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M.S. student @uni North Carolina at Greensboro. Ecologist.
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Quantifying community keystoneness in metacommunities under disturbance
Understanding how metacommunities respond to natural and anthropogenic disturbances is a key objective in ecology. In this study, we introduce an analytical framework to identify communities whose ex...
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May 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Pretty and amazing: calculatingempires.net?pos=13937.00...
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500
Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.
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May 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Several mammal species live in cold-water environments thanks to adaptations like blubber and large size. A notable exception is the sea otter—so how does it stay warm?

A 2021 Science study found an answer: skeletal muscle thermogenesis.

Learn more on #WorldOtterDay: scim.ag/4jjvMDL
Fig. 2 Whole-body estimates of sea otter metabolism scaled to body mass. Estimated scaled whole-body metabolic rates include predicted [BMR; predicted on the basis of scaled rate for eutherian mammals], sea otter resting metabolic rate, and whole-body skeletal muscle leak capacity.
May 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM