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Microbiome-driven allergic lung inflammation is ameliorated by short-chain fatty acids by Cait, A, Hughes, M R, Antignano, F, Cait, J, Dimitriu, P A, Maas, K R, Reynolds, L A, Hacker, L, Mohr, J, Finlay, B B, Zaph, C, McNagny, K M, Mohn, W W

“…The mammalian gastrointestinal tract harbors a microbial community with metabolic activity critical for host health, including metabolites that can modulate…”
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The Influence of Time on the Soil Seed Bank and Vegetation across a Landscape-Scale Wetland Restoration Project by Stroh, Peter A., Hughes, Francine M. R., Sparks, Tim H., Mountford, J. Owen

“…Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve (NNR) in Cambridgeshire, U.K. is a wetland of international importance isolated in a landscape dominated by arable farming…”
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Ecophysiology of riparian cottonwoods: stream flow dependency, water relations and restoration by Rood, Stewart B, Braatne, Jeffrey H, Hughes, Francine M R

“…Cottonwoods (Populus spp.) are adapted to riparian or floodplain zones throughout the Northern Hemisphere; they are also used as parents for fast-growing…”
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Influence of peak flow changes on the macroinvertebrate drift downstream of a Brazilian hydroelectric dam by Castro, D M P, Hughes, R M, Callisto, M

“…Successive daily peak flows from hydropower plants can disrupt aquatic ecosystems and alter the composition and structure of macroinvertebrates downstream. We…”
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Spatial variations in fish assemblage structure in a southeastern Brazilian reservoir by Sanches, B O, Hughes, R M, Macedo, D R, Callisto, M, Santos, G B

“…We assessed the fish assemblage structure and composition of Nova Ponte Reservoir (Araguari River, Upper Paraná Basin, Brazil). We observed significant…”
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Interactive effects of soil moisture, vegetation canopy, plant litter and seed addition on plant diversity in a wetland community by Xiong, S, Johansson, M.E, Hughes, F.M.R, Hayes, A, Richards, K.S, Nilsson, C

“…1. We carried out a factorial experiment to examine how groundwater availability (low and high sites with intermediate or rare flooding), vegetation canopy,…”
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Site length for biological assessment of boatable rivers by Flotemersch, J. E., Stribling, J. B., Hughes, R. M., Reynolds, L., Paul, M. J., Wolter, C.

“…There is increasing international interest by water resource management agencies worldwide in developing the capacity for quantitative bioassessments of…”
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Managing River Flows to Restore Floodplain Forests by Rood, Stewart B., Samuelson, Glenda M., Braatne, Jeffrey H., Gourley, Chad R., Francine M. R. Hughes, Mahoney, John M.

“…River damming has dramatic environmental impacts and while changes due to reservoir flooding are immediate, downstream impacts are more spatially extensive…”
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Effects of landscape and riparian condition on a fish index of biotic integrity in a large southeastern Brazil river by PINTO, B. C. T, ARAUJO, F. G, HUGHES, R. M

“…Environmental conditions of a large river in southeastern Brazil were assessed by evaluating fish assemblage structure (index of biotic integrity, IBI),…”
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Factors associated with breastfeeding at discharge and duration of breastfeeding by Scott, JA, Landers, MCG, Hughes, RM, Binns, CW

“…Objective: To identify determinants of the initiation and duration of breastfeeding amongst Australian women. Methods: A prospective cohort study of 556 women…”
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Modelling Microplastics in the River Thames: Sources, Sinks and Policy Implications by Whitehead, Paul G., Bussi, Gianbattista, Hughes, Jocelyne M. R., Castro-Castellon, Ana T., Norling, Magnus D., Jeffers, Elizabeth S., Rampley, Cordelia P. N., Read, Daniel S., Horton, Alice A.

“…With widespread, long-term historical use of plastics and the presence of microplastics in a range of new and existing products, there is rising concern about…”
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Restoring Riparian Ecosystems: The Challenge of Accommodating Variability and Designing Restoration Trajectories by Hughes, Francine M. R, Colston, Adrian, Mountford, J. Owen

“…Flood disturbance processes play a key role in the functioning of riparian ecosystems and in the maintenance of biodiversity along river corridors. As a…”
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Allocation of river flows for restoration of floodplain forest ecosystems: A review of approaches and their applicability in Europe by HUGHES, Francine M. R, ROOD, Stewart B

“…Floodplain forests are flood-dependent ecosystems. They rely on well-timed, periodic floods for the provision of regeneration sites and on tapered flood…”
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Early detection and environmental drivers of sewage fungus outbreaks in rivers by Albini, Dania, Lester, Lauren, Sanders, Philip, Hughes, Jocelyne M. R., Jackson, Michelle C.

“…Abstract Sewage effluent is a major ongoing threat to water quality and biodiversity in freshwater environments. It can cause outbreaks of sewage fungus…”
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Fish stomach contents in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblage assessments by Tupinambás, T H, Pompeu, P S, Gandini, C V, Hughes, R M, Callisto, M

“…The choice of sampling gears to assess benthic macroinvertebrate communities depends on environmental characteristics, study objectives, and cost…”
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Differential insult-dependent recruitment of the intrinsic mitochondrial pathway during neuronal programmed cell death by Diwakarla, S, Nagley, P, Hughes, M. L. R, Chen, B, Beart, P. M

“…Programmed cell death contributes to neurological diseases and may involve mitochondrial dysfunction with redistribution of apoptogenic proteins. We examined…”
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The challenges of integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation at a landscape-scale wetland restoration project in the UK by Hughes, Francine M. R., Adams, William M., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Field, Rob H., Peh, Kelvin S.-H., Warrington, Stuart

“…There is an increasing emphasis on the restoration of ecosystem services as well as of biodiversity, especially where restoration projects are planned at a…”
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Benefits and costs of ecological restoration: Rapid assessment of changing ecosystem service values at a U.K. wetland by Peh, Kelvin S.‐H., Balmford, Andrew, Field, Rob H., Lamb, Anthony, Birch, Jennifer C., Bradbury, Richard B., Brown, Claire, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Lester, Martin, Morrison, Ross, Sedgwick, Isabel, Soans, Chris, Stattersfield, Alison J., Stroh, Peter A., Swetnam, Ruth D., Thomas, David H. L., Walpole, Matt, Warrington, Stuart, Hughes, Francine M. R.

“…Restoration of degraded land is recognized by the international community as an important way of enhancing both biodiversity and ecosystem services, but more…”
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Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of the Reorientational Dynamics of Fullerene C70 in Various Aromatic Solvents by Hughes, R. M, Mutzenhardt, P, Bartolotti, L, Rodriguez, A. A

“…A previous study of C70 in deuterated chlorobenzene generated evidence suggesting C70 was experiencing unique reorientational behavior at given temperatures…”
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Application of an index of biological integrity (IBI) to fish assemblages of the rivers Khan and Kshipra (Madhya Pradesh), India by Ganasan, V., Hughes, Robert M.

“…1. A multimetric index of fish assemblage integrity was developed and similarity analyses were conducted on fish species in two central Indian rivers and the…”
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