SCATTER HOARDING OF SEEDS CONFERS SURVIVAL ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES TO LARGE-SEEDED TROPICAL PLANTS AT DIFFERENT LIFE STAGES.

Scatter hoarding of seeds confers survival advantages and disadvantages to large-seeded tropical plants at different life stages.

Scatter hoarding of seeds by animals contributes significantly to forest-level processes, including plant recruitment and forest community composition.However, the potential positive and negative effects of caching on seed survival, germination success, and seedling survival have rarely been assessed through experimental studies.Here, I tested the

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Making an Open Information Literacy Textbook

Springboarding from a statewide initiative, four academic librarians from three different universities collaborated to create an openly licensed textbook on the Pressbooks platform that could be easily embedded into one-shots or general education research courses.The project developed over the span of a year, which included: planning, exploring, cr

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RAAWC-UNet: an apple leaf and disease segmentation method based on residual attention and atrous spatial pyramid pooling improved UNet with weight compression loss

IntroductionEarly detection of leaf diseases timbren gmfk25s is necessary to control the spread of plant diseases, and one of the important steps is the segmentation of leaf and disease images.The uneven light and leaf overlap in complex situations make segmentation of leaves and diseases quite difficult.Moreover, the significant differences in rat

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