Browsing by Subject "environmental factor"

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Birdsong tuned to the environment: Green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise

Kirschel, A. N. G.; Blumstein, Daniel T.; Cohen, R. E.; Buermann, W.; Smith, T. B.; Slabbekoorn, H. (2009)

Animals that communicate acoustically must compete for acoustic space in order to convey their signals effectively. Tropical rainforest birds live in an extremely diverse acoustic community consisting of other birds, ...

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Environmental aspects of VOCs evolved in the early stages of human decomposition

Statheropoulos, Miltiades K.; Agapiou, Agapios; Spiliopoulou, C.; Pallis, George C.; Sianos, Efstathios (2007)

In the present study, the time profile, measured as "accumulation", of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced during the early stages of human decomposition was investigated. A human cadaver was placed in a sealed bag ...

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Factors affecting plant species richness and endemism on land-bridge islands - An example from the East Aegean archipelago

Panitsa, M.; Trigas, P.; Iatrou, G.; Sfenthourakis, Spyros (2010)

The native flora and a number of environmental factors were recorded for twenty islands in the eastern Aegean archipelago (Greece) in order to study the patterns of native and endemic plant species diversity as well as the ...

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Homeostatic interplay between bacterial cell-cell signaling and iron in virulence

Hazan, R.; He, J.; Xiao, G.; Dekimpe, V.; Apidianakis, Yiorgos; Lesic, B.; Astrakas, C.; Déziel, Eric; Lépine, F.; Rahme, L. G. (2010)

Pathogenic bacteria use interconnected multi-layered regulatory networks, such as quorum sensing (QS) networks to sense and respond to environmental cues and external and internal bacterial cell signals, and thereby adapt ...

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Photosynthesis from the protein's perspective

Skourtis, Spiros S.; Beratan, David N. (2007)

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Physiology and biochemistry of human subjects during entrapment

Agapiou, Agapios; Mikedi, Katerina; Karma, Sofia; Giotaki, Zoe K.; Kolostoumbis, D.; Papageorgiou, Charalambos Ch; Zorba, Eleni; Spiliopoulou, C.; Amann, Anton; Statheropoulos, Miltiades K. (2013)

A classification of various categories of entrapped people under the ruins of collapsed buildings after earthquakes, technical failures or explosions is proposed. Type and degree of injury at the moment of building collapse ...