Neutron Capture Experiments on Unstable Nuclei

Schwantes, Jon M.; Sudowe, Ralf; Nitsche, H.; Hoffman, Darleane C.

doi:10.2172/820513

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“…EVI was designed to detect vegetation change in tropical regions from remote sensing images (Huete et al, 2002;Xiao et al, 2006). We extracted EVI (Terra-MODIS 250 m 16-day VI product MOD13Q1.006) from Google Earth Engine using 'geeDataExtract' for all dates between 18 February 2000 and 18 December 2020 for locations of each monitored bat colony (Freidl et al, 2021;Schwantes & Nuñez, 2019).…”

Section: Environmental Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Additionally, we filtered out low-quality pixels and fit a smoothing spline to the EVI measurements for each colony for all 20 years of data to adjust for any outliers or missing data (2% of points omitted). PRP was estimated for all colonies from 1 January 2000 to 1 December 2019 from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM 3B43, resolution 0.25°), a merged microwave/IR precipitation estimate (in mm/month) accessed from Google Earth Engine using 'geeDataExtract' (Huffman et al, 2007;Schwantes & Nuñez, 2019). We estimated the instantaneous rate of green up (IRG), a measure of the seasonal rate of plant growth, by calculating the first derivative of the smoothed spline of EVI for each location (Bischof et al, 2012).…”

Section: Environmental Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fruit bat migration matches green wave in seasonal landscapes

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1. Migrating grazers and carnivores respond to seasonal changes in the environment and often match peaks in resource abundance. However, it is unclear whether and how frugivorous animals use phenological events to time migration, especially in the tropics.2. The straw-coloured fruit bat Eidolon helvum, Africa's most gregarious fruit bat, forms large seasonal colonies throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa. We hypothesized that aggregations of E. helvum match the timing of their migration with phenologies of plant growth or precipitation.3. Using monthly colony counts from across much of the species' range, we matched peak colony size to landscape phenologies and explored the variation among colonies matching the overall closest phenological event.4. Peak colony size was closest to the peak instantaneous rate of green-up, and sites with closer temporal matching were associated with higher maximum greenness, short growing season and larger peak colony size. Eidolon helvum seem to time their migrations to move into highly seasonal landscapes to exploit short-lived explosions of food and may benefit from collective sensing to time migrations. 5. The link between rapid changes in colony size and phenological match may also imply potential collective sensing of the environment. Overall decreasing bat numbers along with various threats might cause this property of large colonies to be lost. 6. Remote sensing data, although, indirectly linked to fruiting events, can potentially be used to globally describe and predict the migration of frugivorous species in a changing world.

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Section: Environmental Datamentioning

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confidence: 99%

Fruit bat migration matches green wave in seasonal landscapes

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“…Similar examples in the music therapy literature illustrate that people like Hugh do use music in ways that promote their health when confronted with life challenges. Schwantes and colleagues (2011) report that music listening during acute periods of depression can allow people to place sad feelings into songs and leave them there (Schwantes, Wigram, McKinney, Lipscomb & Richards, 2011), while Cheong-Clinch and McFerran (2016) found that this is particularly important when people with mental illness experience urges to self-harm. These authors describe one young person's experience of how listening to a preferred song would remove their desire to self injure for an extra three minutes.…”

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confidence: 99%