Microbial diversity is often related to community function4 and the ability to withstand environmental fluctuations that typically occur as disturbances5. Disturbance can be defined as an event in time that disrupts the structure of a community by changing resources, substrate availability, or the ...
. An alternative plausible explanation involves climatic variables, such as temperature differences between the hottest and coldest months along the SO transect. The temperature difference between the hottest and coldest months is generally recognized as temperature seasonality or variability. In the SO ...
Within the kingdom Fungi, yeasts (Dikarya,AscomycotaandBasidiomycota) are not precisely defined. The latest 5th edition of ‘The Yeasts, a Taxonomic Study’ (TYTS) defines yeasts as follows ‘…,yeasts, whether ascomycetes or basidiomycetes, are generally characterized by budding or fission as the...
“Emotional Labor and Diversity in Community Management”, by Jeremy Preacher, originally a speech in the Community Management Summit at Game Developers Conference 2016: “The thing with emotional labor is that it’s generally invisible — both to the people benefiting from the work, and to ...
Although some have asserted that the relationship is always hump-shaped, a comprehensive literature survey found no single relationship. We conducted a comprehensive examination of the components of scale (grain, focus and extent) across a geographic hierarchy (e.g. spatially defined) and two ...
2007) or more generally a Mantel test (Tuomisto et al. 2003; Legendre et al. 2005), though mechanistic interpretation is limited when geographical features are combined in this way. Additional approaches include a geodiversity atlas that classifies areas as having very high, high, moderate, low...
Fertility variation is defined as the difference in the ability of individuals to produce viable progeny (i.e., reproductive output) [10,11]. The most commonly used method for predicting or estimating parental reproductive output in forest tree seed orchards is counting the reproductive buds [12,...
This behaviour, which is generally referred to as code-switching, is also very common in Malaysia (David 2003; David et al. 2009a; Ozog 1987). As code-switching has been studied extensively since the earliest publications in the second half of the twentieth century (N. Abdullah 1975; Clyne...
For LGBTQ+ employees, many workplaces today fall short of full inclusion, even if there is visible corporate support for LGBTQ+ communities. For example, LGBTQ+ women are more underrepresented than women generally in America’s largest corporations. Just four LGBTQ+ CEOs head these corporations—...
At present, ‘Agriculture 4.0’ is a vague and poorly defined term used to refer to a range of different concepts and technologies, and connected to ideas on the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 (Zambon et al., 2019). Future agriculture and food systems under the new Agriculture ...