Efficient drone-based rare plant monitoring using a species distribution model and AI-based object detection

W Reckling, H Mitasova, K Wegmann, G Kauffman… - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Monitoring rare plant species is used to confirm presence, assess health, and verify
population trends. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are ideal tools for monitoring rare plants …

Science needs of southeastern grassland species of conservation concern: A framework for species status assessments

RF Noss, JM Cartwright, D Estes, T Witsell… - Open-File …, 2021 - pubs.usgs.gov
2 Science Needs of Southeastern Grassland Species of Conservation Concern: Species
Status Assessment Framework extinctions, and human attitudes and behaviors;(4) invasive …

Climate warming threatens the persistence of a community of disturbance‐adapted native annual plants

PB Reed, SD Bridgham, LE Pfeifer‐Meister… - Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With ongoing climate change, populations are expected to exhibit shifts in demographic
performance that will alter where a species can persist. This presents unique challenges for …

Foliar Endophytic Fungi from the Endangered Eastern Mountain Avens (Geum peckii, Rosaceae) in Canada

SJ Adams, BM Robicheau, D LaRue, RD Browne… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Eastern Mountain Avens (Geum peckii Pursh, Rosaceae) is a globally rare and endangered
perennial plant found only at two coastal bogs within Digby County (Nova Scotia, Canada) …

Effects of Habitat Loss on the Ecology of Pachyphytum caesium (Crassulaceae), a Specialized Cliff-Dwelling Endemic Species in Central Mexico

R Clark-Tapia, G González-Adame, JE Campos… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cliff-dwelling plant species are highly specialized and adapted to a vulnerable, fragmented,
and are mostly endemic, narrowly-distributed and threatened. As a contribution to the …

Seed germination and plant fitness response of a narrowly endemic, rare winter annual to spatial heterogeneity in microenvironment

J Kaur, D Schwilk, J Sharma - Plant Species Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental heterogeneity affects distributions of plant species, although the effects of fine‐
scale heterogeneity on plant demographies are not widely studied. Diminutive winter …

Effects of surveying for the federally endangered Spruce-fir Moss Spider (Microhexura montivaga Crosby & Bishop) on its bryophyte habitat

CA Diggins, WM Ford - Southeastern Naturalist, 2021 - BioOne
Microhexura montivaga (Spruce-fir Moss Spider) is a federally endangered arachnid
endemic to high-elevation montane conifer forests of the southern Appalachian Mountains …

Potential Himalayan community turnover through the Late Pleistocene

F Dong, CM Hung, SH Li, XJ Yang - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
Prevailing models for the high biodiversity in tropical mountains assume that organisms can
survive through past climate change by performing short elevational movements to track …

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of the Forgotten Geum, Geum geniculatum Michx.

MD Shattelroe, P Mangum, JR Ward, MC Estep - Castanea, 2021 - BioOne
Geum geniculatum (Rosaceae), bent avens, is a perennial herb restricted to the high
elevations of three mountaintops near the North Carolina/Tennessee border (USA) …

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W Reckling, H Mitasova, K Wegmann, G Kauffman… - 2021 - academia.edu
Monitoring rare plant species is used to confirm presence, assess health, and verify
population trends. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are ideal tools for monitoring rare plants …