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Global Pyrogenic Carbon Production During Recent Decades Has Created the Potential for a Large, Long-Term Sink of Atmospheric CO2
(2020-05-26)
Fires play an important role in the terrestrial biosphere carbon cycle, not only through direct carbon release but also contributing to a potential long-term storage as pyrogenic carbon (PyC). PyC is formed through fires, ...
Mapping the Social Network: Tracking lice in a wild primate population (Microcebus rufus) to infer social contacts and vector potential
(2022-03-11)
Studies of host-parasite interactions have the potential to provide insights into the ecology of both
organisms involved. We monitored the movement of sucking lice (Lemurpediculus verruculosus), parasites that
require ...
Effects of tropospheric ozone pollution on net primary productivity and carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of China
(2022-12-05)
We investigated the potential effects of elevated ozone (O-3) along with climate variability, increasing CO2, and land use change on net primary productivity (NPP) and carbon storage in China's terrestrial ecosystems for ...
Microsatellite and mating type markers reveal unexpected patterns of genetic diversity in the pine root‐infecting fungus Grosmannia alacris
(2021-03-22)
Grosmannia alacris is a fungus commonly associated with root‐infesting bark beetles occurring on Pinus spp. The fungus has been recorded in South Africa, the USA, France, Portugal and Spain and importantly, has been ...
Investigation of Adult Male White-tailed Deer Excursions Outside Their Home Range
(2022-03-03)
- Although male and female Odocoileus virginianus (White-tailed Deer) exhibit
high site fi delity throughout the year, individuals occasionally leave their home ranges on
short excursions during the fall and winter months. ...
Responses of global terrestrial evapotranspiration to climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2 in the 21st century
(2023-06-17)
Quantifying the spatial and temporal patterns of the water lost to the atmosphere through land surface evapotranspiration (ET) is essential for understanding the global hydrological cycle, but remains much uncertain. In ...
Tick-Borne Illnesses of Alabama: Relationships Among Hosts, Habitats, and Ticks Throughout the State
(2018-04-18)
Ticks are the foremost parasites of wildlife and humans in the United States, and may transmit pathogens associated with Lyme disease, Ehrlichiosis, spotted fever Rickettsiosis, and others. Despite the high occurrence of ...
Statistical Danger Zone
(2020-04-01)
Translocation to a fragmented landscape: survival, movement, and site fidelity of Northern Bobwhites
(2021-05-05)
Habitat fragmentation, degradation, and loss have taxed early-successional
species including the Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) and numerous grassland
obligate birds. Translocation is often applied to counteract ...
Near Infrared Spectroscopy Calibration for Wood Chemistry: Which Chemometric Technique Is Best for Prediction and Interpretation?
(2019-08-02)
This paper addresses the precision in factor loadings during partial least squares (PLS) and principal components regression (PCR) of wood chemistry content from near infrared reflectance (NIR) spectra. The precision of ...
The thermal conductivity of Earth's lower mantle
(2022-09-16)
We assess the thermal conductivity of the Earth’s lower mantle anchored on our first-principles
calculations of lattice thermal conductivity of MgSiO3 perovskite. Our calculations agree with measurements
of iron-free ...
Tuning stochastic matrix models with hydrologic data to predict the population dynamics of a riverine fish
(2021-05-05)
We developed stochastic matrix models to evaluate the effects of hydrologicalteration and variable mortality on the population dynamics of a lotic fish in a regulated riversystem. Models were applied to a representative ...
Maternal life history of white-tailed deer: factors affecting fetal sex allocation, conception timing, and senescence
(2022-03-03)
Questions: How does maternal condition and regional variation in resource abundance
affect fetal sex ratio allocation, timing of litter conception, and decreased fecundity due to
senescence?
Data studied: We used female ...
Spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen deposition in China: Synthesis of observational data
(2022-11-07)
[1] Anthropogenic nitrous pollutant emissions in China significantly increased during the last decades, which contributed to the accelerated nitrogen ( N) deposition. In order to characterize spatial pattern of nitrogen ...
Size and Composition as a Proxy for Identification of Wild Pig Sounders
(2025-02-07)
Management of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) typically employs some form of population survey methodology, and trail cameras are the most common tool for conducting these surveys. Identification of individual sounders is generally ...
Global Pyrogenic Carbon Production During Recent Decades Has Created the Potential for a Large, Long-Term Sink of Atmospheric CO2
(2022-10-20)
Fires play an important role in the terrestrial biosphere carbon cycle, not only through direct carbon release but also contributing to a potential long-term storage as pyrogenic carbon (PyC). PyC is formed through fires, ...
China's land cover and land use change from 1700 to 2005: Estimations from high‐resolution satellite data and historical archives
(2022-03-03)
One of the major limitations in assessing the impacts of human activities on globalbiogeochemical cycles and climate is a shortage of reliable data on historical landcover and land use change (LCLUC). China had extreme ...
Decision making tools for evaluating candidate species for de-extinction
(2022-01-19)
As genetic editing technologies develop and the possibility of species resurrection becomes more likely, de-extinction is being considered as a tool to restore extinct species and stem biodiversity loss. While promising, ...
Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate change to the carbon cycle in China's ecosystems
(2022-12-06)
Atmospheric CO2 and China's climate have changed greatly during 1961-2000. The influence of increased CO2 and changing climate on the carbon cycle of the terrestrial ecosystems in China is still unclear. In this article ...