Making hollow trees: Inoculating living trees with wood-decay fungi for the conservation of threatened taxa - A guide for conservationists

Optimization of sampling procedures for DNA-based diagnosis of wood decay fungi in standing trees.

AIMS To develop fast and reliable sampling procedures for DNA-based diagnosis of wood decay fungi in standing trees. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 250 trees were tested for the presence of a suite of wood decay fungi by collecting wood frass obtained by drilling each tree once with a 4-mm-diameter, 43-cm-long bit. We identified at least one of 11 target wood decay fungi in 56 trees through m...

Nondestructive detection of decay in living trees.

We used a four-point resistivity method to detect wood decay in living trees. A low-frequency alternating current was applied to the stem and the induced voltage measured between two points along the stem. The effective resistivity of the stem was estimated based on stem cross-sectional area. A comparison within a group of trees showed that trees with butt rot had an effective resistivity that ...

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

[Can't see the wood for the trees].

We consider the assignment of enterprise applications in virtual machines to physical servers, also known as server consolidation problem. IT service managers try to minimize the number of servers, but at the same time provide sufficient computing resources at each point in time. While historical workload data would allow for accurate workload forecasting and optimal allocation of enterprise ap...

Seeing the wood for the trees.