Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

Your thoughts on the spherical densiometer to estimate relative species canopy cover?

Hi biologists and biogeomorphologists, I want to characterize vegetation plots on a transect that follows a successionnal gradient from a river bed to a mature forest. Ecologically, I am...

26 February 2021 5,720 2 View

Stress/strain tensors decomposition ???

25 February 2021 6,760 1 View

Bayesian decision trees and bayesian regression trees in Python and/or R?

I am looking for implementation of bayesian decision trees and bayesian regression trees in Python and/or R.. Do you know if the existing libraries support this

23 February 2021 6,689 3 View

How to assure whether a regression tree overfit or not by seeing bias-variance value of the model?

Lets consider a regression tree in which variance is 1.1065*e-10 and bias is 2.962e-13. Also the model RMSE on training set is 1.5e-5 and on training set is 1.2950e-5. Is the model is overfit or...

22 February 2021 7,755 2 View

Are cloud points able to identify tree species?

Hello Dears My goal is to classify dense forest tree species using drone images. Is it possible to classify dense cloud points? If yes, in what way and in what software? Thankful

15 February 2021 3,475 3 View

Does the phylogenetic tree making tool IQTREE use evolutionary placement algorithm?

For my master thesis I am conducting a phylogenetic research and for this I'm using tools like MEGA, IQTREE, FigTree, etc to make a phylogenetic tree. I wanted to know if IQTREE integrates the...

14 February 2021 1,541 2 View

Plasmid amplification in S2 cell?

When co-transfect S2 cell with selection vector (pCoHygro or pCoBlast ) to make a stable cell line, does the gene integrate into the genome or just like E.coli? How do the plasmids amplify within...

09 February 2021 5,423 1 View

How can i improve my DNA purity for whole genome sequence that has high 260/230 ratio ?

I am performing whole genome sequence for gram negative acinetobacter baumannii using two platforms illumina miswq and oxford nanopore. Thus i require a very high yield and high purity. I am using...

31 January 2021 355 2 View

Is there any alternative to BUSCO for searching orthologues within genomes available?

I have a need to search for single-copy conservative orthologs within several plant genomes and used BUSCO tool for that. However, I found that the results produced by different versions on the...

29 January 2021 7,764 6 View