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Spatial planning with long visual range benefits escape from visual predators in complex naturalistic environments

Nature Communications, 2020
Habitat complexity influences the sensory ecology of predator-prey interactions. Here, the authors show that habitat complexity also affects the use of different decision-making paradigms, namely habit- and plan-based action selection. Simulations across
Ugurcan Mugan, Malcolm A. MacIver
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Impact of the terrestrial-aquatic transition on disparity and rates of evolution in the carnivoran skull. [PDF]

, 2015
Which factors influence the distribution patterns of morphological diversity among clades? The adaptive radiation model predicts that a clade entering new ecological niche will experience high rates of evolution early in its history, followed by a ...
Smaers, JB, Goswami, A, Smaers, Jeroen B, Jeroen B Smaers, Anjali Goswami, Jones, Katrina E; id_orcid, Jones, Katrina, Goswami, Anjali, Jones, KE, Katrina E Jones   +9 more
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Freshwater, Terrestrial, and Marine Turtles of Florida

EDIS, 2004
Florida is home to 25 species of turtles representing seven families. Turtles (including tortoises and terrapins) can be terrestrial, aquatic, or semi-aquatic.
Patricia Sprott, Frank J. Mazzotti, Jocie A. Graham   +2 more
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Lakes and rivers as microcosms, version 2.0

Journal of Limnology, 2013
Limnology has been greatly influenced by The Lake as a Microcosm (Forbes, 1887), which described a holistic focus on the internal machinations of singular, island-like aquatic ecosystems. I consider three persistent influences of The Lake as a Microcosm:
David G. Jenkins
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Unveiling Protist Composition and Diversity Patterns With eDNA Metabarcoding: Comparing Short‐ and Long‐Read Approaches

Ecology and Evolution
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a key tool in biodiversity monitoring due to its high‐throughput, non‐destructive nature. While short‐read (SR) sequencing platforms such as Illumina Miseq have been routinely used in environmental monitoring ...
Dimitra‐Ioli Skouroliakou, Deborah W. E. Dupont, Yelle Vandenboer, Sofie D'Hont, Koen Sabbe, Isa Schön   +5 more
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Electrochemical Pathways for Nitrate Conversion to Ammonia: From Environmental Challenges to Ammonia Economy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This perspective presents recent advances in electrocatalytic nitrate reduction, focusing on reaction mechanisms, catalyst design, and electrolyzer configurations. Key challenges in selectivity, stability, and practical wastewater treatment are highlighted, while future directions for advancing sustainable ammonia synthesis and nitrate remediation are ...
Xintong Li, Yunpeng Zuo, Xiaoran Zhang, Jieqiong Shan, Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, Bin Liu, Peter Strasser, Adrian Fisher, Zonglong Zhu, Xin Wang   +9 more
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Conduits of contamination to contemporary food webs of the Norfolk Broads [PDF]

, 2011
PhDDuring the 1960s-1980s antifouling applications containing the organotin tributyltin (TBT) were applied to craft on the Norfolk Broads, leaving a legacy of contaminants in sediments.
Laws, Jacob
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Plant sex influences on riparian communities and ecosystems

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Over the past several decades, we have increased our understanding of the influences of plant genetics on associated communities and ecosystem functions.
River P. Scheuerell, Carri J. LeRoy
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From Elements to Function: Toward Unifying Ecological Stoichiometry and Trait-Based Ecology [PDF]

, 2017
The theories developed in ecological stoichiometry (ES) are fundamentally based on traits. Traits directly linked to cell/body stoichiometry, such as nutrient uptake and storage, as well as the associated trade-offs, have the potential to shape ...
Boersma, Maarten, Herstoff, Emily M., Elena Litchman, El-Sabaawi, Rana, Halvorson, Halvor, Dedmer B. Van de Waal, Litchman, Elena, Vogt, Richard J., Cédric L. Meunier, Van de Waal, Dedmer B., Broersma, Maarten, Richard J. Vogt, Halvor M. Halvorson, Emily M. Herstoff, Meunier, Cédric L., Halvorson, Halvor M., Van de Waal, D.B., Maarten Boersma, Rana El-Sabaawi   +18 more
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Photo‐Switchable Molecular Module Programming PET Biodegradation in Aquatic Environments

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We address the plastic durability paradox by integrating an itaconic acid–derived pyrrolidone module into polymer backbones. Sunlight in water triggers Norrish Type I ring‐opening and hydrophilization, enabling rapid biodegradation into nontoxic minerals.
Mohammad Asif Ali, Jixin Zheng, Satoshi Wakai, Jie Liu, Hidetaka Nomaki, Misato Tsukatani, Noriyuki Isobe, Jingcheng Sang, Yuriko Aoki, Hideo Okamura, Daisuke Sasaki, Chiaki Ogino, Yuzo Yamazaki, Takashi Nishikaze, Kenji Takada, Maiko K. Okajima, Tatsuo Kaneko   +16 more
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