CONSERVING A GEOGRAPHICALLY ISOLATED CHARAXES BUTTERFLY IN RESPONSE TO HABITAT FRAGMENTATION AND INVASIVE ALIEN PLANTS

Conserving a geographically isolated Charaxes butterfly in response to habitat fragmentation and invasive alien plants

In South Africa, much Umbrella Stand of the forest biome is vulnerable to human-induced disturbance.The forest-dwelling butterfly Charaxes xiphares occidentalis is naturally confined to a small forest region in the south-western Cape, South Africa.Most of the remaining habitat of this species is within a fragmented agricultural matrix.Furthermore,

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Real-Time Ground-Level Building Damage Detection Based on Lightweight and Accurate YOLOv5 Using Terrestrial Images

Real-time building damage detection effectively improves the timeliness of post-earthquake assessments.In recent years, terrestrial images from smartphones or cameras have become a rich source of disaster information that may be useful in assessing building damage at a lower cost.In this study, we present an efficient method of building damage dete

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