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    Intra-specific Niche Partitioning in Antarctic Fur Seals, Arctocephalus gazella

    1. Svanbäck, R. & Bolnick, D. I. Intraspecific competition drives increased resource use diversity within a natural population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274(1611), 839–844 (2006). Article Google Scholar 2. Hutchinson, G. E. Concluding remarks. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 22, 415–427 (1957). Article Google Scholar 3. Schoener, T. W. […] More

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    A fiery wake-up call for climate science

    1. Giglio, L., Randerson, J. T. & van der Werf, G. R. J. Geophys. Res. Biogeosci. 118, 317–328 (2013). Article Google Scholar 2. University of Sydney News (8 January 2020); https://go.nature.com/3aBhTyu 3. Eggleton, M. National Geographic (15 November 2019); https://go.nature.com/38MEJSl 4. Rice, D. USA Today (8 January 2020); https://go.nature.com/36xAvfA 5. Mann, M. The Guardian (1 […] More

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    Ocean acidification affects microbial community and invertebrate settlement on biofilms

    1. IPCC. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Cambridge University Press, 2013). 2. Mandalakis, M. et al. Microbial strains isolated from CO2-venting Kolumbo submarine volcano show enhanced co-tolerance to acidity and antibiotics. Mar. Env. Res. 144, 102–110, […] More

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    Macronutrient in soils and wheat from long-term agroexperiments reflects variations in residue and fertilizer inputs

    The main and interaction effects for total N, S, and SOC, and extractable P, K, Ca, Mg, and soil pH are presented in the ANOVA table (Supplementary Table S1).The concentrations of studied macronutrients and soil pH did not show evident trends as a function of residue management methods over 20 years (1995-2005-2015), but the macronutrients concentrations […] More

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    Growing baby corals in a broom cupboard

    WHERE I WORK 24 February 2020 Marine biologist Jamie Craggs studies coral reproduction in a tight, dark space as he prepares to reseed reefs damaged by climate change. Kendall Powell Kendall Powell is a freelance writer in Boulder, Colorado. Search for this author in: Jamie Craggs is a marine biologist and the aquarium curator at […] More

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    Bioactive carbon improves nitrogen fertiliser efficiency and ecological sustainability

    1. World Bank, World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development (World Bank, Washington, DC (2008). 2. Royal Society of London, Reaping the Benefits: Science and the Sustainable Intensification of Global Agriculture Royal Society, London, (2009). 3. Tilman, D., Balzer, C., Hill, J. & Befort, B. L. Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture. […] More

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    A minimal model for microbial biodiversity can reproduce experimentally observed ecological patterns

    All synthetic data was generated using the Microbial Consumer Resource Model previously described9,10 and summarized below. We found the fixed points of the dynamics for each community using the Python package Community Simulator10: https://github.com/Emergent-Behaviors-in-Biology/community-simulator. Principal Coordinate Analysis was performed on the simulated HMP data using the Python package scikit-bio http://scikit-bio.org/. The pairwise distance matrix was […] More

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    Conservation prioritization can resolve the flagship species conundrum

    1. Veríssimo, D. et al. Increased conservation marketing effort has major fundraising benefits for even the least popular species. Biol. Conserv. 211, 95–101 (2017). Article Google Scholar 2. Veríssimo, D., MacMillan, D. C. & Smith, R. J. Toward a systematic approach for identifying conservation flagships. Conserv. Lett. 4, 1–8 (2011). Article Google Scholar 3. Smith, […] More