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Sustainable Environment, 2023 The Saint Catherine region of southern Sinai Peninsula’s drylands encompasses a unique combination of geophysical conditions. These features have formed highly diverse habitats, which support extremely complex plant communities.
Rivka Ofir +3 more
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Dissecting the factors shaping fish skin microbiomes in a heterogeneous inland water system
Microbiome, 2020 Background Fish skin microbiomes are rarely studied in inland water systems, in spite of their importance for fish health and ecology. This is mainly because fish species distribution often covaries with other biotic and abiotic factors, complicating the
Yaron Krotman +4 more
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Toward an extreme world: The hyper‐arid ecosystem as a natural model
Ecosphere, 2023 The forecasted increased frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events may strongly affect ecosystem structure and function in the future. It is unclear how ecosystems will function in the long run over a large spatial scale under a new extreme ...
Elli Groner +3 more
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All Earth, 2023 This essay addresses climate change and its main causes over the last three decades. Between 1992–2021, global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) have risen continually. Specifically, the major socioeconomic sectors – including (1) energy, (2) industry,
Ilan Stavi
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Drainage reorganization induces deviations in the scaling between valley width and drainage area [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2022 The width of valleys and channels affects the hydrology, ecology, and geomorphic functionality of drainage networks. In many studies, the width of valleys and/or channels (W) is estimated as a power-law function of the drainage area (A), W=kcAd. However,
E. Harel +4 more
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Prehistoric Cult Sites along the Desert Roads
Religions, 2023 The Negev desert, the southern half of Israel, is an arid-to-hyper-arid region. Despite that, some 13,000 ancient sites have been recorded here to date, and many were excavated.
Uzi Avner
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Kinetic Cytokine Secretion Profile of LPS-Induced Inflammation in the Human Skin Organ Culture
Pharmaceutics, 2020 Several in vitro models that mimic different aspects of local skin inflammation exist. The use of ex vivo human skin organ culture (HSOC) has been reported previously. However, comprehensive evaluation of the cytokine secretory capacity of the system and
Raanan Gvirtz +2 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Jordan is renowned for having limited water resources. The demand for water will increasing rapidly as the country's population grows and the number of refugees increases.
Adnan Al-Harahsheh +5 more
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The ecosystem services framework in archaeology (and vice versa)
People and Nature, 2022 Economics, ecology and archaeology study various aspects of resource utilisation and mobilisation, differing in the studied systems, objects and currencies. However, the three disciplines have developed mostly independently, resulting in limited dialogue
Ofir Katz
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The Effects of Possible Contamination on the Radiocarbon Dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls II: Empirical Methods to Remove Castor Oil and Suggestions for Redating [PDF]
, 2009 While kept at the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem, many Dead Sea Scroll fragments were exposed to castor oil by the original team of editors in the course of cleaning the parchments.
Højrup, Peter +17 more
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