Michael Swaine

Managing a Taiwan crisis: escalation dynamics, structural obstacles, and pathways to stability

Michael Swaine

us (code pays fourni par la source)

Single Satellite Image Super-Resolution up to X8

Liuyun Duan, Michael Swaine, Nicolas Girard, S. Tripodi et autres

Many applications require high-resolution and recent satellite images (e.g. mapping). Although low-resolution images lack spatial resolution, they have high temporal resolution (e.g. 5-day revisit time for Sentinel-2). When the area of interest is not covered by a recent high-resolution image or it …

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Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras

Timothy R. Baker, Stephen Adu‐Bredu, Kofi Affum‐Baffoe, Shin‐ichiro Aiba et autres

Understanding how the traits of lineages are related to diversification is key for elucidating the origin of variation in species richness. Here, we test whether traits are related to species richness among lineages of trees from all major biogeographical settings of the …

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Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

Declan L. M. Cooper, Simon L. Lewis, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Paulo Inácio Prado et autres

Abstract Trees structure the Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus …

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Large-scale LOD1 building extraction from a textured 3D mesh of a scene

Liuyun Duan, Michael Swaine, S. Tripodi, Mohamed Abderrazak Cherif et autres

We propose a novel deep learning approach which performs building semantic segmentation of large-scale textured 3D meshes, followed by a polygonal extraction of footprints and heights. Extracting accurate individual building structures poses a challenge due to the complexity and the variety of …

Dissecting the difference in tree species richness between Africa and South America

Pedro Luiz Silva de Miranda, Kyle G. Dexter, Michael Swaine, Ary Teixeira de Oliveira‐Filho et autres

SignificanceOur full-scale comparison of Africa and South America's lowland tropical tree floras shows that both Africa and South America's moist and dry tree floras are organized similarly: plant families that are rich in tree species on one continent are also rich in …

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Species identification of morphologically similar tropical dolphins and estimating group size using aerial imagery in coastal waters

Holly C. Raudino, Christophe Cleguer, Mélanie A. Hamel, Michael Swaine et autres

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Chinese Regional Forces as Political Actors

Michael Swaine

This chapter discusses those historical characteristics of Chinese regional forces most relevant to their role as political actors prior to 1949. It then examines the subsequent evolution of these characteristics under the communist regime, stressing the impact of recent military reforms on …

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

ForestPlots.net, Cecilia Blundo, Julieta Carilla, Ricardo Grau et autres

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Diversity of Poisonous Plants and their Antidotes, Affecting Ruminant Livestock Production on Rangelands in Ghana

Charles Yaw Fosu Domozoro, C. C. Wilcock, Michael Swaine, Adam H. Price

The survival of the extensive livestock system, the practice for most farmers in the livestock industry in Ghana depends heavily on the natural pastures as forage resource. To efficiently use the rangelands, knowledge of the species composition, especially that of poisonous plants …

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3. Does China Have a Grand Strategy?

Michael Swaine

Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa

Julie C. Aleman, Adeline Fayolle, Charly Favier, A. Carla Staver et autres

The idea that tropical forest and savanna are alternative states is crucial to how we manage these biomes and predict their future under global change. Large-scale empirical evidence for alternative stable states is limited, however, and comes mostly from the multimodal distribution …

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