Testing the effectiveness of an international conservation agreement: marketplace forensics and CITES caviar trade regulation.

BACKGROUND: The international wildlife trade is a key threat to biodiversity.Temporal genetic marketplace monitoring can determine if wildlife trade regulation efforts such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) are succeeding.Protected under CITES effective 1997, sturgeons and paddlefishes, the producers of black ca

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Visualizing GPR Data Using Spatial-Subband Configuration

In ground penetrating radar (GPR) applications, base-scale analysis can be a powerful tool to support data analysis and to build a consensus in data interpretation.In this paper, a study Mini Dress using the spatial-subband as a characterizing method to visualize structure attributes of GPR is presented.A dynamic framework is proposed to support th

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