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Nature
December 2024
Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
The early radiation of dinosaurs remains a complex and poorly understood evolutionary event. Here we use hundreds of fossils with direct evidence of feeding to compare trophic dynamics across five vertebrate assemblages that record this event in the Triassic-Jurassic succession of the Polish Basin (central Europe). Bromalites, fossil digestive products, increase in size and diversity across the interval, indicating the emergence of larger dinosaur faunas with new feeding patterns.
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September 2024
School of Ecology and Environment, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China.
Prof. Tchen-Ngo Liou is one of the founders of China's botany, geobotany, and forest ecology. Theory of dynamic geobotany, established by Prof.
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September 2024
Sichuan Academy of Giant Panda, Chengdu 610081, China.
Fungal communities are critical players in the biogeochemical soil processes of forest ecosystems. However, the factors driving their diversity and community assembly are still unclear. In the present study, five typical vegetation types of soil fungal communities in Liziping Nature Reserve, China, were investigated using fungal ITS sequences.
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August 2024
Department of Cardiovasculer Surgery, Meram Faculty of Medicine Necmettin, Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey.
Background: Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon, with approximately 70-80% classified as benign. Myxomas constitute roughly half of all benign cardiac tumors, while cardiac hydatid cysts are exceptionally rare. Shortness of breath is a prominent symptom associated with these conditions.
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August 2024
Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
A key driver of the African savannah elephant population decline is the loss of habitat and associated human-elephant conflict. Elephant physiological responses to these pressures, however, are largely unknown. To address this knowledge gap, we evaluated faecal glucocorticoid metabolite (fGCM) concentrations as an indicator of adrenal activity and faecal thyroid metabolite (fT3) concentrations as an indicator of metabolic activity in relation to land use, livestock density, and human landscape modification, while controlling for the effects of seasonality and primary productivity (measured using the normalized difference vegetation index).
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