"Energy dispersive X-ray microscopy (EDX) is a widely available, inexpensive method of characterizing the in-situ elemental composition of samples in Earth and life sciences. Common protocols and textbooks focussing on material sciences address EDX analysis of metallic samples that can be polished ...
"Phylogenetic relationships and the timing of evolutionary events are essential for understanding evolution on longer time scales. Cheilostome bryozoans are a group of ubiquitous, species-rich, marine colonial organisms with an excellent fossil record but lack phylogenetic relationships inferred fr...
"Context: Tropical coral reef environments provide a wide variety of goods and ecosystem services but are experiencing growing pressure from coastal development and tourism. Assessing the status of reef communities along gradients of human pressure is therefore necessary to predict recovery an...
"Trait space of endemic and non-endemic native species overlapped considerably, and alien species added novel trait combinations, expanding the overall functional space of the Canary Islands. We found that functional diversity of endemic plant assemblages was highest in geographically isolated and ...
"Despite the excellent fossil record of cephalopods, their early evolution is poorly understood. Different, partly incompatible phylogenetic hypotheses have been proposed in the past, which reflected individual author’s opinions on the importance of certain characters but were not based on thorough...
"Ischyrodon meriani is an obscure pliosaurid taxon established upon an exceptionally large tooth crown of a probable Callovian (Middle Jurassic) age that originates from Wölflinswil, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Despite being known for almost two centuries, the specimen remains poorly resear...
"There have been 121 bryozoan species recorded from marine and freshwater ecosystems in Singapore. Here, 12 additional species, three of them new to science, are recorded for the first time in Singapore based on a targeted bryozoan collection campaign in 2019, bringing the bryozoan species tally to...
"Kunststoffe, umgangssprachlich auch als Plastik bezeichnet, sind vielfältige und preiswerte Materialien, die diverse technische Innovationen erst ermöglicht haben. Daher steigt die weltweite Produktion stetig an. Daraus resultiert aber auch eine immer größere Menge an Plastikmüll. Durch unsachgemä...
"Mosasauroidea, prominent marine lizards (Squamata, Toxicofera) of the final 30 million years of the Cretaceous, have been extensively studied for their morphology, ecology and systematics in the past two centuries. However, the relative roles of biological and physical processes as drivers of thei...
"Anurognathids are a clade of non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs with generally conservative morphology, but specializations as insectivores. They are represented by a disparate collection of adult and juvenile specimens that range in wingspan from ∼0.24–1 m. There have been concerns about the extent to...
