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Hi, I am looking for any paper mentioned that faba bean flowers are edible. I could not find any. Can anyone guide how to cite this piece of information if I cannot find any publications? I found...
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In my chemical engineering design course we have to calculate the height of an absorber tower for a CCS(Carbon Capture and Storage) Plant with a capacity of 240,000 tonCO2/yr(27777kg/h). I used...
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Dear all, I would like to start a discussion here on the use of generalised mixed effect (or additive) models to analyse count data over time. I reported here the "few" analyses I know in R for...
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Hello! I've used the aleatory transect methodology to survey for mushrooms in six different areas. We've done 4 samples (transects) in which area along 4 months , one per month. I've already...
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For many camera trap studies it is a problem that it is not possible to distinguish individuals, therefore consecutive visits may be the same individual. Either an individual triggers a burst of...
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Hello, We are aiming to create a simple randomization algorithm in R program with abundance data. Specifically, we are aiming to create the IT-Algorithm (Ulrich & Gotelli 2010, Ecology),...
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Hello, I was analysing my microbiome data for Beta diversity. In order to understand the significance of the location on the microbial community, I applied two test i.e. Permanova to assess...
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I am running a simulation with kinetics on RPLUG ASPEN PLUS. The rate is catalyst weight bases. However, I have tried to do everything, includes: 1. Changing the weight of catalyst 2. run without...
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For an nxp matrix of species abundances, I have coordinates of the n sites. In order to use the species abundance data for spatial modelling or redundancy analysis, I note that in the literature,...
16 March 2020 2,126 4 View
If you have two or more correlated predictors in a multiple regression, it's possible to run a PCA on them in order to 'boil them down' to fewer predictors that no longer suffer from the issues...
11 March 2020 2,705 3 View
I am currently looking for Invasive Alien Plant Species (IAPS) Occurrence-Data for mainly the Tropics including Africa, South America, & Asia tropical regions. If you know any...
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I received in a review a comment asking me to convert linear regression Coefficient into odd ratios? Not sure how to do so? do not understand why either? would appreciate help thanks
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Goodyera repens (L.) R. Br. is a slender creeping orchid that inhabits coniferous or, more rarely, broad-leaved woods in the shade or semi-shade of the undergrowth. It presents a wide area of...
17 February 2020 6,242 9 View
Hi all, I need to compare some population means, but my data are non-normally distributed and with unequal variance (even after transformation) so I can use neither parametric t-tests nor...
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These lichens grow on an old Acer pseudoplatanus tree (on branches) in Swiss Western Prealps (canton of Fribourg), ca. 1300 m a.s.l.
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Hi everyone, I'm facing a speculative philosophical issue in a job. Help from others and other points of view are welcome. We all know that planet Earth has been suffering anthropic impacts since...
05 February 2020 4,433 4 View
Good day, senior colleagues, I need your help/ suggestions has to which spatial resolution satellite imageries/sensors can be your used to capture Lake ecological states. Also, if you could...
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Hi everyone, does anyone have publications or ideas on Felis chaus - Felis silvestris, F. lybica, F.l. ornata interactions where they co-exist? Thanks! Deniz
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Hi everyone, I was wondering, when both data types are available, which is best (for which research objective?) to compute community weighted means? Density, biomass or cover seem to be used as...
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Hey, I am doing a panel data study and I want to consider structural breakpoints of each country in my study. I need assistance for either R or Stata14 or Eviews9 codes. I want to use the...
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Dear colleagues! Does anybody know what is this nematode? I ofthen find these larvae (?) in the faeces of different deer
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Hello everyone. I represent a small group of students from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. We are currently working on a project regarding toe-tapping behavior in frogs and toads (see...
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Dear fellow researchers, I have currently faced an error in R when running maxent which indicated; Error in .local(x, p, ...) : more than half of the absence points have NA predictor values....
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