The purpose of this work was to determine the effects of varying levels of dietary protein on body composition and muscle protein synthesis during energy deficit (ED). A randomized controlled trial of 39 adults assigned the subjects diets providing protein at 0.8 (recommended dietary allowance; RDA), 1.6 (2×-RDA), and 2.4 (3×-RDA) g kg(-1) d(-1) for 31 d. A 10-d weight-maintenance (WM) period w...

Community ecologists and macroecologists have long sought to evaluate the importance of environmental conditions in determining species distributions, community composition, diversity across sites. Different methods been used estimate species–environment relationships, but their differences jointly fit disentangle spatial autocorrelation structure remain poorly studied. We compared how four bro...

Both fertilizer and plant species richness may affect the soil nematode community. However, influence of weed interaction is unclear. Nematode abundance biodiversity in wheat plots treated with nitrogen, phosphate potassium addition (0, 1, 2 4 levels) were investigated a long-term microcosm experiment established 2010 at Kaifeng, China. The results demonstrated that treatment increased total ne...

Tarakihi ( Nemadactylus macropterus ) is an important fishery species with widespread distribution around New Zealand and off the southern coasts of Australia. However, little known about whether populations are locally adapted or genetically structured. To address this, we conducted whole-genome resequencing 175 tarakihi from Tasmania (Australia) to obtain a dataset 7.5 million genome-wide hig...

Biodiversity and structure of the benthic macrofauna communities were studied in the southeast the Caspian Sea (Golestan Province – Iran) during one year from October 2014 to September 2015. Seasonal samplings were done at 6 stations in 3 transects. Depth, temperature, salinity, pH, E.C., total organic matter and grain size were measured. More than 4,037 individuals belonging to five orders, Po...

Young mussel beds on soft sediments can display large-scale regular spatial patterns. This phenomenon can be explained relatively simply by a reaction-diffusion-advection (RDA) model of the interaction between algae and mussel, which includes the diffusive spread of mussel and the advection of algae. We present a detailed analysis of pattern formation in this RDA model. We derived the condition...

Farmland soil and leafy vegetables accumulate more polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in suburban sites. In this study, 13 sampling areas were selected from vegetable fields in the outskirts of Xi'an, the largest city in northwestern China. The similarity of PAH composition in soil and vegetation was investigated through principal components analysis and redundancy analysis (RDA), rather t...

Afforestation is an approach for ecological restoration. Soil total phosphorus one of the important and evolutionary elements carbon cycles plant growth following afforestation. However, studies on soil afforestation abandoned ponds with different slopes are still lacking. other properties from sites were investigated. phosphorus, nitrogen, bulk density, water contents pH poplar ( Populus spp.)...