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Soil Fauna of Ranibari Community Forest, Kathmandu, Nepal

Ekológia (Bratislava), 2022
Ranibari Community Forest (RCF) is the important forest patch present within the highly urbanized Kathmandu Valley with information gaps on soil fauna. This study aimed to explore the soil meso and macrofauna of the forest.
Shrestha Pratistha, Budha Prem Bahadur
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Monitoring soil fauna with ecoacoustics

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Ecoacoustics—or acoustic ecology—aids in monitoring elusive and protected species in several ecological contexts. For example, passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), which involves autonomous acoustic sensors, is widely used to detect various taxonomic groups in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, from birds and bats to fish and cetaceans.
Jake M. Robinson, Amy Annells, Timothy R. Cavagnaro, Craig Liddicoat, Heidi Rogers, Alex Taylor, Martin F. Breed   +6 more
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Leaftronics: Bio‐Fractal Scaffolds From Leaf Venation for Low‐Waste Electronics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
“Leaftronics” transforms naturally evolved leaf venation into quasi‐fractal scaffolds for sustainable electronics. Polymer‐infiltrated leaf skeletons can be used to fabricate ultra‐smooth, reflow‐ and thin‐film‐compatible decomposable substrates, while making the same lignocellulose networks conducting results in flexible transparent electrodes.
Rakesh Rajendran Nair, Hrisheekesh Thachoth Chandran, Karl Leo, Hans Kleemann   +3 more
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Threshold Reaction of Soil Arthropods to Simulative Nitrogen Deposition in Urban Green Spaces

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Sustained nitrogen (N) deposition has a wide-ranging impact on terrestrial ecosystems. However, still little attention has been paid to responses of urban soil fauna to the increasing N deposition.
Lingzi Mo, Lingzi Mo, Guoliang Xu, Guoliang Xu, Jiaen Zhang, Zhifeng Wu, Shiqin Yu, Shiqin Yu, Xiaohua Chen, Bin Peng, Andrea Squartini, Augusto Zanella   +11 more
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Ratiometric Mycotoxin Detection in Living Plants With Dual‐Emissive Nanosensors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A minimally invasive microneedle patch integrates carbon dot‐embedded metal–organic frameworks as nanosensors to detect a key fungal toxin in living plants. The nanosensor produces a ratiometric fluorescence signal that enables early, non‐destructive diagnosis of fungal infection before visible symptoms, offering a new biomaterials‐based strategy for ...
Yuliang Li, Di Shen, Ziyang Huang, Suppanat Puangpathumanond, Calvin Thenarianto, Yue Zhao, Jolly Madathiparambil Saju, Rajani Sarojam, Dongmei Zhou, Tedrick Thomas Salim Lew   +9 more
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Soil fauna of cut and burnt forest areas in the Khibiny Mountains

Vestnik MGTU, 2020
In the framework of monitoring the restoration of anthropogenic disturbed soil cover and its invertebrates fauna in the polar mountains, a study of pine forest cut and burnt forest areas have been conducted in the inter-mountain valley of the Khibiny Mts.
Zenkova I. V., Shtabrovskaya I. M., Usova D. V.   +2 more
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Photocatalytic Water Splitting on the Lunar Surface: Prospects for In Situ Resource Utilization

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Water has been found in craters on the moon nearby locations which are illuminated >80% of the time. Photocatalysis uses energy from sunlight to drive chemical reactions such as water splitting to produce oxygen and hydrogen. It is a scalable technology that requires lighter equipment and utilizes resources available on the moon. ABSTRACT The discovery
Ranjani Kalyan, Thomas D. Small, Gregory F. Metha, Mahmoud Adel Hamza, Thomas J. O'Dea, Yideng Shen, Cameron J. Shearer   +6 more
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Soil Fauna Alter the Relationship Between Plant Litter Diversity and Microbial Communities in Mixed Litter Decomposition

Ecology and Evolution
Understanding how litter diversity and soil fauna drive microbial communities is critical for revealing trophic cascades in decomposition processes. We conducted a 460‐day field decomposition experiment in a subtropical forest, placing litter mixtures of
Pengpeng Dou, Dunmei Lin
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Next‐Generation Water Treatment With Molybdenum Disulfide: Dual‐Functionality in Pollutant Adsorption and Photocatalysis

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has attracted attention as a promising material due to the growing demand for environmentally friendly, cost‐effective, and efficient water treatment techniques. With its physicochemical characteristics, this stratified bidimensional material allows it to be highly effective in adsorption and catalytic performance ...
Pariksha Bishnoi, Gunjan Chauhan, Phil Hart, Samarjeet Singh Siwal, Vijay Kumar Thakur   +4 more
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Effects of organic amendments on crop production and soil fauna community in contrasting Zambian soils

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
The use of organic materials has been widely promoted to improve soil health. Surface‐active soil macrofauna serves as a key biological indicator of soil health as it supports agricultural productivity.
Toru Hamamoto, Nhamo Nhamo, David Chikoye, Ikabongo Mukumbuta, Yoshitaka Uchida   +4 more
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