Search Results - "DANGLES, O"
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Distance makes the difference in thermography for ecological studies
Published in Journal of thermal biology (01-02-2016)“…Surface temperature drives many ecological processes and infrared thermography is widely used by ecologists to measure the thermal heterogeneity of different…”
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Flavonoid–serum albumin complexation: determination of binding constants and binding sites by fluorescence spectroscopy
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta (01-01-2005)“…After a meal rich in plant products, dietary flavonols can be detected in plasma as serum albumin-bound conjugates. Flavonol–albumin binding is expected to…”
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Linking global climate change to local water availability: Limitations and prospects for a tropical mountain watershed
Published in The Science of the total environment (10-02-2019)“…Bridging the gap between the predictions of coarse-scale climate models and the fine-scale climatic reality is a key issue of hydrological research and water…”
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Does heterogeneity in crop canopy microclimates matter for pests? Evidence from aerial high-resolution thermography
Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (01-08-2017)“…•Crop pests can access a wide range of favourable microclimate by moving in few cms.•The more solar radiation, the less distance pests must travel to fulfil…”
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Making thirsty cities sustainable: A nexus approach for water provisioning in Quito, Ecuador
Published in Journal of environmental management (15-10-2022)“…In view of accelerated climate change and urban demographics, balancing human and ecosystem needs for water resources is a critical environmental challenge of…”
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Standardization of instantaneous fluoroprobe measurements of benthic algal biomass and composition in streams
Published in Ecological indicators (01-02-2021)“…•Regular chlorophyll-a monitoring helps promptly detect benthic algal proliferation.•Chlorophyll-a in benthic algal substrates varies with the mat formation…”
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Testing the stress-gradient hypothesis with aquatic detritivorous invertebrates: insights for biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-11-2012)“…1. The stress-gradient hypothesis (SGH) states that environmental stress modulates species interactions, causing a shift from negative interactions to net…”
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Traits or habitat? Disentangling predictors of leaf‐litter decomposition in Amazonian soils and streams
Published in Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) (01-04-2019)“…Quantifying the relative contributions of plant physicochemical traits and environmental conditions to leaf decomposition is essential to increase our…”
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Designing Eco‐Friendly Water Intake Portfolios in a Tropical Andean Stream Network
Published in Water resources research (01-08-2019)“…In view of the rapid proliferation of water infrastructures worldwide, balancing human and ecosystem needs for water resources is a critical environmental…”
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Technical Note: Glacial influence in tropical mountain hydrosystems evidenced by the diurnal cycle in water levels
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (04-12-2013)“…Worldwide, the rapid shrinking of glaciers in response to ongoing climate change is modifying the glacial meltwater contribution to hydrosystems in glacierized…”
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Quantitative Kinetic Analysis of Hydrogen Transfer Reactions from Dietary Polyphenols to the DPPH Radical
Published in Journal of agricultural and food chemistry (29-01-2003)“…Diphenylpicrylhydrazyl (DPPH) is widely used for quickly assessing the ability of polyphenols to transfer labile H atoms to radicals, a likely mechanism of…”
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Color Stability of Commercial Anthocyanin-Based Extracts in Relation to the Phenolic Composition. Protective Effects by Intra- and Intermolecular Copigmentation
Published in Journal of agricultural and food chemistry (01-01-2001)“…Anthocyanin extracts are increasingly used as food ingredients. A current challenge is to maintain their color properties. The stability of some colorants has…”
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Genetic bottleneck in invasive species: the potato tuber moth adds to the list
Published in Biological invasions (01-03-2008)“…The level of genetic diversity within populations of introduced species has received increasing attention as an important factor influencing their survival and…”
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Air-flow sensitive hairs: boundary layers in oscillatory flows around arthropod appendages
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-11-2006)“…The aim of this work is to characterize the boundary layer over small appendages in insects in longitudinal and transverse oscillatory flows. The problem of…”
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Temperature as a key driver of ecological sorting among invasive pest species in the tropical Andes
Published in Ecological applications (01-10-2008)“…Invasive species are a major threat to the sustainable provision of ecosystem products and services, both in natural and agricultural ecosystems. To understand…”
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Antioxidant activity of olive phenols: mechanistic investigation and characterization of oxidation products by mass spectrometry
Published in Organic & biomolecular chemistry (01-01-2005)“…In this work, the antioxidant activity of olive phenols is first characterized by their stoichiometries n(tot)(number of radicals trapped per antioxidant…”
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Community-Based Participatory Research Helps Farmers and Scientists to Manage Invasive Pests in the Ecuadorian Andes
Published in Ambio (01-06-2010)“…Participatory research has not been a conspicuous methodology in developing nations for studying invasive pests, an increasing threat to the sustainable…”
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Ontogeny of air-motion sensing in cricket
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-11-2006)“…Juvenile crickets suffer high rates of mortality by natural predators that they can detect using extremely sensitive air-sensing filiform hairs located on…”
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Escape performance decreases during ontogeny in wild crickets
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-09-2007)“…Increasing the ecological relevance of studies relating to the performance of organisms has been a central issue for functional biologists over the last few…”
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Spider's attack versus cricket's escape: velocity modes determine success
Published in Animal behaviour (01-09-2006)“…The behavioural and physical mechanisms involved in the tactics used by predators to catch their prey have been explored for a wide variety of vertebrate taxa…”
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