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Community diversity of soil meso-fauna indicates the impacts of oil exploitation on wetlands
Ecological Indicators, 2022 Soil meso-fauna can indicate ecological health and provide biotic metrics for evaluating ecosystem damage and environmental changes. However, the roles of the soil meso-fauna in wetlands affected by oil exploitation have rarely been studied.
Xiaoxue Zheng +5 more
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Litter decomposition by soil fauna: effect of land use in agroecosystems
Heliyon, 2021 Soil fauna plays a key role in organic matter decomposition. Litter decomposition depends on the relationships of soil fauna and microorganisms as well as climate and litter quality. The decomposer community is sensitive to land use.
M.T. Cassani +4 more
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Pseudoscorpiones (Arachnida) of the Brazilian oceanic islands
Global Ecology and ConservationPseudoscorpiones are compose an ancient order of arachnids, occur in a wide variety of terrestrial habitats worldwide, with representatives of various genera occurring exclusively in insular habitats.
Misael A. Oliveira-Neto +7 more
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Insects, 2022 The large-scale spatial variation in and causes of biotic turnover of soil fauna remain poorly understood. Analyses were conducted based on published data from 14 independent sampling sites across five forest ecosystems in East Asia. Jaccard and Sørensen’
Peikun Li +5 more
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Evolutionarily divergent DUF4465 domains have a common vitamin B12‐binding function
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.We show that DUF4465 family proteins, widespread across bacteria from gut microbiomes, hydrothermal vents, and soil, share a common vitamin B12‐binding function. These augmented β‐jellyroll proteins bind vitamin B12 via extended loops. Our findings establish sequence‐diverse DUF4465 proteins as a widespread class of B12‐binding proteins, highlighting ...
Charlea Clarke +4 more
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Climate change enhances soil fauna population and biomass in grasslands of the Loess Plateau
Communications Earth & EnvironmentSoil fauna is a crucial component of soil biodiversity, which affects various processes and functions in terrestrial ecosystems. However, few quantitative, large-scale spatially distributional studies have explored the abundance and biomass of soil fauna.
Xi Yang, Ming’an Shao, Tongchuan Li
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Climate and litter traits affect the response of litter decomposition to soil fauna
BMC Research Notes, 2023 Objectives Soil fauna plays a crucial role in contributing to litter breakdown, accelerating the decomposition rate and enhancing the biogeochemical cycle in terrestrial ecosystems.
Dangjun Wang +5 more
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Karl Popper and the Mechanisms of Hydrogen Embrittlement
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Representation of the beginning of loss of ductility rather than embrittlement. Small concentrations of hydrogen in a diffusible form within iron are well‐established to harm the mechanical integrity of steels. There are theories that attempt to explain the pernicious role of hydrogen.
H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia
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Soil Fauna Affects Dissolved Carbon and Nitrogen in Foliar Litter in Alpine Forest and Alpine Meadow. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) are generally considered important active biogeochemical pools of total carbon and nitrogen.
Shu Liao +6 more
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova +9 more
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