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Contrasted taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity patterns in semi-natural permanent grasslands along an altitudinal gradient

Background and aims - Recent methodological and theoretical advances in community ecology have allowed more robust exploration of complementary facets of biodiversity in plant communities. Focusing on semi-natural permanent grasslands of the French Jura Mo ...

Soc Royal Botan Belgique2014

Contrasted taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity patterns in semi-natural permanent grasslands along an altitudinal gradient

National Botanic Garden of Belgium and Royal Botanical Society of Belgium2014

Biodiversity Mapping in a Tropical West African Forest with Airborne Hyperspectral Data

Francesco Giuseppe Miglietta, Qi Chen

Tropical forests are major repositories of biodiversity, but are fast disappearing as land is converted to agriculture. Decision-makers need to know which of the remaining forests to prioritize for conservation, but the only spatial information on forest b ...

Public Library of Science2014

Towards comprehensive capture of human grasping and manipulation skills

Aude Billard, Sahar El Khoury, Ravin Luis De Souza, José Santos-Victor

Grasping plays a central role in our daily life. To interact with objects surrounding them, people use a large diversity of hand configurations in combination with forces ranging from the small ones involved in manipulating a pen for writing, to larger for ...

2014

Best Practices and Recommendations for Crowdsourced QoE - Lessons learned from the Qualinet Task Force Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is a popular approach that outsources tasks via the Internet to a large number of users. Commercial crowdsourcing platforms provide a global pool of users employed for performing short and simple online tasks. For quality assessment of multim ...

2014

Urban Experience: Remix of Attachments

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

I propose an essay for understanding how we experiment the fluidity, the density and diversity of the urban space. I purpose to reveal what I call the remix experience, that is to say the habit to of newness and otherness. This habit shows us the importanc ...

2014

On the Generation of a Variety of Grasps

Aude Billard, Sahar El Khoury, Miao Li

In everyday life, people use a large diversity of hands configurations while reaching out to grasp an object. They tend to vary their hands position/orientation around the object and their fingers placement on its surface according to the object properties ...

Elsevier2013

Changes in the Bacterial Community and lin Genes Diversity during Biostimulation of Indigenous Bacterial Community of Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) Dumpsite Soil

Christof Holliger

In this study hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) contaminated soil (with HCH level 84 g/kg of soil) from HCH dumpsite (Ummari village, Lucknow, India) was used to demonstrate biostimulation approach for HCH bioremediation. Different nutrients (molasses and ammoni ...

Springer Verlag2013

Semi-Automated Reconstruction of Curvilinear Structures in Noisy 2D images and 3D image stacks

Pascal Fua, Engin Türetken, Fethallah Benmansour

We propose a new approach to semi-automated delineation of curvilinear structures in a wide range of imaging modalities. Earlier approaches lack robustness to imaging noise, do not provide radius estimates for the structures and operate only on single chan ...

2013

Patterns of earthworm communities and species traits in relation to the perturbation gradient of a restored floodplain

Edward Mitchell, Renée-Claire Le Bayon, Bertrand Fournier

Little is known about the diversity and ecology of earthworms in flocdplains, as well as their response to natural and anthropic perturbations (e.g. floods, river channelisation, floodplain restoration). We characterised the patterns of earthworm communiti ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

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