The present study was conducted to investigate the behavior and distribution characteristics of fishes near an artificial reef close to the waters of Uljin marine ranch.A 200-kHz, dual-beam frequency transducer was attached to the side of a ship for acoustic measurements.The fish formed small groups in the bottom layer near the artificial reef arou
We assessed if the relative importance of biotic and abiotic factors for plant community composition differs along environmental gradients and between functional groups, and asked which implications this may have in a warmer and wetter future.The study location is a unique grid of sites spanning regional-scale temperature and precipitation gradient
abstract The tumbler elemental Nb is mainly investigated for its eminent superconducting properties.In contrary, we report of a relatively unexplored property, namely, its superior optoelectronic property in reduced dimension.We demonstrate here that nanostructured Nb thin films (NNFs), under optical illumination, behave as room temperature photo-s
Background US As cultural institutions embark in projects oriented to digitise art and archaeological collections in three dimensions, the need for developing means to access the resulting 3D models has become imperative.Shape recognition techniques developed in the field of computer vision can help in this task.Methods This paper describes the imp