Wind, Water Level, and Fluid Mud Thresholds in Lake Apopka, Florida by Earl J. Hayter, Ashish J. Mehta, John M. Jaeger, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, Andrew J. Manning, Carola Forlini

“…Moreover, a transition occurs from wave-dominant resuspension at low depths to current-dominance in deeper water, which likely influences BBL dynamics with potential effects on the benthic biota. Provided a higher than present depth can be sustained in the large lake, the deduced relationship between fluid mud rise, wind speed, and water depth makes it feasible to select the depth at which the frequency of fluid mud occupying the BBL remains acceptably low. …”
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Coral Reef Degradation Due to ‘Ship Grounding' in Indonesia: Case Study of Ship Aground in Bangka-Belitung Waters by Mother Vessel MV Lyric Poet by Idris Idris, Neviaty P. Zamani, Suharsono Suharsono, Fakhrurrozi Fakhrurrozi

“…Highlight • Damage to coral reefs by ship aground is twice the area of a football field • Found four zones of damage including runoff, dune, blow and dispersal • Mortality of live coral and other benthic biota ranges from 75-100% in the affected location • The form of damaged live coral growth is predominantly slow growing. • Eight hard coral species were found on the IUCN-Redlist list with a vulnerable status. …”
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Health Risk Assessment of Pesticide Residues in Drinking Water of Upper Jhelum Region in Kashmir Valley-India by GC-MS/MS by M. Imran Ganaie, Ishrat Jan, Afshan Nabi Mayer, Alamgir A. Dar, Ishtiaq A. Mayer, Pervez Ahmed, Javid A. Sofi

“…They can therefore impair human and biota health when present over the threshold level. …”
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Diprosopus y otras malformaciones en bovino. Reporte de Caso by Edson Gaona-Huamán, Ivy Cabrera-Rojas, Anali Galvez-Chuquilin, Jorge Portal–Torres, Medali Cueva–Rodríguez, Wigoberto Alvarado, Carlos Quilcate–Pairazamán

“…Un vacuno hembra con duplicidad incompleta cefálica facial (diprosopus), producto de la octava gestación de una vaca criolla, proveniente del centro poblado de Quidén, distrito de Paccha, provincia de Chota, región de Cajamarca, Perú, con sistema de crianza extensivo de producción. …”
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HDL proteome and apolipoproteins concentrations in severe ICU COVID-19 patients by Floran Begue, Bryan Veeren, Philippe Rondeau, Aline-Marie Florence, Simon Jamard, Philippe Montravers, Sébastien Tanaka, Olivier Meilhac, on behalf of French COVID Study Group

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Assessment of technogenic pollution by silver compounds on the biological properties of the soil (model experiment) by Tatiana Minnikova, Natalia Tsepina, Sergey Kolesnikov, Natalia Evstegneeva, Anna Kusina

“… Introduction: Silver (Ag) has increasingly become one of the priority pollutants of soils, which is accompanied by a number of consequences for humans and soil biota. To fully assess the effects of the entry of different chemical forms of Ag into soils, it is necessary to conduct experiments with different types of soils, different exposure periods, as well as a wide range of biological indicators. …”
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Análisis del sistema de agronegocios del cultivo del camu camu (Myrciaria dubia) en la provincia de Alto Amazonas – Loreto by Danhelo Brick Ríos Del Águila, Mario Pezo Gonzales, Julio Santiago Chumacero Acosta, Publio Oscar Castro Santander, Betty Elizabeth Tello Panduro, Yuleisdy Alvarez Arista

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Estado nutricional según características demográficas de adultos mayores peruanos by José Ander Asenjo Alarcón

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Is rewilding too wild? Assessing the benefits and challenges of forest succession on abandoned land in the mid‐hills of Nepal by Nicola McGunnigle, Douglas Bardsley, Ian Nuberg, Bishnu Hari Pandit

“…Regenerating forests could contribute to global biodiversity targets through development pathways promoting the emerging biota that also contribute to livelihood benefits. …”
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Geospatial visualization and seasonal variation of heavy metals in river sediments by D. Justus Reymond, K. Sudalaimuthu

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Heavy metals can enter the food chain in the aquatic environment and become available for accumulation in biota. Industrialization and agricultural developments are progressively causing ecological concerns, which must be addressed. …”
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Exploring the role of the JEEViKA swasthya mitra helpdesk in improving healthcare access: a qualitative study in tertiary healthcare facilities in Bihar, India by Pragya Kumar, Shamshad Ahmad, Narottam Pradhan, Neha Chaudhary, Haripriya H., Sarita Kumari, Naveen K. G., Akanksha Yadav, Rakesh Jha, Md. Ashraf Parwez, Swati Swati, Apolenarius Purty, Somya Somya

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New Plastitar Record for the Mediterranean Sea: Characterization of Plastics and Tar from the Salento Peninsula (Ionian Sea) by Silvia Fraissinet, Emanuele Mancini, Chiara Funiati, Caterina Martino, Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto, Chiara Roberta Girelli, Francesco Paolo Fanizzi, Genuario Belmonte, Stefano Piraino

“…These raise concern about the undeniable negative impact on the marine ecosystem and the associated biota, and serve as a recognizable and understandable indication of environmental decline. …”
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Critical analysis of doctrinal approaches to the definition of “biological terrorism” by О. V. Shamsutdinov

“…Based on the results of the critical analysis and on the basis of the formulated definition of terrorism, it has been proposed to consider biological terrorism as a type of technological terrorism, and, if certain features are present, as international terrorism, and to understand it as socially dangerous culpable acts provided for by international and national legislation, which consist in demonstrative public use of biological weapons or their components (biological agents of biological destruction of biota), as well as threatening, organising, preparing, providing logistical, financial and other support or inciting to commit such actions aimed at intimidating the population, with the aim of inducing specific institutions or individuals to commit or refuse to commit certain actions, disrupting law and order or causing a biological disaster.…”
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Modeling a Virtual World for the Educational Game Calangos by Angelo C. Loula, Leandro N. de Castro, Antônio L. Apolinário, Pedro L. B. da Rocha, Maria da Conceição L. Carneiro, Vanessa Perpétua G. S. Reis, Ricardo F. Machado, Claudia Sepulveda, Charbel N. El-Hani

“…The engine of the game simulates the physical conditions of the ecosystem (dune topography and climate conditions with their circadian and circannual cycles), its biota (plant species and animal species), and ecological relationships (predator-prey encounters, cospecific relationships). …”
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Investigating the Efficiency of Coffee Husks in Bio-Retention Model for Storm Water Treatment. by Musasizi, Joseph

“…This spoils the stream water quality and thereby causing a decline in aquatic biota. However, the selection of appropriate media structure and optimized design have not been adequately researched. …”
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Predicting abatacept retention using machine learning by Rieke Alten, Claire Behar, Pierre Merckaert, Ebenezer Afari, Virginie Vannier-Moreau, Anael Ohayon, Sean E. Connolly, Aurélie Najm, Pierre-Antoine Juge, Gengyuan Liu, Angshu Rai, Yedid Elbez, Karissa Lozenski

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Diversity of Soil Filamentous Fungi Influenced by Marine Environment in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil by Igor Vinícius Pimentel Rodrigues, Katia Regina Assunção Borges, Marcos Antonio Custódio Neto da Silva, Maria do Desterro Soares Brandão Nascimento, Juliano dos Santos, Alexandre Santana Azevedo, Geusa Felipa de Barros Bezerra

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Savi’s pipistrelle (Hypsugo savii) in Ukraine: analysis of records and evidence of expansion by Igor Polischuk, Igor Zagorodniuk

“…In addition to the three key features of the records mentioned above, which indicate the possibility of such finds, it is important to talk about possible errors inherent in the identification systems, which are very typical for the periods of primary biota inventory using newfangled methods. The authors consider registrations of signals of Hypsugo savii as the actual appearance of this bat species, but not in the form of new populations, but as individuals appearing as scouts exploring new territories. …”
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Effects of floodplain decoupling on taxonomic and functional diversity of terrestrial floodplain organisms by Franziska Wenskus, Christian Hecht, Daniel Hering, Kathrin Januschke, Georg Rieland, Andrea Rumm, Mathias Scholz, Arnd Weber, Peter Horchler

“…A better understanding of the association of river-floodplain connectivity and floodplain biota is therefore necessary. We compared diversity and composition of plant, mollusc, and carabid (ground beetle) communities from coupled and decoupled floodplain sections along the Elbe River to investigate how they are affected by floodplain decoupling. …”
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From ecological menace to roadside attraction: 28 years of evidence support successful biocontrol of purple loosestrife by Bernd Blossey, Victoria Nuzzo, Stacy B. Endriss

“…Regardless of the chosen method, long‐term assessment of management outcomes on both the target species and associated biota should be an essential component of management programs. …”
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