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    A practical assessment of nano-phosphate on soybean (Glycine max) growth and microbiome establishment

    Nanoparticle characterization Although nano-fertilizers are advertised for sale to growers from several companies in China and India, full details of their compositions were not available. Thus, characterized hydroxyapatite (Ca10 (PO4)6(OH) 2) nanoparticles (nHA) were purchased from Sky Springs Nanomaterials, Inc. (Houston, Texas, USA) as <40 nm, with a needle shaped morphology, and 98.5% purity. nHA shape […] More

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    Whale catches fail to fill quotas

    1. Nature 565, 458 (2019). 2. Christiansen, J. S. Nature 568, 458 (2019). CAS  Article  Google Scholar  3. St.meld. nr. 27 (2003–2004) White Paper (Government of Norway, 2020); https://go.nature.com/3c2ynzi 4. Topic: Minke whale (Institute of Marine Research, Norway, 2020); https://www.hi.no/en/hi/temasider/species/minke-whale 5. Search: Vågehval (Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, 2020); https://www.fiskeridir.no/Soek?filter=yes&search=v%C3%A5gehval 6. Amundsen, E. S., Bjørndal, T. […] More

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    Experimental and archaeological data for the identification of projectile impact marks on small-sized mammals

    1. Blasco, R. et al. Environmental availability, behavioural diversity and diet: A zooarchaeological approach from the TD10-1 sublevel of Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) and Bolomor Cave (Valencia, Spain). Quaternary Science Reviews 70, 124–144 (2013). ADS  Google Scholar  2. Brown, K., Fa, D.A., Finlayson, G. & Finlayson, C. Small game and marine resource […] More

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    Widespread subsidence and carbon emissions across Southeast Asian peatlands

    1. Miettinen, J., Shi, C. & Liew, S. C. Land cover distribution in the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2015 with changes since 1990. Glob. Ecol. Conserv. 6, 67–78 (2016). Article  Google Scholar  2. Hooijer, A. et al. Subsidence and carbon loss in drained tropical peatlands. Biogeosciences 9, 1053–1071 (2012). Article  Google […] More

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    Alien ectomycorrhizal plants differ in their ability to interact with co-introduced and native ectomycorrhizal fungi in novel sites

    1. Davis M. Invasion Biology, 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2009. 2. Vilà M, Bartomeus I, Dietzsch AC, Petanidou T, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stout JC, et al. Invasive plant integration into native plant–pollinator networks across Europe. Proc R Soc B Biol Sci. 2009;276:3887–93. Google Scholar  3. Blackburn TM, Essl F, Evans T, Hulme PE, Jeschke […] More

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    Depth-dependent mycoplankton glycoside hydrolase gene activity in the open ocean—evidence from the Tara Oceans eukaryote metatranscriptomes

    1. Amend A, Burgaud G, Cunliffe M, Edgcomb VP, Ettinger CL, Gutiérrez MH, et al. Fungi in the marine environment: open questions and unsolved problems. mBio. 2019;10:e01189–18. CAS  Article  Google Scholar  2. Grossart H-P, Wyngaert SV den, Kagami M, Wurzbacher C, Cunliffe M, Rojas-Jimenez K. Fungi in aquatic ecosystems. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2019;1:339–354. Article  Google […] More

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    Removal mechanism of Pb(II) by Penicillium polonicum: immobilization, adsorption, and bioaccumulation

    . Majumdar, S. S. et al. A study on lead adsorption by Mucor rouxii biomass. Desalination. 251, 96–102 (2010). CAS  Google Scholar  2. Wijayawardena, M. A. A. et al. Influence of ageing on lead bioavailability in soils: a swine study. Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 22, 8979–8988 (2015). CAS  Google Scholar  3. Velásquez, L. & Dussan, […] More

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    Biomagnification and body distribution of ivermectin in dung beetles

    Test organism The dung beetle T. lusitanicus was selected as test species. This species has been successfully used in other physiological studies32,33 due to its easy rearing and the high volume of haemolymph in its body. Specimens of T. lusitanicus were used to study ivermectin biomagnification patterns from cattle dung into the gut, haemolymph, fat […] More