QUANTIFICATION OF FORAGING AREAS FOR THE NORTHERN BALD IBIS (GERONTICUS EREMITA) IN THE NORTHERN ALPINE FOOTHILLS: A RANDOM FOREST MODEL FITTED WITH OPTICAL AND ACTIVELY SENSED EARTH OBSERVATION DATA

The Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita, NBI) is an endangered migratory species, which went extinct in Europe in the 17th century.Currently, a translocation project in the frame of the European LIFE program is carried out, to reintroduce a migratory population with breeding colonies in the northern and southern Alpine foothills and a common win

Abstract Evolutionarily, polyploidy represents a smart method for adjusting agronomically important in crops through impacts on genomic abundance and chromatin condensation.Autopolyploids have a relatively concise genetic background with great diversity and provide an ideal system to understand genetic and epigenetic mechanisms attributed to the ge

This article analyzes the possibility of increasing the efficiency of the gear pump operating cycle by using a jet pump as a booster stage.The design of gear pumps is performed for one mode, and most often, it is a mode with minimum speed and high consumption relative to rotation speed.For gas turbine engines, this is the take-off mode, in which th

One of the main constraints involved with research and situation analysis in forestry sector is the lack of re-measured data over a long period of time.Since the forest dynamics and tree growth takes such a long time to provide valuable insight, the data gathered in a short time period is mostly not useful.Further long-term data measured new belial

In corals, pH regulation of the extracellular calcifying medium (ECM) by the calcifying cell layer is a crucial step in the calcification process and is potentially important to influencing how corals respond to ocean acidification.Here, we analyzed the growing edge of the reef coral Stylophora pistillata to make the first characterization of the p