Taibai Materia Medica: Unofficial ‘Herb Physicians’ in North Western China by Lena Springer

“…In a habitat of mountains in North West China, with few roads and covered in forest and rock, mostly autodidact part-time ‘herb physicians’ gather medicinal plants. …”
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Classification Performance Analysis of Decision Tree-Based Algorithms with Noisy Class Variable by Abdulmajeed Atiah Alharbi

“…The C4.5, CART, and random forest (RF) algorithms are considered to be three of the most used algorithms in decision trees. …”
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Prediction of Fluid Viscosity in Multiphase Reservoir Oil System by Machine Learning by Lihua Shao, Ru Ji, Shuyi Du, Hongqing Song

“…The prediction accuracy comparison results show that the random forest (RF) model performs accurately in predicting the viscosity of each phase of the reservoir, with the lowest error percentage and highest R2 values. …”
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Teach Aquaculture Curriculum: Anatomy of a Fish by Amber L. Garr, Cortney L. Ohs, Craig S. Kasper, R. Leroy Creswell, Frank A. Chapman, Brian E. Myers, Elisa J. Livengood, Carlos V. Martinez

“…Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, July 2010. …”
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Assessing the impact of climate change on sunflower yields using mathematical modeling by Zhygailo Taras, Zhygailo Olena, Akramova Ziyoda

“…Under both scenarios, the expected climate and weather conditions are expected to be more favourable for sunflower cultivation in the Eastern Forest-Steppe of Ukraine. The highest risk of sunflower seed yield shortfalls in certain years is anticipated in the Southern Steppe of Ukraine, with the most significant losses expected under the RCP4.5 scenario.…”
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My Pine Is Under Attack—What Should I Do? by Jiri Hulcr

“…Written by Jiri Hulcr and published by the School of Forest Resources and Conservation, May 2016. FOR331/FR399: My Pine Is Under Attack—What Should I Do? …”
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The Punky Wood Ambrosia Beetle and Fungus in Florida that Cause Wood Rot: Ambrosiodmus minor and Flavodon subulatus by Demian F. Gomez, Jiri Hulcr

“…Gomez and Jiri Hulcr and published by the UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation offers guidance in identification of the pest, the symptoms of an infestation, and explanation of the insect?…”
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FRAGSTATS: A Free Tool for Quantifying and Evaluating Spatial Patterns by Benxin Chen, Basil V. Iannone III

“…Iannone III and published by the UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation introduces one such resource, a free software called FRAGSTATS. …”
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SUMMARY OF INTRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION <i> EX SITU </i> OF THE RARE SPECIES OF BASHKORTOSTAN <i> PAEONIA HYBRIDA </i> PALL. by A. A. Reut, L. N. Mironova

“…The success of its introduction into the forest-steppe region of Bashkortostan on is assessed according to a set of biological and economic characteristics. …”
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Le LiDAR : vers une meilleure connaissance des paysages du karst by Kamila Bensaadi, Anne Hecker

“…This landscape is little known and not very visible since it is often underground or covered by forest vegetation. This lack of knowledge, and particularly the lack of knowledge of the ordinary open-air karst, leads to it being neglected by elected representatives and urban planners. …”
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REVIEW ON DORMANCY, CAUSES, USES, AND MEASURES OF OVERCOMING IT by Prakash Awasthi

“…Under normal circumstances, soil melting and freezing, microbial activity, forest fires, soil activity, and animal consumption break dormancy in seeds. …”
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Walking in the footsteps of the forefathers. The concept of “ancestry” between political use of molecular biology and indigenous territory, understood as a relationship between the... by Laura Volpi

“…Kichwa indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon Forest have been facing, for several years, a territorial conflict due to the establishment of a natural park on their homelands. …”
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The Punky Wood Ambrosia Beetle and Fungus in Florida that Cause Wood Rot: Ambrosiodmus minor and Flavodon subulatus by Demian F. Gomez, Jiri Hulcr

“…Gomez and Jiri Hulcr and published by the UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation offers guidance in identification of the pest, the symptoms of an infestation, and explanation of the insect?…”
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Quand des agriculteurs agroforestiers haut-garonnais nous parlent d’arbre et de paysage by Olivier Bories, Mathilde Rue

“…Gert, François, Roger, Arnaux and the other forest farmers we interviewed talked to us about agroforestry and the landscape. …”
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Thousand Cankers Disease: A Threat to Black Walnut in Florida by Don Spence, Jason A. Smith

“…Smith, and published by the UF Department of School of Forest Resources and Conservation, February 2013. …”
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Landscape and Gods among the Khanty by Art Leete

“…I aim to demonstrate the functional pattern behind handling seemingly ambivalent characteristics of cosmological models in the tangible ritual performance of the Khanty, an indigenous people inhabiting the taiga and forest taiga zone of Western Siberia. I explore three cases in which the concept of sacred topography is applied among the Khanty by exploring two public ceremonies of reindeer sacrifice and one episode of a post-funeral rite. …”
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Savoirs naturalistes et stratégies de collecte de Geloina erosa, Geloina expansa et Polymesoda bengalensis dans la mangrove de l’île de Siberut (Indonésie) by Ariadna Burgos

“…The women from Katurai Bay (Siberut Island, Indonesia) explore the mangrove forest in search of crabs, fish and shellfish. Since their childhood, they have developed a close relationship with this environment and, with their experience have consolidated a corpus of ecological knowledge that allows them to assess the environment and optimize their day-to-day labor. …”
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Robust Control for the Suspension Cable System of the Unmanned Helicopter with Sensor Fault under Complex Environment by Rong Mei

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A New Database on Trait-Based Selection of Stormwater Pond Plants by Gisele P. Nighswander, Mary E. Szoka, Kayla M. Hess, Eban Z. Bean, Gail Hansen, Basil V. Iannone

“…Iannone III and published by the UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation provides a comprehensive database of plant traits to help readers make informed stormwater pond plant selection decisions based on their own relative priorities. …”
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New Plants for Florida: Pine by Richard L. Jones, Mary Duryea, Berry J. Treat

“… The Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program (CFGRP), founded in 1953 by geneticists Tom Perry and Ray Goddard, is a cooperative organization composed of FAES scientists working together with private industries and state agencies to develop genetically improved varieties of slash pine (Pinus elliottii), loblolly pine (P. taeda), longleaf pine (P. palustris) and sand pine (P. clausa). …”
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