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Does journal peer review miss best and brightest?
By David Shultz, 22 December 2014, in Science Sometimes greatness is hard to spot. Before going on to lead the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships, Michael Jordan was famously cut from his high school basketball team. Scientists often face rejection...
Laliberté E, Adair EC, Hobbie SE (2012) Estimating Litter Decomposition Rate in Single-Pool Models Using Nonlinear Beta Regression. PLoS ONE 7(9): e45140.
Litter decomposition rate ( k) is typically estimated from proportional litter mass loss data using models that assume constant, normally distributed errors. However, such data often show non-normal
Scheibe A, Gleixner G (2014) Influence of Litter Diversity on Dissolved Organic Matter Release and Soil Carbon Formation in a Mixed Beech Forest. PLoS ONE 9(12): e114040.
We investigated the effect of leaf litter on below ground carbon export and soil carbon formation in order to understand how litter diversity affects carbon cycling in forest ecosystems. 13C labeled
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The complicated predator-prey interactions are one of the most fascinating fields in ecology. They have been studied for decades, and the more we learn, the more surprising and unpredicted stories ...
Tornadic Storm Avoidance Behavior in Breeding Songbirds
Streby, H.M., G.R. Kramer, S.M. Peterson, J.A. Lehman, D.A. Buehler, and D.E. Andersen. In press. Tornadic storm avoidance behavior in breeding songbirds. Current Biology. Highlights •Migrant songbirds evacuated their territories to circumvent a severe...
Soil Biodiversity Resources
En marge de la 1er conférence mondiale sur la biodiversité des sols qui s'est tenue à Dijon (France) du 2 au 5 décembre dernier, un groupe de travail a initié une réflexion sur la création d'une base de données mondiale sur la biodiversité des sols. Le...
Pesticide effect on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Global biodiversity is constantly declining, and up-to-date research has shown that biodiversity loss affects the functioning of ecosystems and the services they provide to humans. Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relations have yet mainly been analyzed...
Open Archive Toulouse Archive Ouverte
OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse (France) researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. It can include articles, book chapters, reports, conference papers, etc... The deposit of research papers...
Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes
The decomposition of dead organic matter is a major determinant of carbon and nutrient cycling in ecosystems, and of carbon fluxes between the biosphere and the atmosphere1, 2, 3. Decomposition is driven by a vast diversity of organisms that are structured...
The adaptive function of melanin-based plumage coloration to trace metals
Please click here to read this publication Abstract Trace metals produced by anthropogenic activities are of major importance in urban areas and might constitute a new evolutionary force selecting for the ability to cope with their deleterious effects....
Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing
Major Periodical Subscriptions Cannot Be Sustained To: Faculty Members in all Schools, Faculties, and Units From: The Faculty Advisory Council, Harvard University (USA) Date: April 17, 2012 We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard...
Une approche darwinienne du cancer
Un article de Laure Cailloce paru dans CNRS-Le Journal.fr Et si les lois de l’évolution établies par Darwin il y a 150 ans permettaient de poser un nouveau regard sur le cancer ? Explorée par des chercheurs, cette piste pourrait aboutir à de nouvelles...
Rapport Planète Vivante 2014
Auteur, WWF: "La biodiversité mondiale ne semble jamais avoir été si mal en point. La population des espèces vertébrées mesurées par l'Indice Planète Vivante a diminué de moitié sur les 40 dernières années. L’Indice Planète Vivante (IPV), qui mesure l’évolution...
Découverte d’un déterminant de la vulnérabilité au stress
Auteur de ce communiqué : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm, France, 22 septembre 2014). Une équipe Inserm vient d’identifier, chez la souris, un nouveau déterminant de la réponse au stress : l’altération d’une protéine...