PRECIPITATION AND TEMPERATURE REGULATE SPECIES DIVERSITY, PLANT COVERAGE AND ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS THROUGH OPPOSING MECHANISMS IN LARGE-SCALE GRASSLANDS

IntroductionAlthough the relationships between species diversity and aboveground biomass (AGB) are highly debated in grassland ecosystems, it is not well understood how climatic factors influence AGB directly and indirectly via plant coverage and species diversity in large-scale grasslands along a topographic gradient.In doing so, we hypothesized t

Hundreds Cysteine of Roman hoards containing fairly good silver coins were buried around mid-3rd century AD in the north-west of Gaul.Most were not found in houses but hidden in the ground.Why were so many hoards buried outside the safety of a dwelling and, more importantly, why they have never been recovered? The author explores different explanat

Self-supervised learning has great potential for the remote sensing domain, where unlabelled observations are abundant, but labels are hard to obtain.This work leverages unlabelled multi-modal remote sensing data for augmentation-free contrastive self-supervised learning.Deep neural network models are trained to maximize the similarity of latent re

Ying Zhuge,1,* Zhi-Feng Zheng,1,* Mu-Qing Xie,2 Lin Li,2 Fang Wang,1 Feng Gao2,3 1Department of Cardiology, Shanghai First People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 2Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, 3Shanghai Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, Peo