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    Pollinator protection strategies must be feasible for all nations

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    Salt deliquescence as a source of water

    Helpful discussion was provided by G. M. A. de Abreu (São Paulo State University, Brazil), R. Amils and J. M. Martínez (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain), H. L. Banciu (Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania), K. C. Benison (West Virginia University, WV, USA), J. Burkhardt (University of Bonn, Germany), H. G. Changela (Qianxuesen Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Space […] More

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    Unintended consequences of water conservation on the use of treated municipal wastewater

    1. Schwabe, K., Albiac, J., Connor, J. D., Hassan, R. M. & González, L. M. Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Country Perspective (Springer, 2013). 2. Berbel, J. & Esteban, E. Droughts as a catalyst for water policy change. Analysis of Spain, Australia (MDB), and California. Glob. Environ. Change 58, 101969 (2019). […] More

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    Genome diversification in globally distributed novel marine Proteobacteria is linked to environmental adaptation

    Reconstruction of genomes from deep-sea hydrothermal plumes Hydrothermal vent plume and background deep-sea samples were acquired during the following cruises: R/V New Horizon to Guaymas Basin (July 2004), R/V Atlantis to Mid-Cayman Rise (Jan 2012 and Jun 2013) for Cayman Deep (Piccard) and Shallow (Von Damm) plume and background seawater samples, and R/V Thomas G […] More

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    Leptoria phrygia in Southern Taiwan shuffles and switches symbionts to resist thermal-induced bleaching

    1. Muscatine, L. In Ecosystems of the world 25: Coral reefs (ed. Z. Dubinsky) 75-84 (Elsevier (1990). 2. Glynn, P. W., Maté, J. L., Baker, A. C. & Calderón, M. O. Coral bleaching and mortality in Panama and Ecuador during the 1997–1998 El Niño–Southern Oscillation Event: spatial/temporal patterns and comparisons with the 1982–1983 event. Bull. […] More

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    Crossing the pond: genetic assignment detects lobster hybridisation

    1. Muhlfeld, C. C. et al. Hybridization rapidly reduces fitness of a native trout in the wild. Biol. Lett. 5, 328–331 (2009). Article Google Scholar 2. Muhlfeld, C. C. et al. Legacy introductions and climatic variation explain spatiotemporal patterns of invasive hybridization in a native trout. Global Change Biol. 23, 4663–4674 (2017). 3. Goodman, S. […] More

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    Superhydrophobicity and size reduction enabled Halobates (Insecta: Heteroptera, Gerridae) to colonize the open ocean

    Body morphology and superhydrophobicity The body of Halobates is covered by a variety of specialized hairs (Fig. 1). The very small and densely packed microtrichia (1.5 to 2 µm in length) cover much of its body (both the dorsal and ventral mesothorax, Fig. 1A,B,G,H), while the less abundant setae or macrotrichia (30 µm in length) (Fig. 1H,J) are interspersed among […] More

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    Influence of tectonics on global scale distribution of geological methane emissions

    Influence of basin geodynamics and petroleum fields We applied GIS-based geospatial and geostatistical analyses to evaluate the relationship between hydrocarbon seep distribution, basin geodynamics and petroleum fields (see Methods). Convergent basins include retroarc, forearc, arc-related wrench and foreland basins associated with fold-and-thrust belts and form in geodynamic settings characterised by continental shortening and tectonic loading20 […] More