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Book Reference Clean Coal Technologies and Carbon Capture and Storage in Kazakhstan - Reflections and ACCESS project results
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Climate influences the response of community functional traits to local conditions
Functional traits determine an organism’s performance in a given environment and as such determine which organisms will be found where. Species respond to local conditions, but also to larger scale gradients, such as climate. Trait ecology links these responses of species to community composition and species distributions. Yet, we often do not know which environmental gradients are most important in determining community trait composition at either local or biogeographical scales, or their interaction. Here we quantify the relative contribution of local and climatic conditions to the structure and composition of functional traits found within bromeliad invertebrate communities. We conclude that climate explains more variation in invertebrate trait composition within bromeliads than does local conditions. Importantly, climate mediated the response of traits to local conditions; for example, invertebrates with benthic life-history traits increased with bromeliad water volume only under certain precipitation regimes. Our ability to detect this and other patterns hinged on the compilation of multiple fine-grained datasets, allowing us to contrast the effect of climate vs. local conditions. We suggest that, in addition to sampling communities at local scales, we need to aggregate studies that span large ranges in climate variation in order to fully understand trait filtering at local, regional and global scales.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2021
Article Reference Climate influences the response of community functional traits to local conditions in bromeliad invertebrate communities
10.1111/ecog.05437
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2020
Inproceedings Reference CO2 storage opportunities in Belgium
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Coastal wetland adaptability to sea level rise: The neglected role of semi-diurnal vs. diurnal tides
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2023
Inproceedings Reference Coding region SNP analysis to improve dog hair mitochondrial DNA profiling for forensic purposes
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Webpublished Reference Collecting information and identification of Oscarella from Cabo Frio, Brazil (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha, Oscarellidae)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2022 OA
Article Reference Collections de la Grotte de Spy: (re)découvertes et inventaire anthropologique
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications
Article Reference Colonization of artificial islands in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea by the aquatic snake Natrix tessellata (Squamata: Natricidae)
We report the colonization by the aquatic Dice snake Natrix tessellata of five artificial islands (A Island, D Island, DC 05, EPC 03 and EPC 04), built in the 2000s to house oil industry activities in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea, western Kazakhstan. We discuss possible modes of colonization (e.g., accidental transport by boat originating from the Bautino harbor in Mangystau Region; active swimming from the coast). We present several observations of predation on fish (Cyprinidae: Carassius auratus; Gobiidae: Neogobius caspius, N. fluviatilis and N. melanostomus) and on the Laughing frog (Ranidae: Pelophylax ridibundus).
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2020
Article Reference Combined High-Throughput Imaging and Sequencing: Addressing the collections on demand requirement in SYNTHESYS+ project
Imagine you are a scientist, working on collections. You have your pet taxon and you need information which is distributed in a number of books and publications but also in the specimens deposited in$~$Museums or Herbaria. Instead of paying visits to these establishments, around the world, you wish there was a means to transform all the information you need into a digitized form of the physical objects, you can reach from the screen of your laptop, tablet or cell phone. You dream you were able to watch, inspect and even dissect the type material you need online but also to compare it with others they way sequences are blasted against large databases, these days. You plan to make global research on this taxon and try to derive patterns from both the molecular and organismal level of the biological organization and to link the patterns resulting to the drivers of change for this taxon.$~$This is the vision of the Virtual Museum of Natural History and one of the ways to achieve this vision is to address the “collections on demand” requirement. One of the possible means to address this requirement is the digitization through the use of the micro-ct technology. The micro-CT virtual laboratory (vLab), developed by LifeWatchGreece research infrastructure (RI), makes it possible the online exploration and dissemination of micro-CT datasets, which are only rarely made available to the public due to their large size and a lack of dedicated online platforms for the interactive manipulation of 3D data. This presentation shows the development of such a “collections on demand” function, implemented by the SYNTHESYS+ project (DiSSCo RI), which combines such high-throughput technologies, that is micro-ct and genomics, to address the scientific communityʼs requirements. We show that this approach to combine patterns deriving from the application of novel techniques, which represent different kinds of observations is possible and we propose certain case studies as examples. The innovation aspects of this function include: Expansion and development of cost models for Collections on Demand; Development of standards and guidelines for exchange of collection-derived imaging data; Construction of new data pipelines and standard workflows, enabling access to complex digital content such as 3D scans; Development of novel molecular lab protocols, workflows and informatics pipelines, to enable large scale; DNA sequencing of NH collections.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2019