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    Identification errors in camera-trap studies result in systematic population overestimation

    Snow leopard photographic captures We deployed one camera-trap (Reconyx HC-500, Reconyx, Holmen, USA) per snow leopard enclosure in seven European zoos (Helsinki and Ätheri Zoos in Finland, Kolmården Zoo, Nordens Ark and Orsa Bear Park in Sweden, and Köln and Wuppertal Zoos in Germany) from February to October 2012. The cameras were installed three to […] More

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    Soil microbial community shifts with long-term of different straw return in wheat-corn rotation system

    1. Takahashi, S., Uenosono, S. & Ono, S. Short- and long-term effects of rice straw application on nitrogen uptake by crops and nitrogen mineralization under flooded and upland conditions. Plant Soil 251, 291–301 (2003). 2. Shan, Y., Cai, Z., Han, Y., Johnson, S. E. & Buresh, R. J. Organic acid accumulation under flooded soil conditions […] More

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    A dataset of multi-functional ecological traits of Brazilian bees

    Sites Carajás national forest The Carajás National Forest (05°52′S–06°33′S, 49°53′W–50°45′W) is located in the southeastern portion of Pará State, Brazil (Fig. 3a). Carajás is an Amazonian domain area, mainly covered by forest formations38,39. It is located at an altitudinal range of 700 to 800 meters above sea level. The climate in this region is characterized as […] More

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    Social media are fuelling the Amazon’s destruction

    CORRESPONDENCE 14 April 2020 Charles Davis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Contact Search for this author in: Goia Lyra, Universidade deral da Bahia, Brazil. Search for this author in: Caio Silva, University of Brasília. Brazil. Search for this author in: Mariana Guimarães, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Search for this author in: Jean Wyllys & […] More

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    A fine-tuned global distribution dataset of marine forests

    1. Assis, J., Araújo, M. B. & Serrão, E. A. Projected climate changes threaten ancient refugia of kelp forests in the North Atlantic. Glob. Chang. Biol. 24, 1365–2486 (2017). Google Scholar 2. Thuiller, W. Patterns and uncertainties of species’ range shifts under climate change. Glob. Chang. Biol. 10, 2020–2027 (2004). 3. Verbruggen, H. et al. […] More

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    Drought alters the biogeochemistry of boreal stream networks

    The reach-scale manipulation experiment The reach-scale hydrological manipulation was carried out during August 2017 in a 1.4-km headwater stream located at the upper section of the Krycklan Catchment Study (KCS)28, in northern Sweden (Supplementary Fig. 1). The catchment draining the experimental reach is largely forested, with soils primarily composed of organic-rich deposits in low-lying areas and […] More

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    The novelist who loved soil

    BOOK REVIEW 14 April 2020 A biography digs into Pulitzer prizewinner and farming pioneer Louis Bromfield’s life. By David R. Montgomery. David R. Montgomery David R. Montgomery is professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington in Seattle, and author of Dirt, The Hidden Half of Nature (with Anne Biklé) and Growing a Revolution. Twitter: […] More

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    Persistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian

    1. Finnegan, S. et al. The magnitude and duration of late Ordovician-Early Silurian glaciation. Science 331, 903–906 (2011). 2. Harper, D. A. T., Hammarlund, E. U. & Rasmussen, C. M. Ø. End Ordovician extinctions: a coincidence of causes. Gondwana Res. 25, 1294–1307 (2014). 3. Rasmussen, C. M. Ø., Kröger, B., Nielsen, M. L. & Colmenar, […] More