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William Rickard

Rothamsted Research

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Harpenden AL5 2JQ

United Kingdom

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Linking Soil Structure and Microbial Communities to Predict Co2 Emissions from Drained Arable Peatlands

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 Jun 2025
Gavers Kwasi Oppong, William Rickard, Ursula Davis, Kamrun Suravi, Noel Clancy, Ali Muhammad, Asima Khan, Corentin Houpert, Xiaoxian Zhang, Ashiq Anjum, Stephen Wright, Pat Heslop-Harrison, Jörg Kaduk and Heiko Balzter
University of Leicester, Rothamsted Research, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Rothamsted Research, University of Leicester, University of Leicester, University of Leicester, University of Leicester, Rothamsted Research, University of Leicester, University of Leicester, University of Leicester, University of Leicester and University of Leicester - Centre for Landscape and Climate Research
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Microbial respirationGas diffusivitySoil moistureGreenhouse gas emissionsPeatland agricultureMicrobial biomarkers

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Research on Precise Identification of Wheat Pests and Diseases Based on an Enhanced VGG16 Model and Transfer Learning

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Research on Precise Identification of Wheat Pests and Diseases Based on an Enhanced VGG16 Model and Transfer Learning

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Feb 2026
Yuchao Yang, Yanxia Chen, Peifan Lou, Binjie He, Bei Tie, Yu Zhao, MeiChen FANG, LuJie XIAO, WuDe YANG, Xiaoyan Song, MeiJun ZHANG, Yongkai Xie, William Rickard, Xingxing Qiao and Chao Wang
Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan Normal University, Rothamsted Research, Shanxi Agricultural University and Shanxi Agricultural University
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Wheat diseases and pests, Convolutional Neural Networks, Transfer Learning, Image recognition

Research on Precise Identification of Wheat Pests and Diseases Based on an Enhanced VGG16 Model and Transfer Learning

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Feb 2026
Yuchao Yang, Yanxia Chen, Peifan Lou, Binjie He, Bei Tie, Yu Zhao, MeiChen FANG, LuJie XIAO, WuDe YANG, Xiaoyan Song, MeiJun ZHANG, Yongkai Xie, William Rickard, Xingxing Qiao and Chao Wang
Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan Normal University, Rothamsted Research, Shanxi Agricultural University and Shanxi Agricultural University
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Wheat diseases and pests, Convolutional Neural Networks, Transfer Learning, Image recognition

Research on Precise Identification of Wheat Pests and Diseases Based on an Enhanced VGG16 Model and Transfer Learning

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Feb 2026
Yuchao Yang, Yanxia Chen, Peifan Lou, Binjie He, Bei Tie, Yu Zhao, MeiChen FANG, LuJie XIAO, WuDe YANG, Xiaoyan Song, MeiJun ZHANG, Yongkai Xie, William Rickard, Xingxing Qiao and Chao Wang
Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan Normal University, Rothamsted Research, Shanxi Agricultural University and Shanxi Agricultural University
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Wheat diseases and pests, Convolutional Neural Networks, Transfer Learning, Image recognition