Energy derived from leaf litter decomposition fuels food webs in forested streams. However, the natural spatial variability of rate and relative contributions its drivers are poorly known at local scale. This study aims to determine in-stream rates successive riffles quantify factors involved this key ecosystem process Experiments were conducted on six nine streams north-western France monitor ...

The large-scale socio-economic and political changes that have taken place in the post-Soviet space since early 1990s led to cardinal transformations of economy settlement former Soviet republics. purpose study is identify patterns main features transformation environmental situation old new capitals Republic Kazakhstan. subject this article ecological modern Kazakhstan, which was affected not ...

In this paper, we argue that the use of technology is structured not only by users, technology, and social context, but also by onlookers (i.e., actors for whom the use is visible, but who are not directly involved in the activities of use themselves). Building on the “technology-in-practice” lens and insights of an ethnographic study in operating rooms where nurses used mobile technology for v...

The UK government, under the joint influence of the publisher lobby and short-sighted advice from Open Access (OA) advocates, has decided to make all UK research output OA within two years by diverting funds from UK research to pay publishers extra for (Gold) OA publishing, over and above what the UK (and the rest of the world) already pays publishers for journal subscriptions. This would merel...