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Field Guide to Northern Tree-related Microhabitats: Descriptions and size limits for their inventory in boreal and hemiboreal forests of Europe and North America
A tree-related microhabitat (abbreviated as TreM) is a morphological feature present on a tree, which is used by sometimes highly specialised species during at least one part of their life cycle. These features may serve as shelters, breeding spots, or cru ...
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland2024Biohybrid Superorganisms—On the Design of a Robotic System for Thermal Interactions With Honeybee Colonies
Francesco Mondada, Robert Matthew Mills, Rafael Botner Barmak, Raphael Cherfan
Social insects, such as ants, termites, and honeybees, have evolved sophisticated societies where collaboration and division of labor enhance survival of the whole colony, and are thus considered “superorganisms”. Historically, studying behaviors involving ...
2024Fish Diversity in Relation to Littoral Habitats in Three Basins of Lake Kivu (East Africa)
In total, 28 of the 29 fish species reported from the Lake Kivu basin occur in the littoral zone of the lake, but information about their structure, occurrence, and the habitats affecting their distribution is largely lacking. The lake's inshore area is po ...
MDPI2023A landmark environmental law looks ahead
In late December 1973, the United States enacted what some would come to call “the pitbull of environmental laws.” In the 50 years since, the formidable regulatory teeth of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) have been credited with considerable successes, ob ...
2023Clogging of riverbed substrates by fine sediment
Riverbeds represent the habitat of numerous aquatic species. Exchanges between the groundwater, the hyporheic zone and the surface flow are also essential for river ecosystems. Fine sediment transported by rivers deposits inside or on top of the bed and mo ...
EPFL2023L’habitat inhabitable : le sous‑terrain comme lieu de vie
À partir d’une enquête sur l’habitabilité de l’espace souterrain, l’article inaugure une discussion autour du concept de l’« habitat inhabitable ». Si nous argumentons que l’espace souterrain est fondamentalement inhabitable et ne peut être programmé comme ...
2022Soil protist function varies with elevation in the Swiss Alps
Nicolas Jean Philippe Guex, Edward Mitchell, Enrique Lara, Aline Buri
Protists are abundant and play key trophic functions in soil. Documenting how their trophic contributions vary across large environmental gradients is essential to understand and predict how biogeochemical cycles will be impacted by global changes. Here, u ...
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