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Remote SensingCharacterizing Management Units (MUs) with tree-level data is instrumental for a comprehensive understanding of forest structure and for providing information needed to support forest management decision-making.
Jean A. Magalhães +5 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Resource managers require accurate estimates of large herbivore abundance and demography to maintain ecological integrity. Common methods to count these species, including observations from low altitude helicopter flights, may conflict with other protected area management objectives and struggle to produce precise estimates for more cryptic species. To
Hanem G. Abouelezz, N. Thompson Hobbs
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Longitudinal differences in Scots pine shoot elongation
Silva Fennica, 2018 Phenology can have a profound effect on growth and climatic adaptability of long-lived, northern tree species such as Scots pine ( L.), where the onset of growth in the spring is triggered mainly by accumulated heat, while cessation of growth is related ...
Andersson Gull, Bengt +3 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Sooty grouse Dendragapus fuliginosus are large game birds that occupy montane forests in the Pacific Northwest, USA. These forests have been altered by human activities, which have been shown to have both positive and negative impacts on local populations.
Sarah J. K. Frey +4 more
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The behavior of thermally modified wood after exposure in maritime/industrial and urban environments
HeliyonNatural and thermally modified Pine, Ash, and Acacia woods were exposed in two different environments: urban and maritime/industrial. The weathering effects were evaluated during 24 months regarding color, chemical, and structural changes.
Delfina Godinho +6 more
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Experimental assessment of large mammal population estimates from airborne thermal videography
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Wildlife resource management requires reliable, fast, and affordable methods of surveying wildlife populations to develop and adaptively adjust policies. Thermal video from drones can yield high rates of detection over large areas with relative speed and safety.
Julia S. McElhinny +7 more
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Habitat selection of moose in Sweden in managed boreal forests with Pinus contorta and P. sylvestris
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Human land use can take advantage of using exotic species to increase financial benefits. However, the use of exotic tree species might affect ecosystem functioning, potentially including the habitat use and movement behaviour of animals, modifying their ecological impact, and interactions with human land use.
Maria Bolund +5 more
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Credit‐Driven Adaptive Grouping for Refined Cooperative Multi‐Agent Reinforcement Learning
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Policy heterogeneity is crucial for achieving sophisticated coordination in complex collaborative tasks, which has emerged as one of the key challenges in multi‐agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in recent years. Notably, the grouping paradigm has made remarkable progress in addressing policy heterogeneity.
Yirui Liu +6 more
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Mechanical behaviour of wood T-joints. Experimental and numerical investigation
Fracture and Structural Integrity, 2014 Results of a double-shear single-dowel wood connection tested under monotonic quasi-static compression loading are presented and discussed in this paper.
C.L. dos Santos +2 more
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Mobile consumers influence the shoreward edge of intertidal seagrass ecosystems
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Ecological paradigms suggest that the environmentally stressful edge of a habitat is determined by physical factors. The work finds that, counter to these paradigms, an environmentally stressful edge can also be impacted by biotic interactions and are more complex than suggested.
Stephanie R. Valdez +4 more
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