses Phoebastria irrorata during incubation are ideally suited for navigational studies because they navigate between their Galápagos breeding site and one specific foraging site in the upwelling zone of Peru along
Anderson, David J.   +3 more
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Explaining the Origin of Negative Poisson's Ratio in Amorphous Networks With Machine Learning

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This review summarizes how machine learning (ML) breaks the “vicious cycle” in designing auxetic amorphous networks. By transitioning from traditional “black‐box” optimization to an interpretable “AI‐Physics” closed‐loop paradigm, ML is shown to not only discover highly optimized structures—such as all‐convex polygon networks—but also unveil hidden ...
Shengyu Lu, Xiangying Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Modular Electronic Microrobots With Onboard Sensor‐Program‐Steered Locomotion

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Modular electronic smartlet microrobots integrate ambient‐light energy harvesting, photodetection, programmable CMOS control, and bubble‐based actuation within a sub‐millimeter fold‐up architecture. A 58‐bit on‐board CMOS chiplet enables sensor–program steered switching between independently addressable actuators, achieving closed‐loop 2D navigation in
Vineeth K. Bandari   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foraging [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Food and Landscape (2018) addresses the place of one of the oldest human landscape practices – foraging – in a world where the business of nourishment and the lands that produce foodstuffs continue to be developed on relentlessly industrial lines. Arguing that foraging, agriculture and hunting are, in practice,
openaire   +2 more sources

Nitrogen Isotopes Suggest Sex‐Based Diet Differences on the Breeding Grounds for a Sexually Monomorphic Migratory Passerine

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
Differential foraging by sex can have important implications for understanding the ecology of a species. This can be especially difficult to study through observations alone in sexually monomorphic species, such as the Golden‐crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia
Autumn R. Iverson   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diatom‐Inspired 1D Immobile Robots Capable of 2D Collective Mobility

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a diatom‐inspired robotic system that explores group coordination through limited physical interactions. The researchers tune groups of Barbots, simple robotic agents that possess neither individual mobility nor explicit communication capabilities, to achieve complex and adaptive collaboration based on environmental light.
Tianyi Hu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of termites (Isoptera) for the recycling of herbivore dung in tropical ecosystems: a review

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2008
While the key role of termites in the decomposition of litter in the tropics has been acknowledged for a long time, much less information exists on their importance in the recycling of dung of primary consumers, especially herbivores.
Bernd P. FREYMANN   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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