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China is an epicenter for some of the world’s most devastating natural disasters. Among them, Yellow River flooding affects one of the largest areas and…
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Bone histology is, comparatively, a modern branch in paleontology. The techniques slowly started to be applied during the 1960s and 1970s on fossilized bones (Figure…
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Recently steady, long-living, slowly eastward-moving large-scale coherent twin cyclones, so-called “equatorial modons,” have been reported by Rostami & Zeitlin [1] in a moist-convective rotating shallow…
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Land managers in the Nama-karoo are constantly faced with the daunting task of managing their land in an economically and ecologically sustainable way. Historically, the…
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The increase in temperatures as a result of global warming has serious implications for electricity demand. Global warming, which is an important aspect of climate…
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Competition is one of the major types of interactions between species in nature. It is especially important in biodiverse communities such as tropical forests, where…
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Global ecological issues require the joint efforts of ecologists around the world. Ecological literature has grown exponentially over the past three decades. However, international cooperation…
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From animals to microorganisms, many species use sex pheromones to attract a potential partner of the opposite sex. The specificity of a pheromone and its…
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Seasonal wetlands experience frequent disturbance, which can interfere with the effectiveness of indicator species in habitat monitoring. In our paper in Ecological Indicators, we show…
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“Essential fatty acids” are critical to organismal growth and development and, because they cannot be synthesized, they must be obtained through the diet. The role…
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What makes a pathogen successful? What determines a plant’s ability to defend itself against an invader? The outcome of a myriad of encounters between plants…
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