Changes to land use and disturbance frequency threaten disturbance-dependent Lepidoptera within sandplain habitats of the northeastern United States. The frosted elfin (Callophrys irus) is a rare and declining monophagous butterfly that is found in xeric open habitats maintained by disturbance. We surveyed potential habitat for adult frosted elfins at four sites containing frosted elfin populat...

Crop water use (ET) of third year Chico walnuts under low volume sprinkler irrigation in both high and conventional density plantings were measured at the Kearney Agricultural Center in 1984. Crop yield was also evaluated. Additionally, the yield response to varying levels of pruning of selected high density guard row trees was assessed. On a per tree basis, high density tree peak ET (25 gal/tr...

Cupressus sempervirence var. horzontalis belong to the Cupressus family. This species is evergreen and grows within an elevation range of 290 meters and 1200 meters above sea level in the North of Iran. The extraction of texture features from high-resolution remote sensing imagery provides a complementary source of data for those applications in which the spectral information is not sufficient ...

Annual growth ring variations in Arctic trees are often used to reconstruct surface temperature. In general, however, the growth of Arctic vegetation is limited both by temperature and light availability, suggesting that variations in atmospheric transmissivity may also influence tree-ring characteristics. Here we show that Arctic tree-ring density is sensitive to changes in light availability ...

i ABSTRACT Two critical limitations for hyperspatial imagery are higher imagery variances and large data sizes. Although object-based analyses with a multi-scale framework for diverse object sizes are the solution, more data sources and large amounts of testing at high costs are required. In this study, I used tree density segmentation as the key element of a three-level hierarchical vegetation...

Bulk wood density measurements are recognized for their utility in ecology, industry, and biomass estimations. In tree-ring research, microdensitometric techniques widely used, but ability to determine the correct central tendency has been questioned. Though rarely it may be possible use bulk as a tool check accuracy of even measurements. Since measuring parallel with X-ray densitometry is quic...

A current major challenge in systems biology is to compute statistics on biomolecular network motifs, since this can reveal significant systemic differences between organisms. We extend the “color coding” technique to weighted edge networks and apply it to PPI networks where edges are weighted by probabilistic confidence scores, as provided by the STRING database. This is a substantial improvem...

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