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Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems
Soil biota accounts for ~25% of global biodiversity and is vital to nutrient cycling and primary production. There is growing momentum to study total belowground biodiversity across large ecological scales to understand how habitat and soil properties...
Journal of Visualized Experiments : JoVE
You can read the articles in this journal here JoVE publishes the leading peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed video methods journal. Articles consist of high-quality video demonstrations and detailed text protocols which facilitate scientific reproducibility...
Writing a grant application as a PhD student; reflections, advice, and grievances
Author: Sam Parsons How not to write a grant application, courtesy of It’s Always Sunny; “Give me money. Money me. Money now. Me a money needing a lot now.” note 1; an early version of this post appears on my blog here . note 2; this is a long post. Grab...
How can we make better graphs?
Authors: Marc Vandemeulebroecke , Mark Baillie , David Carr , Linda Kanitra , Alison Margolskee , Andrew Wright , Baldur Magnusson Abstract “There is no single statistical tool that is as powerful as a well‐chosen graph” previous study. Graphics are at...
Sci-Hub : des millions de publications scientifiques en accès libre
Le site Sci-Hub propose en téléchargement gratuit plusieurs millions de publications de chercheurs. Pour y accéder, cliquez sur ce lien Si rien ne fonctionne, essayez un autre moteur de recherche : Library Genesis Lancé en 2011 par Alexandra Elbakyan,...
Twitter and your Research Program: tweeting your publications
Author: Alex Smith October 16, 2018 @Alex_Smith_Ants Why tweet your research? Why? SO MANY REASONS! There has been a flurry of research activity in the past year (much of it from Canadian scientists on Twitter) that details some of the benefits to science...
Solutions Exist to Curb Biodiversity Loss
CNRS/NEWS, 09.10.2018, by Mathieu Grousson Is science doing enough to help protect the environment? Following a detailed analysis of 13,000 publications on the subject, the answer is yes. A retort to those who believe that conservation biology, a discipline...
Research Papers and Scientific Articles for free with Sci-Hub
Sci-Hub is a website with over 70 million academic papers and articles available for direct download This page is to collect the new Sci-Hub working domain which is auto refreshed every 5 minutes.
Call to restrict neonicotinoids
Support this action by bringing your « virtual signature » by sharing and liking the call of Prof. Dave Goulson, and 232 signatories! Here are the link to the letter published in Science: http:// urlz.fr/7azO The latest in the neonicotinoid debate; I...
More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas
C. A. Hallmann et al., PLoS One, 2017 Abstract Global declines in insects have sparked wide interest among scientists, politicians, and the general public. Loss of insect diversity and abundance is expected to provoke cascading effects on food webs and...
Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Collective Frog Choruses Examined by Mathematical Modeling and Field Observations
Japan, 2013 (Jean-Marc Bonzom) Ikkyu Aihara , Takeshi Mizumoto , Takuma Otsuka , Hiromitsu Awano , Kohei Nagira , Hiroshi G. Okuno & Kazuyuki Aihara , Scientific Reports volume 4, Article number: 3891 (2014) Abstract This paper reports theoretical and...
Florida lizards evolve rapidly, within 15 years and 20 generations
Stuart, Y.E., T.S. Campbell, P.A. Hohenlohe, R.G. Reynolds, L.J. Revell, and J.B. Losos. 2014. Rapid evolution of a native species following invasion by a congener. Science, 346: 463-466. DOI: 10.1126/science.1257008. [link, pdf] Native green anoles (left)...
Colour and pattern change against visually heterogeneous backgrounds in the tree frog Hyla japonica
Hyla japonica (credit photo: Jean-Marc Bonzom) Changku Kang , Ye Eun Kim & Yikweon Jang , Scientific Reports volume 6, Article number: 22601 (2016) Abstract Colour change in animals can be adaptive phenotypic plasticity in heterogeneous environments....
Usages et alternatives au glyphosate dans l'agriculture française
Suite à la lettre de saisine des Ministres de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation, de la Transition écologique et solidaire, de la Santé, et de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Innovation du 2 novembre dernier l’Inra a remis le 30 novembre...
Soil atlases
The European Soil Data Centre publishes several atlases : Soil atlas of Africa, Europe, Latin America, etc. It's free ! Click this link.