Bram Stoker

Hopkins, Lisa

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“…Current limitations of this spectral technique for ample use in forest inventories are mostly related to lack of a robust reference model that can be used to predict species identities from a bark or a leaf spectrum. This requires obtaining spectra from bark tissues in the field for well-identified trees, preferably with a voucher specimen in a herbarium, since taxonomic definitions are largely unstable in the Amazon (Hopkins, 2007, Steege et al, 2016. Nonetheless, this technique may be used already at local/regional contexts, and may help at such contexts to better define local species even if their taxonomic names remain uncertain.…”

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“…In the field, trees are frequently identified to species by para-botanists ('mateiros') and voucher specimens are only rarely collected for comparison with herbaria or consultation with plant specialists. In the Amazon region, high tree species diversity (Steege et al, 2016, Cardoso et al, 2017 and poor sampling make it difficult to recognize species with confidence , Hopkins, 2007, Gomes et al, 2013. Problems relate to both finding scientific names for species, and also to the grouping of trees into the same species at local scales (Gomes et al, 2013).…”

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“…Hence, different people may have different levels of training and see different things (Gomes et al, 2013), and even specialists in a single plant group may differ in their taxonomic concepts. This is exemplified by the fact that duplicates of the same samples in different herbaria have distinct taxonomy, amounting to more than 50% of incongruence for the name of some tropical species (Hopkins, 2007, Goodwin et al, 2015.…”

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Recognizing Amazonian tree species in the field using bark tissues spectra

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Durgante

Santos

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Forest Ecology and Management

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The identification of tree species in the field is often a subjective process and misidentifications cause many problems for forest management in the Amazon Forest. Near infrared spectra from dried leaves of herbarium specimens are able to distinguish species in tropical forests. However, toolsto improve species identification directly in the field are needed. In this study, we tested whether spectral reflectance of bark tissues (rhytidome and phloem) collected with a portable spectrometer in the field can be used for the discrimination of tree species. Spectral data was collected for 254 trees of 8 families, 10 genera and 11 species from terra firme forests in Central Amazon with an ASD field spectrometer. Data consisted of reflectance values within 350-2500 nm wavelengths. We compared the rate of correct species recognition for different datasets using linear discriminant models. The rate of correct species assignment using this technique was 98% when using spectra from the inner bark (phloem) and 94% with outer bark (rhytidome) spectra. We suggest that the application of this technique can improve the quality of species identification directly during field inventories, fostering better forest management practices.

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S toker, B ram

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2012

The Encyclopedia of the Gothic

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Abraham Stoker junior (1847–1912) was born into a Protestant family, resident in the north Dublin suburb of Clontarf. His father was a minor official in the British civil administration of Ireland, though as the recent scholarship of Paul Murray (2004) has indicated, the family's Irish antecedents predate the Act of Union and connect this self‐confessed liberal advocate of paternalistic Victorian Home Rule to a more militant eighteenth‐century nationalism. Educated initially at home and later at a Dublin day school run by an Anglican clergyman, the young author was inducted into the rituals and tenets of a common masculine identity that connected the middle and upper classes of Irish society with their English counterparts. The educative ideal of mens sana in corpore sano – a healthy mind within a healthy body – which Stoker proudly espoused as his personal credo in his 1906 biography of the actor Sir Henry Irving, functions as a perplexing parallel to the writer's own youth and adolescence. A sickly child, at one stage blind and certainly unable to stand upon his own feet as an infant, Stoker grew to be a successful college athlete, and maintained his interest in athletics, rugby football, and weightlifting when he himself entered the Irish Civil Service in 1866. That said, his university career at Trinity College Dublin, where he was associated with Willie and Oscar Wilde and John Butler Yeats, was academically undistinguished. Though he did achieve recognition in the debating chamber, and was – uniquely – appointed both Auditor of the University's Historical Society and President of the rival Philosophical Society, he did not graduate with “Honors in pure Mathematics” as he was later to claim, and his MA was awarded, as is customary at Dublin, Oxford, and Cambridge, without further study.

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Stoker, Bram

Senf

2015

The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature

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Known primarily as the author of Dracula , perhaps the Victorian period's preeminent example of gothic fiction, Bram Stoker also wrote eighteen other books. Eclipsed during his lifetime by his employer, the actor Henry Irving, as well as by Dracula , Stoker has recently come into his own as a writer. Not only have scholars applied a number of critical approaches to Dracula – including psychoanalysis, feminist criticism, gender studies, Marxist criticism, queer studies, and postcolonial criticism – but they are also beginning to study his other fiction. This more comprehensive approach has led to seeing Stoker as a writer of Irish literature as well as a writer who experimented in numerous genres of Victorian popular literature, including gothic literature, the Western, historical fiction, and the romance.

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Bram Stoker

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Recognizing Amazonian tree species in the field using bark tissues spectra

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