MICRO-HABITAT DISTRIBUTION DRIVES PATCH QUALITY FOR SUB-TROPICAL ROCKY PLATEAU AMPHIBIANS IN THE NORTHERN WESTERN GHATS, INDIA.

Micro-habitat distribution drives patch quality for sub-tropical rocky plateau amphibians in the northern Western Ghats, India.

The importance of patch quality Vitamins B for amphibians is frequently overlooked in distribution models.Here we demonstrate that it is highly important for the persistence of endemic and endangered amphibians found in the threatened and fragile ecosystems that are the rocky plateaus in Western Maharashtra, India.These plateaus are ferricretes of

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Six years of fruit fly surveys in Bangladesh: a new species, 33 new country records and discovery of the highly invasive Bactrocera carambolae (Diptera, Tephritidae)

We engaged in six Beef years of snap-shot surveys for fruit flies in rural environments and ten protected forest areas of Bangladesh, using traps baited with male lures (cue-lure, methyl eugenol, zingerone).Our work has increased the recorded number of species of Tephritidae in the country from seven to 37.We summarize these surveys and report eigh

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Automated Unmanned Aerial System for Camera-Based Semi-Automatic Triage Categorization in Mass Casualty Incidents

Using drones to obtain vital signs during mass-casualty incidents can be extremely helpful for first responders.Thanks to technological advancements, vital parameters can now be remotely assessed rapidly and robustly.This motivates the development of an automated unmanned aerial system (UAS) for patient triage, combining methods for the automated d

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