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Missing Rings in Pinus halepensis – The Missing Link to Relate the Tree-Ring Record to Extreme Climatic Events
Climate predictions for the Mediterranean Basin include increased temperatures, decreased precipitation, and increased frequency of extreme climatic events (ECE). These …
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Diversity of burial rates in convergent settings decreased as Earth aged
The evolution and the growth of the continental crust is inextricably linked to the evolution of Earth's geodynamic processes. The …
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A Socio-Ecological Approach for Identifying and Contextualising Spatial Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Priorities at the Sub-National Level
Climate change adds an additional layer of complexity to existing sustainable development and biodiversity conservation challenges. The impacts of global …
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Regulation of Heat Exchange across the Hornbill Beak: Functional Similarities with Toucans?
Beaks are increasingly recognised as important contributors to avian thermoregulation. Several studies supporting Allen's rule demonstrate how beak size is …
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Evaluation of Heavy Metal Removal from Wastewater in a Modified Packed Bed Biofilm Reactor
For the effective application of a modified packed bed biofilm reactor (PBBR) in wastewater industrial practice, it is essential to …
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Regional impacts of global change: seasonal trends in extreme rainfall, run-off and temperature in two contrasting regions of Morocco
Abstract. In Morocco, socio-economic activities are highly vulnerable to extreme weather events. This study investigates trends in mean and extreme …
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Dramatic Declines of Montane Frogs in a Central African Biodiversity Hotspot
Amphibian populations are vanishing worldwide. Declines and extinctions of many populations have been attributed to chytridiomycosis, a disease induced by …
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Conversion of savanna rangelands to bush dominated landscape in Borana, Southern Ethiopia
INTRODUCTION: Analyzing trends of land use systems and the changes occurred overtime is an effective way of assessing the impacts …
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Counting Cats: Spatially Explicit Population Estimates of Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) Using Unstructured Sampling Data
Many ecological theories and species conservation programmes rely on accurate estimates of population density. Accurate density estimation, especially for species …
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Dynamics of N 2 fixation and fate of diazotroph-derived nitrogen in a low-nutrient, low-chlorophyll ecosystem: results from the VAHINE mesocosm experiment (New Caledonia)
Abstract. N2 fixation rates were measured daily in large (∼ 50 m3) mesocosms deployed in the tropical southwest Pacific coastal …
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Along-stream transport and transformation of dissolved organic matter in a large tropical river
Abstract. Large rivers transport considerable amounts of terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM) to the ocean. However, downstream gradients and temporal …
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Palaeoneurological clues to the evolution of defining mammalian soft tissue traits
A rich fossil record chronicles the distant origins of mammals, but the evolution of defining soft tissue characters of extant …
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Flood risk assessment and mapping in Abidjan district using multi-criteria analysis (AHP) model and geoinformation techniques, (cote d’ivoire)
Flood is one of the most destructive natural disasters of climate change effects in West Africa. Flood risk occurrence is …
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Heavy metal toxicity - metabolism, absorption, distribution, excretion and mechanism of toxicity for each of the metals
The main threats to human health from heavy metals are associated with exposure to lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic. These …
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Tropospheric water vapour isotopologue data (H216O, H218O and HD16O) as obtained from NDACC/FTIR solar absorption spectra
Abstract. We report on the ground-based FTIR (Fourier Transform InfraRed) tropospheric water vapour isotopologue remote sensing data that have been …
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Analysis of applicability of flood vulnerability index in Pre-Saharan region, a pilot study to assess flood in Southern Morocco
Abstract. Abstract. Moroccan Pre-Saharan zone is an oasis system, which it is characterised by extreme events, like drought and flood. …
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Ethical perspectives on the environmental impact of property development
Three perspectives that can be found in ethical decision-making are explored to suggest guidelines for ethical property development: the instrumental, …
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The rediscovery of the Great Winterberg endemic Lotononis harveyi B.–E.van Wyk after 147 years, and notes on the poorly known Amathole endemic Macowania revoluta Oliv. (southern Great Escarpment, South Africa)
South Africa's 800 km-long southern Great Escarpment hosts numerous endemic plant species only known from their type specimens or from …
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Wind changes above warm Agulhas Current eddies
Abstract. Sea surface temperature (SST) estimated from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer E onboard the Aqua satellite and altimetry-derived sea …
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Systematics and distribution of Cristaria plicata (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from the Russian Far East
The number of anodontine bivalve species placed in the genus Cristaria (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from the Russian Far East is still …