Global climate change and, in particular, the warming of the oceans has caused the frequency and severity of marine heat waves to increase every year, with serious consequences for the stability and resilience of coral populations.
Ecology
Nov 29, 2022
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More than 50% of the world's river network is made of temporary or intermittent rivers: these are rivers that, during a certain time of the year, mainly summer, present dry riverbeds or some isolated ponds. These rivers show ...
Ecology
Nov 11, 2022
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Globally, the coastal lagoons of Lagos (Nigeria), Sakumo (Ghana) and Bizerte (Tunisia)—close to large urban centers and without waste and sewage treatment systems—are among the water ecosystems most affected by microplastic ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 7, 2022
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In the field of molecular magnetism, the design of devices with technological applications at the nanoscale—quantum computing, molecular spintronics, magnetic cooling, nanomedicine, high-density information storage, etc.—requires ...
Nanophysics
Nov 2, 2022
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The evolutionary clade and biodiversity of green lizards of the genera Lacerta and Timon—reptiles common in the Mediterranean basin and surrounding areas of the European continent, North Africa and Asia—have never been ...
Evolution
Oct 28, 2022
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The Pyrenean marine coastline has a high biological connectivity between fish populations that move around different habitats at a regional scale, according to the RESMED project (2019–2021), an initiative based on acoustic ...
Ecology
Oct 17, 2022
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A new study reveals how the Sigillaria brardii species—a fossil plant typical of peatlands and abundant in the flora of Europe and North America during the Upper Carboniferous—colonized new areas in the riverbeds of the ...
Ecology
Oct 11, 2022
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A UAB study using a Big Data approach to analyze settlement dynamics reveals that communities of the central-eastern Iberian Peninsula existing 4,000 years ago deployed "escape economies," using enrockment and segmentation ...
Archaeology
Sep 28, 2022
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The impact of the rise in sea temperatures predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) could affect the survival of the North Atlantic populations of Bulwer's petrel in the Azores, Canary Islands and ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 21, 2022
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Exotic fish are a threat to river ecosystems, but what happens when invasive species are native to a territory and have been introduced into waters that are not their original territory? A new study carried out by the UB ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 25, 2022
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