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Indica rice restorer lines with large sink potential exhibit improved nutrient transportation to the panicle, which enhances both yield and nitrogen-use efficiency

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2021
The yield and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) of hybrid rice combinations are closely related to restorer line. Therefore, it is essential to evaluate the agronomic characteristics of restorer lines with high yield and high NUE (HYHN).
Qing-lan TIAN, Lian-hua HE, Shuang LIAO, Wu LI, Fei DENG, Wei ZHOU, Xiao-yuan ZHONG, Wan-jun REN   +7 more
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Seasonal variation in gas exchange by plants of Erythroxylum simonis Plowman

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2018
Erythroxylum simonisis an understory species found in Northeast Brazil. Due to its shaded habitat,E. simonisis subjected to seasonal oscillations of the environment, to which it must respond ecophysiologically. The objective of this study was to evaluate
João Everthon da Silva Ribeiro, Ana Jéssica Soares Barbosa, Sérgio de Faria Lopes, Walter Esfrain Pereira, Manoel Bandeira de Albuquerque   +4 more
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Untangling behaviours: independent expressions of female–female aggression and snake-like hissing in the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)

Scientific Reports, 2023
Aggression plays a crucial role in deterring predators and securing resources to promote fitness. Nevertheless, studies focussing on female aggression remain scarce.
Robin van Iersel, Gust Boiten, Rianne Pinxten, Marcel Eens   +3 more
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Drivers of Dyadic Cofeeding Tolerance in Pan: A Composite Measure Approach

Biology, 2022
This study aimed to construct a composite model of Dyadic Cofeeding Tolerance (DCT) in zoo-housed bonobos and chimpanzees using a validated experimental cofeeding paradigm and to investigate whether components resulting from this model differ between the
Nicky Staes, Kim Vermeulen, Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, Jonas Verspeek, Jonas R. R. Torfs, Marcel Eens, Jeroen M. G. Stevens   +6 more
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Decreasing parental task specialization promotes conditional cooperation

Scientific Reports, 2017
How much to invest in parental care and by who remain puzzling questions fomented by a sexual conflict between parents. Negotiation that facilitates coordinated parental behaviour may be key to ease this costly conflict.
Arne Iserbyt, Nolwenn Fresneau, Tiffanie Kortenhoff, Marcel Eens, Wendt Müller   +4 more
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Towards an IPCC Atlas for comprehensive climate change risk assessments

npj Climate Action
Climate risk assessments are crucial in quantifying and communicating risks in a clear and concise manner. In light of the rapidly proceeding climatic changes, there is a growing need for a more comprehensive integration and a more effective overview of ...
Andrés Alegría, Elvira Poloczanska, Sina Loeschke, Katja Mintenbeck, Hans Poertner   +4 more
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The Female Perspective of Personality in a Wild Songbird: Repeatable Aggressiveness Relates to Exploration Behaviour

Scientific Reports, 2017
Males often express traits that improve competitive ability, such as aggressiveness. Females also express such traits but our understanding about why is limited.
Bert Thys, Rianne Pinxten, Thomas Raap, Gilles De Meester, Hector F. Rivera-Gutierrez, Marcel Eens   +5 more
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Reduced Food Availability Amplifies Behavioral Depression and Impairs Locomotor Performance After Immune Challenge in Xenopus laevis

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, EarlyView.
Food restricition amplifies the reduction in voluntary locomotion after immune challenge in Xenopus laevis, ilustrating the energetic trade‐off between immunity and performance. ABSTRACT Mounting an immune response and locomotor activity are energetically costly processes that can generate trade‐offs affecting energy allocation, muscle performance, and
Thaysa G. Oliveira, Laurie Araspin, Laura Camila C. Olarte, Carlos A. Navas, Anthony Herrel   +4 more
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Different ways to die in a changing world: Consequences of climate change for tree species performance and survival through an ecophysiological perspective

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Anthropogenic activities such as uncontrolled deforestation and increasing greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for triggering a series of environmental imbalances that affect the Earth's complex climate dynamics.
Paulo Eduardo Menezes‐Silva, Lucas Loram‐Lourenço, Rauander Douglas Ferreira Barros Alves, Letícia Ferreira Sousa, Sabrina Emanuella da Silva Almeida, Fernanda Santos Farnese   +5 more
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Cereal‐Legume Rotation Benefits Soil Ecosystem Multifunctionality by Improving the Efficiency of Microbial Carbon Pump

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cereal‐legume rotation is regarded as an important agricultural management strategy for enhancing soil organic carbon (SOC) and improving soil ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF). The soil microbial carbon pump (MCP) exerts a regulatory effect on the production of microbial necromass as well as the SOC accumulation.
Quanyi Hu, Yanshi Li, Jing Luo, Guangshuai Wang, Yali Zhao, Tianmin Ding, Hongen Liu, Yingxin Xie, Xuelin Zhang   +8 more
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