Publications by authors named "Vanessa Constant"
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- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are special ocean places that help keep marine life safe and healthy while also helping people.
- There are many types of MPAs, and this can make it confusing to know how well they work, so a new guide called The MPA Guide has been created to help people understand them better.
- This guide shows how to set up and improve MPAs, what they can do for nature and people, and what needs to happen for them to succeed.
Few concepts in ecology have been so influential as that of the trophic cascade. Since the 1980s, the term has been a central or major theme of more than 2000 scientific articles. Despite this importance and widespread usage, basic questions remain about what constitutes a trophic cascade.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe proatherogenic state of obesity is associated with hypertrophied adipocytes that may arise because of deficient adipogenesis. Macrophages infiltrate adipose tissue as a function of obesity and may release factors that attenuate adipogenesis. Macrophage-conditioned medium inhibits human and 3T3-L1 adipocyte differentiation in culture, but underlying molecular mechanisms have yet to be defined.
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