Concern regarding global change has increased the need to understand the relationship between fire regime characteristics and the environment. Pyrogeographical theory suggests that fire regimes are constrained by climate, vegetation and fire ignition...
The influence of urbanization on macroinvertebrate traits was explored in forested rivers in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria. Physico-chemical variables were sampled on a monthly basis alongside macroinvertebrates in 20 sites of 11 rivers spanning 20...
High-mountain ecosystems are spots of plant diversity in which species composition and traits depict a long evolutionary history of species adaptation to steep environmental gradients. We investigated the main trends in plant species composition and...
In this work, we aimed to test whether taxonomic diversity and functional diversity and the values of functional traits of the weed seed bank varied across the field, from margins to the core, and between fields embedded in distinct landscape structu...
This study aimed to determine the impact of various pressures on the functional composition of OCH (Odonata, Coleoptera, and Heteroptera) in streams within the northwest Rif region of Morocco. We examined how OCH traits respond to human-induced press...
Ellenberg indicator values (EIVs) express plant preferences for temperature, light, continentality, soil moisture, pH, and soil nutrients, and have been largely used to deduce environmental characteristics from plant communities. However, EIVs might...
Andean forests are home to a strikingly high diversity of plants, making it difficult to understand the main drivers of species assembly. Trait-based approaches, however, help overcome some challenges associated with high taxonomic complexity, provid...
Urbanization adversely impacts biodiversity by reducing the quantity and quality of natural habitat areas. Additionally, the quality of natural habitat depends on its bio-physical characteristics (e.g., natural cover, impervious surfaces, urban tree...
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Functional trait diversity represents ecological differences among species, and the structure of waterbird communities is an important aspect of biodiversity. To understand the effect of meteorological changes on the waterbird functional diversity an...
Freshwater ecologists have shown increased interest in assessing biotic responses to environmental change using functional community characteristics. With this article, we investigate the potential of using functional traits of the aquatic plants to...
Understanding how avian assemblages respond to seasonal dynamics within urban land-cover structure is crucial for biodiversity conservation in rapidly urbanizing environments. Here, we investigated seasonal variation in avian dietary and foraging loc...
The taxonomy-based response pattern of macroinvertebrates to sediment stress is well established, with tolerant taxa increasing in impacted conditions, while sensitive taxa decrease along a deteriorating water quality gradient. However, the distribut...
Anthropogenic pressures can affect the distribution of species and elicit the appearance of spatial patterns that provide insights into the species’ responses to environmental filtering, mediated by their functional traits. Due to the functiona...
We investigated bryophyte communities in mature beech forests (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Austrian pine plantations (Pinus nigra J.F. Arnold) on Fruška Gora Mountain (northern Serbia) to examine how stand structure and edaphic conditions influenc...
Despite the recognized ecological significance of hyporheic zones, biological investigations into their ecology, especially concerning functional diversity, remain limited. This is particularly true for copepod assemblages, abundant in the transition...
Weeds remain a challenge in organic arable farming, as well as supply ecosystem services. The aim is to control weed densities while hosting a diverse and manageable weed community, preventing domination of few deleterious species. Therefore, we want...
Arable field margins are valuable habitats providing a wide range of ecosystem services in rural landscapes. Agricultural intensification in recent decades has been a major cause of decline in plant diversity in these habitats. However, the concomita...
Understanding the processes that shape biodiversity patterns is an important challenge in ecology. Land-use change is often recognized as a pivotal factor influencing biodiversity at large scales, with habitat heterogeneity being one of the most crit...
Leaf functional traits (LFTs) have become a popular topic in ecological research in recent years. Here, we measured eight LFTs, namely leaf area (LA), specific leaf area (SLA), leaf thickness (LT), leaf dry matter content (LDMC), leaf carbon content...
The urbanization of riverine landscapes is an increasing threat to river ecosystems. However, it is unclear which metrics can best assess the response of macroinvertebrates to the conversion of forested lands to urban and agricultural lands. The main...
Ecological evidence for epifaunal communities on offshore wind farm structures remains geographically concentrated in temperate Northeast Atlantic systems, whereas comparable studies from the subtropical Northwest Pacific remain limited. We sampled u...
The functional trait structure of copepod assemblages inhabiting Arctic seas remains poorly investigated. In the present study, we aimed to reveal the spatial pattern of copepod functional groups in the central Barents Sea. One type of water mass (th...
Urban areas are being affected by rapidly increasing human-made pressures that can strongly homogenize biodiversity, reduce habitat heterogeneity, and facilitate the invasion of alien species. One of the key concerns in invaded urban areas is compari...
Detection of built-up areas from Very High Spatial Resolution (VHSR) remote sensing images is a critical step in urbanization monitoring. This paper presents a method for extracting built-up areas from VHSR remote sensing imagery by using feature-lev...
In this article finite differences are used to study viscoelastic incompressible flow of a Criminale Erickson Filbey fluid in a square cavity flow domain. In this case, the nature of corner singularities is examined in which the fluid is contained an...
The aim of this study was to determine the distribution different types of osteoproliferative lesions on the lumbar spine and their relations in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) under biologic-disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug therapy. T12...
In this research, we propose fourth-order non-uniform Hermitian differencing with a fifth-order adaptive time integration method for pricing system of free boundary exotic power put options consisting of the option value, delta sensitivity, and gamma...
Desert globemallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua A. Gray) is a native perennial forb that plays a critical role in the southern Great Basin and Mojave Desert ecosystems of North America, but research on its development and propagation is scarce. Because nurse...
This paper presents a passive residue-coupled discrete-time delta–sigma (
The liquidus and solidus temperatures, the initial temperature of the solidification of binary eutectics, and the partition ratios of the solid solution at the Al corner of the ternary eutectic-type Al-Si-Cu alloy system were calculated using the the...
CFD-based numerical wave tank models are valuable tools for analyzing the nonlinear interaction between waves and structures. This paper aims to examine the deformation of high-order free surfaces near a vertical, surface-piercing fixed cylinder with...
This paper presents a novel approach to design an attitude motion control strategy of a vehicle to mitigate lateral or longitudinal inertial forces acting on the passenger during cornering, braking, and acceleration maneuvers. The collaboration of ac...
The present study investigates the effects of multiple passes of equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) on magnesium alloy sheets with the assistance of an Inconel plunger along with a die setup having a channel angle of 120° and corner angle of 1...
This study describes a novel species of Gekko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) based on its distinct morphological features and molecular evidence, which was identified in the Dabie Mountains on the border of Anhui and Henan provinces of Central China. Gekko k...
Photovoltaic applications require stable output voltage regulation across a wide input voltage range and varying load conditions. The Zeta converter offers advantages for these applications; however, its fourth-order, switched, nonlinear dynamics cre...
The mixed Co(II)/Ni(II) complex, [Co2.67Ni1.33L4(CH3COO)2][BPh4]2·0.75H2O where HL = 4-(salicylaldimine)antipyrine, was isolated as an orange solid from the reaction of 4-(salicylaldimine)antipyrine, with mixed cobalt(II) acetate and nickel(II) aceta...
Terricolous lichen communities in lowlands occur especially in open dry habitats. Such communities are often dominated by species of the genus Cladonia, which are very variable in morphology, reproduction strategies, and secondary metabolites. In thi...
In scalp skin examinations, it is difficult to find a previously treated region on a patient’s scalp through images captured by a camera attached to a diagnostic device because the zoom lens on camera has a small field of view. Thus, doctors manually...
In the context of Industry 4.0, lot of effort is being put to achieve interoperability among industrial applications. As the definition and adoption of communication standards are of paramount importance for the realization of interoperability, durin...
Smart cities have hundreds of thousands of devices for tracking data on crime, the environment, and traffic (such as data collected at crossroads and on streets). This results in higher energy usage, as they are recording information persistently and...
Immunotherapy has been described as the “fourth pillar” of oncology treatment, in conjunction with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. However, the role of immunotherapy in gastrointestinal tumours is still evolving. Data for checkpoint inhibiti...
The current and future wireless communication systems, WiFi, fourth generation (4G), fifth generation (5G), Beyond5G, and sixth generation (6G), are mixtures of many frequency spectrums. Thus, multi-functional common or shared aperture antenna module...
Since the Fourth Industrial Revolution was announced in 2015, relevant key technologies have recently merged and have extensively affected our society. To provide empirical insights into the future and address expected issues in the context of transp...
This study investigates the dynamic behavior of a jacket-supported offshore wind turbine (JOWT) by developing its substructure and controller tailored for the IEA 15 MW reference wind turbine. A fully coupled numerical model integrating the turbine,...
Driven by the demand for high-quality housing, fourth-generation residential buildings—known internationally as “Vertical Forest” and in China as “Urban Forest Garden”—have developed rapidly. Initially built in mil...
The classical monetary trilemma implies a binding trade-off among exchange rate stability, capital mobility, and monetary autonomy. Yet, emerging market economies increasingly operate hybrid policy configurations that depart systematically from the t...
In this study, we propose a design of a multi-band slot antenna array applicable for fourth-generation (4G) and fifth-generation (5G) smartphones. The design is composed of double-element square-ring slot radiators fed by microstrip-line structures f...
Szomolnokite is a monohydrated ferrous iron sulfate mineral, FeSO4·H2O, where the ferrous iron atoms are in octahedral coordination with four corners shared with SO4 and two with H2O groups. While somewhat rare on Earth, szomolnokite has been...
Conventional gaze tracking systems are limited in cases where the user is wearing glasses because the glasses usually produce noise due to reflections caused by the gaze tracker’s lights. This makes it difficult to locate the pupil and the specular r...
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) is of great importance to the global water and energy budget, which modulates the hydrological cycle and then determines the spatiotemporal distributions of water resources availability. The Tibetan Plateau is the birt...
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