Mangrove plants are popularized for their edible and vital source of food. Mangroves in Pulau Sembilan, Langkat, North Sumatra, Indonesia were supported by the high plant diversity. These major tree species provided mangrove fruits annually assist finding a new variety functional food materials. Bioprospecting was denoted exploration bioresources material to useful derived products. The present...

A general Methodology referred to as Daphne is introduced which is used to find optimum combinations of methods to preprocess and forecast for time-series datasets. The Daphne Optimization Methodology (DOM) is based on the idea of quantifying the effect of each method on the forecasting performance, and using this information as a distance in a directed graph. Two optimization algorithms, Genet...

Jacinta C. Beehner, Daphne A. Onderdonk, Susan C. Alberts, and Jeanne Altmann Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27701, USA, Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya, and Department of Conservation Biology, Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield, IL 605...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The mangrove Rhizophora mucronata has previously been reported to lack annual growth rings, thus barring it from dendrochronological studies. In this study the reported absence of the growth rings was reconsidered and the periodic nature of light and dark brown layers visible on polished stem discs investigated. In addition, the formation of these layers in relation to preva...