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Bin Fang, Jonghun Kam, Emily Elliott, Glenn Tootle, Matthew Therrell and Venkat Lakshmi
The Apalachicola?Chattahoochee?Flint (ACF) basin is arguably the most litigated interstate river system in the eastern United States. Given the complicated demands for water use within this basin, it has been difficult to ascertain if the recent multi-de...
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Alina Raphael, Zvy Dubinsky, Nathan S. Netanyahu and David Iluz
Coral reefs are undergoing a severe decline due to ocean acidification, seawater warming and anthropogenic eutrophication. We demonstrate the applicability of Deep Learning (DL) for following these changes. We examined the distribution and frequency appe...
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Marta Solé, José-Manuel Fortuño, Mike van der Schaar and Michel André
Global change is the origin of increased occurrence of disturbance events in natural communities, with biological invasions constituting a major threat to ecosystem integrity and functioning. The apple snail (Pomacea maculata) is a freshwater gastropod m...
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Nicole C. Inglis and Jelena Vukomanovic
Fire management in protected areas faces mounting obstacles as climate change alters disturbance regimes, resources are diverted to fighting wildfires, and more people live along the boundaries of parks. Evidence-based prescribed fire management and impr...
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Ricardo Díaz-Delgado and Sander Mücher
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have already become an affordable and cost-efficient tool to quickly map a targeted area for many emerging applications in the arena of Ecological Monitoring and Biodiversity Conservation. Managers, owners, companies and sc...
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Matthew B. Russell, Stephanie R. Patton, David C. Wilson, Grant M. Domke and Katie L. Frerker
The amount of biomass stored in forest ecosystems is a result of past natural disturbances, forest management activities, and current structure and composition such as age class distributions. Although natural disturbances are projected to increase in th...
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Darius Kavaliauskas, Barbara Fussi, Marjana Westergren, Filippos Aravanopoulos, Domen Finzgar, Roland Baier, Paraskevi Alizoti, Gregor Bozic, Evangelia Avramidou, Monika Konnert and Hojka Kraigher
The conservation and sustainable use of forests and forest genetic resources (FGR) is a challenging task for scientists and foresters. Forest management practices can affect diversity on various levels: genetic, species, and ecosystem. Understanding past...
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Liza S. Comita, María Uriarte, Jimena Forero-Montaña, W. John Kress, Nathan G. Swenson, Jill Thompson, María Natalia Umaña and Jess K. Zimmerman
Disturbance plays a key role in shaping forest composition and diversity. We used a community phylogeny and long-term forest dynamics data to investigate biotic and abiotic factors shaping tropical forest regeneration following both human and natural dis...
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Brian Sims, Sandra Corsi, Gualbert Gbehounou, Josef Kienzle, Makiko Taguchi and Theodor Friedrich
Land degradation and soil fertility deterioration are two of the main causes of agricultural production stagnation and decline in many parts of the world. The model of crop production based on mechanical soil tillage and exposed soils is typically accomp...
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Kayla I. Perry and Daniel A. Herms
Natural and anthropogenic disturbances alter canopy structure, understory vegetation, amount of woody debris, and the litter and soil layers in forest ecosystems. These environmental changes impact forest communities, including ground-dwelling invertebra...
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