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Rudolf Schmid

Bio: Rudolf Schmid is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Flora & Systematics. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 270 publications receiving 20706 citations.


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01 May 1993-Taxon
TL;DR: Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World as discussed by the authors is the classic reference book on the taxonomic classification and distribution of more than 5400 species of mammals that exist today.
Abstract: Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World is the classic reference book on the taxonomic classification and distribution of the more than 5400 species of mammals that exist today. The third edition includes detailed information on nomenclature and, for the first time, common names. Each concise entry covers type locality, distribution, synonyms, and major reference sources. The systematic arrangement of information indicates evolutionary relationships at both the ordinal and the family level. This indispensable reference work belongs in public and academic libraries throughout the world and on the shelf of every biologist who works with mammals.

5,477 citations

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01 Feb 1987-Taxon

1,361 citations

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01 Feb 2000-Taxon
TL;DR: This book discusses the practice of Plant Systematics, Classification, Nature, and Stability, and the aims and Organization of this book.

1,217 citations

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01 Aug 2003-Taxon
TL;DR: The aim of the Prosea Programme is tosummarize knowledge about useful plants for workers in education, research, extension and industry.
Abstract: summarize knowledge about useful plants for workers in education, research, extension and industry. The following institutions are reponsible for the coordination of the Prosea Programme and the handbook: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM), Karung Berkunci 201, Jalan FRI Kepong, 52109 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Widya Graha, Jalan Gatot Subroto 10, J akar ta 12710, Indonesia Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR), Nghia Do, Tu Liem, Hanoi, Vietnam Papua New Guinea University of Technology (UNITECH), Private Mail Bag, Lae, Papua New Guinea Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research & Development (PCARRD), Los Bahos, Laguna, the Philippines Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR), 196 Phahonyothin Road, Bank Khen, Bangkok 10900, Thailand Wageningen Agricultural University (WAU), Costerweg 50, 6701 BH Wageningen, the Netherlands

1,139 citations


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TL;DR: A revised and updated classification for the families of the flowering plants is provided in this paper, which includes Austrobaileyales, Canellales, Gunnerales, Crossosomatales and Celastrales.

7,299 citations

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TL;DR: The American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) published guidelines for the use of wild mammal species in research as mentioned in this paper, which provide a broad and comprehensive understanding of the biology of nondomesticated mammals in their natural environments.
Abstract: General guidelines for use of wild mammal species are updated from the 1998 version approved by the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) and expanded to include additional resources. Included are details on marking, housing, trapping, and collecting mammals. These guidelines cover current professional techniques and regulations involving mammals used in research. Institutional animal care and use committees, regulatory agencies, and investigators should review and approve procedures concerning use of vertebrates at any particular institution. These guidelines were prepared and approved by the ASM, whose collective expertise provides a broad and comprehensive understanding of the biology of nondomesticated mammals in their natural environments.

3,979 citations

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TL;DR: This new handbook has a better balance between whole-plant traits, leaf traits, root and stem traits and regenerative traits, and puts particular emphasis on traits important for predicting species’ effects on key ecosystem properties.
Abstract: Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels and influence ecosystem properties. Variation in plant functional traits, and trait syndromes, has proven useful for tackling many important ecological questions at a range of scales, giving rise to a demand for standardised ways to measure ecologically meaningful plant traits. This line of research has been among the most fruitful avenues for understanding ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes. It also has the potential both to build a predictive set of local, regional and global relationships between plants and environment and to quantify a wide range of natural and human-driven processes, including changes in biodiversity, the impacts of species invasions, alterations in biogeochemical processes and vegetation–atmosphere interactions. The importance of these topics dictates the urgent need for more and better data, and increases the value of standardised protocols for quantifying trait variation of different species, in particular for traits with power to predict plant- and ecosystem-level processes, and for traits that can be measured relatively easily. Updated and expanded from the widely used previous version, this handbook retains the focus on clearly presented, widely applicable, step-by-step recipes, with a minimum of text on theory, and not only includes updated methods for the traits previously covered, but also introduces many new protocols for further traits. This new handbook has a better balance between whole-plant traits, leaf traits, root and stem traits and regenerative traits, and puts particular emphasis on traits important for predicting species’ effects on key ecosystem properties. We hope this new handbook becomes a standard companion in local and global efforts to learn about the responses and impacts of different plant species with respect to environmental changes in the present, past and future.

2,744 citations

Book
22 Jun 2009
TL;DR: This book provides a complete background on metaheuristics and shows readers how to design and implement efficient algorithms to solve complex optimization problems across a diverse range of applications, from networking and bioinformatics to engineering design, routing, and scheduling.
Abstract: A unified view of metaheuristics This book provides a complete background on metaheuristics and shows readers how to design and implement efficient algorithms to solve complex optimization problems across a diverse range of applications, from networking and bioinformatics to engineering design, routing, and scheduling. It presents the main design questions for all families of metaheuristics and clearly illustrates how to implement the algorithms under a software framework to reuse both the design and code. Throughout the book, the key search components of metaheuristics are considered as a toolbox for: Designing efficient metaheuristics (e.g. local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm optimization, scatter search, ant colonies, bee colonies, artificial immune systems) for optimization problems Designing efficient metaheuristics for multi-objective optimization problems Designing hybrid, parallel, and distributed metaheuristics Implementing metaheuristics on sequential and parallel machines Using many case studies and treating design and implementation independently, this book gives readers the skills necessary to solve large-scale optimization problems quickly and efficiently. It is a valuable reference for practicing engineers and researchers from diverse areas dealing with optimization or machine learning; and graduate students in computer science, operations research, control, engineering, business and management, and applied mathematics.

2,735 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, Modelling Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance is discussed. But the authors focus on the modeling of extreme events for insurance and finance, and do not consider the effects of cyber-attacks.
Abstract: (2002). Modelling Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance. Journal of the American Statistical Association: Vol. 97, No. 457, pp. 360-360.

2,729 citations