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Failed Experiment ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Treatment of amphibians infected with chytrid fungus: learning from failed trials with itraconazole, antimicrobial peptides, bacteria, and heat therapy

Douglas C. Woodhams, CC Geiger, LK Reinert et al. · 2011 · Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Amphibian conservation goals depend on effective disease-treatment protocols. Desirable protocols are species, life stage, and context specific, but currently few treatment options exist for amphibians infected with the chytrid fungus…

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Foraging ecology and coexistence of Asiatic black bears and sun bears in a seasonal tropical forest in Southeast Asia

Robert Steinmetz, David L. Garshelis, Wanlop Chutipong et al. · 2013 · Journal of Mammalogy

Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) and sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) are ecologically similar and coexist extensively across Southeast Asia. We used foraging signs identified to bear species to examine their food selection and…

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Capillary pressure and saturation relations for supercritical CO2 and brine in sand: High‐pressure Pc(Sw) controller/meter measurements and capillary scaling predictions

Tetsu K. Tokunaga, Jiamin Wan, Jongwon Jung et al. · 2013 · Water Resources Research

In geologic carbon sequestration, reliable predictions of CO 2 storage require understanding the capillary behavior of supercritical (sc) CO 2 . Given the limited availability of measurements of the capillary pressure ( P c ) dependence on…

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A Model of Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) Habitat and Movement in the Oceanic North Pacific

Mélanie Abécassis, Inna Senina, Patrick Lehodey et al. · 2013 · PLoS ONE

Habitat preferences for juvenile loggerhead turtles in the North Pacific were investigated with data from two several-year long tagging programs, using 224 satellite transmitters deployed on wild and captive-reared turtles. Animals ranged between 23 and 81 cm in straight carapace length. Tracks were used to investigate changes in temperature preferences and speed of the animals with size. Average sea surface temperatures along the tracks ranged from 18 to 23 °C. Bigger turtles generally experienced larger temperature ranges and were encountered in warmer surface waters. Seasonal differences be

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A Regularization Approach to Improve the Sequential Calibration of a Semidistributed Hydrological Model

Alban de Lavenne, Vazken Andréassian, Guillaume Thirel et al. · 2019 · Water Resources Research

Abstract In semidistributed hydrological modeling, sequential calibration usually refers to the calibration of a model by considering not only the flows observed at the outlet of a catchment but also the different gauging points inside the…

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