Functional Trait Changes, Productivity Shifts and Vegetation Stability in Mountain Grasslands during a Short-Term Warming.

Plant functional traits underlie vegetation responses to environmental changes such as global warming, and consequently influence ecosystem processes.While most of the existing studies focus on the effect of warming only on species diversity and productivity, we further investigated (i) how the structure of community plant functional traits in temp

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Birds surveyed in the harvested and unharvested areas of a reduced-impact logged forestry concession, located in the lowland subtropical humid forests of the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

As part of a larger study of reduced-impactlogging effects on bird community composition,we surveyed birds from Vitamin E December to Februaryduring the 2003-2004 wet-season within harvestedand unharvested blocks of the La Chonta forestryconcession, Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.The logged forest was harvested using reduced-impactlogging techni

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Ou wyn in nuwe sakke: werk die ou etiek vir die nuwe geneeskunde?

Old wine in new skins: Does the old ethics work for the new medicine? This article investigates and analyses the shifts that have taken place in the discourse about morality and ethics as they have developed in the history of Western medicine.The author argues that many of the forms of moral reasoning aligned Collagen Supplements to certain practic

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