Previous research studies have demonstrated that the relationship between remote sensing-derived parameters and aboveground biomass (AGB) could vary across different species types. However, there are few studies that calibrate reliable statistical models for mangrove AGB. This study quantifies the differences of accuracy in AGB estimation between the results obtained with and without the consid...

Tree species proportions of forest stands were estimated using ranging scatterometer called HUTSCAT. Employed estimation method was multilayer perceptron neural network with error backpropagation training algorithm. Different methods based on intensity and/or shape of measured profiles were tested. The best classification accuracy of the main tree species was about 88% and the mean error of est...

Estimate of nuclear DNA content serves as an independent tool for validating the completeness whole genome sequences and investigating among-species variation sizes, but some species, requirement fresh cells makes this highly inaccessible. Here we focused on elasmobranch species (sharks rays), using flow cytometry or quantitative PCR (qPCR), estimated contents brownbanded bamboo shark, w...

Plasmids of the incompatibility group IncP-1 can transfer and replicate in many genera of the Proteobacteria. They are composed of backbone genes that encode a variety of essential functions and accessory genes that have implications for human health and environmental remediation. Although it is well understood that the accessory genes are transferred horizontally between plasmids, recent studi...

Discord in the estimated gene trees among loci can be attributed to both the process of mutation and incomplete lineage sorting. Effectively modeling these two sources of variation--mutational and coalescent variance--provides two distinct challenges for phylogenetic studies. Despite extensive investigation on mutational models for gene-tree estimation over the past two decades and recent atten...