Ecology
A New Force of Nature Is Reshaping the Planet
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Scientists Erle Ellis has synthesized interdisciplinary research to illustrate how human cultural practices have historically enabled the transformation of ecosystems, advancing from ...
Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany
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Hublin, J.-J. et al. Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature 581, 299–302 (2020). Article CAS PubMed Google ...
“Zombie Leaves” – Scientists Discover That a Unique Species of Tree Fern Defies Death
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Other plants, including some ferns, send out leaves or shoots that touch the ground and sprout roots to sustain a new plant. ...
Ancestral photoreceptor diversity as the basis of visual behaviour
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Baden, T. Circuit mechanisms for colour vision in zebrafish. Curr. Biol. 31, R807–R820 (2021). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Dacey, D. M. ...
Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole-genome duplication events and their evolutionary consequences
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Van de Peer, Y., Maere, S. & Meyer, A. The evolutionary significance of ancient genome duplications. Nat. Rev. Genet. 10, 725–732 (2009). ...
A giant tyrannosaur from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of southern North America and the evolution of tyrannosaurid gigantism
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Brusatte, S. L. et al. Tyrannosaur paleobiology: New research on ancient exemplar organisms. Science 329, 1481–1485 (2010). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google ...
Decoupling speciation and extinction reveals both abiotic and biotic drivers shaped 250 million years of diversity in crocodile-line archosaurs
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Allan, R. P. Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis: Working Group I Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental ...
Plants Might Be Able To Absorb More CO2 Than Expected
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Recent research indicates that plants could absorb more atmospheric CO2 than previously believed, providing a hopeful perspective on climate change mitigation. However, ...
Temperature variation in caves and its significance for subterranean ecosystems
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Temperature variation in caves vs. on the surface The temperature in the caves was always more stable than on the surface. We ...
