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Weight–length relationships & Fulton’s condition factors of skipjack tuna

Katsuwonus pelamis (Skipjack Tuna)

February 12, 2015

Weight–length relationships & Fulton’s condition factors of skipjack tuna

Given the significance of the skipjack tuna to Pacific fisheries, it is important to have a good knowledge of certain parameters of growth and size, as they relate to different stages of fish age and development. Researchers therefore measured certain biological parameters from in different seasons and different growth phases in the Pacific ocean.

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February 24, 2015

Oxygen availability is a major factor in determining the composition of microbial communities involved in methane oxidation

Maria E. Hernandez, David A.C. Beck, Mary E. Lidstrom, Ludmila Chistoserdova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.801 PubMed 25755930

February 17, 2015

Significance and value of non-traded ecosystem services on farmland

Harpinder Sandhu, Steve Wratten, Robert Costanza, Jules Pretty, John R. Porter, John Reganold

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.762 PubMed 25737811

February 12, 2015

A meta-analysis of plant facilitation in coastal dune systems: responses, regions, and research gaps

Camila de Toledo Castanho, Christopher J. Lortie, Benjamin Zaitchik, Paulo Inácio Prado