Plant food resources and the diet of a parrot community in a gallery forest of the southern Pantanal (Brazil)

Neotropical parrots usually forage in forest canopies for nectar, flowers, leaves, fruit pulp, and seeds.As they have no all-purpose territories, these birds usually exploit vegetation mosaics in order to use plentiful resources as they become available.In this study we examine the use of a gallery forest in the southern Pantanal (Brazil) by a dive

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Comparison of two Satellite Imaging Platforms for Evaluating Sand Dune Migration in the Ubari Sand Sea (Libyan Fazzan)

Sand dunes can change location, form or dimensions depending on wind direction and strength.Sand dune movements can be effectively monitored through the comparison Minerals of multi-temporal satellite images.However, not all remote sensing platforms are suitable to study sand dunes.This study compares coarse (Landsat) and fine (Worldview) resolutio

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