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Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha, Anselmo Nogueira, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +3 more
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Keanekaragaman Tumbuhan Liana Di Hutan Musim Blok Curah Jarak Taman Nasional Baluran [PDF]

, 2014
-Baluran National Park is an area of Natural Resource Conservation, which means in the Baluran National Park are managing the utilization of natural resources wisely done, to ensure continuity of supply by continuing to maintain both the quality and ...
Restiani, R. A. (Restu)
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CONCERT: A Modular Reconfigurable Robot for Construction

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents CONCERT, a fully reconfigurable modular collaborative robot (cobot) for multiple on‐site operations in a construction site. CONCERT has been designed to support human activities in construction sites by leveraging two main characteristics: high‐power density motors and modularity. In this way, the robot is able to perform a
Luca Rossini, Edoardo Romiti, Arturo Laurenzi, Francesco Ruscelli, Marco Ruzzon, Luca Covizzi, Lorenzo Baccelliere, Stefano Carrozzo, Michael Terzer, Marco Magri, Carlo Morganti, Maolin Lei, Liana Bertoni, Diego Vedelago, Corrado Burchielli, Stefano Cordasco, Luca Muratore, Andrea Giusti, Nikos Tsagarakis   +18 more
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The psychosocial impact of vaginal delivery and cesarean section in primiparous women [PDF]

, 2018
The aim of this study was to identify how the method of delivery and birth experience interfere with maternal psychological status early after puerperium.
Alexandroaia, Camelia, Balalau, Denisa O., Carp, Delia, Liana, Ples, Olaru, Octavian G., Sima, Romina M., Stanescu, Anca D.   +6 more
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Spectral characterization of plant diversity in a biodiversity‐enriched oil palm plantation

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
How well can airborne imaging spectroscopy detect plant diversity in vertically complex agroforestry systems? We tested this in a biodiversity‐enriched oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, using high‐resolution hyperspectral data. We calculated spectral alpha and beta diversity and compared them to field‐based plant diversity.
Vannesa Montoya‐Sánchez, Anna K. Schweiger, Michael Schlund, Gustavo Brant Paterno, Stefan Erasmi, Holger Kreft, Dirk Hölscher, Fabian Brambach, Bambang Irawan, Leti Sundawati, Delphine Clara Zemp   +10 more
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Connectivity Explains Local Ant Community Structure in A Neotropical Forest Canopy: A Large‐Scale Experimental Approach [PDF]

, 2019
Understanding how habitat structure and resource availability affect local species distributions is a key goal of community ecology. Where habitats occur as a mosaic, variation in connectivity among patches influences both local species richness and ...
Adams, Benjamin J., Schnitzer, Stefan A., Yanoviak, Stephen P.   +2 more
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Using phenology to improve invasive plant detection in fine‐scale hyperspectral drone‐based images

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Using drone‐based hyperspectral images of mixed temperate successional forests collected over a growing season, detection algorithms were produced for three invasive species of interest, which are not only invasive in Virginia but also much of the U.S.: Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven), Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive), and Rhamnus davurica ...
Kelsey S. Huelsman, Howard E. Epstein, Xi Yang, Roderick Walker   +3 more
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Dismantling the genus Tarenna (Rubiaceae: Pavetteae) in Africa and Madagascar, with the description of three new genera

TAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract As presently circumscribed, the Paleotropical genus Tarenna, belonging to the tribe Pavetteae (Rubiaceae), comprises about 200 species and has its centres of diversity in tropical Asia and Africa. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies of the tribe revealed the polyphyly of Tarenna, suggesting that the genus needs to be recircumscribed ...
Petra De Block, Sylvain G. Razafimandimbison, Franck Rakotonasolo, Steven B. Janssens   +3 more
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Trade-offs Between Water Transport Capacity and Drought Resistance in Neotropical Canopy Liana and Tree Species [PDF]

, 2016
In tropical forest canopies, it is critical for upper shoots to efficiently provide water to leaves for physiological function while safely preventing loss of hydraulic conductivity due to cavitation during periods of soil water deficit or high ...
De Guzman, Mark E., Santiago, Louis S., Schnitzer, Stefan A., Álvarez-Cansino, Leonor   +3 more
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Temporal dynamics in functional fruit traits of native and invasive fleshy fruited plants in subtropical Andean forests

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Fruits encompass the energetic and material flow between both interacting parties in frugivore‐mediated seed dispersal. Since fruit traits matter in frugivores' foraging decisions, the temporal dynamics of fruit traits might influence interaction outcomes.
Irene M. A. Bender, Pedro G. Blendinger, M. Josefina Zelaya, Tobias N. Rojas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source