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Shedding light on the diversity of epiphytic mosses in some Mexican forests

Botan‪ical Sciences
Background: Epiphytic mosses are one of the most common groups in forest environments but among the most neglected by researchers in Mexico. Questions: What is the epiphytic mosses diversity, measured in richness, turnover, and community composition ...
Enrique Hernandez-Rodríguez, Patricia Herrera-Paniagua, Ángel Benítez, Dennis Alejandro Escolástico-Ortiz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

BMPCQA: Bioinspired Metaverse Point Cloud Quality Assessment Based on Large Multimodal Models

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a bioinspired metaverse point cloud quality assessment metric, which simulates the human visual evaluation process to perform the point cloud quality assessment task. It first extracts rendering projection video features, normal image features, and point cloud patch features, which are then fed into a large multimodal model to ...
Huiyu Duan, Kang Fu, Sijing Wu, Yunhao Li, Zicheng Zhang, Qiang Hu, Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A bryophyte checklist of the ecological reserve of Gurjaú, Pernambuco, Brazil [PDF]

, 2005
A bryophyte checklist of the Ecological Reserve of Gurjaú (08º10’00'’-08º15’00"S; 35º02’30"- 35º05’00"W), a remnant of the Atlantic Forest in the State of Pernambuco, has been compiled.
Germano, Shirley Rangel, Pôrto, Kátia Cavalcanti   +1 more
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High‐elevation endemic plants predicted to lose habitat from changing climate in Washington State

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise High‐elevation plants face unique challenges from potential climate change impacts that will likely require upslope migration into increasingly smaller suitable habitat. This situation is particularly acute for endemic species that by definition occupy small geographic ranges.
Nicholas L. Gjording, Erik W. Ertsgaard, David E. Giblin, Iris H. Dimpsey, Owen B. Bard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bryophytes of beach forests in Chon Buri Province, Thailand [PDF]

Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2014
An investigation of bryophyte diversity of three beach forests including Had Tung Prong, Had Tein Talay, and the beach forest in Thai Island and Sea Natural History Museum in Chon Buri Province, Thailand, was carried out. From 137 enumerated specimens,
Phiangphak Sukkharak, Si He
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Manual of tropical bryology [PDF]

, 2003
Bryophytes belong to the oldest land plants. They existed already in the Palaeozoic 300 mio years ago in forms which were hardly different from the extant species. They remained relatively unchanged with relatively low evolution rates (and are thus often
Enroth, Johannes, Fang, Yin-Ming, Frahm, Jan-Peter, Koponen, Timo, O’Shea, Brian J., Piippo, Sinikka, Pocs, Tamas, Rao, Pengcheng   +7 more
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Spatial distribution of PAH concentrations and stable isotope signatures (δ13C, δ15N) in mosses from three European areas – Characterization by multivariate analysis [PDF]

, 2014
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations and N, C stable isotope signatures were determined in mosses Hypnum cupressiforme Hedw. from 61 sites of 3 European regions: Île-de-France (France); Navarra (Spain); the Swiss Plateau and Basel area ...
Ares, Ares, Ayres, Blasco, C. Raynaud, Cape, Carlberg, Cipro, Couto, Drápelová, Foan, Foan, Garrec, Gerdol, Gerdol, Glime, GN, Gonzalez-Miqueo, Gustafsson, Harmens, Harmens, Harmens, Harmens, Harmens, Ho, Holoubek, Holoubek, IARC, ICP-Vegetation, IEN, INSEE, J.M. Santamaría, Jones, Kinnersley, Krommer, Körner, L. Foan, L. Thöni, Liu, Liu, Liu, M. Sebilo, Mariotti, Mariotti, MeteoFrance, Meteotest, OFS, Omar, Orlinski, Pearson, Ratola, Ravindra, Rühling, S. Leblond, Sawidis, Schofield, Simonich, Solga, Sumerling, Tcherkez, Tyler, UNECE, V. Simon, Wegener, Xiao, Zechmeister   +65 more
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Bioaccumulation of polonium (210Po), uranium (234U, 238U) isotopes and trace metals in mosses from Sobieszewo Island, northern Poland

E3S Web of Conferences, 2013
The objective of this study was determination of the polonium (210Po), uranium (234U and 238U) radionuclides and trace metals (Pb, Fe, Zn, Cu, Ni, Cd, Hg) concentrations in mosses samples from Sobieszewo Island near the phosphogypsum waste dump in ...
Boryło A., Nowicki W., Olszewski G., Skwarzec B.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa, Jennifer Smith‐Merry, Kuo‐yi Jade Chang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source