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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux, Trent D. Penman, Victoria A. Reynolds, Matthew H. Swan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elevated atmospheric CO2 impact on carbon and nitrogen transformations and microbial community in replicated wetland

Ecological Processes, 2020
Background Elevated atmospheric CO2 has direct and indirect influences on ecosystem processes. The impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration on carbon and nitrogen transformations, together with the microbial community, was evaluated with water ...
Dawei Jiang, Lifei Chen, Nan Xia, Eyram Norgbey, Desmond Ato Koomson, Williams Kweku Darkwah   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence for adaptive explanations of semelparity in animals

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Semelparity, the reproductive strategy of reproducing once, is widespread but uncommon in animals. Classes of models to explain the evolution of semelparity are based either on age structure and mortality schedules – demographic models in which high post‐reproductive mortality risk favours high reproductive effort and semelparity results from ...
Diana O. Fisher, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Instability mechanism and failure characteristics of underground cavern in block system under the action of seismic waves

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
Seismic waves with tensile stress, high amplitude, and low frequency are most likely to trigger block instability and sliding. Blocks with a single sliding surface are more prone to movement than those with multiple constraints, and roof‐positioned blocks are especially vulnerable to slide.
Xiao Wang, Jinxiao Liu, Gaoshuo Zhang, Wenxin Li, Changdi He   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic geo‐hydrogeological monitoring‐driven situational awareness for real‐time floor water inrush risk prediction in deep mining

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
The fused data extracted from the distributed monitoring system as the data basis, combined with dynamic geological data, are imported into a deep learning model. As the geological conditions of mining and excavation change, the risk of water inrush at the working face is retrieved in real time.
Yongjie Li, Huiyong Yin, Fangying Dong, Tao Wu, Chao Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of C/N ratio on the denitrifying enzymes activity and global warming potential

Desalination and Water Treatment
The greenhouse gases generated in the wastewater treatment process based on heterotrophic denitrification technology have become a dilemma between water environment protection and carbon emission reduction.
Yin Zhou, Peifang Wang, Bin Hu, Dingxin Li, Tianming Zheng, Ting Chen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mini Review on the Structure and Properties (Photocatalysis), and Preparation Techniques of Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nano-Based Particle, and Its Applications

Nanoscale Research Letters, 2018
Graphite carbon nitride (g-C3N4) is well known as one of the most promising materials for photocatalytic activities, such as CO2 reduction and water splitting, and environmental remediation through the removal of organic pollutants.
Williams Kweku Darkwah, Yanhui Ao
doaj   +1 more source

Performance assessment of a potential underground thermal storage facility: Case study of the closed mine Prosper‐Haniel in the Ruhr coal mining area in Germany

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates the feasibility of an underground closed‐loop thermal storage facility at a post‐mining site, intended for seasonal heat energy storage. Its principal design shows water flow directions in winter and summer (1, 2), heat pumps (3), an upper water reservoir (4), and connecting pipes (5).
Dmytro Rudakov, Oleksandr Inkin
wiley   +1 more source

Exponentially‐constrained Gaussian mixture model for quantifying vertical development of water‐conducting fracture zones in lithologically stratified mining roofs

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This study proposes an exponentially‐constrained Gaussian mixture model (EcGMM) to quantify vertical fracture heterogeneity in stratified roof strata. The model integrates a piecewise exponential decay term capturing global stress dissipation with Gaussian components representing localized fracture intensification at lithological interfaces.
Huiqing Yuan, Zhimin Xu, Weixiao Chen, Chenghang Zhang, Shijie Xiong, Yajun Sun   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Continental scale metagenomics reveals Microcystis‐induced synchrony among aquatic taxa is exacerbated by trophic cascades

Ecography, EarlyView.
Harmful Microcystis proliferation severely threatens aquatic ecosystems globally, but its impacts on food‐web stability remain poorly understood. Here, we analyzed 1309 metagenomic samples from freshwater ecosystems across China to investigate how Microcystis abundance affects synchrony among taxa in multi‐trophic food webs (from bacteriophages to ...
Lemian Liu, Siqi Zhu, Xiaoqin Huang, Wenjia Hu, Lixiang Luo, Xiusong Pan, Jianfeng Chen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source