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    Phage diversity, genomics and phylogeny

    1. Suttle, C. A. Viruses in the sea. Nature 437, 356–361 (2005). Google Scholar 2. Nigro, O. D. et al. Viruses in the oceanic basement. mBio 8, 1–15 (2017). Google Scholar 3. Appelt, S. et al. Viruses in a 14th-century coprolite. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 80, 2648–2655 (2014). Google Scholar 4. Kim, M.-S. & Bae, J.-W. […] More

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    Olive fruit volatiles route intraspecific interactions and chemotaxis in Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) (Diptera: Tephritidae) females

    Plant material Olives from three different cultivars (Ottobratica, Roggianella and Sinopolese) were collected from organic olive grove placed in southern Italy, in Calabria region, near the town of Delianuova (38°1458.0“N; 15°5509.8“E), on the slopes of Aspromonte mountain massif (elevation ca. 600 m). Olives used for behavioural assays and GC-MS analyses were collected in November 2017 from […] More

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    Fine-grained climate velocities reveal vulnerability of protected areas to climate change

    General approach To produce fine-grain climate velocity measures, we modelled monthly temperature and precipitation data averaged for the period from 1981 to 2010 at a resolution of 50-m, incorporating the physiographic effects of solar radiation and cold-air pooling. Based on these data, we calculated estimates for the annual temperature sum above 5 °C (growing degree days, […] More

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    Persistent Quaternary climate refugia are hospices for biodiversity in the Anthropocene

    1. Dynesius, M. & Jansson, R. Evolutionary consequences of changes in species’ geographical distributions driven by Milankovitch climate oscillations. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 97, 9115–9120 (2000). 2. Hewitt, G. The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages. Nature 405, 907–913 (2000). 3. Fine, P. V. A. Ecological and evolutionary drivers of geographic variation in […] More

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    Help restore Brazil’s governance of globally important ecosystem services

    Author notes These authors contributed equally: Carolina Levis, Bernardo M. Flores. Affiliations Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia (PPGECO), Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil Carolina Levis  & Nivaldo Peroni Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil Bernardo M. Flores , Guilherme G. Mazzochini  & Marina Hirota Programa de Pós-graduação em […] More

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    Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes

    1. Holzman, D. C. Accounting for nature’s benefits: the dollar value of ecosystem services. Environ. Health Perspect. 120, a152–a157 (2012). 2. Wagg, C. et al. Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ecosystem multifunctionality. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 111, 5266–70 (2014). 3. Van Elsas, J. D. et al. Microbial diversity determines the invasion of […] More

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    Lunar illuminated fraction is a poor proxy for moonlight exposure

    C.C.M.K. acknowledges funding from the Helmholtz Association Initiative and Networking Fund under grant no. ERC-RA-0031, as well as through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme ERA-PLANET, grant agreement no. 689443, via the GEOEssential project. C.C.M.K. and T.S. discussed moonlight extensively as part of the Illuminating Lake Ecosystem (ILES) project, and we therefore […] More