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Ducted Fan Designs Lead to Potential New Vehicles [PDF]
In 1994, aerospace engineers Rob Bulaga and Mike Moshier formed Trek Aerospace Inc., based in Folsom, California, to develop personal air vehicles using a novel ducted fan design.
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Springboards for springtails [PDF]
Travel to overseas destinations is possible even for certain tiny land invertebrates. Although they cannot fly, the ocean is not an insuperable barrier because they can survive for longish periods in sea water.
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Abstract Thermophilization of communities, or shifts in composition favoring more warm‐adapted species, over time and space is a common response to warming from global climate change and localized effects of land‐use change. However, the interplay between community thermophilization driven by temporal warming in global climate and spatial warming in ...
Sarah E. Diamond +7 more
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Soil fauna play a fundamental role on key ecosystem functions like organic matter decomposition, although how local assemblages are responding to climate change and whether these changes may have consequences to ecosystem functioning is less clear ...
Guille Peguero +17 more
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Symphypleona (sensu stricto) are a group of Collembola (=springtails) that, despite displaying some variation in gene order, have been poorly investigated under the phylomitogenomic perspective. How families and subfamilies of this taxon are evolutionary
F. Nardi +5 more
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Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Home‐field advantage (HFA) describes the tendency of litter to decompose accelerated in its native habitat than in other environments. Although the interactions between soil fauna and microbial communities during litter decomposition are well documented, the specific ...
Dandan Hu +4 more
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An Annotated List and New Species Descriptions of Collembola Found in the Project Elf Study Area of Michigan [PDF]
An annotated list of 80 collembolan species taken from the ELF Project area in Dickinson County. Michigan, is presented. Two new species are described, a new record for the United States is established, and new records for Michigan\u27s Upper Peninsula ...
Calandrino, Frank J, Snider, Richard J
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The microbiology of Lascaux Cave [PDF]
Lascaux Cave (Montignac, France) contains paintings from the Upper Paleolithic period. Shortly after its discovery in 1940, the cave was seriously disturbed by major destructive interventions. In 1963, the cave was closed due to algal growth on the walls.
Alabouvette, Claude +4 more
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Molecular evolution of glycoside hydrolase genes in the Western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera). [PDF]
Comparative StudyJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tCellulose is an important nutritional resource for a number of insect herbivores. Digestion of cellulose and other polysaccharides in plant-based diets requires several types of enzymes ...
Benson, AK +7 more
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