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Adhesion‐Driven Removal of Microplastics From Aquatic Systems by Using Microgel Glues

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Soft polymeric microgels function as “glues” that aggregate diverse microplastics through multivalent adhesion, promoting their interfacial deposition and co‐precipitation for efficient removal from water. Remarkably, this approach remains effective even for nanoscale plastic particles as small as 50 nm.
Jinmeng Zhang, Jie Xu, Wen Chen, Yanping Chen, Zixin Pan, Weitai Wu   +5 more
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Trophic Diversity in Duckweed: Mixotrophy, More Than the Sum of its Extremes

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In the context of rising DOC in aquatic environments, mixotrophic duckweed may impact carbon cycling by acting as either a carbon sink, as they absorb CO2 through photosynthesis, or a carbon source, as they release CO2 through respiration of absorbed DOC, which depends on DOC concentration, light availability, temperature, and other environmental ...
Zuoliang Sun, Yan Chen, Fajun Li, Xuyao Zhao, Qingxiang Han, Hongwei Hou   +5 more
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Size matters: trap size primarily determines prey spectra differences among sympatric species of carnivorous sundews

Ecosphere, 2020
Even though carnivorous plants (CPs) are a popular focus of ecological research, surprisingly few studies have investigated their prey spectra (the number and composition of captured prey).
Thilo Krueger, Adam T. Cross, Andreas Fleischmann   +2 more
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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios, Léon Chiriatti, Simon Poppinga, Thomas Speck, Vincent Le Houérou   +4 more
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Workshop of Terravor: Terrarium as An Education Media for Introducing Carnivorous Plants of Sumatra to the Society of Nature Themed Art Lovers

Warta Pengabdian Andalas
There are still many plant species that the public currently needs to be made aware. It is because the uses of plants still need to be well explored, which has left them with little practical usefulness.
Stia Prihatiningsih Idris, Atthoriq Fauzan, Amanda Rahmiati,, Dwi Suci Mahesa Putri, Mellanie Alia Putri, Muhammad Idris   +5 more
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Where Is My Food? Brazilian Flower Fly Steals Prey from Carnivorous Sundews in a Newly Discovered Plant-Animal Interaction.

PLoS ONE, 2016
A new interaction between insects and carnivorous plants is reported from Brazil. Larvae of the predatory flower fly Toxomerus basalis (Diptera: Syrphidae: Syrphinae) have been found scavenging on the sticky leaves of several carnivorous sundew species ...
Andreas Fleischmann, Fernando Rivadavia, Paulo M Gonella, Celeste Pérez-Bañón, Ximo Mengual, Santos Rojo   +5 more
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Water Cannot Activate Traps of the Carnivorous Sundew Plant Drosera capensis: On the Trail of Darwin’s 150-Years-Old Mystery

Plants, 2023
In his famous book Insectivorous plants, Charles Darwin observed that the bending response of tentacles in the carnivorous sundew plant Drosera rotundifolia was not triggered by a drop of water, but rather the application of many dissolved chemicals or ...
Andrej Pavlovič, Ondřej Vrobel, Petr Tarkowski   +2 more
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Tooth eruption status and bite force determine dental microwear texture gradients in albino rats (Rattus norvegicus forma domestica)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is widely applied for inferring diet in vertebrates. Besides diet and ingesta properties, factors like wear stage and bite force may affect microwear formation, potentially leading to tooth position‐specific microwear patterns.
Daniela E. Winkler, Isabelle Bernetière, Christine Böhmer   +2 more
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Why do aquatic carnivorous plants prefer growing in dystrophic waters?

Acta Biologica Slovenica, 2012
The majority of aquatic carnivorous plants (ACPS; Aldrovanda, Utricularia) usually grow in shallow dystrophic waters. In these habitats, rootless ACPs usually grow together with rooted aquatic non-carnivorous plants (N-ACPs).
Ludomír Adamec
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Characterization and Comparison of Convergence Among Cephalotus follicularis Pitcher Plant-Associated Communities With Those of Nepenthes and Sarracenia Found Worldwide

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
The Albany pitcher plant, Cephalotus follicularis, has evolved cup-shaped leaves and a carnivorous habit completely independently from other lineages of pitcher plants.
Leonora S. Bittleston, Leonora S. Bittleston, Elizabeth L. Benson, Jessica R. Bernardin, Naomi E. Pierce   +4 more
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