Climate Tolerances and Habitat Requirements Jointly Shape the Elevational Distribution of the American Pika (Ochotona princeps), with Implications for Climate Change Effects. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Some of the most compelling examples of ecological responses to climate change are elevational range shifts of individual species, which have been observed throughout the world.
Leah H Yandow +2 more
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Thermally assisted domain walls quantum tunneling at the high temperature range
, 1998 A theoretical and numerical investigations of the quantum tunneling of the domain walls in ferromagnets and weak ferromagnets was performed taking into account the interaction between walls and thermal excitations of a crystal.
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Characterizing sub-surface microclimates used by a climate-sensitive species, the American pika [PDF]
, 2014 The American pika is uniquely constrained to habitats of blocky debris. In this habitat, the availability of temperate sub-surface microclimates allows this temperature-sensitive species to survive the variable conditions of surface climate.
Howe, James
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The psychology of gestures and gesture-like movements in non-human primates [PDF]
, 2014 Research into gestural communication of nonhuman primates is often inspired by an interest in the evolutionary roots of human language. The focus on intentionally used behaviors is central to this approach that aims at investigating the cognitive ...
Liebal, Katja
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Вестник Университета гражданской защиты МЧС БеларусиPurpose. Development of a quantitative measure of the contribution of emergency scenarios to the overall uncertainty of the risk of man-made emergencies at fuel and energy facilities, based on the entropy of the system, the informational significance of ...
Romina M. Kretsu, Anatoliy V. Rybakov
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Ecosphere, 2020 Plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) and plateau zokors (Myospalax baileyi) occur naturally in the alpine meadow of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP). Their feeding and burrowing activities affect plant composition and soil properties (e.g., soil carbon ...
Yingxin Wang +6 more
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Natural selection and adaptive evolution of leptin in the ochotona family driven by the cold environmental stress. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 BACKGROUND: Environmental stress can accelerate the evolutionary rate of specific stress-response proteins and create new functions specialized for different environments, enhancing an organism's fitness to stressful environments. Pikas (order Lagomorpha)
Jie Yang +7 more
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PIKA: A Network Service for Multikernel Operating Systems [PDF]
, 2014 PIKA is a network stack designed for multikernel operating systems that target potential future architectures lacking cache-coherent shared memory but supporting message passing. PIKA splits the network stack into several servers that communicate using a
Agarwal, Anant +7 more
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Session Types Go Dynamic or How to Verify Your Python Conversations
, 2013 This paper presents the first implementation of session types in a dynamically-typed language - Python. Communication safety of the whole system is guaranteed at runtime by monitors that check the execution traces comply with an associated protocol ...
Neykova, Rumyana
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How can a multimodal approach to primate communication help us understand the evolution of communication? [PDF]
, 2013 Scientists studying the communication of non-human animals are often aiming to better understand the evolution of human communication, including human language.
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