The thamin (Cervus eldi) is an endangered species of deer whose present range is greatly reduced from its original distribution covering the deciduous forests throughout south-east Asia. We mapped the present distribution of thamin using ground surveys and tied this information to habitat types derived from satellite images in order to detect patterns that might indicate the landscape features ...

Fourteen hybridoma cell lines secreting antibodies against the Semliki Forest virus nucleocapsid protein were established and employed for identification of conserved epitopes among 27 alphavirus types and subtypes. Using an antibody capture test, the antibodies were found to cross-react to variable degree with alphaviruses belonging to the Semliki Forest, western encephalitis and eastern encep...

Aims Ericaceous plant species can host diverse fungi in their roots, including ericoid mycorrhizal fungi (ERMF), endophytes, pathogens and some species with unknown functions. However, how this diversity of fungi responds to different human disturbances is not well understood. Methods In this study, we examined the effects of different human disturbance on fungal diversity in hair roots of Vacc...

This study applied statistical approaches to the discrimination of spatial variations between sites and between forest types in the upper area of the Liukuei Experimental Forest of Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taiwan. The main purpose was to compare the effectiveness of various statistical approaches and then present the best strategy for discriminating the spatial variations of species ...

Although seasonal and temporal variations in evapotranspiration (ET) in Amazonia have been studied based upon flux-tower data and coarse resolution satellite-based models, ET dynamics over human-impacted landscapes are highly uncertain in this region. In this study, we estimate ET rates from critical land cover types over highly fragmented landscapes in the southern Amazon and characterize the ...

In this paper a supervised approach for the object building / segmentation process utilizing a priori knowledge about the specific scale domain of the target features is proposed. One premise was that the result should finally represent the entire scene content in a spatially contiguous one-level-representation (OLR, Lang & Langanke, 2006). High-level segmentation and pre-classification of mult...

Vegetation and soil have spatial distributions at different scales, while the distribution of microorganisms factors driving their are still unclear. We aimed to reveal pattern microbial functional diversity identify its drivers in forest soils a regional scale. Here, we performed an investigation microbes across several types covering area 236,700 km2 Guangxi, southwest China. examined total 1...