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How Biodiversity, Climate and Landscape Drive Functional Redundancy of British Butterflies
Insects, 2023 Biodiversity promotes the functioning of ecosystems, and functional redundancy safeguards this functioning against environmental changes. However, what drives functional redundancy remains unclear.
Maria Lazarina +3 more
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Plant phylogeny posters – useful digital teaching tools for botanical education
Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2022 Visual documentation and presentation are essential for botanical education. Wallcharts and posters depicting plant structures and evolutionary relationships as phylogenetic trees have served as essential tools in teaching.
Nyambayar Dashzeveg +5 more
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The ternary diagram of functional diversity
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Abstract Among the many diversity indices in the ecologist toolbox, measures that can be partitioned into additive terms are particularly useful as the different components can be related to different ecological processes shaping community structure. In this paper, an additive diversity decomposition is proposed to partition the diversity structure ...
Ricotta, Carlo +5 more
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Radular force performance of stylommatophoran gastropods (Mollusca) with distinct body masses
Scientific Reports, 2021 The forces exerted by the animal’s food processing structures can be important parameters when studying trophic specializations to specific food spectra.
Wencke Krings +4 more
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Use of analgesics in professional soccer players: A systematic review
Apunts Sports Medicine, 2023 Objective: Use of painkillers appears to have become a widespread issue in the sporting environment as athletes pursue successful pain relief during competitions.
Thomas Zandonai +3 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019 Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused mainly by Fusarium graminearum, is the foremost destructive disease of cereals worldwide. Effector-like molecules produced by F.
Francis Fabre +5 more
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Biology, 2023 Rapid urbanization has triggered nutrient loading, which will inevitably lead to the eutrophication of water bodies and further affect the structure of aquatic populations.
Bing Wang, Xuwang Yin
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Horticulturae, 2022 The root lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans is an important plant-parasitic nematode of potato. In this study, the susceptibility of commercial potato cultivars to P. penetrans was assessed.
Joana Figueiredo +3 more
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Diverse immune functions of hemocyanins
Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 2014 Substantial evidence gathered recently has revealed the multiple functionalities of hemocyanin. Contrary to previous claims that this ancient protein is involved solely in oxygen transport within the hemolymph of invertebrates, hemocyanin and hemocyanin-derived peptides have been linked to key aspects of innate immunity, in particular, antiviral and ...
Coates, Christopher, Nairn, Jacqueline
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Ensuring the provision of essential ecosystem services in systems affected by multiple stressors is a key challenge for theoretical and applied ecology.
Noel P. D. Juvigny‐Khenafou +6 more
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