Narratives are central to communication and the human experience. For a computer system to understand a narrative, it must be able to identify the key facts or plot elements that describe what happened or how the world has changed. These element are called events;establishing a document’s events and the relationships...
The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of placing
adults in reading materials based on scores from a word-opposite test.
The population was randomly selected from students attending
developmental education classes at three Oregon community colleges.
The Word Opposite Reading Placement Instrument (WOPI) was derived
from a...
Marin County, located in the northern San Francisco Bay Area in California, faces significant threats due to climate change, including more frequent wildfires, flooding, and increased temperatures. Adaptation and mitigation efforts are necessary in order to promote resilience amidst these changing conditions. Scorecards and similar evaluation tools have previously been...
Ecological restoration is needed to mitigate losses to biodiversity. Restoration success is enhanced through the use of native plant materials that are genetically diverse and locally adapted. Seed transfer zones have been developed to delineate geographic areas where native seed can be collected and distributed with reduced risk of maladaptation....
Swiss needle cast (SNC) is a disease specific to Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) caused by the ascomycete Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii. Here we examine characteristics of the EM fungus community that are potentially useful in predictive models that would monitor forest health. We found that mean EM density (number of colonized root tips/soil...
Six species of Cystangium, a genus of
sequestrate taxa related to Russula, were collected
in Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) during autumn
2001. Two species, C. depauperatum Singer & A.H.
Sm. and C. nothofagi (E. Horak) Trappe, Castellano &
T. Lebel, were already known from this region, while
four new species,...
Rhizopogon subgenus Villosuli are the only
members of the genus known to form an ectomycorrhizal
relationship exclusively with Pseudotsuga. The
specificity of this host relationship is unusual in that
Rhizopogon is broadly associated with several tree
genera within the Pinaceae and relationships with a
host genus are typically distributed across...
Epichloë typhina, a fungal endophyte of
cool season grasses, is heterothallic and an obligate
out-crosser. In areas of endemism, its spermatia are
moved between stromata of the two opposite mating
types through egg-laying activities of Botanophila flies.
In western Oregon, where the fungus was inadvertently
introduced into seed-production fields of...
An abundant fruiting of a black morel was encountered in temperate northwestern New South Wales (NSW), Australia, during a mycological survey in Sep 2010. The site was west of the Great Dividing Range in a young, dry sclerophyll forest dominated by Eucalyptus and Callitris north of Coonabarabran in an area...
The oceans are one of humanity’s greatest resources, providing food, raw materials, livelihoods, and protection. More than 3 billion people around the world rely on marine life as a source of protein as well as their livelihood. Seafood is one of the highest traded commodities globally and many major cities...