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    Collective choice fosters sustainable resource management in the presence of asymmetric opportunities

    Extraction behaviour As the resource doubled in size between periods, all group members could extract a rate of 12.5% in each period while sustaining the resource (see Methods section for more details). In all three choice systems, the average percentage taken significantly exceeded this threshold, which led to an overall decrease of the resource over […] More

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    Historic changes in species composition for a globally unique bird community

    1. Sala, O. E. et al. Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. Science 287, 1770–1774 (2000). CAS  Article  Google Scholar  2. Rosenzweig, M. L. Species Diversity in Space and Time (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995). Google Scholar  3. Bibby, C. J. Bird Census Techniques (Elsevier, London, 2000). Google Scholar  4. Magurran, A. E. Measuring […] More

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    Increasing level of liquid pig manure reduces Eisenia andrei and Enchytraeus crypticus reproduction in subtropical soils

    Liquid pig manure application caused reduction in the reproduction of both studied species, E. andrei and E. crypticus. However, enchytraeids were more sensitive than earthworms in both soils, which can be noted by the calculated EC50 values. Evaluations performed with organic matrices are complex, due to the composition of this material, since in general, they […] More

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    Interactions of Bunias orientalis plant chemotypes and fungal pathogens with different host specificity in vivo and in vitro

    1. Bennett, R. N. & Wallsgrove, R. M. Secondary metabolites in plant defense-mechanisms. New Phytol. 127, 617–633. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1994.tb02968.x (1994). CAS  Article  Google Scholar  2. Giamoustaris, A. & Mithen, R. Glucosinolates and disease resistance in oilseed rape (Brassica napus ssp. oleifera). Plant Pathol. 46, 271–275. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3059.1997.d01-222.x (1997). CAS  Article  Google Scholar  3. Schoonhoven, L. M., Van […] More

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    Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015

    1. Forest Europe. State of Europe’s Forests 2015 (Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe, 2015); https://foresteurope.org/state-europes-forests-2015-report/. 2. Grassi, G. et al. The key role of forests in meeting climate targets requires science for credible mitigation. Nat. Clim. Chang. 7, 220–226 (2017). ADS  Article  Google Scholar  3. Masson-Delmotte, V. et al. (eds) IPCC […] More

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    Root exudate composition of grass and forb species in natural grasslands

    Chemical richness and composition of metabolites detected by GC-MS (polar metabolites) The untargeted metabolite profiling of the investigated samples revealed an annotation of 285 features (detected monoisotopic signals characterized by their specific retention time and mass to charge ration) (Supplementary Table 1). A total of 66 of these features were identified and classified as metabolites of […] More

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    Manual and automated preparation of single-stranded DNA libraries for the sequencing of DNA from ancient biological remains and other sources of highly degraded DNA

    1. Meyer, M. et al. A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual. Science 338, 222–226 (2012). CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  2. Gansauge, M. T. & Meyer, M. Single-stranded DNA library preparation for the sequencing of ancient or damaged DNA. Nat. Protoc. 8, 737–748 (2013). PubMed  Google Scholar  3. Prüfer, K. et […] More

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    Larval behaviour, dispersal and population connectivity in the deep sea

    Particles are simulated with the Ariane software (available from http://stockage.univ-brest.fr/~grima/Ariane/doc.html,20,21) modified to include independent, age-related, vertical motion of particles22. The modified Ariane is driven by the velocity, potential temperature, T, and salinity, S, fields output from the VIKING20 configuration23 of the NEMO ocean model24. VIKING20 hydrodynamic model: description and verification Used here as input for […] More