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    Long-term effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on ants

    1. Biesmeijer, J. C. et al. Parallel declines in pollinators and insect-pollinated plants in Britain and the Netherlands. Science 313, 351–354 (2006). CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  2. Hallmann, C. A. et al. More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas. PLoS ONE 12, e0185809 (2017). PubMed  PubMed […] More

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    Excess sulfur and Fe elements drive changes in soil and vegetation at abandoned coal gangues, Guizhou China

    Study area The research was conducted in Huaxi District (106°27′–106°52E, 26°11′–26°34′) in the middle of Guizhou province. Huaxi District is located on the eastern slope of the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau and has a subtropical monsoon humid climate, though it is also affected by its high altitude (the average altitude is 999 m), being cool in summer and […] More

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    The demographic decline of a sea lion population followed multi-decadal sea surface warming

    All the analyses described below were based on algebraically explicit Bayesian regression models52,53, whose parameters of interest were estimated as samples from their posterior distributions through a Markov Chain Monte Carlo procedure, implemented in the language Just Another Gibbs Sampler (JAGS)54 in R55. This approach avoids the loss of information through the propagation of uncertainty […] More

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    Large-scale metabolic interaction network of the mouse and human gut microbiota

    1. Qin, J. et al. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing. Nature 464, 59–65 (2010). CAS  Article  Google Scholar  2. Mackie, R. I., White, B. A. & Isaacson, R. E. Gastrointestinal Microbiology (Chapman & Hall, New York, 1997). 3. Wang, J. et al. Dietary history contributes to enterotype-like clustering and functional […] More

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    Long-term imaging of the photosensitive, reef-building coral Acropora muricata using light-sheet illumination

    1. Gladfelter, E. H. Skeletal development in Acropora cervicornis: I. Patterns of calcium carbonate accretion in the axial corallite. Coral Reefs 1, 45–51 (1982). ADS  Google Scholar  2. Muscatine, L., Tambutte, E. & Allemand, D. Morphology of coral desmocytes, cells that anchor the calicoblastic epithelium to the skeleton. Coral Reefs 16, 205–213 (1997). Google Scholar  […] More

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    Sexual differences in age-dependent survival and life span of adults in a natural butterfly population

    1. Carey, J. R. Insect biodemography. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 46, 79–110 (2001). CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  2. Bronikowski, A. M. & Promislow, D. E. L. Testing evolutionary theories of aging in wild populations. Trends Ecol. Evol. 20, 271–273 (2005). PubMed  Google Scholar  3. Stearns, S. C. The evolution of life histories. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, […] More

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    Heavy metals and radon content in spring water of Kosovo

    Heavy metals. In Table 1 and Supplementary Table 1A (Appendix) the measuring results of the concentration (μg/L) of heavy metals As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn are shown. Actually, Table 1 represents minimum, maximum and mean values per municipality, of all measured parameters, and Supplementary Table 1A represents the average value of […] More

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    Long-term monitoring of the Iberian ibex population in the Sierra Nevada of the southeast Iberian Peninsula

    1. Shackleton, D. Wild sheep and goats and their relatives. Status survey and conservation action plan for Caprinae. (IUCN/SSC Caprinae Specialist Group., 1997). 2. Pérez, J. M. et al. Distribution, status and conservation problems of the Spanish Ibex, Capra pyrenaica (Mammalia: Artiodactyla). Mammal Rev. 32, 26–39 (2002). Article  Google Scholar  3. Acevedo, P. & Casinello, […] More