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Measurement of Greenhouse Gas Flux from Agricultural Soils Using Static Chambers
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Cited by 143 •
2014
This article showcases the static chamber-based method for measurement of greenhouse gas flux from soil systems. With relatively modest infrastructure investments, measurements may be obtained from multiple treatments/locations and over timeframes ranging from hours to years.
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Remote Sensing Evaluation of Two-spotted Spider Mite Damage on Greenhouse Cotton
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2017
This manuscript describes a multispectral optical sensor that effectively detected damage to early season cotton artificially infested with varying densities of the two-spotted spider mite populations.
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Assessing Corticospinal Excitability During Goal-Directed Reaching Behavior
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2022
Reaching is a fundamental skill that allows humans to interact with the environment. Several studies have aimed to characterize reaching behavior using a variety of methodologies. This paper offers an open-source application of transcranial magnetic stimulation to assess the state of corticospinal excitability in humans during reaching task performance.
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Climate Change - Concepts
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2019
The certainty of climate change remains a public controversy despite the consensus among approximately 97% of active climate researchers, who not only agree that the Earth’s climate is changing but also state that this change is intensified by human activity, predominantly carbon emissions 1. The disconnect between the public and the experts is partly due to poor understanding of the mechanisms involved in climate change as well as the differences among essential concepts such as weather and...
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Binary Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Vector Based Gene Transformation in Arabidopsis Plants: A Technique to Generate Transgenic Plants With Single-Copy Insertion
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2025
In this video, we demonstrate generation of transgenic Arabidopsis plants expressing stable transgene through Agrobacterium-mediated binary bacterial artificial chromosome-based gene transformation.
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Infrared re-emission determines where absorbed heat energy goes after leaving Earth’s surface. Because greenhouse gases emit this energy in all directions, some returns toward the surface rather than escaping directly to space. This helps explain why changes in atmospheric gas concentrations can alter surface and lower-atmosphere temperatures, creating conditions that influence biological systems.
Higher concentrations increase the atmosphere’s capacity to retain outgoing infrared radiation. The resulting strengthening of heat retention can contribute to warming that changes the environmental conditions experienced by organisms. In biology, this relationship provides a basis for examining how altered atmospheric composition affects species distributions, seasonal timing, ecosystem productivity, and biodiversity.
Human-induced warming concerns a strengthened version of the natural heat-retention process, rather than a separate atmospheric mechanism. The key change is the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations, which intensifies retention of infrared energy. Distinguishing the shared mechanism from its altered strength helps biologists evaluate climate-driven changes in organisms and ecological interactions.
Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are among the atmospheric gases identified as important to the process. Their ability to absorb and re-emit infrared energy connects atmospheric composition with warming conditions. Considering these gases helps biological studies relate climate changes to shifts in species ranges, seasonal events, productivity, and biodiversity risk.
It provides the climate context needed to interpret why organisms may occur in different geographic areas as warming conditions change. Researchers can use this connection to examine climate-driven shifts in species distributions alongside changes in seasonal timing and ecological interactions. The approach links atmospheric processes with observable patterns in populations and communities.
Biological investigations can focus on altered species distributions, changes in the timing of seasonal events, shifts in ecosystem productivity, and increased risks to biodiversity. These outcomes represent different levels of response, from individual species patterns to ecosystem function. Studying them together helps reveal how warming conditions may affect organisms and their interactions.
The greenhouse effect supplies a foundation for studying how human-induced warming may influence ecological systems. Researchers can connect atmospheric heat retention with ecosystem productivity, species distributions, seasonal timing, and interactions among organisms. This broader perspective is important because biodiversity risks may emerge through linked changes across species, communities, and ecosystem processes.