Pines, Palms and Pandas

Pandas, Plants, and People

Plants are essential for the survival and sustainability of both humans and wildlife species around the world. However, human activities have directly and indirectly affected almost all plants, which in turn have produced cascading effects on humans and wildlife through disruption of crucial ecosystem services and wildlife habitat. Understanding such complex interactions is crucial for developi...

Treating PANDAS

20.2 Southern Pines in Bioenergy Production 20 Pines

(ed. B.P. Singh) 427 pine (Pinus elliottii var. elliottii). Of note, the former two are also considered to be species of concern for conservation (Erickson et al., 2012) due to long-standing land management practices that have favoured loblolly pine. Similarly to loblolly pine, although on a smaller scale, slash pine has been widely planted and managed for wood and fibre production. Because of ...

Jonathan Pines

Goals and Applications Our overall goal is to successfully predict the offensive play-calling decisions of college football coaches. We will attempt to make such predictions on the basis of data from past games and from previous plays in the current game. While there is extensive literature on machine learning in some other sports such as baseball, football has been relatively neglected; furthe...

Matchmaker.com for pandas