Impacts of Effluents on the Limnology of a Tropical River, Southwestern Nigeria by Abeke Adedolapo Ayoade, A Olajumoke Olusegun

“…The River Ogbere could be regarded as polluted since the adverse water quality has led to presence of mainly pollution tolerant taxa of macrobenthic invertebrates in the waterbed. …”
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MICROALGAS COMO MATÉRIA-PRIMA NA PRODUÇÃO DE BIODIESEL: UMA REVISÃO by Rodolfo Pinheiro Cruz, Bárbara Luiza Silva Santiago, Erlon Lopes Pereira

“…Neste contexto as microalgas são uma alternativa promissora, e ainda tem como vantagens a alta capacidade de acúmulo de lipídios, alta taxa de crescimento, maior absorção de gás carbônico, não competição com culturas alimentícias por terras aráveis e possibilidade de uso no tratamento de efluentes. …”
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The UF/IFAS Assessment of Nonnative Plants in Florida’s Natural Areas: History, Purpose, and Use by Deah Lieurance, Stephen Luke Flory, Aimee L. Cooper, Doria R. Gordon, Alison M. Fox, Joan Dusky, Linda Tyson

“…The team is actively identifying and evaluating potentially problematic nonnative species (and sub-specific or hybrid taxa). Recommendations and supporting information from the UF/IFAS Assessment can be found at http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/assessment. …”
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Clarifications needed concerning the new Article 59 dealing with pleomorphic fungi by Walter Gams, Hans-Otto Baral, Walter M. Jaklitsch, Roland Kirschner, Marc Stadler

“…Our task is to name fungal taxa and not just clades. Two suggestions are made here that may help to alleviate some disadvantages of the new system. (1) Officially an epithet coined in a list-demoted genus that is older than the oldest one available in the list-accepted genus would have to be recombined in the accepted genus. …”
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OCCURRENCE OF ARBOREAL-CLIMBING GRAPSIDS AND OTHER BRACHYURANS IN TWO MANGROVE AREAS OF SOUTHERN LUZON, PHILIPPINES by JIMMY Tevar MASAGCA

“…In this study, the occurrence of arboreal-climbing grapsids and other brachyurans associated with the mangals of Quezon and Catanduanes was considered including some aspects on climbing, burrowing and feeding behaviour of selected grapsids represented by Hemigrapsus, Pseudograpsus and Metopograpsus.  The non-grapsoid taxa are represented by Varunidae (Ptychognathus),   Portunidae (Charybdis, Portunus, Scylla, Thalamita); and Eriphiidae (Epixanthus). …”
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Impacto de variáveis macroeconómicas e as dívidas ocultas no Sentimento de Mercado by Diana da Otília Manuel Fobra Fobra, Lucio Daniel Mavundla

“…Desenvolveu-se estatística descritiva com recurso ao software STATA que por meio de gráficos e modelo empírico baseado no método dos Mínimos Quadrados Ordinários. Observou-se que a taxa de câmbio, dummy Dívidas, Selic (-1) e IPCA (-1) exercem influência negativa no sentimento de mercado. …”
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Revisiting the genus Nodularia (Bivalvia, Unionidae): Mitochondrial phylogenomics and the description of a new species by Kaiyu Hou, Xiaoyan Liu, Liping Zhang, Gaiping Li, Ruiwen Wu

“…The discovery of this new taxon further enhances the diversity level within the genus Nodularia in China and also highlights the necessity for comprehensive surveys of unexplored regions in order to potentially unveil additional new taxa in the future.…”
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Eggs of the Blind Snake, Liotyphlops albirostris, Are Incubated in a Nest of the Lower Fungus-Growing Ant,  Apterostigma cf. goniodes by Gaspar Bruner, Hermógenes Fernández-Marín, Justin C. Touchon, William T. Wcislo

“…We review other associations between nesting fungus-growing ants and egg-laying vertebrates, which together suggest that attine nests may provide a safe, environmentally buffered location for oviposition, even in basal attine taxa with relatively small colony sizes.…”
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Les premiers représentants du genre Homo, en quête d’une identité. Apports de l’étude morphologique et de l’analyse cladistique by Sandrine Prat

“…The results of these analyses show that: (a) two species could be defined: habilis and rudolfensis; (b) the specimens belonging to these two taxa are included in the clade of Homo ; (c) the conclusions concerning the revision of the genus Homo and the inclusion of the specimens of habilis and rudolfensis to the genus Australopithecus or Kenyanthropus are questioned.…”
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Introduced Spiders in Panama: Species Distributions and New Records by Daniel Murcia-Moreno, Dumas Gálvez

“…Invasive species are well recorded for vertebrates, plants and a number of invertebrates. A taxa for which there is a lack of information in some countries are arachnids, and this is the case of reports on introduced species in Panama. …”
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Le mythe du microcèbe primitif by Fabien Génin, Judith C Masters

“…The second (hyper-dwarfing) has led to parallel changes in cranial form in the smallest taxa (Allocebus, Microcebus and the smaller forms of the genus Cheirogaleus), associated with typical paedomorphic traits (large eyes and small, pointed snout). …”
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Aporte Histórico Sobre os Direitos Trabalhistas no Brasil by Mauri Antonio da Silva

“…Evidenciou-se ainda que medidas de contratendência do capital à lei tendencial de queda da sua taxa de lucro, tais como o desemprego, a intensificação da atividade laboral e a redução dos salários, contribuíram significativamente para o aumento da precarização do trabalho. …”
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Land Use Intensification Effects in Soil Arthropod Community of an Entisol in Pernambuco State, Brazil by G. M. Siqueira, E. F. F. Silva, J. Paz-Ferreiro

“…Our study found differences in community assemblages and composition under different land use systems, but no single taxa could be used as indicator of soil use intensity.…”
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An optimized CTAB method for genomic DNA extraction from green seaweeds (Ulvophyceae) by Riyad Hossen, Myles Courtney, Alasdair Sim, Md Abdullah Al Kamran Khan, Heroen Verbruggen, Trevor Bringloe

“…Existing protocols often lack versatility, leading to inconsistent outcomes across various materials and taxa, which highlights the need for a universal method for use with a variety of green seaweed samples. …”
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Biomonitoring of radioactive contamination using benthic invertebrate communities in Manzala Lake, Egypt by Imam Noha, Bendary Reda E.

“…The benthic community’s spatial distribution and the radionuclides’ bioaccumulation were evaluated to determine possible relationships. Thirty taxa of benthic invertebrates were recognised. The data illustrated that the mean activity concentration of radionuclides in water was in the order of 40K > 232Th > 226Ra > 137Cs, which changed into 40K > 226Ra > 232Th > 137Cs in the sediment and benthic invertebrates. …”
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Taphonomic variation in vascular remains from Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs by M. H. Schweitzer, W. Zheng, E. Dickinson, J. Scannella, A. Hartstone-Rose, P. Sjövall, J. Lindgren

“…Here, we use a suite of micromorphological and molecular techniques to examine vessel-like material recovered from the skeletal remains of six non-avian dinosaurs, representing different taxa, depositional environments and geological ages, and we compare the data obtained from our analyses against vessels liberated from extant ostrich bone. …”
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Impacts of Effluents on the Limnology of a Tropical River, Southwestern Nigeria by Abeke Adedolapo Ayoade, A Olajumoke Olusegun

“…The River Ogbere could be regarded as polluted since the adverse water quality has led to presence of mainly pollution tolerant taxa of macrobenthic invertebrates in the waterbed. …”
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A Unique Late Cretaceous dinosaur locality in the Bakony-Balaton Geopark of Hungary (Iharkút, Bakony Mts.) by Gabor Botfalvai, László Makádi, Gáspár Albert, Attila Ősi

“…This abundance and diversity of fossil taxa contribute to understanding of European Late Cretaceous continental vertebrate faunas. …”
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Additions to the saprobic fungi (Ascomycota) associated with macadamia trees from the Greater Mekong Subregion by Xian Zhang, Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Tian-Ye Du, Li-Su Han, Abdallah M. Elgorban, Jaturong Kumla, Chanokned Senwanna, Dong-Qin Dai, Nakarin Suwannarach, Hao-Han Wang

“…We provide morphological descriptions, photo plates, phylogenetic analysis results, and PHI test results of the two new species, along with comparisons with closely related taxa. These findings have global implications for understanding the diversity of microfungi associated with macadamia trees.…”
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Effect of intra- and inter-specific plant interactions on the rhizosphere microbiome of a single target plant at different densities. by Derek R Newberger, Heather L Deel, Daniel K Manter, Jorge M Vivanco

“…Nonetheless, a few bacterial taxa were shown to have conditional associations such as being enriched within only high plant densities, which may alleviate plant competition between these species. …”
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