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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: an ecosystem-level approach Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: an ecosystem-level approach
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David Raffaelli, Alan M. Friedlander
The new IASPEI standards for determining magnitudes from digital data and their relation to classical magnitudes The new IASPEI standards for determining magnitudes from digital data and their relation to classical magnitudes
Why there is a need for measurement standards of magnitudes: In October 2005, the Commission on Seismic Observation and Interpretation of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth´s Interior (IASPEI) adopted the summary recommendations made by the IASPEI Working Group on Magnitudes on new measurement standards for widely used local, regional and teleseismic...
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Peter Bormann, James W. Dewey
Northern California Redwood Forests provide important seasonal habitat for migrant bats Northern California Redwood Forests provide important seasonal habitat for migrant bats
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Theodore J. Weller, Craig A. Stricker
Arsenic and life: bacterial redox reactions associated with arsenic oxyanions Arsenic and life: bacterial redox reactions associated with arsenic oxyanions
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Ronald S. Oremland
Responding to peer review and editor’s comments: Chapter 10 Responding to peer review and editor’s comments: Chapter 10
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Harold Schramm, Leandro E. Miranda
Climate change and infectious disease dynamics Climate change and infectious disease dynamics
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Raina K. Plowright, Paul C. Cross, Gary Tabor, Emily S. Almberg, Leslie Bienen, Peter J. Hudson
Spawning and nursery habitats of neotropical fish species in the tributaries of a regulated river Spawning and nursery habitats of neotropical fish species in the tributaries of a regulated river
This chapter provides information on ontogenetic patterns of neotropical fish species distribution in tributaries (Verde, Pardo, Anhanduí, and Aguapeí rivers) of the Porto Primavera Reservoir, in the heavily dammed Paraná River, Brazil, identifying key spawning and nursery habitats. Samplings were conducted monthly in the main channel of rivers and in marginal lagoons from October...
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Maristela Cavicchioli Makrakis, Patricia S. da Silva, Sergio Makrakis, Ariane F. de Lima, Lucileine de Assumpcao, Salete de Paula, Leandro E. Miranda, Joao Henrique Pinheiro Dias
Salmonid intranuclear microsporidosis Salmonid intranuclear microsporidosis
Nucleospora salmonis is an intra-nuclear microsporidian parasite in the family Enterocytozoonidae (Docker et al. 1997). Prespore stages of the parasite were first observed among adult and then juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) by Elston et al. (1987) and Morrison et al. (1990), respectively in Washington, U.S.A. The microsporidian nature of the parasite was subsequently
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Ronald P. Hedrick, Maureen K. Purcell, Tomofumi Kurobe
The effects of climate-change-induced drought and freshwater wetlands The effects of climate-change-induced drought and freshwater wetlands
Drought cycles in wetlands may become more frequent and severe in the future, with consequences for wetland distribution and function. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation, 2012. Online: http://ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/images/uploads...
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B.A. Middleton, Till Kleinebecker
Uncertainty Uncertainty
Management decisions will often be directly informed by model predictions. However, we now know there can be no expectation of a single ‘true’ model; thus, model results are uncertain. Understandable reporting of underlying uncertainty provides necessary context to decision-makers, as model results are used for management decisions. This, in turn, forms a mechanism by which groundwater...
Authors
Randall J. Hunt
Knowledge gained from video-monitoring grassland passerine nests Knowledge gained from video-monitoring grassland passerine nests
In the mid-1990s, researchers began using miniature cameras to videotape activities at cryptic passerine nests in grasslands.In subsequent years, use of these video surveillance systems spread dramatically, leading to major strides in our knowledge of nest predation and nesting ecology of many species.Studies using video nest surveillance have helped overturn or substantiate many long...
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Pamela J. Pietz, D. A. Granfors, Christine A. Ribic
White-nose syndrome in cave bats of North America White-nose syndrome in cave bats of North America
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Authors
E.L. Buckles, Anne E. Ballmann