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  • Collective aggr essiveness limits colony persistence in high but not low elevation sites in amazonian social spiders 
    Lichtenstein, James L. L.; Fisher, David N.; McEwen, Brendan L.; Nondorf, Daniel T.; Calvache, Esteban; Schmitz, Clara; Elässer, Jana; Pruitt, Jonathan N. (Scopus, 2019)
    Identifying the traits that foster group survival in contrasting environments is important for understanding local adaptation in social systems. Here we evaluate the relationship between the aggressiveness of social spider ...
  • Lotus japonicusTriterpenoid Profile and Characterization oftheCYP716A51andLjCYP93E1Genes Involved in TheirBiosynthesis In Planta 
    Suzuki, Hayato; Fukushima, Ery Odette; Shimizu, Yuko; Seki, Hikaru; Fujisawa, Yukiko; Ishimoto, Masao; Osakabe, Keishi; Osakabe, Yuriko; Muranaka, Toshiya (Scopus, 2019)
    Lotus japonicusis an important model legume plant in sev-eral fields of research, such as secondary (specialized) me-tabolism and symbiotic nodulation. This plant accumulatestriterpenoids; however, less information regarding ...
  • Diversity and synanthropy of flies (Diptera: Calyptratae) from Ecuador, with new records for the country 
    Blacio, Karen; Liria, Jonathan; Soto Vivas, Ana (Wildlife Information & Liaison Development Society, 2020)
    Abstract: The Calyptratae are one of the most diverse groups of Diptera. Some species have immature states involved in the decomposition of organic matter of animal origin (i.e., they are sarcosaprophagous). In this study, ...
  • EFL Classroom Management 
    Espinosa Cevallos, Ligia F.; Soto, Sandy T. (Asociacion Mexicana de Maestros de Ingles MEXTESOL A.C, 2020)
    One of most important sources of frustration for teachers is not being able to manage their classes successfully, especially since class management is closely related to student learning (Soria Duarte & Quezada Campoverde, ...
  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora 
    Steege, ter Hans; I. prad, Paulo; de Lima, Renato A. F.; Pos, Edwin; Souza Coelho, Luiz de; Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes de; Salomao, Rafael P.; Castilho, Carolina V.; Susan G. W., Laurance; Cardenas Revil, Juan David; Jimenez, Eliana M.; Chave, Jerome; Zárate Gómez, Ricardo; Peñuela Mora, María Cristina; Rodrigues, Domingos de Jesus; Coelho de Souza, Fernanda (Nature Publishing Group, 2020)
    Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, but the estimated species richness is very much debated. Here, we apply an ensemble of parametric estimators and a novel technique that includes conspecific spatial aggregation ...
  • Feeding of Arapaima sp.: integrating stomach contents and local ecological knowledge 
    Jacobi, Cristina M.; Villamarín, Francisco; Campos Silva, João V.; Jardine, Timothy; Magnusson, William E. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2020)
    The giant arapaima (Arapaima sp.) has been described as a fish of change in Amazonia because of its important role in the conservation of floodplains, food security and income generation for rural communities. Nonetheless, ...
  • New record of a feral population of Lithobates catesbeianus Shaw, 1802 in a protected area (Santay Island) in the Ecuadorian coast 
    Cruz Cordovez, Carlos; Herrera, Ileana; Felipe Espinoza; Rizzo, Kimberly (2020)
    The American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus Shaw, 1802), an amphibian species native to eastern North America, is considered one of the 100 most harmful invasive species in the world. Previous studies document several ...
  • Production of the bioactive plant‐derived triterpenoid morolic acid in engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae 
    Srisawat, Pisanee; Yasumoto, Shuhei; Fukushima, Ery Odette; Robertlee, Jekson; Seki, Hikaru; Muranaka, Toshiya (Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co., 2020)
    Morolic acid is a plant‐derived triterpenoid that possesses pharmacological properties such as cytotoxicity, as well as anti‐HIV, anti‐HSV, anti‐inflammatory, and antidiabetic effects. The significant therapeutic properties ...
  • Microclimate buffering and thermal tolerance across elevations in a tropical butterfly 
    Montejo Kovacevich, Gabriela; Martin, Simon H; Bacquet Pérez, Caroline Nicole; Meier, Joana I; Monllor, Monica; Jiggins, Chris; Nadeau, Nicola J. (The Company of Biologists Ltd., 2020)
    Microclimatic variability in tropical forests plays a key role in shaping species distributions and their ability to cope with environmental change, especially for ectotherms. Nonetheless, currently available climatic ...
  • Tissue accumulation and the effects of long-term dietary copper contamination on osmoregulation in the mudflat fiddler crab Minuca rapax (Crustacea, Ocypodidae) 
    Vellosa Capparelli, Mariana; McNamara, JC; Grosell, MG (Springer Verlag, 2020)
    We examined copper accumulation in the hemolymph, gills and hepatopancreas, and hemolymph osmolality, Na+ and Cl− concentrations, together with gill Na+/ K+-ATPase and carbonic anhydrase activities, after dietary copper ...
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests 
    Sullivan, Martin J. P.; Lewis, Simon L.; Affum Baffoe, Kofi; Castilho, Carolina; Costa, Flávia; Cuni Sanchez, Aida; Ewang, Corneille E. N.; Wannes Hubau, Wannes; Marimon, Beatriz; Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel; Sonké, Bonaventure; Vasquez Martinez, Rodolfo; Qie, Lan; Costa, Lola da; Dančák, Martin; Herault, Bruno; Levesley, Aurora; Peñuela Mora, María Cristina (Science, 2020)
    The sensitivity of tropical forest carbon to climate is a key uncertainty in predicting global climate change. Although short-term drying and warming are known to affect forests, it is unknown if such effects translate ...
  • Primer registro de depredación de un gecko por un parúlido ( Setophaga petechia aurea ) en las Islas Galápagos 
    Rojas Soto, Octavio; Ortega Andrade, H. Mauricio (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
    Esta subespecie ha sido descrita como una variante morfológica con relacióna las formas continentales, mostrando un mayortamaño del culmen (largo y ancho) y masa corporal[5], como se ha registrado en otros paserinos de ...
  • Uncertainties associated with trophic discrimination factor and body size complicate calculation of δ15N‐derived trophic positions in Arapaima sp. 
    Jacobi, Cristina Mariana; Villamarín, Francisco; Jardine, Timothy D.; Magnusson, William Ernest (2020)
    Stable isotope ratios of nitrogen (δ15N) have been used to estimate trophic position (TP) of organisms due to the predictable enrichment of nitrogen‐15 in consumer tissues relative to their diet. We explored estimates of ...
  • Panmixia across elevation in thermally sensitive Andean dung beetles 
    Linck, Ethan Linck,; Celi, Jorge; Sheldon, Kimberly S. (Conferences and Proceedings, 2020)
    Janzen’s seasonality hypothesis predicts that organisms inhabiting environments with limited climatic variability will evolve a reduced thermal tolerance breadth compared with organisms experiencing greater climatic ...
  • 2,100 years of human adaptation to climate change in the High Andes 
    Åkesson, Christine M.; Matthews Bird, Frazer; Fennell, Christie Jane; Church, Warren B.; Peterson, Larry C.; Valencia, Bryan G. (Nature Publishing Group, 2020)
    Humid montane forests are challenging environments for human habitation. We used high-resolution fossil pollen, charcoal, diatom and sediment chemistry data from the iconic archaeological setting of Laguna de los Condores, ...
  • RGCxGC toolbox: An R-package for data processing in comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry 
    Quiroz Moreno, Cristian Daniel; Fontes Furlan, Mayra; Salazar Mogollón, Noroska Gabriela; Augusto, Fabio; Belinato, João Raul; Alexandrino, Guilherme L. (Elsevier BV, 2020)
    Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) offers detailed chemical information about volatile and semivolatile analytes from complex samples. However, the high complexity of the data structure encourages ...
  • Ketone Body Metabolism: Love and Survival 
    Peñafiel Bravo, Mónica Elizabeth; Palma Patiño, Ricardo Sebastián; de Almeida, José R. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
    The following story tells the details of the ketone body metabolism, focusing on the needs of the brain in prolonged fasting conditions. This literary composition highlights the use of ketone bodies as an important metabolic ...
  • Multispectral canopy reflectance improves spatial distribution models of Amazonian understory species 
    Van doninc, Jasper; Jones, Mirkka M.; Zuquim, Gabriela; Ruokolainen, Kalle; Massaine Moulatlet, Gabriel; Cárdenas, Glenda; Lehtonen, Samuli; Tuomisto, Hanna (Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2020)
    Species distribution models are required for the research and management of biodiversity in the hyperdiverse tropical forests, but reliable and ecologically relevant digital environmental data layers are not always available. ...
  • An integrative approach to identify the impacts of multiple metal contamination sources on the Eastern Andean foothills of the Ecuadorian Amazonia 
    Vellosa Capparelli, Mariana; Massaine Moulatlet, Gabriel; de Souza Abessa, Denis Moledo; Lucas Solis, Oscar Enrique; Rosero Ortíz, Bryan Rafael; Galarza Naranjo, Emily Roxana; Tuba Guaman, Damian Francisco; Carpintero, Natalia; Ochoa Herrera, Valeria; Cipriani Avilab, Isabel (Elsevier BV, 2020)
    Currently, several concerns have been raised over metal contamination in the upper Amazon basin. Rivers that flow from the high Andes to the lowland Amazon are threatened by anthropogenic activities, which may, in turn, ...
  • Management and design of biogas digesters: A non-calibrated heat transfer model 
    Vilms Pedersen, S; Martí Herrero, Jaime Emilio; Singh, A.K; Sommer, S.G; Hafner, S.D. (Elsevier BV, 2020)
    A thermal balance modeling framework is developed, based on heat transfer-resistance networks. The heat transfer model accounts for effects of digester- design, location and operation, including effects of solar irradiance, ...

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