Environmental Sciences - Table of Contents

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Environmental Sciences Articles)

Kingman reef

November 10, 2015

Can we measure beauty?

Researchers have shown that an objective computational analysis of photographic images can be used to assess the health of a coral reef. The results have even wider posible application. The authors have also created a website using the techniques developed in this article where you can upload your own image to and get an 'aesthetic' score back.

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November 10, 2015

Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics

Andreas F. Haas, Marine Guibert, Anja Foerschner, Tim Co, Sandi Calhoun, Emma George, Mark Hatay, Elizabeth Dinsdale, Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith, Mark J.A. Vermeij, Ben Felts, Phillip Dustan, Peter Salamon, Forest Rohwer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1390 PubMed 26587350

November 24, 2015

Radiocesium concentrations in wild mushrooms collected in Kawauchi Village after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Kanami Nakashima, Makiko Orita, Naoko Fukuda, Yasuyuki Taira, Naomi Hayashida, Naoki Matsuda, Noboru Takamura

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1427 PubMed 26623189

November 10, 2015

Metabolic and genomic analysis elucidates strain-level variation in Microbacterium spp. isolated from chromate contaminated sediment

Michael W. Henson, Jorge W. Santo Domingo, Peter S. Kourtev, Roderick V. Jensen, James A. Dunn, Deric R. Learman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1395 PubMed 26587353

November 3, 2015

Removal of concentrated sulfamethazine by acclimatized aerobic sludge and possible metabolic products

Na Yang, Junfeng Wan, Shiju Zhao, Yan Wang