Comparison of Wood Veneer-Based Composite Characteristics Made of Jabon Wood (Neolamarckia cadamba) and Sengon Wood (Falcataria moluccana) by Eka Mulya Alamsyah, Ahmad Fawwaz Abdullah, Rafael Niko Navarro, Yoyo Suhaya, Sutrisno Sutrisno, Asep Suheri, Yooce Yustiana, Jamaludin Malik, Sasa Sofyan Munawar

“…The shift of wood raw material sources from natural forests to community forests opens opportunities for West Java Province Indonesia as a source of wood raw materials because it has a large area of community forests. …”
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Effect of Reforestation Tree Species on the Distribution and Stability of Purple Soil Aggregates by ZHONG Yujian, HE Feng, HAN Guangzhong, ZHAO Xia, YANG Fan

“…[Method] Four types of artificial forests (Cryptomeria fortunei (CF), Cryptomeria fortunei and Betula luminifera (MF), Camellia sinensis (CS), and Neosinocalamus affinis (NA)) established on sloping farmland (SF) (cornfield) in the Rainy Area of Western China after 20 years of afforestation were taken as the research objects, in order to analyze the changes in soil aggregate content and stability after the conversion from farmland to artificial forests. …”
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Accumulation of Heavy Metals (Pb, Cd, V) in Sediment, roots and leaves of Mangrove species in Sirik Creek along the Sea Coasts of Oman, Iran by Musa Keshavarz, Dariush Mohammadikia, Fatemeh Gharibpour, Abdul-Reza Dabbagh

“…Sirik mangrove forests harbour two species, Avicennia marina and Rhizophora macronata living in Azini Creek. …”
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Estudio de espaciamientos y de relaciones alométricas en árboles de ciprés (Cupressus lusitanica Mill.) para Navidad by Dorian Carvajal Vanegas, Gustavo Torres Córdoba, Yorleny Badilla Valverde, Olman Murillo Gamboa

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New geographic record of Eupsophus vertebralis (Anura: Alsodidae): filling a distribution gap in the Andes foothills by Ricardo González-Vásquez, Natalia Sepúlveda-González

“…Eupsophus vertebralis is an endemic species of the temperate humid forests of Chile and Argentina with an unclear geographic distribution. …”
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Melaleuca Snout Beetle, Melaleuca Weevil (unofficial common names), Oxyops vitiosa (Pascoe) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by James P. Cuda, Susan A. Wineriter, Gary R. Buckingham, Ted D. Center, Kenneth T. Gioeli

“…It was planted extensively as an ornamental, and eventually invaded suitable forested and non-forested wetland habitats in south Florida forming dense monocultures. …”
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Reforming Real Estate Valuation for Financial Auditors With AI: An In-Depth Exploration of Current Methods and Future Directions by Silviu-Ionut BABTAN

“…This article examines several AI methods – Regression Models, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Artificial Neural Networks, and XGBoost – and explores their applications for improving property valuation accuracy and efficiency, with implications for other professions involved, e.g. audit. …”
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Climate change and the single cell by Derek T. A. Lamport

“…Stomata act as crucial regulatory components of a water hypercycle that contributes to the homeostasis of a warming planet by regulating evaporative cooling and reflective cloud cover generated by vast tropical rainforests of the South and the equally vast arboreal forests of the North. Finally, forests and the high albedo of snow-capped mountains and polar ice caps are essential to the Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, which remains a brilliant metaphor despite earlier criticism.…”
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Chapter 11: The Worker Protection Standard by Frederick Fishel, O. Norman Nesheim, Thomas W. Dean

“…These regulations are designed to protect agricultural workers and pesitcide handlers from exposure to pesticides used in the production of agricultural plants on farms, forests, nurseries, and greenhouses. This document is P119, Horticultural Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension. …”
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Worker Protection Standard: Employer Information Exchange by Frederick M. Fishel

“… Employers of commercial pesticide handlers must make sure that their customers – the operators of farms, forests, nurseries, or greenhouses – know certain information about the pesticides to be applied on their establishments. …”
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2020–2021 Florida Citrus Production Guide: Interpreting PPE Statements on Pesticide Labels by Frederick M. Fishel

“…This document helps you understand the revised PPE statements now part of labels on pesticide products used on farms, forests, nurseries, and greenhouses. Written by Frederick M. …”
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2019–2020 Florida Citrus Production Guide: Interpreting PPE Statements on Pesticide Labels by Frederick M. Fishel

“…This document helps you understand the revised PPE statements now part of labels on pesticide products used on farms, forests, nurseries, and greenhouses. Written by Frederick M. …”
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2018–2019 Florida Citrus Production Guide: Interpreting PPE Statements on Pesticide Labels by Frederick M. Fishel

“…It is meant to help readers understand the revised PPE statements now part of labels on pesticide products used on farms, forests, nurseries, and greenhouses. Written by Frederick M. …”
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Redescripción del minador foliar de Ficus spp., Leiopleura melichari (Obenberger, 1922) (Buprestidae, Coleoptera) by Ángel Solís-Blanco, Marcela Arguedas-Gamboa, María Rodríguez-Solís

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Assessment of Machine Learning Algorithms in Short-term Forecasting of PM10 and PM2.5 Concentrations in Selected Polish Agglomerations by Bartosz Czernecki, Michał Marosz, Joanna Jędruszkiewicz

“…We tested four ML models: AIC-based stepwise regression, two tree-based algorithms (random forests and XGBoost), and neural networks. Employing analysis and cross-validation, we found that XGBoost performed the best, followed by random forests and neural networks, and stepwise regression performed the worst. …”
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Influence of soil type on bacterial growth and tolerance to experimentally added human antibiotics by Laura Rodríguez-González, Montserrat Díaz-Raviña, Beatriz Sevilla-Morán, Elena García-Campos, Juan José Villaverde, Manuel Arias-Estévez, David Fernández-Calviño, Vanesa Santás-Miguel

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The geographical distribution, trophic modes, and host preferences of Fomitopsis pinicola in Central Europe: a comprehensive review by Gáper Ján, Gáperová Svetlana, Pristaš Peter, Šebesta Martin, Kollárová Patrícia, Gallay Igor, Slobodník Branko

“…The occurrence of F. pinicola in forests and quasi-natural habitats is related to the distribution of Norway spruce. …”
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Tawny Emperor butterfly Asterocampa clyton (Boisduval & LeConte) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Apaturinae) by Donald W. Hall

“…The tawny emperor is a medium sized, non-descript butterfly that is common in riparian forests, but is also found in dry woods and suburbs. …”
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A Summary of Revisions to the Worker Protection Standard—2015 by Frederick M. Fishel

“…The WPS covers pesticides used in the outdoor and enclosed space production of plants on farms, forests, and nurseries, as well as greenhouses. The EPA has made several changes to the WPS since it was fully implemented in 1995. …”
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