La médecine darwinienne, un autre regard sur la santé
Un article de Laure Cailloce paru dans Le Journal du CNRS, le 5 mars 2014 L’homme, comme la plupart des espèces, s’est adapté à son environnement pour maximiser sa reproduction. Cette réalité amène des scientifiques à considérer les problèmes de santé...
Bioturbation - Worms at Work
Bioturbation is the mixing of (plant) residues into soils and sediments by biotic activity. It is one of the fundamental processes in ecology, as it stimulates decomposition, creates habitats for other (micro)fauna and increases gas- and water flow through...
Ecopath
Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) is a free ecological/ecosystem modeling software suite. EwE has three main components: Ecopath - a static, mass-balanced snapshot of the system; Ecosim - a time dynamic simulation module for policy exploration; and Ecospace -...
Higaki T, Higaki S, Hirota M, Hasezawa S (2014) Radiocesium Distribution in Bamboo Shoots after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident. PLoS ONE 9(5): e97659.
The distribution of radiocesium was examined in bamboo shoots, Phyllostachys pubescens, collected from 10 sites located some 41 to 1140 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan, in ...
No growth stimulation of tropical trees by 150 years of CO2 fertilization but water-use efficiency increased
A publication in Nature Geoscience 8, 24–28 (2015). Peter van der Sleen et al. Abstract The biomass of undisturbed tropical forests has likely increased in the past few decades1, 2, probably as a result of accelerated tree growth. Higher CO2 levels are...