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Power, efficiency, ecological function and ecological coefficient of performance optimizations of irreversible Diesel cycle based on finite piston speed

, 2020
By connecting the finite time thermodynamics and the finite speed thermodynamics, an irreversible reciprocating Diesel cycle model is established with considering the irreversibilities caused by finite piston speed, heat transfer, friction, and internal ...
Hengbin Wu, Yan-Lin Ge, L. Chen, Hui-Jun Feng   +3 more
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Managed floodplain inundation maintains ecological function in lowland rivers.

Science of the Total Environment, 2020
Managed environmental flows are one mechanism by which managers may restore carbon dynamics, diversity and ecological function of rivers affected by anthropogenic activities.
G. Rees, R. Cook, Nathan S. P. Ning, Paul J. McInerney, R. Petrie, D. Nielsen   +5 more
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Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics

Nature Reviews Genetics, 2003
A unique combination of disciplines is emerging--evolutionary and ecological functional genomics--which focuses on the genes that affect ecological success and evolutionary fitness in natural environments and populations. Already this approach has provided new insights that were not available from its disciplinary components in isolation.
Feder, M., Mitchell-Olds, T.
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Mixing effect of polylactic acid microplastic and straw residue on soil property and ecological function.

Chemosphere, 2019
Microplastics have become a contaminant of increasing concern in soils. Although biodegradable plastics were considered as alternatives of traditional plastics, some evidence showed that biodegradable plastics might produce more microplastics. Until now,
Huiping Chen, Yu-Huang Wang, Xi Sun, Yu-Ke Peng, Lin Xiao   +4 more
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Ecological function zoning based on ecosystem service bundles and trade-offs: a study of Dongjiang Lake Basin, China

Environmental science and pollution research international, 2023
Wen-Bo Mo, Yun-Lin Zhao, Nan Yang, Zheng-Gang Xu   +3 more
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The study of function in behavioural ecology

Animal Biology, 2005
AbstractIn 1963, a landmark paper by Niko Tinbergen laid out the aims and methods of ethology and, in so doing, extended and clarified Julian Huxley's classification of the different ways in which one can investigate biological processes. I discuss the status of one of these "four Why questions", that of function or survival value, and the relationship
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Ecological function zoning of Nansi Lake Basin in China based on ecosystem service bundles

Environmental science and pollution research international, 2023
Ying-Chun Liu, Yan-De Jing, Shanmei Han
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Functional ecology's non-selectionist understanding of function

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2018
This paper reinforces the current consensus against the applicability of the selected effect theory of function in ecology. It does so by presenting an argument which, in contrast with the usual argument invoked in support of this consensus, is not based on claims about whether ecosystems are customary units of natural selection.
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Toward ecological function zoning and comparison to the Ecological Redline Policy: a case study in the Poyang Lake Region, China

Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021
chencgehng xu, Guishan Yang, Rong-Rong Wan, Wei-Xin Ou, Peng Wang   +4 more
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Functionalizing ecological integrity: using functional ecology to monitor animal communities

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Ecological integrity—the degree to which an ecosystem supports ecological structure, composition, diversity, function, and connectivity typical of natural conditions—has been a guiding principle in ecosystem monitoring around the world. However, in terrestrial ecosystems, integrity‐based monitoring often excludes animal communities, even though they ...
Ana Miller‐ter Kuile, Jamie S Sanderlin, Jessalyn Ayars, Helen E Chmura, Melissa Dressen, Jessie D Golding, Gavin M Jones, Rebecca Kirby, Kari EA Norman, Zachary L Steel, Valerie Stein Foster   +10 more
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