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Automated plant species identification-Trends and future directions by Wäldchen, Jana, Rzanny, Michael, Seeland, Marco, Mäder, Patrick

“…Current rates of species loss triggered numerous attempts to protect and conserve biodiversity. Species conservation, however, requires species identification…”
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Plant species classification using flower images-A comparative study of local feature representations by Seeland, Marco, Rzanny, Michael, Alaqraa, Nedal, Wäldchen, Jana, Mäder, Patrick

“…Steady improvements of image description methods induced a growing interest in image-based plant species classification, a task vital to the study of…”
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Deep Learning in Plant Phenological Research: A Systematic Literature Review by Katal, Negin, Rzanny, Michael, Mäder, Patrick, Wäldchen, Jana

“…Climate change represents one of the most critical threats to biodiversity with far-reaching consequences for species interactions, the functioning of…”
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Image-based classification of plant genus and family for trained and untrained plant species by Seeland, Marco, Rzanny, Michael, Boho, David, Wäldchen, Jana, Mäder, Patrick

“…Modern plant taxonomy reflects phylogenetic relationships among taxa based on proposed morphological and genetic similarities. However, taxonomical relation is…”
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Flora Capture: a citizen science application for collecting structured plant observations by Boho, David, Rzanny, Michael, Wäldchen, Jana, Nitsche, Fabian, Deggelmann, Alice, Wittich, Hans Christian, Seeland, Marco, Mäder, Patrick

“…Digital plant images are becoming increasingly important. First, given a large number of images deep learning algorithms can be trained to automatically…”
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Flowers, leaves or both? How to obtain suitable images for automated plant identification by Rzanny, Michael, Mäder, Patrick, Deggelmann, Alice, Chen, Minqian, Wäldchen, Jana

“…Deep learning algorithms for automated plant identification need large quantities of precisely labelled images in order to produce reliable classification…”
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Bottom-up and top-down forces structuring consumer communities in an experimental grassland by Rzanny, Michael, Kuu, Annely, Voigt, Winfried

“…After decades of intensive research, the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up control for structuring ecological communities is still a particularly…”
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Acquiring and preprocessing leaf images for automated plant identification: understanding the tradeoff between effort and information gain by Rzanny, Michael, Seeland, Marco, Wäldchen, Jana, Mäder, Patrick

“…Automated species identification is a long term research subject. Contrary to flowers and fruits, leaves are available throughout most of the year. Offering…”
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Recommending plant taxa for supporting on-site species identification by Wittich, Hans Christian, Seeland, Marco, Wäldchen, Jana, Rzanny, Michael, Mäder, Patrick

“…Predicting a list of plant taxa most likely to be observed at a given geographical location and time is useful for many scenarios in biodiversity informatics…”
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Plant diversity alters the representation of motifs in food webs by Giling, Darren P., Ebeling, Anne, Eisenhauer, Nico, Meyer, Sebastian T., Roscher, Christiane, Rzanny, Michael, Voigt, Winfried, Weisser, Wolfgang W., Hines, Jes

“…Changes in the diversity of plant communities may undermine the economically and environmentally important consumer species they support. The structure of…”
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Image-Based Automated Recognition of 31 Poaceae Species: The Most Relevant Perspectives by Rzanny, Michael, Wittich, Hans Christian, Mäder, Patrick, Deggelmann, Alice, Boho, David, Wäldchen, Jana

“…Poaceae represent one of the largest plant families in the world. Many species are of great economic importance as food and forage plants while others…”
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Bridging the gap: how to adopt opportunistic plant observations for phenology monitoring by Katal, Negin, Rzanny, Michael, Mäder, Patrick, Römermann, Christine, Wittich, Hans Christian, Boho, David, Musavi, Talie, Wäldchen, Jana

“…Plant phenology plays a vital role in assessing climate change. To monitor this, individual plants are traditionally visited and observed by trained volunteers…”
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Macrophenological dynamics from citizen science plant occurrence data by Mora, Karin, Rzanny, Michael, Wäldchen, Jana, Feilhauer, Hannes, Kattenborn, Teja, Kraemer, Guido, Mäder, Patrick, Svidzinska, Daria, Wolf, Sophie, Mahecha, Miguel D.

“…Phenological shifts across plant species is a powerful indicator to quantify the effects of climate change. Today, mobile applications with automated species…”
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Opportunistic plant observations reveal spatial and temporal gradients in phenology by Rzanny, Michael, Mäder, Patrick, Wittich, Hans Christian, Boho, David, Wäldchen, Jana

“…Opportunistic plant records provide a rapidly growing source of spatiotemporal plant observation data. Here, we used such data to explore the question whether…”
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Towards more effective identification keys: A study of people identifying plant species characters by Wäldchen, Jana, Wittich, Hans Christian, Rzanny, Michael, Fritz, Alice, Mäder, Patrick

“…Accurate species identification is essential for ecological monitoring and biodiversity conservation. Interactive plant identification keys have been…”
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Removing subordinate species in a biodiversity experiment to mimic observational field studies by Schmid, Bernhard, Schmitz, Martin, Rzanny, Michael, Scherer‐Lorenzen, Michael, Mwangi, Peter N., Weisser, Wolfgang W., Hector, Andrew, Schmid, Roland, Flynn, Dan F. B.

“…Background Positive effects of plant species richness on community biomass in biodiversity experiments are often stronger than those from observational field…”
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Complexity of multitrophic interactions in a grassland ecosystem depends on plant species diversity by Rzanny, Michael, Voigt, Winfried

“…1. We studied the theoretical prediction that a loss of plant species richness has a strong impact on community interactions among all trophic levels and…”
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The Flora Incognita app – Interactive plant species identification by Mäder, Patrick, Boho, David, Rzanny, Michael, Seeland, Marco, Wittich, Hans Christian, Deggelmann, Alice, Wäldchen, Jana

“…Being able to identify plant species is an important factor for understanding biodiversity and its change due to natural and anthropogenic drivers. We discuss…”
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Patch patterns of lowland beech forests in a gradient of management intensity by Begehold, Heike, Rzanny, Michael, Winter, Susanne

“…•We investigated spatial forest development phases (FDP) in 22 lowland beech forests.•Patch size and proportion of single FDP differ according to…”
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Plant diversity induces shifts in the functional structure and diversity across trophic levels by Ebeling, Anne, Rzanny, Michael, Lange, Markus, Eisenhauer, Nico, Hertzog, Lionel R., Meyer, Sebastian T., Weisser, Wolfgang W.

“…Changes to primary producer diversity can cascade up to consumers and affect ecosystem processes. Although the effect of producer diversity on higher trophic…”
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