The Maghreb – one more important biodiversity hot spot for tiger beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cicindelinae) in the Mediterranean region [PDF]
, 2015 The tiger beetle fauna of the Maghreb region is one of the richest in the Palaearctic, including 22 species and 5 subspecies and 19% of all Palaearctic species of Cicindelinae.
Acciavatti +44 more
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Reconstructions of deltaic environments from Holocene palynological records in the Volga delta, northern Caspian Sea [PDF]
, 2014 This article was made available through open access by the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.New palynological and ostracod data are presented from the Holocene Volga delta, obtained from short cores and surface samples collected in the Damchik region ...
Abdullayev NR +27 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Currently, the impact of changes in precipitation and increased nitrogen(N) deposition on ecosystems has become a global problem. In this study, we conducted a 8-year field experiment to evaluate the effects of interaction between N deposition and ...
Meiqing Jia +10 more
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Distribution of the Central Asian Genus Dontostemon Andrz. ex. C. A. Mey (Brassicaceae Burnett) [PDF]
Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2006 This paper presents distributional data of eleven species of the genus Dontostemon Andrz. ex. C.A.Mey. (Brassicaceae Burnett.), all of whish are restricted in dispersal to the Central Asian mountain steppe, steppe, desert steppe
Batlai Oyuntsetseg, Tseden Jamsran
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Remote Sensing, 2017 Vegetation phenology in temperate grasslands is highly sensitive to climate change. However, it is still unclear how the timing of vegetation phenology events (especially for autumn phenology) is altered in response to climate change across different ...
Shilong Ren +3 more
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Local extinctions in the small mammal's assemblages between late Holocene and historical times in Talagapa mountains (Patagonia, Argentina): The role of land use changes [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of this work was to evaluate possible changes in the small mammal composition in the Patagonian arid Extra-Andean steppes between the late Holocene and historical times.
Andrade, Analia, Monjeau, Jorge Adrian
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Biotope of Corsac Fox and Red Fox in Ikh Nart Natur e Reserve [PDF]
Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2007 Corsac foxes ( Vu lpes corsac ) and red foxes ( V. vulpes ) range widely across northern and central Asia, occupying a variety of arid biotopes. In Mongolia, both species live sympatrically throughout most of the country, but few details of
James D. Murdoch +3 more
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Asymmetric warming significantly affects net primary production, but not ecosystem carbon balances of forest and grassland ecosystems in northern China [PDF]
, 2015 We combine the process-based ecosystem model (Biome-BGC) with climate change-scenarios based on both RegCM3 model outputs and historic observed trends to quantify differential effects of symmetric and asymmetric warming on ecosystem net primary ...
Axmacher, JC, Feng, J, Sang, W, Su, H
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Development of Future Habitat Suitability Models for the Swift fox (Vulpes velox) in the American Southwest [PDF]
, 2009 The Swift fox (Vupes velox) is a habitat specialist species of short or mixed grass prairie. We used bioclimatic envelope models and habitat suitability models under three future climate scenarios (based on CO2 emission rates) from "www ...
Jennifer Redman +3 more
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Protective Effect of Vertical Sunflower Stalk Sand Barriers Under Different Configuration Parameters
Shuitu baochi tongbao, 2023 [Objective] The influences of barrier height (H), porosity (P), and row spacing (R) on the erosion protection of a vertical sunflower sand barrier were studied in order to provide a theoretical basis for optimizing the parameter configuration of a ...
Xiangying Luo +6 more
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