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Hunting as anthropogenic sink of biomass or source of carrion? A brief case study based on German hunting bags

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Dead biomass is a crucial nutrient source for ecosystems. Although hunting residues can subsidize numerous scavenging organisms and are known to drive important zoogeochemical processes at very different scales in the ecosystem, this has received little attention.
Jörg Beckmann, Jörg Müller, Sophie Horlebein, Christian von Hoermann   +3 more
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Extending the fossil record of late Oligocene non-biting midges (Chironomidae, Diptera) of New Zealand [PDF]

PeerJ
Background The modern chironomid fauna of New Zealand is diverse, highly endemic and reflects a complex biogeographical history. This fauna has been important for developing phylogenetic and biogeographic concepts including Brundin’s writings on ...
Viktor O. Baranov, Jörg U. Hammel, Daphne E. Lee, Alexander R. Schmidt, Uwe Kaulfuss   +4 more
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Fossil Insects of the Dakota Group

Nature, 1882
THERE are till now, as far as I know, no fossil insects out of the Dakota group published. Among a large number of fossils belonging to this group, and collected by Mr. Chas. H. Sternberg, some of the leaves show insect galls and mines, the latter mostly of a decided Tineid and Tortricid character. Perhaps a list of those plants may be of interest. The
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Facing Truths About Population Management

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
Populations of wildlife, and domestic animals have large sinks for surplus animals. By contrast, zoos don't. Humans in industrialized societies are socialized with companion animals, i.e. surplus (i.e., typically denied reproduction) originating from unseen breeding cores.
Marcus Clauss, Andrew J. Abraham, Jörg Beckmann, Mads F. Bertelsen, Laurie Bingaman Lackey, Anita Burkevica, Miguel Casares, Severin Dressen, Adam Eyres, Karin Federer, Richard Gibson, Sven Hammer, Therese Hard, Stefan Hoby, Felix V. Husemann, Jacques Kaandorp, Christine M. Kaandorp‐Huber, Bjarne Klausen, Tobias Knauf‐Witzens, José Kok, Maya S. Kummrow, Sébastien Laurent, Arne Lawrenz, Sabrina Linn, Imke Lueders, Pascal Marty, Dennis W. H. Müller, Baptiste Mulot, Rolf‐Arne Ølberg, Theo B. Pagel, Zjef Pereboom, Jan Pluháček, Emile F. Prins, Sandra Reichler‐Danielowski, Douglas Richardson, Marco Roller, Lara Scherer, Tim F. Schikora, Chrispijn M. Schilp, Mark Snowball, Julia Stagegaard, Hanspeter W. Steinmetz, Job B. G. Stumpel, Cyriel Ververs, Chris Walzer, Christian Wenker, Guido Westhoff, Brian Zimmerman, João Pedro Meireles   +48 more
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Optimization of Wind‐PV Co‐Generation Systems Using Artificial Bee Colony and Back‐to‐Back Voltage Source Converter

IET Smart Energy Systems, EarlyView.
The Graphical Abstract depicts the proposed Artificial Bee Colony algorithm‐based optimal tuning of PI controllers for back‐to‐back Voltage Source Converters in a hybrid wind–PV system. ABSTRACT This paper proposes a hybrid model‐based back‐to‐back voltage‐source converter (B2B‐VSC) system comprising a Photovoltaic (PV) array and a Permanent Magnet ...
Ch. Sreenu, G. Mallesham, T. Chandra Shekar, Surender Reddy Salkuti   +3 more
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New Miocene limoniid craneflies from Dominican amber and their evolutionary importance

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
This paper describes three new species belonging to the genus Styringomyia, based on specimens preserved in Early Miocene (Burdigalian) Dominican amber: Styringomyia caridadi sp. nov., S. caribeana sp. nov., and S. grimaldii sp. nov.
Katarzyna Kopeć, Iwona Kania-Kłosok, Andrew Ross, Agnieszka Soszyńska, Wiesław Krzemiński   +4 more
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Niche occupancy of Jamaican bat caves: Diversity increases isotopic niche packing

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Tropical bat caves are home to hundreds of thousands of bats of multiple species. In Jamaica, we found that isotopic niche packing is the likely mechanism of coexistence at more diverse sites. Abstract There are over 1000 documented caves across Jamaica, many of them used by diverse communities of bats.
Phillip J. Oelbaum, Ronald P. Hall, Damion L. Whyte, Nicholas A. Lee, Ronald S. Stewart, Jerrica M. Jamison, Kenneth C. Welch Jr.   +6 more
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The fossil insect assemblage associated with the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) oceanic anoxic event from Alderton Hill, Gloucestershire, UK.

PLoS ONE
Extreme global warming and environmental changes associated with the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE, ~183 Mya) profoundly impacted marine organisms and terrestrial plants.
Emily J Swaby, Angela L Coe, Jörg Ansorge, Bryony A Caswell, Scott A L Hayward, Luke Mander, Liadan G Stevens, Aimee McArdle   +7 more
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Overlooked diversity of the predatory fungus gnat Macrocera in Baltic amber

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
The genus Macrocera (Diptera: Keroplatidae) is highly diverse, comprising over 200 species distributed worldwide, yet it remains poorly documented in the extensive sciaroid fossil record.
Alicja Pełczyńska, Wiesław Krzemiński, Agnieszka Soszyńska   +2 more
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The emergence and complexification of symbolic practices in the Homo lineage: an archaeological and cognitive perspective Émergence et complexification des pratiques symboliques dans la lignée Homo : une approche archéologique et cognitive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent archaeological discoveries, reviewed in this essay, challenge traditional views on the emergence of human symbolic cognition. Once believed to have originated in Europe around 40,000 years ago, new evidence shows it emerged much earlier across diverse regions.
Francesco d'Errico, Ivan Colagè, Larissa M. Straffon, Andrea Bender   +3 more
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