This paper analyses landscape representativeness within the ecological corridor network linking Natura 2000 areas in Poland.The criteria used to Candy designate the network did not include landscape representativeness.Nevertheless, the selection of areas covered by the network was found to be adequate to preserve landscape diversity in Poland.The s
The southeastern United States is home to the highest amphibian species richness in North America.An often overlooked component of research on factors that drive amphibian geographic distributions is description of species range shape.Broad-scale range disjunction has implications for phylogeography, ecology, and conservation, but descriptions of f
We propose a novel metal artifact reduction (MAR) algorithm for CT images that completes a corrupted sinogram along the metal trace region.When metal implants are located inside a field of view, they create a barrier to the transmitted X-ray beam due to the high attenuation of metals, which significantly degrades the image quality.To fill in the me
The fungus Fusarium verticillioides can infect maize ears, causing Fusarium ear rot (FER) and contaminating the grain with fumonisins (FUM), which are harmful to humans and animals.Breeding for resistance to FER and FUM and post-harvest sorting of grain are two strategies for reducing FUM in the food system.Kernel and cob tissues have been previous