Scenarios of changes in biodiversity for the year 2100 can now be developed based on
scenarios of changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate, vegetation, and land use and the …

All terrestrial ecosystems consist of aboveground and belowground components that interact
to influence community- and ecosystem-level processes and properties. Here we show …

… Wall and Alderson suggest this lack of impact may be because of a lack of understanding
on the part of teachers of what might be an appropriate way to prepare students for the …

Wrapping of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) was found to be
sequence-dependent. A systematic search of the ssDNA library selected a sequence d(GT)n, n …

… The answers to this question clearly overlap with those to Question 7(d) which asked
whether boards gave descriptions of a typical performance at each grade level. One of the …

Traditional approaches to the study of food webs emphasize the transfer of local primary
productivity in the form of living plant organic matter across trophic levels. However, dead …

Transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia (TDT) and sickle cell disease (SCD) are severe
monogenic diseases with severe and potentially life-threatening manifestations. BCL11A is a …

For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and
animal communities vary across biomes. In contrast, we have only just begun exploring similar …

Over 100 gigatons of terrestrial plant biomass are produced globally each year. Ninety
percent of this biomass escapes herbivory and enters the dead organic matter pool, thus …

Spontaneously arising (de novo) mutations have an important role in medical genetics. For
diseases with extensive locus heterogeneity, such as autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), the …