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Embryonic development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata

Developmental Dynamics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Starfish play essential ecological roles as predators and ecosystem regulators; however, detailed developmental descriptions exist for only a handful of species, none of which are from the Mediterranean Sea. Results In this study, we provide the first full account of the development of the Mediterranean starfish Hacelia attenuata ...
Silvia Caballero‐Mancebo, Laurent Gilletta, Janet Chenevert, Stefania Castagnetti   +3 more
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THE EFFECT OF ROTATIONAL GRAZING ON FLORISTIC COMPOSITION AND YIELD OF Ranunculo repentis – Alopecuretum pratensis HILLY GRASSLAND [PDF]

Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2004
In the years 2001 and 2002 the effect of the introduction of the whole year rotational grazing with different post-grazing target sward heights (4 cm in the treatment 1, and 7 cm in the treatment 2) on the yield and changes in floristic composition of ...
A GSELMAN, B KRAMBERGER, A LEŠNIK
doaj  

Lithium Metal Anode Fabrication: Methods, Challenges, and Strategies

EcoEnergy, EarlyView.
Schematic illustration of four representative fabrication techniques for thin lithium metal anodes: extrusion, molten lithium infusion, electroplating, and physical vapor deposition (PVD). ABSTRACT The pursuit of ultra‐high energy‐dense lithium‐metal batteries (LMBs) has reignited the drive to fabricate ultrathin high‐quality lithium metal anodes. This
Ji Hyun Baek, Mi Ji Kang, Ho Won Jang
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Developing a macroecology for human‐altered ecosystems

Ecography, EarlyView.
Although anthropogenically‐induced ecological disruptions are fundamentally important in defining ecosystem properties, they are largely overlooked by macroecological theory. Anthropogenic disruptions and their effects are generally not comparable to one another, nor to disturbances that are part of natural disturbance regimes.
Erica A. Newman, Mark Q. Wilber, Alexandre Génin, Oriana E. Chafe, Henry F. Houskeeper, Steven Lee, Eric L. Berlow, John Harte   +7 more
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Dynamics of production and forage utilization on elephant grass pastures managed with different post-grazing heights

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2012
This study was conducted to evaluate the daily production of forage and its morphological components, as well as the potential of forage utilization in pastures of Pennisetum purpureum cv. Napier managed with three post-grazing heights (30, 50 and 70 cm).
Braulio Maia de Lana Sousa, Domicio do Nascimento Júnior, Hélida Christhine de Freitas Monteiro, Dilermando Miranda da Fonseca   +3 more
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Maximising trait evenness promotes the recovery of plant species richness in managed grasslands

Ecography, EarlyView.
Land‐use intensification threatens biodiversity, and restoring degraded ecosystems remains challenging due to the difficulty of identifying the rules governing community assembly and dynamics. Investigating the temporal dynamics of trait‐abundance distributions (TADs) along long‐term time series offers a promising approach to disentangle the influence ...
Nathan Rondeau, Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Frédérique Louault, Raphael Martin, Pascal Carrère, Katja Klumpp, Pierre Liancourt, Nicolas Gross   +7 more
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Faster growing and more functionally diverse: global change alters functional trait composition of mountain plant communities in the European Alps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how global change reshapes mountain plant communities is essential for predicting biodiversity and ecosystem function in a warming world. Using resurvey data from over 1400 non‐forest vegetation plots across the European Alps, we show that community‐weighted means of key functional traits capturing important dimensions of plant ecological
Sergey Rosbakh, Sabine B. Rumpf, Stefan Dullinger   +2 more
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Strengthened inter‐chain π–π contacts in amorphous diketopyrrolopyrrole polymers for robust flexible organic thin‐film transistors

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Vinylene‐linked DPP polymers with expanded thiophene donors achieve strengthened interchain π‐π stacking in near‐amorphous films, enabling high charge mobility and outstanding mechanical stability for flexible organic thin‐film transistors. Abstract Flexible organic thin‐film transistors (OTFTs) based on multi‐vinylene‐linked diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)
Yanlin Chen, Shihong Zhou, Tianwen Chen, Zitong Liu, Zhiwei Yang, Haijun Long, Xianfeng Liang, Xiao Xue, Chenyang Lu, Cailong Zhou, Lichun Dong, Luxi Tan   +11 more
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Frequencies and intensities of defoliation in Aruana guineagrass swards: morphogenetic and structural characteristics

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2012
The objective of this study was to evaluate the morphogenetic and structural characteristics of Aruana guineagrass pastures (Panicum maximum cv. Aruana) subjected to rotational stocking by sheep. The treatments corresponded to grazing when swards reached
Guilherme Doneda Zanini, Gabriela Trevisan Santos, André Fischer Sbrissia   +2 more
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Effectiveness of integrated shrub management and restoration techniques for rehabilitating shrub‐encroached rangelands of South Africa

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Herbaceous plant recovery following shrub clearing and reseeding in the rangelands of Peddie, Eastern Cape of South Africa. CTL, control; CO, cutting only; CR, cutting and reseeding; UPO, uprooting only; UPR, uprooting and reseeding. Abstract Background Shrub encroachment (SE) drives rangeland degradation, threatening biodiversity and forage ...
Monelisi Makanya, Khanyisa Jama, Mthunzi Mndela, Sinalo Malindie   +3 more
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