A new species, Medinilla theresae Fernando, from ultramafic soils read more on Dinagat and Mindanao Islands, Philippines is described and illustrated.The species is characterized by its terrestrial erect habit, non-setose nodes, 3-plinerved, lanceolate and coriaceous leaves arranged in whorls, cauline or axillary and pendulous inflorescences, round
The utilization of echofix spring reverb satellite images in conservation research is becoming more prevalent due to advancements in remote sensing technologies.To achieve accurate classification of wildlife habitats, it is important to consider the different capabilities of spectral and spatial resolution.Our study aimed to develop a method for ac
A bibliographic analysis of the hypogean biological studies in Portugal is made, compiling 138 publications berness white sneakers related to the subterranean invertebrate fauna, since its begining in 1870 until November 2012.A catalogue of hypogean endemic taxa is provided, listing 27 troglobionts and 63 stygobionts, described to be obligate hypog
Contrastive learning methods have been widely adopted in numerous unsupervised and self-supervised visual representation learning methods.Such algorithms aim to maximize the cosine similarity between two positive samples while minimizing that of the negative samples.Recently, Grill et al.propose an algorithm, BYOL, to utilize only positive samples,