Understanding the processes shaping biological communities under multiple disturbances
is a core challenge in ecology and conservation science. Traditionally, ecologists have …

Indices quantifying the functional aspect of biodiversity are essential in understanding
relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and environmental constraints. Many …

Recent studies have shown that accounting for intraspecific trait variation ( ITV ) may better
address major questions in community ecology. However, a general picture of the relative …

Functional diversity is increasingly identified as an important driver of ecosystem functioning.
Various indices have been proposed to measure the functional diversity of a community, …

Functional diversity is hypothesised as being beneficial for ecosystem functions, such as
productivity and resistance to invasion. However, a precise definition of functional diversity, and …

… Most studies had a within-subjects design (n=74). The majority of studies investigated healthy
controls (n=64)… FH−=family history negative, FH+=family history positive, N/A=not reported. …

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics published the first Plasma Roadmap in 2012
consisting of the individual perspectives of 16 leading experts in the various sub-fields of low …

… They reported the energy dependence of the Qemis only for the Balmer β (n 4–2) emission
and this is shown in Fig. 15. From the measurement at 100, 200, 500, and 800 eV, they …

The available data on bone fractures in hemodialysis (HD) patients are limited to results of a
few studies of subgroups of patients in the United States. This study describes the …

… degree is low or moderate, one can easily make the electron density n e larger than 10 13
… modified from unity to negative values according to n e . When we arrange microplasmas in …