Philippa Kaur

Site description, sampling and bacterial isolation Different samples were collected from a copper mine located in the city of Canaã dos Carajás, in the state of Pará, Brazil, (06°23′14.9″S–50°03′19.5″W, 238 meters above sea level). In 2018, Sossego Mine produced around 92 thousand tons of copper concentrate51. In the mine, copper is obtained from chalcopyrite ores […] More

Determining the most abundant species based on gene expression During three consecutive years, an in situ survey (Fig. 1; Supplementary Table S1) of A. minutum blooms was performed in the Bay of Brest (France), resulting in 41 meta-transcriptomic datasets (a total of 16.108 reads). The environmental reads were aligned to a meta-reference (MetaRef2; see methods) composed of […] More

1. Hall, A. R. et al. Diversity–disturbance relationships: frequency and intensity interact. Biol. Lett. 8, 768–771 (2012). 2. Davies, K. W., Svejcar, T. J. & Bates, J. D. Interaction of historical and nonhistorical disturbances maintains native plant communities. Ecol. Appl. 19, 1536–1545 (2009). 3. Svensson, J. R., Lindegarth, M. & Pavia, H. Equal rates of […] More

Variation patterns of ecosystem types in the SNP In 2015, the SNP was dominated by grassland, desert, water body and wetland ecosystems with areas of 6.90 × 104 km2, 4.34 × 104 km2, and 1.04 × 104 km2, respectively, which accounted for 56.2%, 35.2%, and 8.4% of the national park’s total area (Fig. 2). Figure 2 […] More

1. Human, P. & DeLoach, N. Reef Creature Identification. Tropical Pacific. New World Publications, Inc., Jacksonwille, Florida USA (2010). 2. Glynn, P. W. & Enochs, I. C. Invertebrates and their roles in coral reef ecosystems in Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition Springer (eds. Dubinsky, Z., Stambler, N.) 273–326 (London, 2011). 3. Goldberg, W. M. […] More

Marine bivalves such as oysters and scallops secrete calcified shells as a supporting frame for their soft bodies and for protection from predators1,2, which is thought to be one of the key factors that trigger the expansion of bivalves at the dawn of the Cambrian times16. The early shell formation of bivalve larvae requires sufficient […] More

Study area The study was conducted upstream of the tidal area of the Gironde estuary (45°02′45.80″ N, 0°36′41.56″ W), where the Dordogne and Garonne rivers discharge (Southwestern France, Fig. 4). The Garonne-Dordogne hydrographic network hosts one of the largest populations of sea lamprey in Europe20,28. The Dordogne River runs over 475 km (mean flow = 216 m3/s) […] More

1. Moore, J. K., Doney, S. C., Glover, D. M. & Fung, I. Y. Iron cycling and nutrient-limitation patterns in surface waters of the World Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 49, 463–507 (2001). 2. Tagliabue, A., Aumont, O. & Bopp, L. The impact of different external sources of iron on […] More