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Hiding in the background: community-level patterns in invertebrate herbivory across the tundra biome

Rheubottom S.I.; Barrio I.C.; Kozlov M.V.; Alatalo J.M.; Andersson T.; ... more authors ... less authors ( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Article)

Invertebrate herbivores depend on external temperature for growth and metabolism. Continued warming in tundra ecosystems is proposed to result in increased invertebrate herbivory. However, empirical data about how current ...

PAH concentrations and exposure assessment from house dust retained in air-conditioning filters collected from Greater Doha, Qatar

Mahfouz, Mohamed M.; Hassan, Hassan M.; Elobaid, Elnaiem A.; Yigiterhan, Oguz; Alfoldy, Balint ( Springer Netherlands , 2019 , Article)

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) bound in dust retained in air-conditioning unit filters from 13 households in Greater Doha, Qatar, were quantified using GC–MS spectrometry. The median concentrations of ∑16PAH and ...

An integrated approach for produced water treatment using microemulsions modified activated carbon

Al-Kaabi M.A.; Al-Ghouti M.A.; Ashfaq M.Y.M.; Ahmed T.; Zouari N. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)

In this study, the physical and chemical characterization of produced water was done followed by treatment through sand filtration coupled with activated carbon microemulsion modified activated carbon techniques. The results ...

Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

Komatsu K.J.; Avolio M.L.; Lemoine N.P.; Isbell F.; Grman E.; ... more authors ... less authors ( National Academy of Sciences , 2019 , Article)

Global change drivers (GCDs) are expected to alter community structure and consequently, the services that ecosystems provide. Yet, few experimental investigations have examined effects of GCDs on plant community structure ...

BTEX, nitrogen oxides, ammonia and ozone concentrations at traffic influenced and background urban sites in an arid environment

Alfoldy, B.; Mahfouz, M.M.K.; Yigiterhan, O.; Safi, M.A.; Elnaiem, A.E.; ... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier , 2019 , Article)

Spatial distribution of key air pollutants were studied in Doha, Qatar, over the course of two monitoring campaigns in early spring, 2016. Time-weighted averages of BTEX components (benzene, toluene, ethyl-benzene, ...

Geochemical investigation of Yamama crude oils and their inferred source rocks in the Mesopotamian Basin, Southern Iraq

Al-Khafaji A.J.; Al Najm F.M.; Al Ibrahim R.N.; Sadooni F.N. ( Taylor and Francis Inc. , 2019 , Article)

Ten oil samples from the Yamama reservoirs and ten extracts of purported source rocks from sixteen wells in the Mesopotamian Basin, Southern Iraq have been analyzed using GC, GC/MS and Stable Carbon Isotope. Yamama oils ...

Assessing the vulnerability of socio-environmental systems to climate change along an altitude gradient in the Indian Himalayas

Gupta A.K.; Negi M.; Nandy S.; Alatalo J.M.; Singh V.; ... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)

Climate change is affecting biotic and abiotic components of the Himalayan ecosystem, disturbing existing socio-ecological systems. Future changes in the climate, coupled with ongoing development activities in the Himalayas, ...

Transcriptome assembly and abiotic related gene expression analysis of date palm reveal candidate genes involved in response to cadmium stress

Rekik I.; Chaâbene Z.; Kriaa W.; Rorat A.; Franck V.; ... more authors ... less authors ( Elsevier Inc. , 2019 , Article)

Date palm in Tunisia is of major economic importance but are also factors of social, environmental and economic stability. An annotated assembly of the transcriptome of cultivar Deglet Nour was reported. RNA was isolated ...

Elemental compositions of particulate matter retained on air condition unit’s filters at Greater Doha, Qatar

Mahfouz, Mohamed M.; Yigiterhan, Oguz; Elnaiem, A. E.; Hassan, Hassan M.; Alfoldy, Balint ( Springer Netherlands , 2019 , Article)

© 2019, The Author(s). Elemental composition of airborne dust samples retained by internal filters of air condition units (ACUs) was determined at 12 locations of Doha city, state of Qatar. Twenty-four elements: Al, Ca, ...

Staminodes evolution and in vitro development innovation in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.)

Masmoudi-Allouche, Faïza; Kriaa, Walid; Drira, Noureddine ( Elsevier Masson SAS , 2019 , Article)

The in vitro cultivation of date palm staminodes (vestigial stamens) at different stages of female floral ontogenesis confirms the persistence at an immature state of such organs at all the floral differentiation stages. ...