The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41925027 and 42206249.
During August and September 2023,three giant icebergs,each bigger than Paris,successively grazed Clarence Island in the northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula,a home to a population of over 100000 penguins.This incident...
supported by MAVA Foundation and Tour du Valat;supported financially by the MAVA Foundation;by the Prespa Ohrid Nature Trust (PONT)。
The analysis of bird ringing data often comes with some potential sources of error and bias,as ring wear and/or loss could affect mark-recapture analyses and produce erroneous estimates of survival.Furthermore,ring we...
MM was funded by the Whitcome Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship;NPW was partially supported by the National Institutes of Health(grant GM115509).
Individual differences in behavior have large consequences for the way in which ecology impacts fitness.Individuals differ in how they explore their environment and how exploratory behavior benefits them.In group-livi...
supported by ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute,Izatnagar-243122,India,under an ongoing service project(IVRI-Epid/2014-25).
giving results of antimicrobial susceptibility testing(AST)even if the infection is detected due to a single type of bacteria.However,what should be the minimum number of colonies?The clinical laboratory manuals are s...
The value of the California bearing ratio (CBR) test is an index making it possible to evaluate the load of the foundation soil and the resistance of the pavement materials. The California Bearing Ratio (CBR) of unsat...
[Objectives]This study was conducted to select suitable mouse beddings from commercial corncob bedding(A-E)produced by five different manufacturers.[Methods]The physical properties and microbial indexes of the five ki...
There is a growing body of research indicating that drones can disturb animals.However,it is usu-ally unclear whether the disturbance is due to visual or auditory cues.Here,we examined the effect of drone flights on t...
financed by the Project CRE:“Cretaceous Resin Event:Global bioevent of massive resin production at the initial diversification of modern forest ecosystems”;funded by the Spanish AEI/FEDER,UE Grant CGL2017-84419;Funded by the CGL2005-07445-C03-03 and CGL201123717 projects of the Ministry of Education of the Government of Spain。
Many oases(wet interdunes)are sedimentary systems characterized by high-frequency water-level oscillations,marked changes in salinity and intense biological activity at their margins.They are considered to be one of t...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31730087,41688103 and 31872277);the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University(IRT-17R75);Support Project of High-level Teachers in Beijing Municipal Universities(No.IDHT20180518);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(5182004).
Insect eusociality is characterized by cooperative brood care;reproductive division oflabour and multiple generations of adults within a colony.The morphological specializations of the different termite castes from Bu...
During the time from 1630s through 1660s, puritan tenets of divine authority、covenants with God to practise his wills、 social order and hard work had influenced the development of the New England colonies in a way t...