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Investigation of the Effects of Antibiotic Application on the Intestinal Flora in Elderly Hypertension Patients with Infectious Diseases

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2018
Background: This study aimed to investigate the effects of antibiotic application on the intestinal flora in elderly hypertension patients with infectious diseases.
Changhai SU, Yang LIU, Haiwen ZHANG, Bin XIAO, Te’er BA   +4 more
doaj  

Phenology drives asymmetric responses of ecosystem productivity stability to warming and cooling

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Ecosystem productivity stability is a key indicator of ecosystem functioning under climate change, but the role of cooling periods in increasingly variable climates remains poorly resolved.
Yao Wei, Yuzhang Li, Jiangqin Song, Mingli Ding, Shiping Wang, Xin Jing, Fandong Meng, Jinjiao Hu, Tianyuan Tan, Bo Fan, Yuting Lan, Zhenhua Zhang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Herbivore species asynchrony underpins multitrophic stability across plants, herbivores and predators

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Across a grassland food web, multitrophic stability was most closely associated with herbivore species asynchrony. By identifying herbivores as a key source of temporal buffering between plants and predators, this study shows that intermediate consumers can play a central role in stabilizing the complex food web.
Takehiro Sasaki, Taiki Tachibana, Xiaoming Lu, Kei Uchida, Xuezhen Zhao, Issei Nishimura, Daichi Makishima, Kousuke Tachibana, Xi Sun, Yuki Iwachido, Wenhuai Li, Yongfei Bai   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reallocation Effects of Internalizing Externalities: Evidence From China's Straw Burning Ban

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the reallocation effects of a typical environmental policy aiming to internalize externalities: the straw burning ban across China. The ban prohibited the traditional farming practice of burning straw while compelling the labour‐intensive practice of straw utilization.
Wenyuan Hua
wiley   +1 more source

Sex‐Specific Involvement of Gut Microbiota in Behavioral and Endocrine Responses to Chronic Predator Odor in Brandt's Voles

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
18 days of predator odor exposure altered gut microbiota, increased anxiety‐like behaviors, and elevated hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis activity in Brandt's voles, with males showing behavioral habituation and females remaining sensitive. Cecal microbiota transplantation experiments confirmed that only female recipients of microbiota from predator‐
Chen Gu, Ruiping Xu, Baofa Yin, Ruiyong Wu, Youheng Wei, Dehua Wang, Wanhong Wei   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Updated Chorotypes of Terrestrial Vertebrates Shed New Light on Zoogeographical Regions in China

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Chorotype represents a fundamental concept for identifying groups of species that share similar distribution patterns. However, the last comprehensive revision of animal chorotypes in China was performed more than a decade ago. Here, we update the chorotype classifications for 1040 species and propose an updated zoogeographical regionalization scheme ...
Baoming Zhang, Minghui Zhou, Zhipeng Xie, Ludan Zhang, Haoting Duan, Jiehua Yu, Jiekun He   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Earliest Feathers from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation of North Hebei: Implications for the Early Evolution of the Jehol Biota

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study reports two isolated feather fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Dabeigou Formation in northeastern China. Morphological analyses identified them as the earliest known feathered theropods (potentially including avian) in the Jehol Biota. This finding reveals a complex ecosystem at the dawn of the Jehol Biota, bridging the temporal and faunal ...
Qian Wu, Qian‐Nan Zhang, Dang‐Peng Xi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nose of dog, eye of elk, and wolf’s liver: exploring the interconnectedness of Indigenous health and foraging among the Dukha reindeer herders of Mongolia

International Journal of Circumpolar Health
Recent studies show that Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems and the transfer of that knowledge to their children are critical to physical and mental health, promote the transfer of language and culture, and further
Jean Hatcherson
doaj   +1 more source

Decades of Enclosure Protection Exert Composite Effects on Grassland Grasshopper Communities

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Decades of enclosure protection have altered grasshopper community structure, with species‐specific effects on population dynamics. For the low‐mobility grasshopper Chorthippus fallax, abundance did not differ strongly between exclosure‐protected and overgrazed areas, but its egg development duration was longer in exclosures. The two C.
Dan‐dan Feng, Hui‐feng Zhao, Ya‐hui Men, Jing Li, Mei‐ling Yang, Cai‐qing Yang, Bing Chen, Ai‐bing Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The European Union in the Indo‐Pacific: Gauging the EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy Across Eight Indo‐Pacific Locations

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a macro‐overview of the reception and effectiveness of the European Union's (EU) Indo‐Pacific Strategy (IPS) released in April 2021. Drawing on research conducted across eight Indo‐Pacific locations—Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand—the study involved 111 semi‐structured ...
Nicholas Ross Smith, Martin Holland
wiley   +1 more source