Forage fish support the largest fisheries in the world and play a vital role in marine food webs by transferring energy from plankton to consumers within higher trophic levels.Growing commercial demand for these species and concern for the impact of over harvest on predator populations has driven a paradigm shift in management objectives from maxim
The problem of evil is one the most important challenges presented to the belief in the existence of an Omnipotent, Omniscient and All-Benevolent God.The toughest side of this problem is that there seems to be an inconsistency between these attributes and the existence of evil.The aforementioned inconsistency is not straightforward, but rather it r
Abstract Microbial communities metabolize plant biomass using secreted enzymes; however, identifying extracellular proteins tightly bound to insoluble lignocellulose in these microbiomes presents a challenge, as the rigorous extraction required to elute these proteins also lyses the microbes associated with the plant biomass releasing intracellular
An Tree Base age-related distribution of Cryptosporidium species has been reported in cattle, with C.parvum being predominant in suckling calves, C.bovis and C.ryanae being predominant in post-weaned calves and C.andersoni being predominant in adults.However, variants to this pattern have recently been reported.Thus, fecal samples (n = 594) from as
Long-term changes in dune volume at the Belgian coast are analyzed based on measured data by airborne surveys available from 1979.For most of the 65 km long coastal stretch, dune volume increases linearly in time at a constant rate.Dune growth varies between 0−12.3 m3/m/year with an average dune growth of 6.2 m3/m/year, featuring large variat