No more laborious stem counting: AI-powered computer vision enables identification and quantification of solid and hollow alfalfa stems at the pixel level by Brandon J. Weihs, Zhou Tang, Somshubhra Roy, Zezhong Tian, Deborah Jo Heuschele, Zhiwu Zhang, Cranos Williams, Zhou Zhang, Garett Heineck, Swayamjit Saha, Zhanyou Xu

“…The approach achieved an F1 score of 0.91 in detecting and classifying hollow or solid stems across plots and genotypes. Further analysis measured stem area and the proportions of stem tissue versus hollow regions, generating traits like hollowness score and percentage of hollowness. …”
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Effects of Manipulated Rainfall and Intraspecific Variation Within Dominant Species on Community Assembly: Insights From a Long‐Term Grassland Restoration Experiment by Zhe Ren, Sara G. Baer, Loretta C. Johnson, Matthew B. Galliart, David J. Gibson

“…We also evaluated the contributions of intra‐ and interspecific variations in functional traits across plots sown with different ecotypes of dominant species. …”
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Similar alpha yet varied beta functional diversities between invasive and native plant species along an elevational gradient by Yan-Yan Wang, Kun Guo, Rui-Ling Liu, Hasigerili, Miao-Miao Zheng, Yuan Gao, Ming-Shui Zhao, Jian Zhang, Wen-Yong Guo

“…Elevation-related environmental factors played a major role in shaping functional dissimilarity and species similarity across plots. In contrast, functional redundancy at both α and β levels was more influenced by species status. …”
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Impact of vegetation restoration on preferential flow and soil infiltration capacity in the hilly region of the Loess Plateau by Shuyu Zhang, Yuanhao Liu, Mingyue Yang, Peng Tian, Xingmin Mu, Guangju Zhao

“…Double-ring infiltrometers and dye tracing were employed across plots with various vegetation types and restoration durations to comprehensively investigate the impact of vegetation restoration on soil infiltration capacity, preferential flow, and their influencing factors. …”
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Prescribed fire leads a pine flatwoods specialist treefrog to seek local refugia by Ian Biazzo, Pedro F. Quintana‐Ascencio

“…Apparent survival was commensurate across plots and prescribed fire treatments after controlling for the effects of the pipe removal, and population trends were similar overall. …”
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Do drought and understory beech interact to influence the nutrition and growth of sugar maple? by William F. J. Parsons, Claudele Ghotsa Mekontchou, Tanvir Ahmed Shovon, Audrey Maheu, David Rivest

“…Dendroclimatological estimates of annual basal area increment (BAI) produced by three canopy maples within 12 plots, together with foliar nutrients of the same mature maple trees and soil nutrient pools (ion-exchange probes, with increasing burial duration), were compared across plots. Comparisons included ordination scores for foliage (DCA1, Detrended Correspondence Analysis) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA: PC1 and PC2) for soils. …”
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