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1. Selected Papers from 1st International Electronic Conference on Biological Diversity, Ecology, and Evolution (BDEE 2021)

Author

Wink, Michael and Wink, Michael

Subjects
Biology, life sciences, Research & information: general, 16S rRNA sequencing, Australian monsoonal tropics, Baikal, Bryodelphax mareki sp. nov, CITES, Cydalima perspectalis, DNA barcoding, Eastern Carpathians, Europe, Eutardigrada, Heterotardigrada, Kalmyk cattle, Kazakh cattle, Kazakh white-headed breed, Kyrgyz cattle, Macrobiotus birendrai sp. nov, Nesamovyte Lake, Poland, Porifera, RDP measures, Rao's quadratic entropy, SDM, Skukuza area, Stevenson-Hamilton supersite, agroecosystems, algae, alien, alpine lake, aquaculture, arthropods, bees, biodiversity, bioindication, bird assemblages, box tree moth, catena ecosystem, cattle, chelonians, climate change, climatic variables, consensus genotypes, conservation, critically endangered, degraded amazon, distribution, diversity, diversity drivers, ecological characteristic, ecological niche model, ecosystem, endangered species, environment, ephemeral mud wallows, eutrophication, exotic species, expansion, foraging ecology, freshwater ecosystems, freshwater fishes, functional richness, generalized additive mixed models, genetic diversity, genomic inbreeding, geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA), habitat use, historical specimens, indicators, invasive species, land use change, landscape ecology, machine learning, macroecological patterns, mammal variety, microbiome, microsatellites, mosquitofish, pelomedusidae, pollinators, population structure, red list, runs of homozygosity, sheep, single nucleotide polymorphisms, species presence, sponge disease, taxonomic diversity, translocated, tropical lakes, urban birds, urban management, urbanisation, water bears, wild goats, zooplankton
Abstract

Summary: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the character of academic conferences has changed. Formerly, conferences required the physical presence of their members and audiences. However, travel restrictions due to the pandemic caused a shift in the traditional conference format, thus resulting in the rise of online conferences after 2020. In 2021 and 2022, the journal "Diversity" similarly organized online conferences. The well-attended online conference in March of 2021 attracted a wide range of speakers on biodiversity, ecology and evolution, as well as on 17 publications from this Special Issue. The publications cover several timely aspects of biodiversity, such as the importance of invasive species, the ecology of urbanization, the effects of drought on wildlife in Southern Africa, the results of human activities on insect, mammal, bird, reptile and amphibia populations, and the genetic diversity of animal breeds, microbiomes and planktonic organisms. Additionally, taxonomic and biosystematic topics are also covered in several SI publications.

2. Hyperspectral Imaging and Applications.

Author

Chang, Chein-I, Chang, Chein-I, Song, Meiping, Wu, Chao-Cheng, and Zhang, Junping

Subjects
History of engineering & technology, Technology: general issues, 90° yaw imaging, AHS, AVIRIS, Africa, Dunhuang site, Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization, HyMap, KSVD, Otsu's method, SVM, adaptive window, agroforestry, airborne laser scanning, algebraic multigrid methods, anomaly detection, band expansion process (BEP), band grouping, band selection, band selection (BS), band subset selection (BSS), biodiversity, class imbalance, classification, composite kernel, constrained energy minimization, constrained energy minimization (CEM), correlation band expansion process (CBEP), data fusion, data integration, data unmixing, data-guided constraints, deep belief networks, deep learning, deep pipelined background statistics, endmember extraction, ensemble learning, evenness, fire severity, graph, hashing ensemble, hierarchical feature, high-level synthesis, hyperspectral, hyperspectral classification, hyperspectral compression, hyperspectral detection, hyperspectral image, hyperspectral image (HSI), hyperspectral image classification, hyperspectral imagery, hyperspectral images (HSIs), hyperspectral imaging, hyperspectral pansharpening, hyperspectral unmixing, image enhancement, image fusion, imaging spectroscopy, in situ measurements, intrinsic image decomposition, irradiance-based method, iterative CEM (ICEM), iterative algorithm, label propagation, linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV), local abundance, local summation RX detector (LS-RXD), lossy compression, machine learning, mineral mapping, minimum noise fraction, multiscale spatial information, multiscale union regions adaptive sparse representation (MURASR), nonlinear band expansion (NBE), nonnegative matrix factorization, nuclear norm, on-board compression, optical spectral region, orthogonal projections, panchromatic, panchromatic image, parallel processing, peatland, progressive sample processing (PSP), prototype space, raw material, real-time processing, recursive anomaly detection, reflectance-based method, remote sensing, rolling guidance filtering (RGF), rotation forest, semi-supervised learning, semi-supervised local discriminant analysis, sequential LCMV-BSS (SQ LCMV-BSS), sliding window, sparse coding, sparse unmixing, sparseness, spectral mixture analysis, spectral variability, spectral-spatial classification, sprout detection, structure tensor, successive LCMV-BSS (SC LCMV-BSS), superpixel, target detection, terrestrial hyperspectral imaging, texture feature enhancement, thermal infrared spectral region, tree species, tree-based ensemble, vegetation type, vicarious calibration, vineyard, water stress, weighted fusion, weighted least squares filter
Abstract

Summary: Due to advent of sensor technology, hyperspectral imaging has become an emerging technology in remote sensing. Many problems, which cannot be resolved by multispectral imaging, can now be solved by hyperspectral imaging. The aim of this Special Issue "Hyperspectral Imaging and Applications" is to publish new ideas and technologies to facilitate the utility of hyperspectral imaging in data exploitation and to further explore its potential in different applications. This Special Issue has accepted and published 25 papers in various areas, which can be organized into 7 categories with the number of papers published in every category included in its open parenthesis. 1. Data Unmixing (2 papers)2. Spectral variability (2 papers)3. Target Detection (3 papers)4. Hyperspectral Image Classification (6 papers)5. Band Selection (2 papers)6. Data Fusion (2 papers)7. Applications (8 papers) Under every category each paper is briefly summarized by a short description so that readers can quickly grab its content to find what they are interested in.

3. Innovations and Perspectives of Industrial and Bioenergy Crops for Bioeconomy Development.

Author

Stolarski, Mariusz and Stolarski, Mariusz

Subjects
History of engineering & technology, Technology: general issues, CAP payments, Carabidae, Italy, Jerusalem artichoke, Miscanthus, Nicotiana tabacum, Poland, SRC, Salix, Silphium perfoliatum, Tenebrio molitor, abandoned areas, aboveground, agricultural and industrial residues, agroforestry, antimicrobial activity, antioxidant activity, ash, belowground part of Miscanthus × giganteus, biocidal effect, bioconversion, biodiversity, bioeconomy, bioenergy crop, biogas, biogas potential, biological diversity, biomass supply, biomass yield, biometric features, bioproduction, browsing damage, calcium, calorific value, carbon sequestration, cervids, circular economy, common osier, consumer choices, cup plant, dry biomass yield, dry matter yield, economics, ecosystem services, edible insects, energy, energy biomass, energy crops, energy expenses, energy plants, energy yield, eucalyptus, feed conversion ratio, fertilization, firewood, fresh biomass yield, gas chromatography, genoype × site interaction, ground beetles, groundwater, growth, harvesting, harvesting efficiency, higher heating value, hulled wheat species, invasive behavior, invasive potential, invertebrate biodiversity, land use and land-use change, larval development, leaves, life cycle assessment, lignocellulosic biomass, marginal land, marginal soil, multilevel logistic regression model, n/a, nitrogen fertilization, organic farming, perennial crops, perennial energy crop, perennial industrial crops, plant height, planting density, polyphenols, potassium, prairie cordgrass, quarry, reproductive potential, rhizomes, silvergrass, soil bulk density, soil chemical parameters, soil microbial carbon, soil moisture, soil properties (physical and chemical), soluble carbohydrates, stem, sulphur content, supercritical CO2 extraction, supercritical extraction, supply chain, survivability, sustainable agriculture, syntropy, tobacco biomass, unutilized agricultural areas (uUAA), uptake, varieties, vegetation restoration, water as co-solvent, water table distance, water-stable aggregates, willingness to consume, willow, willow SRC, willow browse, willow-leaf sunflower, willowleaf sunflower, work productivity, yield, yields
Abstract

Summary: The production of industrial and bioenergy crops has been the subject of scientific research for many years; however, the implementation of previously proposed solutions for commercial production is still at an early stage. It should be emphasized that when developing the production of industrial and bioenergy crops on agricultural lands, it is important to avoid land-use competition with the production of food and feed. It is well justified, for initiating the sustainable production of industrial and bioenergy crops, to promote efficient species for growing on marginal lands, which are unsuitable or less suitable for food or feed production. Another important point is that industrial and bioenergy crops should include nonfood and nonfeed crops and generate agricultural products categorized as commodities and/or raw materials for industrial goods and bioenergy. These industrial and bioenergy crops can become an important source of biomass. Of course, the concept of their cultivation for nonfood (and/or nonfeed) uses is not new but, despite considerable investment in research and development, little progress has been made with regard to the introduction of such crops and their products into the market. Therefore, the papers focus on innovations and perspectives regarding sustainable industrial and bioenergy crops production, logistic chains, biomass quality, utilization and cascade biomass use for bioeconomy, socio-economic and energy analyses, etc.