Contemporary soil science and conservation methods of effective forestry Forests and the
soils that serve as their foundation cover almost a third of the world's land area. Soils …

Forest drainage has led to the loss of a considerable number of wetlands, especially in the
northern hemisphere. In order to find ways to mitigate the loss of biodiversity in drained …

Until recently, the protein-coding region of the human genome was considered to be the
most relevant portion, as it encodes the functional building blocks of the organism. However …

Loss of biodiversity is a major concern. Some conservation measures have been notable
successes, but the current level of conservation action is outweighed by the magnitude of …

Forested wetlands are being lost to development at a higher rate than other wetland types in
Nova Scotia despite limited understanding about the ecology of these ecosystems. To …

Introduction of a vast number of biomolecules with high therapeutic potential into
experimental medical and clinical practice is hampered by the poor plasma membrane …

Energy allocation between reproduction and self-maintenance is a key life history trade-off.
Therefore, forces that provoke constant renewal of an organism's tissues are investigated to …

Sensing changes in the environment and rapidly responding to them is the key for bacterial
survival. One of the most important regulatory systems, the stringent response, is …

The shallow littoral is a highly productive environment characterized by the multitude of
interactions within and between different trophic levels. It serves as an important …

The human genome contains ca. 20,000 protein coding genes and up to 150 of them are
validated or are suspected to be imprinted. The process of imprinting itself was discovered …