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DNA metabarcoding reveals greater plant diversity than morphological seed analysis of bird feces

Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Fruit‐eating birds drive seed dispersal in recovering tropical ecosystems, shaping forest regeneration. Molecular techniques, such as DNA metabarcoding, enable diet analysis from feces and can provide complementary frugivory data where dispersal is infrequent, as well as aid in seed identification in hyper‐diverse regions lacking ...
Carina I. Motta, Bruno H. Saranholi, Vinicius Marciano De Godoy, Marina Corrêa Côrtes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cellulose in Foliage and Changes during Seasonal Leaf Development of Broadleaf and Conifer Species

Plants, 2022
Stable isotope approaches are widely applied in plant science and many improvements made in the field focus on the analysis of specific components of plant tissues.
Zoltan Kern, Adam Kimak, István Gábor Hatvani, Daniela Maria Llanos Campana, Markus Leuenberger   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Finite element analysis of feeding in red and gray squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris and Sciurus carolinensis)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Invasive gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) have replaced the native red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) across much of Great Britain over the last century. Several factors have been proposed to underlie this replacement, but here we investigated the potential for dietary competition in which gray squirrels have better feeding performance than ...
Philip G. Cox, Peter J. Watson
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of malocclusions and dysfunctional oral habits in preschool children of municipal establishments in Viña del Mar.

Journal of Oral Research, 2020
Introduction: Malocclusions are a public health problem at national and global level, being third in the ranking of the most prevalent oral pathologies.Its origin is multifactorial, with dysfunctional oral habits being a risk factor.
Nicolás Aróstica, Gabriela Carrillo, Alfredo Cueto, Dylan Mariño, Teresa Jofré   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Synapsids and sensitivity: Broad survey of tetrapod trigeminal canal morphology supports an evolutionary trend of increasing facial tactile specialization in the mammal lineage

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The trigeminus nerve (cranial nerve V) is a large and significant conduit of sensory information from the face to the brain, with its three branches extending over the head to innervate a wide variety of integumentary sensory receptors, primarily tactile.
Juri A. Miyamae, Julien Benoit, Irina Ruf, Zoleka Sibiya, Bhart‐Anjan S. Bhullar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forest ecosystem research in Hainich National Park (Thuringia) : first results on flora and vegetation in stands with contrasting tree species diversity [PDF]

, 2006
A floristic description is presented of the study sites of the Research Training Group “The role of biodi-versity for biogeochemical cycles and biotic interactions in temperate deciduous forests”.
Bernhardt-Römermann, Markus, Mölder, Andreas, Schmidt, Wolfgang   +2 more
core  

Description of the skull, braincase, and dentition of Moschognathus whaitsi (Dinocephalia, Tapinocephalia), and its palaeobiological and behavioral implications

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract A subadult Moschognathus whaitsi from the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, was scanned using synchrotron radiation X‐ray computed tomography (SRXCT). Its subadult state allowed the cranial bones and teeth to be identified and individually reconstructed in 3D.
Tristen Lafferty, Luke A. Norton, Aliénor Duhamel, Julien Benoit   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Water use efficiency of China\u27s terrestrial ecosystems and responses to drought [PDF]

, 2015
Water use efficiency (WUE) measures the trade-off between carbon gain and water loss of terrestrial ecosystems, and better understanding its dynamics and controlling factors is essential for predicting ecosystem responses to climate change.
Ju, Weimin, Liu, Yibo, Wang, Shaoqiang, Wu, Xiaocui, Xiao, Jingfeng, Zhou, Yanlian   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Exosome as bioactive nanovesicle for diagnostic and therapeutic applications in periodontitis

BMEMat, EarlyView.
This review introduces the mechanism that exosomes participate in the pathogenesis of periodontitis and their potential as biomarkers for early diagnosis and summarizes the application of cell‐ or plant‐derived exosomes or engineered exosomes in periodontitis or periodontal regeneration while proposing the perspective of translational application of ...
Yu Wang, Yuchen Li, Yunfan Zhang, Chenshuang Li, Yifan Lin, Si Chen, Bing Han   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differences in the environmental control of leaf senescence of four Quercus species coexisting in a Mediterranean environment

Forest Systems, 2015
Aims of study: Our aim is to check the effect of different environmental factors on the leaf senescence of four Quercus species with different leaf longevities, to help us better understand the implications of climate change on leaf demography.
Teresa del Río-García, Sonia Mediavilla, Fernando Silla, Alfonso Escudero   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source