Philippa Kaur

Ethical statement The Ethical Committee of the Zoological Institute (RAS #2015-01-14) and Kaliningrad Regional Agency for Protection, Reproduction and Use of Animal World and Forests approved sampling procedures and experimental manipulations, and permitted the catching and tagging of cuckoos. This study was carried out in accordance with Guidelines to the use of wild birds in […] More

The 10-year average annual cycles of D and B calls through time indicates that whales arrive at the SCR feeding grounds in May and depart in November, remaining at the feeding grounds an average of 8.4 months (Fig. 1, Supplementary Table 1, Supplementary Fig. 3). The timings of D call onset and cessation displayed greater variability than B […] More

Field sampling Plankton sampling was performed at the GEOMAR deck (54° 19´48´´N, 10°9´1´´E, see map in Fig. 1) between 10.00 and 11.00 h from Mondays to Saturdays in the period of August 12 to October 21, 2008. Samples of M. leidyi were taken with a WP2 net (0.8 m net opening, 500 µm mesh size), with three vertical hauls […] More

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1. Arntz, W. E., Brey, T. & Gallardo, V. A. Antarctic zoobenthos. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. 32, 241–304 (1994). Google Scholar 2. Gerdes, D. et al. Quantitative investigations on macrobenthos communities of the southeastern Weddell Sea shelf based on multibox corer samples. Polar Biol. 12, 291–301 (1992). Google Scholar 3. Gutt, J. & Starmans, A. Structure […] More

Deforestation The deforestation of the planet is a fact2. Between 2000 and 2012, 2.3 million Km2 of forests around the world were cut down10 which amounts to 2 × 105 Km2 per year. At this rate all the forests would disappear approximatively in 100–200 years. Clearly it is unrealistic to imagine that the human society would start […] More

There is a clear and systematic difference in peat OM content and stoichiometry in organic soils between the four studied land use types in Switzerland. We presume that differences in OM content among land use types, as found here, mostly reflect drainage and land use effects, and are the result of long-lasting decomposition. Yet, it […] More

Electrolysis ecological floating bed design and eutrophic water In this research, the EEFBs and the traditional EFBs both had the same surface area of 1,089 m2 and were designed to compare their removal efficiencies in eutrophic waters under similar conditions. The EEFBs were made of polystyrene board 33 cm wide × 33 cm long × 5.5 cm thick. […] More