Crops of the future?

In the light of climate change, particularly changes in rainfall, temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, which plants, CAM, C3 or C4, will become the strategic crops of the...

07 August 2019 8,324 5 View

If we give every living man or a family a piece of land, provide the basics needed to farm and feed himself. Should that address food security?

Give every living man a small piece of land, allow him to grow what he can eat and address food security. Is that sustainable?

10 November 2017 1,888 11 View

Have we really audited the known plants on earth that can most effectively reduce the ever increasing level of CO2?

The ever increasing CO2 being the main driver of all the climate related changes and seemingly green plants seem to be the major solution to reduce the concentration, how much have we made a...

10 November 2017 3,713 7 View

Why is it possible that plant materials buried at depth last longer than the same materials near the soil surafce?

Maybe because decomposition of the matter at the surface is much faster compared to the same matter at depth.

09 October 2017 8,963 6 View

Publication requirements for professorial appointments

I'm quite interested to know how many papers someone really need to publish for professorial appointments.

01 January 1970 625 5 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 View

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

Is there a deep reason for using the squared modulus of the wave function as the probability density of the existence of the particle?

I think we were all surprised at the first time we got to know quantum mechanics that the squared modulus of the wave function is the probability density of the existence of the particle? The role...

28 February 2021 6,282 9 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

How to plot the probability paper of Gumbel distribution using R programing?

In R-studio, there are many commands of Gumbel package. Arguments are also different. I`m asking about the alpha parameter of the Copula which must be greater than 1. If this is the one used to...

25 February 2021 5,229 3 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

Up to what extent website personalization can help in creating urge to buy impulsively?

Up to what extent website personalization can help in creating urge to buy impulsively? The digital transformation is making most of the organizations to go online and start doing business through...

09 February 2021 4,430 6 View