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Landscape, stand and tree characteristics influence the distribution of lightning damage in Central African forests

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract The impact of lightning in tropical forests remains uncertain. Specifically, the factors that influence the spatial distribution of lightning damage within forests remain unknown.
Bianca Zoletto, Masha T. van der Sande, Peter van der Sleen, Evan M. Gora, Daniel Mitchard, Aventino Nkwasibwe, Marijn Bauters, Aida Cuni‐Sanchez, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Dennis Babaasa, Meirion Hills, Paul van der Donk, Nestor K. Luambua, Wannes Hubau, Douglas Sheil   +14 more
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L-band radar sensing of soil moisture [PDF]

The performance of an L-band, 25 cm wavelength imaging synthetic aperture radar was assessed for soil moisture determination, and the temporal variability of radar returns from a number of agricultural fields was studied.
Atwater, S., Bryan, M. L., Chang, A. T. C., Estes, J. E., Salomonson, V. V., Simonett, D. S.   +5 more
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State‐and‐transition models as a contextual framework for leading indicators of restoration trajectories

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract New incentives and instruments for financing ecosystem restoration require frameworks that support planning, monitoring and reporting, including the identification and use of leading indicators. Leading indicators have the potential to predict the outcomes of restoration interventions before full recovery has occurred.
Sarah J. Luxton, Josh Dorrough, David Eldridge, James Furlaud, Anna E. Richards, Katrina Szetey, Nicki Taws, Kristen J. Williams, Suzanne M. Prober   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Calculations of radar backscattering coefficient of vegetation-covered soils [PDF]

A model for simulating the measured backscattering coefficient of vegetation-covered soil surfaces includes both coherent and incoherent components of the backscattered radar pulses from a rough sil surface.
Jackson, T. J., Mo, T., Schmugge, T. J.
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Applying the maximum entropy principle to neural networks enhances multi‐species distribution models

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract The increasing volume of presence‐only (PO) data generated by citizen science initiatives has greatly expanded biodiversity databases, but the statistical use of these data in species distribution models (SDMs) remains limited by strong sampling biases and the absence of reliable absence information.
Maxime Ryckewaert, Diego Marcos, Christophe Botella, Maximilien Servajean, Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information flow and the adoption of soil‐improving and water conservation measures, and household welfare: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Extension services are designed to facilitate the flow of information from researchers to farmers. However, information failures continue to impede the diffusion of soil‐improving and water conservation technologies in Sub‐Saharan African countries. We use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the impact of an extension‐based campaign
Esther Gloria Mbabazi, Awudu Abdulai, Enoch M. Kikulwe, Elisabetta Gotor   +3 more
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Soil moisture inferences from thermal infrared measurements of vegetation temperatures [PDF]

Thermal infrared measurements of wheat (Triticum durum) canopy temperatures were used in a crop water stress index to infer root zone soil moisture. Results indicated that one time plant temperature measurement cannot produce precise estimates of root ...
Jackson, R. D.
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Table S6: Two-way ANOVA examining the effects of soil depth and sampling time on soil moisture (SM), pH, total nitrogen (TN), total carbon (TC), ammonia (NH4+-N), nitrate (NO3–N), dissoved organic carbon, dissoved organic nitrogen, sand, silt and clay content

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Soil wetting and drying processes influence stone artefact distribution in clay‐rich soils: A case study from Middle Gidley Island in Murujuga, northwest Western Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Soils that contain swelling clay minerals (e.g., montmorillonite) expand and contract during wetting and drying, causing movement within the soil profile. This process, known as argilliturbation, can alter artefact distributions, destroy stratigraphy and complicate the interpretation of archaeological deposits.
Caroline Mather, Matthias Leopold, Kaitlin Sullivan, Kane Ditchfield, Tom Horrocks, Luke Gliganic, Emma Beckett, Diana Patalwala, Emielda Yusiharni, Michael Smirk, William Hiscock, Jo McDonald   +11 more
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Simulation of partial anaerobiosis in a model soil in respect to denitrification [PDF]

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Leffelaar, P.A.
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