Multispecies occupancy models unravel reduced colonization probabilities in plants from the unique Amazonian cangas by Rafael de Fraga, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira Santos, Valeria da Cunha Tavares, Leonardo Carreira Trevelin, Maurício Takashi Coutinho Watanabe, Leandro Maioli, Samir Rolim, Carolina da Silva Carvalho

“…We used a set of 22 plant species distributed in a globally unique ecosystem, the eastern Amazonian mosaics of forests, iron-rich open “cangas” and iron mine lands, as a model to test whether dynamic multispecies occupancy models can be used to assess population decline. …”
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Compound events in Germany in 2018: drivers and case studies by E. Xoplaki, E. Xoplaki, F. Ellsäßer, F. Ellsäßer, J. Grieger, K. M. Nissen, J. G. Pinto, M. Augenstein, T.-C. Chen, T.-C. Chen, H. Feldmann, P. Friederichs, D. Gliksman, D. Gliksman, L. Goulier, K. Haustein, K. Haustein, J. Heinke, L. Jach, F. Knutzen, S. Kollet, J. Luterbacher, J. Luterbacher, N. Luther, S. Mohr, S. Mohr, C. Mudersbach, C. Müller, E. Rousi, F. Simon, L. Suarez-Gutierrez, L. Suarez-Gutierrez, L. Suarez-Gutierrez, S. Szemkus, S. M. Vallejo-Bernal, S. M. Vallejo-Bernal, S. M. Vallejo-Bernal, O. Vlachopoulos, F. Wolf

“…We also examine the interannual influence of droughts on surface water and the impact of water scarcity and heatwaves on agriculture and forests. We assess projected changes in compound events at different current and future global surface temperature levels, demonstrating the need for improved quantification of future extreme events to support adaptation planning. …”
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Joint Analysis of Morphological Parameters and In Silico Haemodynamics of the Left Atrial Appendage for Thrombogenic Risk Assessment by Maria Isabel Pons, Jordi Mill, Alvaro Fernandez-Quilez, Andy L. Olivares, Etelvino Silva, Tom de Potter, Oscar Camara

“…Statistical analysis, regression models, and random forests were used to analyse the differences between morphological and haemodynamics parameters, extracted from computational simulations built on 3D rotational angiography images, between patients with and without transient ischemic attack (TIA) or cerebrovascular accident (CVA). …”
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Comparative Study of Bulgarian Linden Honey (<i>Tilia</i> sp.) by Anastasiya Yankova-Nikolova, Desislava Vlahova-Vangelova, Desislav Balev, Nikolay Kolev, Stefan Dragoev, Biljana Lowndes-Nikolova

“…An overall assessment ranks linden honey from the Northern Central region, the richest in linden forests, as the highest quality among the six studied regions. …”
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Relationship between landscape and river ecosystem services by M. Dede, S. Sunardi, K.C. Lam, S. Withaningsih

“…As representations of the natural landscape, forests and grasslands have a positive and significant contribution to river ecosystem services. …”
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Application of a scoring evaluation of the state of preservation of historic residential and garden sites. case study: Wicimice and Iglice (Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeship) by Michał Uruszczak

“…Surroundings of the objects were given the best scores (3 and 2 points for the parks in Wicimice and Iglice, respectively), which may encourage potential buyers to invest in the sites. Natural landscapes, forests, and listed cultural heritage undoubtedly deserve recognition. …”
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Simulation and explanatory analysis of dissolved oxygen dynamics in Lake Ulansuhai, China by Fan Zhang, Xiaohong Shi, Shengnan Zhao, Ruonan Hao, Biao Sun, Guohua Li, Shihuan Wang, Hao Zhang

“…Study focus: After implementing the optimal noise reduction strategies based on wavelet transform for the high-frequency monitoring data, hybrid models coupling random forests, support vector machines, and artificial neural networks were employed to simulate the dissolved oxygen in the lake during both the open-water and ice-covered periods. …”
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The development of chemical approaches to fossil hominin ecology in South Africa by Julia Lee-Thorp, Matt Sponheimer

“… When Dart recognised the fossilised skull of the Taung Child as a hominin ancestor, he also observed that its “sere environment” produced few foods preferred by African apes in equatorial forests. He thus set in motion an inquiry into the dietary and environmental proclivities of fossil hominins. …”
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Study of bats in the upper Neretva River valley (Bosnia and Herzegovina) by Maja Zagmajster, Vojo Milanović, Behare Rexhepi, Ester Premate, Špela Borko, Anton Vorauer

“… The upper Neretva River valley with river and tributaries, preserved forests, natural caves and buildings represents a very interesting area for bats. …”
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Integration of local knowledge systems and decision on land use allocation among rural households in South Africa by Muhammad, Mubbin, Lobina G, Palamuleni, Tabukeli, Musigi Ruhiiga, Syed, Atif Bokhar

“…A more multifaceted model of land-use allocation occurs on stripping slopes, hills, and foot slopes, which are difficult to access and are covered by forests and scrubland. The study detected a strong linkage between land-use patterns and environmental knowledge. …”
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Analysis of Power Outages in Kabale Town: A Case Study of 33 KV Mbarara North-Kabale West Feeder. by Atibuni, Yofat

“…Environmental factors further exacerbated these problems, with tree cutting in Kyobugombe and Ndija, forested areas in Maziba, deteriorating poles in Katinda, and frequent lightning in Rubaya causing line faults and prolonged outages. …”
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A novel aggregated coefficient ranking based feature selection strategy for enhancing the diagnosis of breast cancer classification using machine learning by E. Sreehari, L. D. Dhinesh Babu

“…Later, we employed models such as decision trees, support vector machines, k-nearest neighbors, random forests, stochastic gradient descent, and Gaussian naive bayes to determine the type of cancer. …”
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Machine learning-assisted prediction of durability behavior in pultruded fiber-reinforced polymeric (PFRP) composites by Ammar A. Alshannaq, Mohammad F. Tamimi, Muath I. Abu Qamar

“…The results reveal that Decision Trees, Artificial Neural Networks, and Random Forests are the best models to predict behavior of pultruded composites under environmental exposure, which achieved R2 values of 0.9647, 0.9537, and 0.8970, respectively for the case of flexural strength. …”
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Conservation communautaire et changement de statuts du bonobo dans le Territoire de Bolobo by Victor Narat, Flora Pennec, Sabrina Krief, Jean Christophe Bokika Ngawolo, Richard Dumez

“…Bonobos are thus central to new rules and norms, including the creation of community defined protected forests. Secondly, whereas bonobos were previously widely seen as negative or unnecessary -because not eaten and associated to a bad omen- they are now considered as a driving force for local development. …”
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A Comparative Study Evaluated the Performance of Two-class Classification Algorithms in Machine Learning by Shilan Abdullah Hassan, Maha Sabah Saeed

“…A comparative study evaluated the performance of five well-known two-class classification algorithms: two-class boosted decision trees, two-class decision forests, two-class locally deep SVMs, two-class neural networks, and two-class logistic regression. …”
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Correlation between Soil Organic Matter, Total Organic Matter and Water Content with Climate and Depths of Soil at Different Land use in Kelantan, Malaysia by A Azlan, ER Aweng, CO Ibrahim, A Noorhaidah

“…The correlation of soil organic matter (SOM) content, total organic carbon (TOC) content, water content and soils texture for industrial area at Pengkalan Chepa, township of Kota Bharu district, agricultural area at Banggu and forested area in UMK, Jeli were investigated. These data sets were also correlated to temporal event in Kelantan State. …”
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Machine Learning Applications to Dust Storms: A Meta-Analysis by Reem K. Alshammari, Omer Alrwais, Mehmet Sabih Aksoy

“…In contrast, the most used models for dust storm prediction are SVM and random forests that predict the occurrence of dust storms from meteorological data. …”
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Análisis productivo y económico de sistemas silvo-apícola pastoriles en el norte de la provincia de Buenos Aires by P. FERRERE, A. SIGNORELLI, S.M. CABRINI

“…Este estudio tiene como objetivo hacer una evaluación de una propuesta de diversificación productiva para productores de la región pampeana continental a través de la incorporación de la actividad forestal junto con la producción de forraje y de miel. …”
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Test of the RUSLE and Key Influencing Factors Using GIS and Probability Methods: A Case Study in Nanling National Nature Reserve, South China by Jun Wang, Qian He, Ping Zhou, Qinghua Gong

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Geographic patterns and ecological causes of phylogenetic structure in mosses along an elevational gradient in the central Himalaya by Hong Qian, Oriol Grau

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