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Provenance does matter: links between winter trophic segregation and the migratory origins of European robins [PDF]

, 2016
Amongst migratory species, it is common to find individuals from different populations or geographical origins sharing staging or wintering areas.
Bearhop, Stuart,, Campos, Ana R.,, Catry, Paulo,, Granadeiro, José Pedro,, Lund University., Neto, Júlio M.,, Newton, Jason,, Ramos, Jaime,   +7 more
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Mapping functional traits: comparing abundance and presence-absence estimates at large spatial scales [PDF]

, 2012
Efforts to quantify the composition of biological communities increasingly focus on functional traits. The composition of communities in terms of traits can be summarized in several ways.
Drew W. Purves, Francesco de Bello, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Tim Newbold, Çağan H. Şekercioğlu   +5 more
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City-level population projection for China under different pathways from 2010 to 2100

Scientific Data, 2023
Cities play a fundamental role in policy decision-making processes, necessitating the availability of city-level population projections to better understand future population dynamics and facilitate research across various domains, including urban ...
Shangchen Zhang, Mengzhen Zhao, Zhao Liu, Fan Yang, Bo Lu, Zhenping Zhao, Kuiying Gu, Shihui Zhang, Mingyu Lei, Chi Zhang, Can Wang, Wenjia Cai   +11 more
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The magnetite-based receptors in the beak of birds and their role in avian navigation [PDF]

, 2012
Iron-rich structures have been described in the beak of homing pigeons, chickens and several species of migratory birds and interpreted as magnetoreceptors.
Wiltschko, Roswitha, Wiltschko, Wolfgang
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Molecular epidemiology and population genomics of tet(X4), blaNDM or mcr-1 positive Escherichia coli from migratory birds in southeast coast of China

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022
The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria harboring tet(X4), blaNDM or mcr-1 posed a serious threat to public health. Wild birds, especially migratory birds, were considered as one of important transmission vectors for antibiotic resistance ...
Wenhui Zhang, Xiaoyu Lu, Sujuan Chen, Yuan Liu, Daxin Peng, Zhiqiang Wang, Ruichao Li   +6 more
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Evidence for West Nile Virus and Usutu Virus Infections in Wild and Resident Birds in Germany, 2017 and 2018 [PDF]

, 2019
Wild birds play an important role as reservoir hosts and vectors for zoonotic arboviruses and foster their spread. Usutu virus (USUV) has been circulating endemically in Germany since 2011, while West Nile virus (WNV) was first diagnosed in several bird ...
Eiden, Martin, Fast, Christine, Fischer, Dominik, Groschup, Martin H., Keller, Markus, Korbel, Rüdiger, Lierz, Michael, Lühken, Renke, Michel, Friederike, Müller, Kerstin, Reuschel, Maximilian, Rinder, Monika, Schmidt, Volker, Schmoock, Martina, Schwehn, Rebekka, Sieg, Michael, Urbaniak, Sylvia, Vahlenkamp, Thomas W., Wysocki, Patrick, Ziegler, Ute   +19 more
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Neotropical Bird Migration During The Ice Ages: Orientation And Ecology [PDF]

, 1996
Reconstruction of breeding habitat of North American Neotropical migrants 18,000 years ago and 9,000 years ago indicated major shifts in both location and composition of plant communities relative to present conditions.
Webb, T., III, Williams, Timothy C., , \u2764   +1 more
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Land Cover Change and Fragmentation Within China’s Ramsar Sites

Remote Sensing
The Ramsar Convention is a global endeavor for the protection of wetlands. However, there is limited research on its efficacy in safeguarding China’s wetlands.
Karen Kie Yan Chan, Zhehao Ren, Yufu Liu, Hang Song, Yuqi Bai, Bing Xu   +5 more
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Global analysis of threat status reveals higher extinction risk in tropical than in temperate bird sister species [PDF]

, 2019
Given increasing pressures upon biodiversity, identification of species’ traits related to elevated extinction risk is useful for more efficient allocation of limited resources for nature conservation.
Reif, Jiří, Štěpánková, Klára
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PreparedLLM: effective pre-pretraining framework for domain-specific large language models

Big Earth Data
The direct application of large language models (LLMs) to specific domain tasks frequently encounters challenges due to the scarcity of domain data, variations in domain semantics, and the complexity of domain knowledge.
Zhou Chen, Ming Lin, Zimeng Wang, Mingrun Zang, Yuqi Bai   +4 more
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