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The Influences of O2 Availability on the Microbial Activities and Fe Transformations in the Iron Formation Caves of the Southern Espinhaço Range, Brazil

  • Melissa K. Mulford,
  • Anela Mukherjee,
  • Augusto S. Auler,
  • Hazel A. Barton and
  • John M. Senko
Minerals2024, 14(4), 425;https://doi.org/10.3390/min14040425

20 April 2024

Over 3000 iron formation caves (IFCs) have formed in erosion-resistant Fe(III)-rich rocks throughout Brazil. Microbial Fe(III) reduction occurs in IFCs, where a microbe-rich, Fe(III)-depleted paste (sub muros) is found behind an Fe(III)-(hydr)oxide c...

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Thermal Tolerance of Fruit-Feeding Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Contrasting Mountaintop Environments

  • Vanessa Diniz e Silva,
  • Marina Vale Beirão and
  • Danon Clemes Cardoso
Insects2020, 11(5), 278;https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11050278

1 May 2020

Ectothermic organisms, such as insects, are highly temperature dependent and are good models for studies that predict organisms’ responses to global climate change. Predicting how climate change may affect species distributions is a complicated...

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Effects of Fire Frequency Regimes on Flammability and Leaf Economics of Non-Graminoid Vegetation

  • Arthur Lamounier Moura,
  • Daniel Negreiros and
  • Geraldo Wilson Fernandes
Fire2023, 6(7), 265;https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6070265

4 July 2023

Fire is an ecological factor that strongly influences plant communities and functional traits. Communities respond differently to fire, either decreasing or increasing in flammability and resource acquisition strategies. This study aimed to investiga...

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