ANALYSIS AND DISTRIBUTIONAL PATTERNS OF THE INVASIVE FLORA IN A PROTECTED MOUNTAIN AREA - A CASE STUDY OF MEDVEDNICA NATURE PARK (CROATIA)

Analysis and distributional patterns of the invasive flora in a protected mountain area - a case study of Medvednica Nature Park (Croatia)

In this paper we have analysed invasive flora of Medvednica Nature Park, Croatia with respect to their origins, life forms, systematic positions, types of seed dispersal, Ellenberg indicator values and spatial distributions using MTB 1/64 grid units for analyses.A total of 27 invasive plant species, belonging to 14 families, were recorded with Aste

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With a little help from my friends: importance of protist-protist interactions in structuring marine protistan communities in the San Pedro Channel

ABSTRACT Marine protists form complex communities that are shaped by environmental and biological ecosystem properties, as well as ecological interactions between organisms.While all of these factors play a role in shaping protistan communities, the specific ways in which these properties and interactions influence protistan communities remain poor

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Interpreting Mobile and Handheld Air Sensor Readings in Relation to Air Quality Standards and Health Effect Reference Values: Tackling the Challenges

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies face a number of challenges in interpreting and reconciling short-duration (seconds to minutes) readings from mobile and handheld air sensors with the longer duration averages (hours to cga 200 to cga 510 adapter days) associated with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards

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Are conspiracy theorists inaccurate, unmotivated to be accurate, or both?: A latent class analysis [version 1; peer review: 5 approved]

Background A rapidly growing body of research demonstrates that conspiratorial ideation is related to less accuracy, more overconfidence, and more reliance on intuition.Yet, the bulk of this research has focused on belief in conspiracy theories rather than conspiracy theorists.As such it remains unclear whether all conspiracy theorists are equally

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