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Ecosystem services in European protected areas: Ambiguity in the views of sci...
Protected Areas are a key component of nature conservation. They can play an important role in counterbalancing the impacts of ecosystem degradation. For an optimal protection... -
Body proportions for the facilitation of walking, running and flying: the cas...
[Background] Predation is one of the most important natural selection forces. Prey species can optimize feeding behavior and escape from predators based on mobility conditioned... -
Purification and genetic characterization of gassericin E, a novel co-culture...
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Beyond funding: Acknowledgement patterns in biomedical, natural and social sc...
For the past 50 years, acknowledgments have been studied as important paratextual traces of research practices, collaboration, and infrastructure in science. Since 2008, funding... -
Detection and replication of QTL underlying resistance to gastrointestinal ne...
[Background] Persistence of gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infection and the related control methods have major impacts on the sheep industry worldwide. Based on the... -
The Trypanosomatid Pr77-hallmark contains a downstream core promoter element ...
Background: Trypanosomatid genomes are highly colonized by non-LTR retroelements that make up to 5% of the nuclear genome. These elements are mainly accumulated in the strand... -
A constructive approach to the epistemological problem of emergence in comple...
Emergent patterns in complex systems are related with many intriguing phenomena in modern science. One question that has sparked vigorous debates is if difficulties in the... -
Management effectiveness of the world's marine fisheries
11 pages, 5 figures.-- PMID: 19547743 [PubMed].-- Supporting information (Suppl. figs. S1-S5, Suppl. text S1) available at:... -
Drivers of daily movement patterns affecting an endangered vulture flight act...
[Background] The development of satellite tracking technology enables the gathering of huge amounts of accurate data on animal movements over measured time intervals, to reveal... -
Follow the leader: On the relationship between leadership and scholarly impac...
National contributions to science are influenced by a number of factors, including economic capacity, national scientific priorities, science policy, and institutional settings... -
"Polymorphisms and minihaplotypes in the VvNAC26 gene associate with berry si...
[Background] Domestication and selection of Vitis vinifera L. for table and wine grapes has led to a large level of berry size diversity in current grapevine cultivars.... -
Gene-trait matching across the Bifidobacterium longum pan-genome reveals cons...
Abstract Background Bifidobacterium longum is a common member of the human gut microbiota and is frequently present at high... -
Potential Hazard to Human Health from Exposure to Fragments of Lead Bullets a...
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Conservation planning with uncertain climate change projections
Climate change is affecting biodiversity worldwide, but conservation responses are constrained by considerable uncertainty regarding the magnitude, rate and ecological...
