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Pesticides and Soil Invertebrates: A Hazard Assessment
Agricultural pesticide use and its associated environmental harms is widespread throughout much of the world. Efforts to mitigate this harm have largely been focused on reducing pesticide contamination of the water and air, as runoff and pesticide drift ...
Tari Gunstone+4 more
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Context-Driven Detection of Invertebrate Species in Deep-Sea Video [PDF]
Each year, underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) collect thousands of hours of video of unexplored ocean habitats revealing a plethora of information regarding biodiversity on Earth. However, fully utilizing this information remains a challenge as proper annotations and analysis require trained scientists time, which is both limited and costly ...
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Terebra steering in chalcidoid wasps
Various chalcidoid wasps can actively steer their terebra (= ovipositor shaft) in diverse directions, despite the lack of terebral intrinsic musculature.
Benjamin Eggs+5 more
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Assessing the taxonomic importance of the suture line in shelled cephalopods is a key to better understanding the diversity of this group in Earth history.
Amane Tajika+2 more
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Climatic vulnerabilities and ecological preferences of soil invertebrates across biomes. [PDF]
Unlike plants and vertebrates, the ecological preferences, and potential vulnerabilities of soil invertebrates to environmental change, remain poorly understood in terrestrial ecosystems globally.
Abades, Sebastián+12 more
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Feeding spectrum of a dominant splash zone enchytraeid, Mesenchytraeus bungei Michaelsen, 1901 (Annelida: Oligochaeta), in Lake Baikal (East Siberia) [PDF]
The first data on feeding spectrum of Baikal enchytraeids are given. Previously we found that Mesenchytraeus bungei Michaelsen, 1901 dominates in abundance in splash zone Oligochaeta community of Bolshie Koty Bay, Lake Baikal.
Zvereva, Yu. M., Timoshkin, O. A.
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The complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two species of the family Trichonotidae, Trichonotus elegans (Shimada and Yoshino ) and Trichonotus filamentosus (Steindachner ), were determined using a polymerase chain reaction-based method.
Takashi P. Satoh, Eri Katayama
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Vibrio harveyi: a serious pathogen of fish and invertebrates in mariculture
Vibrio harveyi, which belongs to family Vibrionaceae of class Gammaproteobacteria, includes the species V. carchariae and V. trachuri as its junior synonyms.
Xiaohua Zhang, Xinxin He, B. Austin
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Kangaraneus, a new genus of orb-weaving spider from Australia (Araneae, Araneidae) [PDF]
A new Australian genus in the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae Clerck, 1757 is described, Kangaraneus gen. nov., with K. arenaceus (Keyserling, 1886) comb. nov. (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia) as the type
Pedro de S. Castanheira+1 more
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Combined stable isotope and gut contents analysis of food webs in plant-dominated, shallow lakes [PDF]
1. To determine feeding links between primary producers, invertebrates and fish, stable isotope analyses and gut content analyses of fish were conducted on the components of four shallow, eutrophic to hypertrophic, plant-dominated lakes. 2.
Adams+45 more
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