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Frontiers in Environmental ScienceThe Pearl River Estuary, a vital ecological and economic zone in Southern China, has been heavily impacted by industrial discharges, leading to significant heavy metal contamination.
Zhiyan Liu +7 more
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Soil, competition, and niche shifts shape the floral mosaic of an annual plant diversity hotspot
American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Plant species with affinity for harsh substrates often have well‐defined edaphic (soil) niches and are ideal for exploring questions of community assembly. Vertic clay soils are chemically and physically challenging to plant establishment and productivity, and annual plant communities associated with these soils of the San Joaquin ...
Emma R. Fryer +5 more
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The consequences of genomic architecture on ecological speciation in postglacial fishes
Current Zoology, 2013 The quest for the origin of species has entered the genomics era. Despite decades of evidence confirming the role of the environment in ecological speciation, an understanding of the genomics of ecological speciation is still in its infancy.
Sean M. ROGERS, Jonathan A. MEE, Ella BOWLES
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Ecological disruptive selection acting on quantitative loci can drive sympatric speciation
npj Systems Biology and ApplicationsThe process of speciation generates biodiversity. According to the null model of speciation, barriers between populations arise in allopatry, where, prior to biology, geography imposes barriers to gene flow.
Pavithra Venkataraman, Supreet Saini
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Heavy metals in municipal waste incineration fly ash are potentially harmful to the ecological environment and human health. To mitigate the hazards of fly ash, this study attempts to detoxify fly ash through organic acid washing pretreatment coupled with cement/sodium diethyldithiocarbamate (DDTC) solidification.
Junfeng Pang +4 more
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This review article critically examines the environmental and health hazards of tannery sludge (TS), a complex by‐product of the leather tanning industry. TS is characterized by a diverse array of contaminants, including heavy metals like chromium, organic pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), volatile organic compounds ...
Yashar Aryanfar +10 more
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How might epigenetics contribute to ecological speciation?
Current Zoology, 2013 Speciation research has seen a renewed interest in ecological speciation, which emphasises divergent ecological selection leading to the evolution of reproductive isolation.
Gilbert SMITH, Michael G. RITCHIE
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
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Reproductive isolation arises during laboratory adaptation to a novel hot environment
Genome BiologyBackground Reproductive isolation can result from adaptive processes (e.g., ecological speciation and mutation-order speciation) or stochastic processes such as “system drift” model.
Sheng-Kai Hsu +6 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 The geography of speciation is one of the most contentious topics at the frontier between ecology and evolution. Here, building on previous hypotheses, I propose that ecological constraints on species co-existence mediate the likelihood of speciation ...
Loïc ePellissier
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