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Climatic drivers prevail in montane and lowland Odonata latitudinal diversity gradients, but human modification erodes lowland patterns

Ecography, EarlyView.
Latitudinal diversity gradients (LDGs) arise from the interplay of historical, ecological, and evolutionary processes, yet these drivers may differ across landforms. Mountains, with steep elevational and climatic gradients, often sustain distinct diversity dynamics compared with adjacent lowlands, where vertical climatic gradients are weak and human ...
Zhenyuan Liu, Bo‐Ping Han, Haomiao Zhang, Ramiro Martín‐Devasa, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Janne Soininen   +5 more
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The Most Attractive Is Not Always the Preferred: Lessons From Necrophagous Dung Beetle Assemblages in a Region of the Central Amazon

Ecology and Evolution
Resource attractiveness and preference is determinant to assess how biodiversity is structured in different ecosystems. Necrophagy is the alternative or complementary dietary habit of dung beetles, but a few studies have focused on evaluating how ...
Mirella Lima Costa, Renato Portela Salomão, Janderson Batista Rodrigues Alencar, César Murilo deAlbuquerque Correa, Luciana Iannuzzi   +4 more
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Scrutinizing the Wallacean shortfall: global gaps in snake occurrence data across space and environment

Ecography, EarlyView.
Occurrence records are fundamental for ecological and evolutionary research, providing key information on species' geographic ranges. However, these records are often taxonomically, spatially, and temporally biased, requiring caution in their use. Here, we analysed the spatial coverage of occurrence records for over 3500 snake species worldwide to ...
Lívia Frateles, Cristina Ronquillo, Gabriel Nakamura, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz‐Filho, Richard James Ladle, Joaquín Hortal   +5 more
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Field evaluation of electrophysiologically-active dung volatiles as chemical lures for trapping of dung beetles

Scientific Reports
Dung beetles are economically important beneficial insects that process dung. To locate this source, they use volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The objectives of the study were to evaluate the attractiveness of ten electrophysiologically-active dung ...
Nisansala N. Perera, Russell A. Barrow, Paul A. Weston, Leslie A. Weston, Geoff M. Gurr   +4 more
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Comparative Assessment and Benchmarking of Metaheuristic Algorithms for Dynamic Photovoltaic Array Reconfiguration Under Diverse Shading Environments

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The solar photovoltaic (PV) installations, which are essential for renewable energy systems, are vulnerable to partial shading, resulting in considerable power losses and operational inefficiencies. The dynamic reconfiguration of PV arrays has become an effective strategy to mitigate these effects by adaptively modifying the array topology to ...
Manoharan Premkumar, Ravichandran Sowmya, Jagarapu S. V. Siva Kumar, Mustafa Abdullah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forced Draught Impact on Externally Venting Flames: An Experimental and Numerical Investigation

Fire and Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wind can significantly influence fire development and spread in urban and forest environments causing fatal consequences for the public, the first responders, and the environment. Wind‐driven fires can have a significant impact on structural fires as wind can increase the fire's intensity, development, and flame spread.
Anoop Subramania Warrier, Jan Smolka, Kamila Kempna, Meet Panchal, Tony Graham, Eleni Asimakopoulou   +5 more
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Pastoral practices to reverse shrub encroachment of sub-alpine grasslands: dung beetles (coleoptera, scarabaeoidea) respond more quickly than vegetation.

PLoS ONE, 2013
In recent decades, pastoral abandonment has produced profound ecological changes in the Alps. In particular, the reduction in grazing has led to extensive shrub encroachment of semi-natural grasslands, which may represent a threat to open habitat ...
Claudia Tocco, Massimiliano Probo, Michele Lonati, Giampiero Lombardi, Matteo Negro, Beatrice Nervo, Antonio Rolando, Claudia Palestrini   +7 more
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Unlocking the Multifunctional Properties of Litsea cubeba Essential Oil: Composition, Antimicrobial, Antibiofilm and Insecticidal Activities

Flavour and Fragrance Journal, EarlyView.
Unveiling the chemical and biological properties of Litsea cubeba essential oil. ABSTRACT Litsea cubeba essential oil (LCEO) is recognised for its broad spectrum of biological activities, including antimicrobial and insecticidal effects, making it a promising natural alternative to synthetic agents.
Miroslava Kačániová, Minhang Qiao, Alessandro Bianchi, Joel Horacio Elizondo‐Luevano, Anis Ben Hsouna, Rania Ben Saad, Zhaojun Ban, Li Li, Jian Lou, Wissem Mnif, Stefania Garzoli   +10 more
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Structural design and 3D printing of flexible integrated electronic systems

FlexMat, EarlyView.
This review provides a comprehensive overview of design and integration strategies for individual components in flexible electronics, highlights the 3D‐printing fabrication techniques, and discusses recent advances in system‐level integration and their applications in real‐time monitoring and intelligent robotics.
Jiani Gong, Jiaying Wang, Changsong Shi, Chi Guo, Songze Fu, Jie Tao, Xiaolong Chen, Yunfei Chen, Zhiyang Lyu   +8 more
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Bio‐inspired nanophotonics: Structural color, chirality, and resonance metasurfaces

InfoMat, EarlyView.
A butterfly‐wing‐inspired anisotropic plasmonic flatband resonant metasurface. Insets, photo of the butterfly, Sasakia charonda, and the SEM image of its wing scale (above); the SEM image of the metasurface (below). Abstract The dazzling colors of butterfly wings and hummingbird feathers are not painted with pigments, but crafted by nature's invisible ...
Weihan Liu, Yao Liang, Din Ping Tsai
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