On February 8,2025,a remote area in the Caribbean Sea was rocked by a large M_(W)7.6(USGS,2025) earthquake,centered 209 km SSW of Georgetown,the capital of the Cayman Islands,and the largest city(population~41 000) of...
A total of fifty (50) samples of water from Lake Fitri (Chad), with 25 samples per island (Domoro and Maguite). The aim of this study was to analyze the bacteriological, biochemical and physico-chemical quality of the...
financially supported by the China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists(Grant No.52025112).
With the acceleration of marine construction in China,the exploitation and utilization of resources from islands and reefs are necessary.To prevent and dissipate waves in the process of resource exploitation and utili...
The research was carried out as the Miniatura 3 project entitled Importance of old oak forest patches for the diversity of managed pine forests(2019/03/X/NZ8/00586:Znaczenie wysp starodrzewow dębo wych dla roznorodnosci gospodarczych borow sosnowych)funded by the National Science Centre Poland(Narodowe Centrum Nauki).
In the temperate zone of Europe,Scots pine forests are expected to occupy the poorest habitats which are unfavourable for deciduous trees.However,as a result of deforestation of the most fertile habitats and the prefe...
Avian extinctions have been relatively well documented in modern history,and in the past millennia,more bird species are known to have gone extinct than species in any other vertebrate class.We examined the biological...
supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development(CNPq)(PELD-441515/2016-9);Minas Gerais State Research Foundation(FAPEMIG)for the funding of the long-term ecological research"PELD Campos Rupestres da Serra do Cipó",and by the Bio-Bridge Initiative(BBI)/CDB-Cascading Long Term Effects of Fire on Savanna Biodiversity in the Southern Hemisphere,Brazil and Namibia for providing additional resources to carry out the study.JK thanks the INCT EECBio(Ecologia,Evolução e Conservação da Biodiversidade)and CNPq for a postdoctoral grant(380009/2023-4);YO thanks Fapemig for her postdoctoral grant(APQ 0031-19);FC thanks CAPES,and FAPEMIG for postdoctoral grants.FSN and GWF thank CNPq for the fellowship grant.DRM thanks CNPq(311002/2023-4)for funding;BSSF and BDA thank Fapemig.RA and LA thanks FONCyT(PICT 2019-1897).EF thanks BBI(UN Environment Programme).APL and BRS thank Fapemig(APQ 0031-19);TLSB thanks CAPES and CNPq.FFG thanks PPBio and FINEP for a postdoctoral grant(01.20.0201.00).
Forest-grassland mosaics comprise a major component of tropical landscapes,hosting invaluable biodiversity and providing essential ecosystem services to hundreds of millions of people worldwide.While open biomes often...
supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China and David Eldridge by the Hermon Slade Foundation.
Trees provide multiple ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration,hydrological regulation and habitat for arboreal animals.However,they are often removed to support agricultural enterprises.Despite the importance...
Upper mantle earthquakes are usually associated with plate boundary tectonics, but rarely occur beneath intracontinental orogenic belts. In the Moroccan Atlas Mountains, earthquakes determined at subcrustal depths are...
This study describes the gradient analysis of the freshwater macroinvertebrate assemblages in eight streams of Tenerife and La Gomera (Canary Islands) over a 16-year period. During this period, a total of 75 taxa belo...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant Nos.2021YFC2203004,2021YFA0718304,and 2020YFC2201502);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12105344,12235019,11821505,11991052,and 11947302);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(Grant Nos.XDB23030100,and XDA15020701);the Key Research Program of the CAS(Grant No.XDPB15);the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS;the Science Research Grants from the China Manned Space Project(Grant No.CMS-CSST-2021-B01)。
Recently,much attention has been focused on the false vacuum islands that are flooded by an expanding ocean of true-vacuum bubbles slightly later than most of the other parts of the world.These delayed decay regions w...