Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly applied in conservation management
to predict suitable habitat for poorly known populations. High predictive performance of
SDMs is evident in validations performed within the model calibration area (interpolation),
but few studies have assessed SDM transferability to novel areas (extrapolation), particularly
across large spatial scales...
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Habitat Preferences
across Ocean Basins
Torres, L. G., Sutton, P. J. H., Thompson, D. R., Delord, K
Much uncertainty exists about the state of the oceanic and atmospheric circulation in the tropical Pacific over the last glacial cycle. Studies have been hampered by the fact that sediment cores suitable for study were concentrated in the western and eastern parts of the tropical Pacific, with little information from...
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surface seawater
property gradients
Lynch‐Stieglitz, J., Polissar, P. J., Jacobel, A. W., Hovan, S. A
The integration of rapid assays, large datasets, informatics, and modeling can overcome current barriers in understanding nanomaterial structure–toxicity relationships by providing a weight-of-the-evidence mechanism to generate hazard rankings for nanomaterials. Here, we present the use of a rapid, low-cost assay to perform screening-level toxicity evaluations of nanomaterials in vivo. Calculated...
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J Nanopart Res (2015) 17:250
DOI 10.1007/s11051
The exchange of carbon dioxide is a key measure of ecosystem metabolism and a critical intersection
between the terrestrial biosphere and the Earth’s climate. Despite the general agreement that
the terrestrial ecosystems in North America provide a sizeable carbon sink, the size and distribution
of the sink remain uncertain. We...
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In the future, Earth will be warmer, precipitation events will be more extreme, global mean sea level will rise, and many arid and semiarid regions will be drier. Human modifications of landscapes will also occur at an accelerated rate as developed areas increase in size and population density. We now...
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surface to future climatic and land
use changes: A review of methods and research needs
Pelletier, J. D
Organic agriculture requires cultivars that can adapt to organic crop management systems without the use of synthetic
pesticides as well as genotypes with improved nutritional value. The aim of this study encompassing 16 experiments was to
compare 23 broccoli cultivars for the content of phytochemicals associated with health promotion grown...
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Management of marine ecosystems increasingly demands comprehensive and quantitative assessments of ocean health,
but lacks a tool to do so. We applied the recently developed Ocean Health Index to assess ocean health in the relatively
data-rich US west coast region. The overall region scored 71 out of 100, with sub-regions...
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Carbonate communities:The activity of anaerobic methane oxidizing microbes facilitates
precipitation of vast quantities of authigenic carbonate at methane seeps. Here we demonstrate
the significant role of carbonate rocks in promoting diversity by providing unique habitat
and food resources for macrofaunal assemblages at seeps on the Costa Rica margin
(400–1850 m)....
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Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps
Levin, L. A., Mendoza, G. F., Grupe, B. M., Gonzalez, J. P., Jellison
Trophic interactions within and among species vary widely across spatial scales and species’ ontogeny. However, the drivers and implications of this variability are not well understood. Juvenile Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha have a wide distribution, ranging from northern California to the eastern Bering Sea in North America, but it is...
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E. V. Farley Jr.5,**, J. A. Harding6,**, R. B. MacFarlane6,**, S. Mazumder1
In the future, Earth will be warmer, precipitation events will be more extreme, global mean sea level will rise, and many arid and semiarid regions will be drier. Human modifications of landscapes will also occur at an accelerated rate as developed areas increase in size and population density. We now...
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, Arjun M.
Heimsath9, Chris Houser10, Nick Lancaster11, Marco Marani2,12,13, Dorothy J. Merritts14