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The Effects of Selective Logging Behaviors on Forest Fragmentation and Recovery

International Journal of Forestry Research, 2012
To study the impacts of selective logging behaviors on a forest landscape, we developed an intermediate-scale spatial model to link cross-scale interactions of timber harvesting, a fine-scale human activity, with coarse-scale landscape impacts.
Xanic J. Rondon, Graeme S. Cumming, Rosa E. Cossío, Jane Southworth   +3 more
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Ionomycin suppresses cancer cell growth by disrupting mitochondrial transcription

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
In this study, we identify a new function for the selective Ca2+ ionophore, ionomycin, as an inhibitor of mitochondrial transcription. Both total and nascent RNA analyses revealed that ionomycin treatment reduces the transcription of mitochondrial genes.
Lishen Wang, Mingqiang Deng, Dongmei He, Diqin Lai, Dongjun Liu, Dengyong Zhu, Zhenhua Zhang, Peng Tang, Chuanman Zhou, Menghui Yin, Xichen Bao   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Economic and Environmental Effects of an EU Ban on Illegal Logging Imports. Insights from a CGE Assessment [PDF]

Illegal logging is widely recognized as a major economic problem and one of the causes of environmental degradation. Increasing awareness of its negative effects has fostered a wide range of proposals to combat it by major international conservation ...
Renato Rosa, Francesco Bosello, Ramiro Parrado   +2 more
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Optimizing photoexcitation conditions for time‐resolved X‐ray solution scattering experiments

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Time‐resolved X‐ray solution scattering (TR‐XSS) is a powerful technique to visualize how proteins change their structure in real time after light activation. Selecting the right laser photoexcitation conditions—fluence, excitation geometry, and sample refresh rate—is critical to maximize the experimental signal while avoiding unwanted side effects ...
Matteo Levantino
wiley   +1 more source

Delivery of DNA‐encoded vaccines and proteins in mice using cutaneous suction‐mediated transfection

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Cutaneous suction‐mediated transfection in mice for delivery of DNA‐encoded vaccines and proteins. A critical limitation of DNA vaccines and other therapeutics is transfection in vivo to produce the encoded antigens or therapeutic proteins. Cutaneous suction‐based methods have demonstrated effectiveness in many animal models and have been successfully ...
Emran O. Lallow, Isabel Brandtjen, Yaxin Mo, Melissa Gulley, Louis Osorio, Sagar Kudchodkar, Nandita C. Jhumur, Christine C. Roberts, Lisa K. Denzin, David I. Shreiber, Biju Parekkadan, Hao Lin, Joel N. Maslow   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiversity despite selective logging

, 2013
[Extract] Primary tropical forests are powerhouses of biodiversity but are rapidly declining in extent and are threatened even within some protected areas. As a result, non-primary forests, especially those that have been selectively logged, are becoming
Laurance, William F., Edwards, David P.
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Temporal Decay in Timber Species Composition and Value in Amazonian Logging Concessions.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Throughout human history, slow-renewal biological resource populations have been predictably overexploited, often to the point of economic extinction. We assess whether and how this has occurred with timber resources in the Brazilian Amazon.
Vanessa A Richardson, Carlos A Peres
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Avidin is evolutionarily conserved in fish but dispensable for development and resistance against Streptococcus agalactiae in zebrafish

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The presence of biotin‐binding avidin proteins in fish and their biological significance are poorly characterized. We cataloged fish avidins and demonstrate that they are widely present and evolutionarily conserved. We created avd knockout zebrafish and show that zebavidin is dispensable for development and that resistance of avd knockout embryos in ...
Anni K. Saralahti, Markus J. T. Ojanen, Mataleena Parikka, Otto Kauko, Mika Rämet, Vesa P. Hytönen   +5 more
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Structural and biochemical insights into the thermostable esterase Ta0887 from Thermoplasma acidophilum

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
In this study, a novel esterase from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum was biochemically and structurally characterized. Our results demonstrate that Ta0887 is a highly thermostable esterase that preferentially hydrolyzes p‐nitrophenyl hexanoate and possesses an α‐helical cap domain that likely contributes to its substrate ...
Alejandro Delgado‐Rey, Miriam Livier Llamas‐García, Gabriela M. Montero‐Morán, Leticia Santos, Samuel Lara‐González   +4 more
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Can timber provision from Amazonian production forests be sustainable?

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
Around 30 Mm ^3 of sawlogs are extracted annually by selective logging of natural production forests in Amazonia, Earth’s most extensive tropical forest.
Camille Piponiot, Edna Rödig, Francis E Putz, Ervan Rutishauser, Plinio Sist, Nataly Ascarrunz, Lilian Blanc, Géraldine Derroire, Laurent Descroix, Marcelino Carneiro Guedes, Euridice Honorio Coronado, Andreas Huth, Milton Kanashiro, Juan Carlos Licona, Lucas Mazzei, Marcus Vinicio Neves d’Oliveira, Marielos Peña-Claros, Ken Rodney, Alexander Shenkin, Cintia Rodrigues de Souza, Edson Vidal, Thales A P West, Verginia Wortel, Bruno Hérault   +23 more
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