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    Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands

    1. Cardinale, B. J. et al. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature 486, 59–67 (2012). 2. Hautier, Y. et al. Anthropogenic environmental changes affect ecosystem stability via biodiversity. Science 348, 336–340 (2015). 3. Balvanera, P. et al. Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services. Ecol. Lett. 9, 1146–1156 (2006). […] More

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    Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires

    1. Operational burned area mapping. New South Wales Rural Fire Service and Emergency Management, Victoria (13 January 2020). 2. Moritz, M. A. et al. Nature 515, 58–66 (2014). 3. Bradstock, R. A., Gill, A. M. & Williams, R. J. (eds) Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World (CSIRO, 2012). 4. Boer, […] More

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    Hundreds of bird species in India are declining

    NEWS 24 February 2020 A landmark report finds waterbirds and raptors are among the most at risk. Shreya Dasgupta Search for this author in: Raptors such as the short-toed snake eagle (Circaetus gallicus) are under threat in India.Credit: David Allemand/Nature Picture Library Hundreds of bird species in India are in decline, according to the country’s […] More

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    Knitting while Australia burns

    1. Cawson, J. G., Duff, T. J., Swan, M. H. & Penman, T. D. Ecosphere 9, e02211 (2018). 2. Fairman, T. A., Bennett, L. T. & Nitschke, C. R. J. Environ. Manage. 231, 59–65 (2019). 3. Wardell, J. & Sanusi, N. A. Reuters (6 January 2020); www.go.nature.com/2tMoDJv 4. Taylor, A. H. The Atlantic (9 January […] More

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    Governance challenges for tropical nations losing fish species due to climate change

    1. García Molinos, J. et al. Climate velocity and the future global redistribution of marine biodiversity. Nat. Clim. Change 6, 83–88 (2016). Article Google Scholar 2. Pinsky, M. L. et al. Preparing ocean governance for species on the move. Science 360, 1189–1191 (2018). 3. Mycoo, M. A. Beyond 1.5 °C: vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies for Caribbean […] More

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    Chromosomal barcoding of E. coli populations reveals lineage diversity dynamics at high resolution

    1. Lazar, V. et al. Genome-wide analysis captures the determinants of the antibiotic cross-resistance interaction network. Nat Commun. 5, 4352 (2014). 2. Deatherage, D. E. & Barrick, J. E. Identification of mutations in laboratory-evolved microbes from next-generation sequencing data using breseq. Methods Mol. Biol. 1151, 165–188 (2014). 3. Otto, M. Next-generation sequencing to monitor the […] More