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WHERE I WORK 21 April 2020 Andrew Digby works to protect the kakapo, a critically endangered and charismatic New Zealand species of parrot. Amber Dance Amber Dance is a freelance writer in Los Angeles, California. Search for this author in: Andrew Digby is Science Adviser Kakapo/Takahe for the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Credit: Deidre […] More
Oceanography and protist community composition In summer 2012, the Arctic Ocean experienced an unprecedented decline in sea ice, resulting in a record sea ice minimum5. It has previously been shown that profound sea ice melt in summer 2012 led to increases in the light conditions and nutrient supply, affecting the microbial community and increasing net […] More
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Bottom-up effects of precipitation manipulation on Brandt’s voles To confirm the bottom-up effects of precipitation on small mammal, we monitored the vole population and plant community in a rainfall simulation experiment. We first assessed whether the plant community differed between rainfall treatment and control. In enclosures, the plant community structure mainly comprised of species such […] More
Sampling design The Asinara National Park (http://www.parks.it/parco.nazionale.asinara/Eindex.php), located at the island of Asinara in the North-Western tip of Sardinia, Italy, covers a Marine Protected Area of about 110 km2. Before a National Park was established in 1997, the island hosted a hospital in the nineteenth century and then a prisoner camp and a maximum-security prison from […] More
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