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Seasonal spatial distributions of amphibians and Gibbs measures: a new approach inspired by Hamiltonian mechanicsNARA Subscribed
We introduce a model that describes the population dynamics of species in ecology. Our model employs a Hamiltonian framework from physics, where the balance between species dispersal and environmental attraction is governed by two competing energy terms: a kinetic-like term driving homogeneous spatial spread, and a potential-like term generating attraction to key landscape features such as rivers, with a coupling constant modu...
Purpose Systematic collection and analysis of antimicrobial resistance data from key bacterial pathogens is essential to contribute to control antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The aim of this work was to survey the drug resistance on clinically relevant organisms stratified according to age, gender, clinical specimens and facilities. Methods Microbiological data were collected from 55 centers across 24 states in Mexico between...
Mind the gap: global targets and strategies for ex situ conservation of critically endangered plantsNARA Subscribed
An estimated 45% of plants are threatened with extinction, with those classified as “Critically Endangered” (CR) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature at the highest risk and in urgent need of ex situ conservation. We performed a gap analysis of CR plants stored in in the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP), a global network spanning 101 countries and territories, to assess their current conservation status...
Marine ecosystems have been historically impacted by human activities, leading to significant declines in biodiversity. Despite conservation efforts and the establishment of protected areas over recent decades, many marine species remain threatened. Here, we used a large‐scale database of 308 time series of coastal bird communities collected between 1957 and 2024 across three European regional seas to assess how abundance, tax...
Sea-level rise (SLR) through the twenty-first century and beyond is inevitable, threatening coastal areas and their inhabitants unless there is appropriate adaptation. We investigate coastal flooding to 2100 under the full range of IPCC AR6 (2021) SLR scenarios, assuming plausible adaptation. The adaptation selects the most economically robust adaptation option: protection or retreat. People living in unprotected coastal areas...
Geomorphological assessment as basic complement of InSAR analysis for landslide processes understandingNARA Subscribed
Landslide research has benefited greatly from advances in remote sensing techniques. However, the recent increase in available data on land surface movement provided by InSAR techniques can lead to identifying only those areas that were active during data acquisition as hazardous, overlooking other potentially unsafe areas or neglecting landslide-specific geological settings in hazard assessments. Here, we present a case study...
Five phyllosilicates (kaolinite, montmorillonite, saponite, sepiolite and palygorskite) have been selected as starting materials for the synthesis of zeolites. Among them, kaolinite and montmorillonite display the lowest Si/Al molar ratio leading to aluminosilicates with high crystallinity. Thus, the hydrothermal treatment under basic conditions forms 4A zeolite when kaolinite is used as starting material while 13X zeolite is...
Removal of organic compounds in wastewater using cocoa shell‑based activated carbon–SiO2 nanoparticlesNARA Subscribed
This work aimed to use low-cost residual cocoa shell biomass for the preparation of activated carbon with different amounts of SiO 2 nanoparticles using the coprecipitation method. The use of residual plant biomass seeks to strengthen the challenges of the bioeconomy in the generation of value-added products for the agro-industry. Subsequently, the adsorption capacity of phenol and 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl alcohol as representative...
An updated and complete landslide inventory is the starting point for an appropriate hazard assessment. This paper presents an improvement for landslide mapping by integrating data from two well-consolidated techniques: Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) and Landscape Analysis through the normalised channel steepness index ( k sn ). The southwestern sector of the Sierra Nevada mountain range (Southern Spain) was se...
Introduction Coastal detrital bottoms (CDB) are one of the most extensive habitats of the continental shelf worldwide, in the upper levels of the circalittoral zone. Hosting a diverse community structured by sediment grain size, trophic interactions and calcified organisms, CDB exhibit important ecological functions. In the Mediterranean Sea, CDB are constituted by recent elements partly provided by adjacent infralittoral and...