Radioactive elements released into the environment have been an imperative environmental issue and poses health hazards for living organisms. Activated carbon is one of the most common adsorbents involved in radioactive wastewater remediation due to its high specific surface area and high degree of surface reactivity. In this study, three alternative activated carbons, previously produced via thermo-chemical activation using p...

Aim The increasing spread of vector‐borne diseases has resulted in severe health concerns for humans, domestic animals and wildlife, with changes in land use and the introduction of invasive species being among the main possible causes for this increase. We explored several ecological drivers potentially affecting the local prevalence and richness of avian malaria parasite lineages in native and introduced house sparrows ( Pas...

Population divergence in geographic isolation is due to a combination of factors. Natural and sexual selection may be important in shaping patterns of population differentiation, a pattern referred to as ‘isolation by adaptation’ ( IBA ). IBA can be complementary to the well‐known pattern of ‘isolation by distance’ ( IBD ), in which the divergence of closely related populations (via any evolutionary process) is associated with...