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Fig. A1. A in The first recorded activity pattern for the Sunda stink-badger Mydaus javanensis (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mephitidae) using camera traps
No full textFig. A1. A pair of Sunda stink-badgers Mydaus javanensis photo-Published as part of Vickers, Stephen H., Evans, Meaghan N., Bakar, Mohd Soffian Abu & Goossens, Benoit, 2017, The first recorded activity pattern for the Sunda stink-badger Mydaus javanensis (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mephitidae) using camera traps, pp. 316-324 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65 on page 323, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.535657
The first recorded activity pattern for the Sunda stink-badger Mydaus javanensis (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mephitidae) using camera traps
No full textVickers, Stephen H., Evans, Meaghan N., Bakar, Mohd Soffian Abu, Goossens, Benoit (2017): The first recorded activity pattern for the Sunda stink-badger Mydaus javanensis (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mephitidae) using camera traps. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65: 316-324, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.535657
The first recorded activity pattern for the Sunda stink-badger Mydaus javanensis (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mephitidae) using camera traps
No full textVickers, Stephen H., Evans, Meaghan N., Bakar, Mohd Soffian Abu, Goossens, Benoit (2017): The first recorded activity pattern for the Sunda stink-badger Mydaus javanensis (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mephitidae) using camera traps. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65: 316-324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.535657
Scaling up qualitative data: with Professor Ken Benoit
No full textProfessor Benoit is the Principal Investigator in an ERC funded project QUANTESS developing innovative methods for the quantitative analysis of textual data in the social sciences. He is the co-author with Paul Nulty of the R software package for text analysis “quanteda”, and working on a book Quantitative Text Analysis Using R covering methods for managing, processing, and analysing textual data using the R programming language. He has taught quantitative text analysis extensively and has published research in this area targeting both methodology and political science applications
Can riparian forest buffers increase yields from oil palm plantations?
No full textForests on tropical floodplains across Southeast Asia are being converted to oil palm plantations. Preserving natural riparian forest corridors along rivers that pass through oil palm plantations has clear benefits for ecological conservation, but these corridors (also called "buffers") use land that is potentially economically valuable for agriculture. Here, we examine how riparian forest buffers reduce floodplain land loss by slowing rates of riverbank erosion and lateral channel migration, thus providing the fundamentally geomorphic ecosystem service of "erosion regulation". Using satellite imagery, assessments of oil palm plantation productivity, and a simplified numerical model of river channel migration, we estimate the economic value of the ecosystem service that riparian buffers provide by protecting adjacent plantation land from bank erosion. We find that cumulative economic losses from bank erosion are higher in the absence of a forest buffer than when a buffer is left intact. Our exploratory analysis suggests that retaining riparian forest buffers along tropical rivers can enhance the viability of floodplain plantations, particularly over time scales (~decades) commensurate with the lifetime of a typical oil palm plantation. Ecosystem services that stem directly from geomorphic processes could play a vital role in efforts to guide the long‐term environmental sustainability of tropical river systems. Accounting for landscape dynamics in projections of economic returns could help bring palm oil industry goals into closer alignment with environmental conservation efforts
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps: A Business Intelligence Discussion
No full textModeling complex systems by means of computational models has enabled experts to understand the problem domain without the need of waiting for the real events to happen. In that regard, fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) have become an important tool in the neural computing field because of their flexibility and transparency. However, obtaining a model able to align its dynamical behavior with the problem domain is not always trivial. In this paper, we discuss some aspects to be considered when designing FCM-based simulation models by relying on a business intelligence case study. In a nutshell, when the fixed point is unique, we recommend to focus on the number of iterations to converge instead of focusing on the reached attractor and stress the importance of the transfer function chosen in the model
Thesium philosophicarum fasciculus
No full textquem ... praeside ... Io. Friderico Benoit ... publicè tutabitur Ioh. Rodolphus Kochius, HBernas, phil. stud. author & respondens, ad diem 5. Martii ...Diss. Hohe Schule Bern, 171
Forecasts of habitat suitability improve habitat corridor efficacy in rapidly changing environments
No full textHabitat fragmentation threatens species’ persistence by increasing subpopulation isolation and vulnerability to stochastic events, and its impacts are expected to worsen under climate change. By reconnecting isolated fragments, habitat corridors should dampen the synergistic impacts of habitat and climate change on population viability. Choosing which fragments to reconnect is typically informed by past and current environmental conditions. However, habitat and climate are dynamic and change over time. Habitat suitability projections could inform fragment selection using current and future conditions, ensuring that corridors connect persistent fragments. We compare the efficacy of using current-day and future forecasts of breeding habitat to inform corridor placement under land cover and climate-change mitigation and no mitigation scenarios by evaluating their influence on subpopulation abundance, and connectivity and long-term metapopulation abundance. Our case study is the threatened orangutan metapopulation in Sabah.Stephen D. Gregory, Marc Ancrenaz, Barry W. Brook, Benoit Goossens, Raymond Alfred, Laurentius N. Ambu, and Damien A. Fordha
FIGURES 19–22 in First description of male worms of Enterobius Colobenterobius serratus Nematoda: Oxyuridae , the pinworm parasite of proboscis monkeys
No full textFIGURES 19–22. Cross section near caudal extremity of male (a) and enlarged view of the boxed part (b) showing spicular pouch. 19. Enterobius (Colobenterobius) serratus; 20. E. (C.) emodensis; 21. E. (Enterobius) vermicularis; 22. Lemuricola (Protenterobius) nycticebi. Thick arrows indicate dorso-ventral height of spicular pouch; thin arrows indicate dorso-ventral height of spicule.Published as part of Hasegawa, Hideo, Frias, Liesbeth, Peter, Surdensteeve, Hasan, Noor Haliza, Stark, Danica J., Lynn, Milena Salgado, Sipangkui, Symphorosa, Goossens, Benoit, Matsuura, Kei- Ko, Okamoto, Munehiro & Macintosh, Andrew J. J., 2020, First description of male worms of Enterobius Colobenterobius serratus Nematoda: Oxyuridae , the pinworm parasite of proboscis monkeys, pp. 287-294 in Zootaxa 4722 (3) on page 292, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/360711
Fig. A2 in The first recorded activity pattern for the Sunda stink-badger Mydaus javanensis (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mephitidae) using camera traps
No full textFig. A2. Kernel density modelled activity patterns for the Sunda stink-badger during different periods; overlap between activity patterns is indicated by the shaded regions. Vertical dashed red lines indicate either the end or beginning of the diurnal phase of the diel (0700–1659h). Vertical blue lines indicate either the end or beginning of the nocturnal phase of the diel (1900–0459h). Regions between red and blue lines represent the crepuscular regions of the diel (0500–0659h and 1700–1859h). 'Carpet' marks along the x-axis represent individual photographic events, and are colour co-ordinated to their respective activity pattern. Top (a): Overlap in kernel density modelled activity pattern in the wet season (November–February) compared to the dry season (March–October). Middle (b): Overlap in kernel density modelled activity pattern on full moon nights compared to new moon nights. Bottom (c): Overlap in kernel density modelled activity pattern on 'bright' nights (full moon, waxing gibbous, and waning gibbous) compared to 'dim' nights (new moon, new crescent, and old crescent).Published as part of Vickers, Stephen H., Evans, Meaghan N., Bakar, Mohd Soffian Abu & Goossens, Benoit, 2017, The first recorded activity pattern for the Sunda stink-badger Mydaus javanensis (Mammalia: Carnivora: Mephitidae) using camera traps, pp. 316-324 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65 on page 323, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.535657
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