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    Green leaves and seeds alcoholic extract controls Sporobulus indicus germination in laboratory conditions

    1. Powell, G., Tosh, C. R. & Hardie, J. Host plant selection by aphids: behavioral, evolutionary, and applied perspectives. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 51, 309–330, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.151107 (2006). 2. Rana, N., Wilder, B., Sellers, B., Ferrell, J. & MacDonald, G. Effects of environmental factors on seed germination and emergence of smutgrass (Sporobolus indicus) varieties. Weed Sci. 60, […] More

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    Invasive ecosystem engineers threaten benthic nitrogen cycling by altering native infaunal and biofouling communities

    1. Jones, C. G., Lawton, J. H. & Shachak, M. Organisms as ecosystem engineers. In Ecosystem management (eds Samson, F. B., & Knopf, F. L.) 130–147 (Springer, New York, NY, 1994). 2. Jones, C. G., Lawton, J. H. & Shachak, M. Ecosystem engineering by organisms: why semantics matters. Trends in Ecol. Evol. 12(7), 275 (1997). […] More

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    Fishing for fun takes a massive bite out of marine life

    A shark is weighed in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as part of the North Atlantic Monster Shark Tournament. Recreational shark hunting accounts for a growing proportion of shark catches. Credit: Maddie Meyer/Getty Conservation biology 31 January 2020 Hobbyists’ harvest of sharks and rays has soared, and catch-and-release is no solution. The volume of fish caught recreationally […] More

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    Hidden diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest: the discovery of Jurasaidae, a new beetle family (Coleoptera, Elateroidea) with neotenic females

    Based on their divergent morphology (Figs. 2–5, S1–S12) and the results obtained from the molecular phylogeny (Figs. 6, S13), we describe here Jurasai digitusdei gen. et sp. nov., J. itajubense gen. et sp. nov. and Tujamita plenalatum gen. et sp. nov., for which we erect a new family Jurasaidae fam. nov. Below we provide remarks on their […] More

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    Global meta-analysis shows pervasive phosphorus limitation of aboveground plant production in natural terrestrial ecosystems

    Data collection With the aim of constructing a comprehensive database of the experimentally determined effects of P additions on aboveground plant production in global terrestrial ecosystems, we collected as many experiments that fulfilled our criteria (described below) as possible. Relevant studies were identified by searching ISI Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar, and China Knowledge Resource […] More

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    Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

    1. IPCC. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis (eds. Stocker, T. E. et al.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013). 2. Post, E. et al. The polar regions in a 2 °C warmer world. Sci. Adv. 5, eaaw9883 (2019). Reviews how Arctic warming has outpaced the global average, with wide-reaching consequences for tundra ecosystems. Google Scholar […] More

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    Freshwater fauna flee

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    Fish behaviour unchanged

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