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Bio‐inspired nanophotonics: Structural color, chirality, and resonance metasurfaces

InfoMat, EarlyView.
A butterfly‐wing‐inspired anisotropic plasmonic flatband resonant metasurface. Insets, photo of the butterfly, Sasakia charonda, and the SEM image of its wing scale (above); the SEM image of the metasurface (below). Abstract The dazzling colors of butterfly wings and hummingbird feathers are not painted with pigments, but crafted by nature's invisible ...
Weihan Liu, Yao Liang, Din Ping Tsai
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Landscape Patterns and Their Changes to Species Richness, Species Composition, and the Conservation Value of Odonates (Insecta)

Insects, 2021
Understanding the impact of the changing proportion of land-use patterns on species diversity is a critical issue in conservation biology, and odonates are good bioindicators of these environmental changes.
Aleš Dolný, Stanislav Ožana, Michal Burda, Filip Harabiš   +3 more
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Understanding the effects of patch‐burn grazing management on aboveground grassland invertebrate biodiversity

Oikos, EarlyView.
Landscape heterogeneity is widely recognized as a driver of biodiversity, yet its consequences for above‐ground, foliage‐dwelling insect communities under active grassland management remain underexplored. Patch‐burn grazing (PBG), which rotates fire across patches within a grazed landscape, is designed to promote spatial and temporal heterogeneity by ...
Zachary L. T. Bunch, Meghan L. Avolio, Sally E. Koerner, Kevin R. Wilcox, Lydia H. Zeglin, Kimberly J. Komatsu   +5 more
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An overview of the dragonflies and damselflies of the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean) (Odonata) [PDF]

, 2013
Seventeen species of odonates have been recorded on the Maltese Islands of which Pantala flavescens represents a new record. Diagnostic features of the adult and larval stages of these species are described in this work.
Degabriele, Godwin
core  

Continental accumulation of fads2 copy numbers allows sticklebacks to thrive across a diversity of nutritional landscapes

Oikos, EarlyView.
Nutrients, including vital organic compounds, vary in availability across ecosystems, with the potential to act as a source of selection for traits that increase nutrient acquisition and biosynthesis. Compared to freshwaters, marine ecosystems are richer in the omega‐3 long‐chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (n‐3 LC‐PUFA) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA ...
Cornelia W. Twining, Cameron M. Hudson, Jernej Bravničar, Antonella Carosi, Gaël P. J. Denys, Philine G. D. Feulner, Žiga Fišer, Hanna Rosinger, Verena Saladin, Linda Zanella, Davor Zanella, Catherine L. Peichel, Blake Matthews   +12 more
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Influence of different riparian vegetation widths and substrate types on the communities of larval Odonata (Insecta) in southern Brazilian streams

Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia, 2020
: Aim We assessed the influence of substrate type and categories of riparian vegetation widths on the community structure of Odonata (Insecta) in southern Brazilian streams.
Mateus Marques Pires, Nícolas Felipe Drumm Müller, Cristina Stenert, Leonardo Maltchik   +3 more
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Wing wettability gradient in a damselfly Lestes sponsa (Odonata: Lestidae) reflects the submergence behaviour during underwater oviposition [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2020
The phenomenon of hydrophobicity of insect cuticles has received great attention from technical fields due to its wide applicability to industry or medicine. However, in an ecological/evolutionary context such studies remain scarce.
Hana Šigutová, Martin Šigut, Alexander Kovalev, Stanislav N. Gorb   +3 more
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Catchment conversion to agriculture alters freshwater macroinvertebrate community responses to flow disturbance: results from a replicated in‐stream experiment

Oikos, EarlyView.
Anthropogenic stressors often co‐occur in ecosystems, but their combined impacts are rarely assessed using field experiments. Press disturbances particularly can reshape community dynamics, altering their capacity to withstand or recover from acute pulse disturbances by modifying response diversity.
Bridget E. White, Anne Watson, Sean T. Atkinson, Belinda J. Robson, Russell G. Death, Mark J. Hovenden, Leon A. Barmuta   +6 more
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First record of Peruviogomphus (Odonata: Gomphidae) for Colombia

, 2020
El conocimiento acerca de la distribución de Odonata en Colombia ha aumentado, contribuyendo así a disminuir los vacíos de información en la distribución de algunos taxones.
González Gómez, Iván Gerardo, Núñez-Avellaneda, Marcela, Oviedo-Machado, Néstor   +2 more
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Restoring Lateral Connectivity to Anthropogenic Riverscapes: Six Lessons From Stage Zero

River Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Centuries of river modification, particularly straightening and incision, have severely reduced lateral connectivity between rivers and their floodplains. As a result, Stage 0 riverscapes, characterised by high lateral connectivity (e.g., anastomosing or wetland riverscapes), are now rare in anthropogenic landscapes.
Richard J. Mason, Matthew F. Johnson, Ben Eardley, Matthew J. Hemsworth, Arnaud Foret, Luca Mao, Matt Parr, Alan Puttock, Richard E. Brazier   +8 more
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