Search Results - "Marchant, Richard"
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The nature of inherent bactericidal activity: insights from the nanotopology of three species of dragonfly
Published in Nanoscale (28-03-2016)“…While insect wings are widely recognised as multi-functional, recent work showed that this extends to extensive bactericidal activity brought about by cell…”
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Home range sizes of 11 bird species on a 10-ha forest site in southeast Australia
Published in Journal of field ornithology (01-03-2023)“…We used a simple and objective method of determining home range size for individuals of a bird community in southeast Australia. The community consisted of 11…”
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Impacts of detritivore diversity loss on instream decomposition are greatest in the tropics
Published in Nature communications (17-06-2021)“…The relationship between detritivore diversity and decomposition can provide information on how biogeochemical cycles are affected by ongoing rates of…”
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The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects
Published in Global ecology and biogeography (01-05-2023)“…Motivation Aquatic insects comprise 64% of freshwater animal diversity and are widely used as bioindicators to assess water quality impairment and freshwater…”
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Long‐term fluctuations in density of two species of caddisfly from south‐east Australia and the importance of density‐dependent mortality
Published in Freshwater biology (01-11-2021)“…The long‐term dynamics of freshwater insect populations have attracted little interest. The aim of this study was to examine the recruitment, larval mortality…”
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Pillars of Life: Is There a Relationship between Lifestyle Factors and the Surface Characteristics of Dragonfly Wings?
Published in ACS omega (30-06-2018)“…Dragonfly wings are of great interest to researchers investigating biomimetic designs for antiwetting and antibacterial surfaces. The waxy epicuticular layer…”
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Wing wettability of Odonata species as a function of quantity of epicuticular waxes
Published in Vibrational spectroscopy (01-11-2014)“…Dragonflies have gained much attention due to their sophisticated wing surface structure, and their associated superhydrophobic, self-cleaning and bactericidal…”
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The use of taxonomic distinctness to assess environmental disturbance of insect communities from running water
Published in Freshwater biology (01-08-2007)“…Summary 1. Taxonomic distinctness (or average taxonomic breadth) of a sample is a measure of diversity that has the great advantage of not being sensitive to…”
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An integrated database of stream macroinvertebrate traits for Australia: concept and application
Published in Ecological indicators (01-07-2020)“…•Traits provide critical information to understand community assembly and persistence.•Traits-based analyses are often less variable and more stressor-specific…”
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A trait database of stream invertebrates for the ecological risk assessment of single and combined effects of salinity and pesticides in South-East Australia
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-05-2011)“…We compiled a database on a priori selected traits for South-East Australian freshwater macroinvertebrate families and used this data for the development of a…”
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The definition of species richness used by species sensitivity distributions approximates observed effects of salinity on stream macroinvertebrates
Published in Environmental pollution (1987) (01-01-2011)“…The risk of chemicals for ecological communities is often forecast with species sensitivity distributions (SSDs) which are used to predict the concentration…”
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Structure and Chemical Organization in Damselfly Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis Wings: A Spatially Resolved FTIR and XRF Analysis with Synchrotron Radiation
Published in Scientific reports (30-05-2018)“…Insects represent the majority of known animal species and exploit a variety of fascinating nanotechnological concepts. We investigated the wings of the…”
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Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition
Published in Science advances (01-03-2021)“…Running waters contribute substantially to global carbon fluxes through decomposition of terrestrial plant litter by aquatic microorganisms and detritivores…”
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Germ-line cells do not form syncytial cysts in the ovaries of the basal clitellate annelid Capilloventer australis
Published in Zoologischer Anzeiger (01-01-2016)“…Capilloventridae are regarded as the putative sister taxon to all other Clitellata. To shed more light on their internal anatomy, we studied the ovary…”
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Evaluation and application of methods for biological assessment of streams: summary of papers
Published in Hydrobiologia (01-11-2006)“…Issue Title: Theme Evaluation and Application of Methods for Biological Assessment of Streams During the past decade, new biological assessment methods have…”
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You show me yours and I'll show you mine—medical mobility and regulatory cooperation
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To determine if changing to white light street lamps improves road safety: A multilevel longitudinal analysis of road traffic collisions during the relighting of Leeds, a UK city
Published in Applied spatial analysis and policy (01-12-2022)“…Large-scale installation of broad-spectrum (white) road lighting has been claimed to bring about a substantial reduction in road traffic collisions (RTCs)…”
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Numerical Analysis of the Demagnetization Effect in a Superconducting Machine With Bulk HTS Material on the Rotor
Published in IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity (01-06-2009)“…When a bulk superconducting material is used as the magnets of an electric motor, the magnetized superconducting pucks are subjected to a varying magnetic…”
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The role of an antidepressant, dibenzepin (Noveril), in the relief of pain in chronic arthritic states
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