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Hi eceryone. We need to create a model. Our dataset contains a bunch of daily values of covariates, including wind direction. But the response variable, which is a count data, is provided at a...
11 October 2022 1,091 6 View
Dear colleagues, Here attached caudal fin X-ray image of Ameiurus nebulosus (Pisces: Siluriformes).The number of caudal fin rays in descriptions is among 18-20, but nobody tells how he count it....
11 October 2022 3,222 9 View
Hello everyone I need a preparation method for decalcification with EDTA solution
04 June 2022 8,873 0 View
Hi, I have installed trimAL in linux but I don't know how to execute it. I have 20, 000 sequence in which some are very badly aligned so I wont them to be remove.
06 January 2022 1,549 3 View
Is any one familiar with high-resolution cameras for monitoring bird nests? Ideally, I would find something that can live stream video (via cellular) from the field and have the option to store...
02 August 2021 7,917 3 View
As above, I'm wondering what is the justification for removing monomorphic SNP loci for genetic diversity analysis? Using a genome wide association study, I am analysing SNP data for a wide...
21 June 2021 3,470 6 View
We're finding higher infection rates of quill feather mites (that live in the quill lumen) the closer you get to the wrist of a bird. This is the same story for primaries & primary coverts and...
10 June 2021 1,252 0 View
The different paper doesn't agree on the actual circular trihedral corner reflector RCS's formula. Is it 15.6*pi*(radius)4 /(wavelength)2 or 15.6*(radius)4 /(wavelength)2 . In another term,...
03 June 2021 8,533 1 View
I would like to know whether it is possible to run PAUP on Linux with Open MPI or not. I tried to do so, but not succeeded so far. Thank you.
31 May 2021 8,586 2 View
Hello fellow researcher, I am looking for camera equipment that allows me to record videos for several consecutive days in relatively dark environments. Does anyone know of equipment that has a) a...
27 May 2021 2,126 4 View
A digester was loaded with combined waste (cow dung, intestinal content and food waste) and another one loaded with only cow dung for two weeks now and yet gas not been produced yet none of the...
21 April 2021 3,685 3 View
I am pretty new to work with rat segmentation! A tutorial, papers, or anything else which helps me to start the segmentation of the rat data-set would be greatly appreciated.
10 March 2021 9,039 0 View
It has been proposed that cleptoparasitic bees (CB) can be used as the indicator taxa to predict wild bee species diversity. I have some data that consists of wild bees and associated...
29 January 2021 9,559 0 View
Dear all, We are currently investigating small extracellular vesicles from mesenchymal stroma cells. To isolate our vesicles, we use ultracentrifugation technique. For the first time now, I saw...
22 January 2021 6,814 1 View
Hello. I am looking for a description of a methodology for bird counts (census), which is applicable to airport area and will allow me to collect the data about species diversity and abundance at...
12 January 2021 3,403 3 View
Greetings I am Sachin Kumar, pursuing my Ph.D. in Ornithology, from PAU, Ludhiana. I am working on avian diversity along the River Beas. I had submitted a manuscript to a journal having keywords...
11 November 2020 7,380 6 View
Any seabird folks out there have an endnote style file for Marine Ornithology? Nothing available online, trying to avoid creating one from scratch - thanks! Perhaps we can make the file publicly...
02 November 2020 9,813 7 View
Hi I'm trying to apply models that better fir my PE data, that is, oxygen production vs irradiance. I have been using phytotools package and I notice that all models available in this package...
29 October 2020 1,217 0 View
What would be the best method for analysing trends in species abundance in a single area in Latin America over a 15 year period? Could TRIM be used for this purpose? I don't have data about...
28 October 2020 7,708 5 View
Hello, I have mapped the locations of several individuals of a certain species of bird. I have the GPS coordinates, the date and the time data every half hour for several consecutive days and I am...
27 September 2020 3,905 2 View
So I have some mitochondrial control region (CR) sequences from several populations, and I'm calculating Tajima's D for each population in DnaSP and Arlequin. Each program agrees with respect to...
24 August 2020 798 6 View
I am looking for the correct selection of tags to use to monitor tree swallows moving in and out of nest boxes. My impression is that full duplex tags would be more appropriate but many studies...
27 May 2020 4,810 4 View
I have a large dataset of camera trap data that has been collected in a very remote location, this has meant cameras have died more than once due to an inability to access them. I usually do...
27 May 2020 3,152 0 View
While there are a number of studies that employ both constant effort mist-netting and audio-visual survey methods, there are very few that combine the numbers from those surveys into a single...
11 May 2020 8,592 1 View