LONG-TERM ASSESSMENT OF WHALE SHARK POPULATION DEMOGRAPHY AND CONNECTIVITY USING PHOTO-IDENTIFICATION IN THE WESTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN.

Long-term assessment of whale shark population demography and connectivity using photo-identification in the Western Atlantic Ocean.

The predictable occurrence of whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, has been well documented in several areas.However, information relating to their migratory patterns, residency times and connectivity across broad spatial scales is limited.In the present study photo-identification data is used to describe whale shark population structure and connectivity

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Biases in regional carbon budgets from covariation of surface fluxes and weather in transport model inversions

Recent advances in atmospheric transport model inversions could significantly reduce uncertainties in land carbon uptake through the assimilation of CO2 concentration measurements at weekly and shorter timescales.The potential of these measurements for reducing biases in estimated land carbon sinks depends on the strength of covariation between sur

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Melody discrimination and protein fold classification

One of the greatest challenges in theoretical biophysics and bioinformatics is the identification of protein folds from sequence data.This can be regarded as a pattern recognition problem.In this paper we report the whirlwind direct2 use of a melody generation software where the inputs are derived from calculations of evolutionary information, seco

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