It is time to introduce a bit of terminology. In biology, guilds are groups of species in a community that exploit the same set of resources in a similar manner, but are not necessarily closely related taxonomically. In marine ecology, the related buzz term is functional group, which denotes...
In this lesson, learn about species richness and how to calculate species richness, as well as species abundance vs. species richness and species diversity. Related to this Question Considering all types of organisms, how many species are present on Earth?
The formula to calculate the Aitchison distance between two generic vectors x and y of length m is: dA(x,y)=1m∑i=1m−1∑j=i+1m(lnxixj−lnyiyj)2 (9) As for SMAPE, we computed Aitchison distance on CPM transformed data. For each dataset and for each pipeline,...
a common practice providing a number of benefits to farmers. The promotion of less intensive tillage practices and no tillage (NT) (the absence of mechanical soil disturbance) aims to mitigate negative impacts on soil quality and to preserve soil organic carbon (SOC). Several reviews and ...
When only raw data are included in the article, the Review Team will calculate summary statistics and will record how the calculations were conducted and what information was used. All extracted data will be made available as additional files. Reviewers will not extract data from studies for ...
(p = 0.008, Wilcoxon rank-sum test): 8.4 and 13.3 for the active and the passive transporter models, respectively. Since we definedfas the natural logarithm of the inverse of MP, we can calculate MP fromfvalues: MP is 2.2 × 10−4and 1.7 × 10−6for the active ...
Many natural processes rely on optimizing the success ratio of a search process. We use an experimental setup consisting of a simple online game in which players have to find a target hidden on a board, to investigate how the rounds are influenced by the
We then calculate the cumulative viral load, defined as the time integral of the number of infected cells ∫0∞Vtdt, when the initial dose of viral number is very small. To evaluate the parameter dependence of the cumulative viral load, ∫0∞Vtdt, we first reduce the number of parameters...
Importantly, this approach of Drones 2022, 6, 63 13 of 19 using CW or DL to calculate DW can be applied not only to drone measurements, but also to the aforementioned in-water estimation/measurement methodologies for manta rays. 4.2. Allometric Growth, Size at Maturity and Sexual Dimorphism ...
The fact that a gene that reduces population fitness can spread is the basis for the strategy of population suppression. In this simple case of a dominant functional gene it is straightforward to calculate the genetic load the spread of the DEG places on the population [20]. At equilibrium, ...