An invasive species once saved this Florida bird, but it’s disappearing

The bird species has long ridden dramatic population swings. About 3,000 snail kites lived in Florida in 2001, but a severe drought that year devastated the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee, cutting the ...
WLRN

An invasive species once saved this bird. Now its disappearance is pushing it toward decline

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.

AI tool suggests tree species and placement to cool urban streets by 3.5 C

Urban landscapes could be cooled by up to 3.5 degrees using a QUT-developed AI-based tool that optimizes where trees and which species are planted to make cities cooler, greener and more resilient in ...
SciELO

Biogeographic history and environmental gradients modulate non-stationary patterns of tropical tree diversity

Here we studied the entire Atlantic Forest hotspot to investigate whether the effect of different environmental predictors depends on the phylogenetic extension and the biogeographical history of ...
IEEE

DT-GA-FLANN: Decision Tree-Based Genetically Optimized FLANN for Missing Value Imputation and Classification

Abstract: In the current landscape, addressing missing values poses a significant challenge when dealing with real-world problems. In this work, a hybrid model, DT-GA-FLANN, is proposed to address the ...
IEEE

Tree Species Classification Based on Crown and Tree Features Using UAV LiDAR Data

Abstract: Tree species classification plays a fundamental role in detailed forest resource surveys. The high density point cloud data obtained from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Light Detection and ...