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Molluscan diversity influenced by mangrove habitat in the khors of Qatar
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Springer
, 2021 , Article)
The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Qatar is a rapidly developing region within the Arabian Gulf, where monitoring of changes in benthic biodiversity and its functioning is needed. The influence of mangroves and seasonality ...
Effect of Plant Growth Regulators on Callus Induction from Leaf and Petiole explants of Hummeid (Rumex Vesicarius)
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Qatar University Press
, 2021 , Poster)
Advancement in plant cell culture technology has permitted the increasing interest in harvesting plant metabolites from cell cultures. This technique is based on in vitro propagation of plant callus which contains many ...
Monitoring oil spill in Norilsk, Russia using satellite data.
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Nature Research
, 2021 , Article)
This paper studies the oil spill, which occurred in the Norilsk and Taimyr region of Russia due to the collapse of the fuel tank at the power station on May 29, 2020. We monitored the snow, ice, water, vegetation and wetland ...
Towards Sustainable Management of Coastal and Offshore Islands in Arabian Gulf Typology: Sensitivity Analysis, Ecological Risk Assessment of Halul and Al-Alyia Islands
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Qatar University Press
, 2021 , Poster)
The great majority of marine ecosystems in Qatar are in fast decline and nearing collapse, where most ecosystem has lost the biological and economic functionality. Aiming to support the decision makers in the management ...
The therapeutic effects of Ficus carica extract as antioxidant and anticancer agent
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Natural extracted ingredients are evolutionarily selected molecules and are used to control inflammation, and cancerous progression and transformation. Several studies have evaluated the beneficial properties of certain ...
Feminization of hawksbill turtle hatchlings in the twenty-first century at an important regional nesting aggregation
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Qatar University Press
, 2021 , Poster)
Projected climate change is forecasted to have significant effects on biological systems worldwide. Marine turtles in particular may be vulnerable, as the sex of their offspring is determined by their incubating temperature. ...
Climate Warming Consistently Reduces Grassland Ecosystem Productivity
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Advanced Earth And Science
, 2021 , Article)
Future climate may profoundly impact the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. However, we do not know well how the functioning of different types of grassland ecosystems is associated with variation in temperature and ...
Sentinel-2 image transformation methods for mapping oil spill – A case study with Wakashio oil spill in the Indian Ocean, off Mauritius
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2021 , Article)
Although several indices have been constructed and available at the Index database (IDB) for Sentinel-2 satellite to map and study several earth resources, no indices have been developed to map oil spill. We constructed ...
In-site and ex-site date palm exposure to heavy metals involved infra-individual biomarkers upregulation
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
, 2021 , Article)
As a tree of considerable importance in arid regions—date palm, Phoenix dactylifera L. survival in contaminated areas of Sfax city has drawn our attention. Leaf samples of the plants grown in the study area showed high ...
Correction to: The maxima in northerly wind speeds and wave heights over the Arabian Sea, the Arabian/Persian Gulf and the Red Sea derived from 40 years of ERA5 data (Climate Dynamics, (2021), 56, 3-4, (1037-1052), 10.1007/s00382-020-05518-6)
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
, 2021 , Other)
In the original version of the article, in both the Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 the plots (a) and (b) were repeated twice.