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Jens‐Peter Barnekow Lillesø, Davide Barsotti, James Kalema, Paulo vanBreugel et al. • Ecosphere
(2024)
Abstract Forest and landscape restoration are increasingly popular nature‐based solutions to mitigate climate change and safeguard biodiversity. Restoration planning and monitoring implies that a reference ecosystem has been defined to whic...
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DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.70030
Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Zahid Ullah, Andrea Pieroni • Foods
(2020)
A wild food ethnobotanical field study was conducted in the Ishkoman and Yasin valleys, located in the Hindukush Mountain Range of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan. These valleys are inhabited by diverse, often marginalized, linguistic a...
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DOI: 10.3390/foods9050601
Bo Liu, Jian Yan, Weihua Li, Lijuan Yin et al. • Nature Communications
(2020)
Mikania micrantha is an extremely fast-growing invasive plant species that can cause serious damage to natural ecosystems. Here, the authors assemble its chromosome-scale reference genome and explore possible mechanisms that contribute to i...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13926-4
Mauricio Gálvez-Larach • Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research
(2009)
Con motivo de la creciente preocupación internacional por el manejo y conservación de ecosistemas marinos vulnerables, entre los que se cuentan los montes submarinos y los corales de aguas frías de las cordilleras de Nazca y Salas y Gómez, ...
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Xuying Hu, Qian Zhang, Meiling Ge, Xinlong Li et al. • Zoosystematics and Evolution
(2025)
Deep-sea corals are critical to global exploration of deep-sea biodiversity, but research on them in the Indian Ocean is very limited. In this study, we report the first discovery of two new species of red corals at a depth of 1697 m in the...
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DOI: 10.3897/zse.101.139350
Aishworya Shrestha, Katarina Hoernke, Thomas Timberlake, Bhawak Pokhrel et al. • Wellcome Open Research
(2023)
Background Young people will suffer most from climate change yet are rarely engaged in dialogue about it. Citizen science offers a method for collecting policy-relevant data, whilst promoting awareness and capacity building. We tested the f...
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DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18591.1
N. N. Besednova, T. N. Zvyagintseva, B. G. Andriukov, T. S. Zaporozhets et al. • Антибиотики и Химиотерапия
(2021)
The review presents materials describing the seaweed-derived sulfated polysaccharides (SPS) as potential means for prevention and treatment of viral diseases of the respiratory tract, mainly influenza and COVID-19. The literature materials o...
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DOI: 10.37489/0235-2990-2021-66-7-8-50-66
Amanda K. Ford, Amanda K. Ford, Sonia Bejarano, Maggy M. Nugues et al. • Frontiers in Marine Science
(2018)
Benthic cyanobacteria have commonly been a small but integral component of coral reef ecosystems, fulfilling the critical function of introducing bioavailable nitrogen to an inherently oligotrophic environment. Though surveys may have previ...
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DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00018
Heabin Kim, Hyun-Taek Kim, Seung-Hyun Jung, Jong Won Han et al. • Marine Drugs
(2023)
The discovery of new highly effective anticancer drugs with few side effects is a challenge for drug development research. Natural or synthetic anticancer peptides (ACPs) represent a new generation of anticancer agents with high selectivity...
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DOI: 10.3390/md21120607
Hector Zumbado-Ulate, Kelsey Neam, Adrián García-Rodríguez, Leticia Ochoa-Ochoa et al. • Global Ecology and Conservation
(2022)
Understanding the threats to wildlife across space and time is essential for developing effective conservation strategies. In Mesoamerica (i.e., the region that extends from Central Mexico to the most southern point in Panama) at least 40% ...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02197
Séverine Chevalier, Olivier Beauchard, Adrian Teacă, Tatiana Begun et al. • Scientific Data
(2025)
Abstract Benthic ecological data are crucial to study and manage ecosystems. On the one hand, abiotic and species data provide complementary information to identify habitats. On the other hand, trait data, describing taxon characteristics, ...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-05311-2
Yuri Phedorovich Kartavtsev • Animals
(2021)
Application of molecular genetic markers appeared to be very fruitful in achieving many goals, including (i) proving the theoretic basements of general biology and (ii) assessment of worldwide biodiversity. Both are provided in the present ...
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DOI: 10.3390/ani11051473
Shashank Keshavmurthy, Pei-Jie Meng, Jih-Terng Wang, Chao-Yang Kuo et al. • PeerJ
(2014)
Climate change has led to a decline in the health of corals and coral reefs around the world. Studies have shown that, while some corals can cope with natural and anthropogenic stressors either through resistance mechanisms of coral hosts o...
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.327
Sofía Huelbes, May Gómez, Ico Martínez, Raül Triay-Portella et al. • Animals
(2025)
Microplastic pollution in the ocean is a growing problem. It affects the entire ecosystem and, therefore, the species that inhabit it. Plastics can be filtered or ingested by organisms, entering and negatively affecting individuals. Among t...
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DOI: 10.3390/ani15101420
M. S. Clark, J. I. Hoffman, L. S. Peck, L. Bargelloni et al. • Nature Communications
(2023)
Abstract Polar ecosystems are experiencing amongst the most rapid rates of regional warming on Earth. Here, we discuss ‘omics’ approaches to investigate polar biodiversity, including the current state of the art, future perspectives and rec...
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43209-y
Hameed Byju, Hegde Maitreyi, Raveendran Natarajan, Reshmi Vijayan et al. • PeerJ
(2025)
Background Wetlands, globally, face significant threats from human activities, and waterbirds, as key indicators of wetland health, are essential to maintaining ecological balance. Any long-term conservation measures should prioritize coord...
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18899
Afaq Jebir, Shaker Ajeel, Talib Khalaf • Journal of Fauna Biodiversity
(2024)
Zooplankton is the important component of aquatic ecosystems. These organisms are important biological indicator of water quality of aquatic ecosystem due to their response to the environmental changes. In this study, we investigated distri...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.70206/jfb.v1i3.11555
Xinxin Qi, Xinxin Qi, Guohao Liu, Guohao Liu et al. • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
(2024)
Insight into the non-random distribution patterns of species in different regions is a foundational aim of research in community ecology and biogeography. The nestedness pattern, which investigates changes in species composition and abundan...
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DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2024.1339946
Jackson Ishara, Marcellin C. Cokola, Ariel Buzera, Mercy Mmari et al. • Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
(2023)
Abstract Background Located in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (South-Kivu), Kalehe and Idjwi are two relatively unexplored territories with little to no research on edible insects even though anthropo-entomophagy practice is wides...
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DOI: 10.1186/s13002-022-00575-z
Li Ji, Huayong Zhang, Huayong Zhang, Zhongyu Wang et al. • Frontiers in Marine Science
(2025)
Warming is a key factor influencing the function of the structure and function of phytoplankton communities. However, the impacts of temperature on phytoplankton resource use efficiency (RUE) in mountain rivers remain poorly understood. Her...
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DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1565858