Sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement

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Wide Ranging Insect Infestation of the Pioneer Mangrove Sonneratia alba by Two Insect Species along the Kenyan Coast

Insect infestation of mangroves currently threatens mangrove forest health and management. In the Western Indian Ocean region, little is known …

2016 Open Access

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Is multiple nest building an adequate strategy to cope with inter-species nest usurpation?

BACKGROUND: Black sparrowhawks (Accipiter melanoleucus) recently colonised the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, where the species faces competition for their nest …

2016 Open Access

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Habitat heterogeneity and connectivity shape microbial communities in South American peatlands

Bacteria play critical roles in peatland ecosystems. However, very little is known of how habitat heterogeneity affects the structure of …

2016 Open Access

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Molecular Species Delimitation and Morphology of Aquatic and Sub-Aquatic Bugs (Heteroptera) in Cameroon

Aquatic and semi-aquatic bugs (Heteroptera) represent a remarkable diversity and a resurging interest has been given to documenting at the …

2016 Open Access

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Implementation of World Health Organization Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) Guidelines for the Assessment of Pneumonia in the Under 5s in Rural Malawi

The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) is a pragmatic cluster-level randomized controlled trial of the effect of an advanced cookstove …

2016 Open Access

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Seasonal profile of metal accumulation in the acanthocephalan Pomphorhynchus laevis: a valuable tool to study infection dynamics and implications for metal monitoring

BACKGROUND: A large number of studies demonstrated that acanthocephalans exhibit a high metal accumulation potential and thus can be used …

2016 Open Access

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An Analysis of Precipitation Isotope Distributions across Namibia Using Historical Data

Global precipitation isoscapes based on the Global Network for Isotopes in Precipitation (GNIP) network are an important toolset that aid …

2016 Open Access

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Seasonal Succession of Fungi Associated with Ips typographus Beetles and Their Phoretic Mites in an Outbreak Region of Finland

The ophiostomatoid fungi (Microascales and Ophiostomatales, Ascomycota) are common associates of Ips typographus, and include tree pathogens and species responsible …

2016 Open Access

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Missing Rings in Pinus halepensis – The Missing Link to Relate the Tree-Ring Record to Extreme Climatic Events

Climate predictions for the Mediterranean Basin include increased temperatures, decreased precipitation, and increased frequency of extreme climatic events (ECE). These …

2016 Open Access

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Diversity of burial rates in convergent settings decreased as Earth aged

The evolution and the growth of the continental crust is inextricably linked to the evolution of Earth's geodynamic processes. The …

2016 Open Access

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A Socio-Ecological Approach for Identifying and Contextualising Spatial Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Priorities at the Sub-National Level

Climate change adds an additional layer of complexity to existing sustainable development and biodiversity conservation challenges. The impacts of global …

2016 Open Access

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Regulation of Heat Exchange across the Hornbill Beak: Functional Similarities with Toucans?

Beaks are increasingly recognised as important contributors to avian thermoregulation. Several studies supporting Allen's rule demonstrate how beak size is …

2016 Open Access

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Evaluation of Heavy Metal Removal from Wastewater in a Modified Packed Bed Biofilm Reactor

For the effective application of a modified packed bed biofilm reactor (PBBR) in wastewater industrial practice, it is essential to …

2016 Open Access

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Regional impacts of global change: seasonal trends in extreme rainfall, run-off and temperature in two contrasting regions of Morocco

Abstract. In Morocco, socio-economic activities are highly vulnerable to extreme weather events. This study investigates trends in mean and extreme …

2016 Open Access

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Dramatic Declines of Montane Frogs in a Central African Biodiversity Hotspot

Amphibian populations are vanishing worldwide. Declines and extinctions of many populations have been attributed to chytridiomycosis, a disease induced by …

2016 Open Access

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Conversion of savanna rangelands to bush dominated landscape in Borana, Southern Ethiopia

INTRODUCTION: Analyzing trends of land use systems and the changes occurred overtime is an effective way of assessing the impacts …

2016 Open Access

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Counting Cats: Spatially Explicit Population Estimates of Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) Using Unstructured Sampling Data

Many ecological theories and species conservation programmes rely on accurate estimates of population density. Accurate density estimation, especially for species …

2016 Open Access

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Dynamics of N 2 fixation and fate of diazotroph-derived nitrogen in a low-nutrient, low-chlorophyll ecosystem: results from the VAHINE mesocosm experiment (New Caledonia)

Abstract. N2 fixation rates were measured daily in large (∼ 50 m3) mesocosms deployed in the tropical southwest Pacific coastal …

2016 Open Access

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Along-stream transport and transformation of dissolved organic matter in a large tropical river

Abstract. Large rivers transport considerable amounts of terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM) to the ocean. However, downstream gradients and temporal …

2016 Open Access

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Palaeoneurological clues to the evolution of defining mammalian soft tissue traits

A rich fossil record chronicles the distant origins of mammals, but the evolution of defining soft tissue characters of extant …

2016 Open Access